Thank you.
In the last few months here, I've had the opportunity to tour a salmon hatchery in the Okanagan system. That hatchery has enabled the restoration of sockeye salmon stocks into the Okanagan water system, which feeds into the Columbia, restoring those stocks for the first time in decades or over 100 years. Now they're actually able to migrate all the way up into Okanagan Lake. That hatchery was built on a small stream in Penticton. When I was there, they showed me what they called a hatchery in a box. It was a self-contained hatchery in a 20-foot Sea-Can shipping container.
You mentioned that large-scale hatcheries aren't the way to go. Do you see an opportunity or a use for smaller, sometimes portable, hatcheries that could be placed on some of these streams that, as you mentioned, see only a dozen returns in a year to rebuild those stocks? Would those be a way to go? I understand Washington state in the U.S. has been using them, but DFO has really shown no interest or has been reluctant here in Canada.