Mr. Johns, I think it's important to recognize the importance of first nations' traditional knowledge here.
As they are the original stewards of these lands, I think any partnership is set up for failure if we don't rely heavily on the guidance, information and traditional ecological knowledge of first nations communities throughout the range of pacific salmon.
In conjunction with first nations, we also need restoration organizations that have the technical knowledge that will complement the traditional ecological knowledge so that we can perform the type of large-scale industrial remediation projects that need to happen. We need science, obviously for the myriad of reasons that scientific study adds to the effectiveness of the collaboration. Then we need local community support and finally we need government support, because somebody has to pay for it and largely a lot of the work before the BCSRIF and the coastal restoration fund came into existence and the funding was generated from private individuals or within marine industries. Since then the province and the federal government have stepped in tremendously, and I think that we're on the right path; however, I think we can all agree on the fact that more is needed to reverse the obvious trend, which is decline, decline, decline.