There are two processes. There's the recovery potential assessment, the RPA, which is a peer-reviewed science document that basically points to the causes and potential solutions. Then that's followed up with a science advisory report, which is really a layperson's interpretation. What happened is the RPA was conducted and went through the peer review process and, as far as we can tell through freedom of information requests to the province, somehow the wording or findings in the RPA were edited in the science advisory report. What the FOI tends to indicate is that this was done to downplay the role of nets on interior Fraser steelhead.
This broader issue around not being able to get data or information out of DFO and not being accountable to the public is a long-standing issue here in B.C. The ATIP of the federal government in that process resulted in a response that it would take 822 years to get the correspondence.
There is some hiding going on with that issue.