The funding 20 years ago was far more significant than what there is now. We operate on tens of thousands of dollars to keep things going.
The crisis with salmon is a complex set of problems. There's no one single cause. If you want to deal with a complex problem, you don't deal with it by just asking one person and doing one thing. You have to get everyone in the room and get them to figure out together, collectively, what the strategy is. That's what we do, day in and day out, through the salmon round tables and West Coast Aquatic.
With the things we were hearing about in terms of coastal ecosystems, we're doing that. We're collectively agreeing on the research project to go out to the nearshore ecosystems and figuring out how to gather better data and what's happening to the fish there. We're doing all of those things together, and that's the difference right now.
If you're going to spend all that money, my point is not to pitch for specific projects but to say “spend it wisely” and ask the people who are closest to what's going on how to do that.