Absolutely, there's vested interest in protecting the access to a way of life, for sure. There are also going to be varied interests in terms of what is considered the solution. I think what we have to look at—and that's why, again, we've continued to focus on watershed CPR—is that just looking at the symptoms is not going to provide the best solutions. We need to look at the root cause.
We are talking about hatcheries being part of the solution. As Mr. Snyder said, I think that conservation-based, science-related hatcheries can play a role in the solution, but we know that, if we look south of the border at California, Washington and Oregon, this has not proven to be a solution since the 1970s. If we look back over the last 30 or 40 years, they have not seen the results of implementing that managed solution.
We need to do something different in Canada. We have a real opportunity, not just with the Fraser and north Columbia but also with the Skeena, the Nass and the other great watersheds that you mentioned, Mr. Hardie. We need to prevent the damage that's happening from many industrial developments. We need to work smarter and do things better. We need to protect habitat. We need to restore habitat where damaged, and then we need a conservation ethic.
The ecosystem is going to be your best and cheapest solution to solving the problem. If we can assist in any way, it will be to focus on restoring the ecosystem, protecting the ecosystem and letting that do its job.
The issue—