Thank you for the question, Mr. Johns.
I would say, just to preface my response, that there are some situations in which there is a critical urgency because of the state of the populations. The Big Bar problem has highlighted some of those things. There were problems of that nature even without Big Bar. Mr. Zeman spoke to the steelhead problems; there's been a southern BC chinook problem; there have been sockeye problems and coho problems.
I believe there are some things that need to be done fairly urgently that would require a significant investment now, and there are things that need to be done long term that require ongoing, substantive investment.
In relation to the scale of the BCSRIF, the kinds of numbers that were put into it—approximately $140 million over five years—are, I would suggest, in the range of an order of magnitude below what is needed to do all of the things that I think the collection of witnesses today have spoken about. We need to do the science, assessment and monitoring; we need to look after habitat; we need to manage hatcheries; and we need to properly manage harvest.
You wouldn't be able to do all of those things even if you put an additional $50 million a year into the system for 10 years. It would be a good start, but when you're talking on that scale of $500 million, it would be a target that wouldn't even let you do everything that every witness today has spoken to.
I hope that gives you some degree of answer to your question.