In 2009 the department was facing a very serious situation as it related to the return to the Fraser of sockeye. We had predicted a run that simply did not materialize. Where we had expected between two and four million fish to return, in the end, less than 600,000 of those fish returned.
At the same time we have a number of chinook species that are at risk, and we have very significant concerns for steelhead in the area as well. Just to explain, not all those fish have to cross the Big Bar area. Some of them do turn off before, so it's important to distinguish between the fish that must pass and the fish that don't have to.
We did have at least one very healthy stock of abundant fish that mercifully turned naturally off before the Big Bar slide. In any series of populations of salmon, you're going to have a mix of healthy and abundant, and less abundant.