It's a perfect question; it's a common audience question. Obviously, it's difficult to answer.
I suppose what I want to say is that we really need to work together as a team, both within British Columbia and internationally.
I think there are things that can be done. Very quickly I'll tell you that, for example, with regard to the South Thompson chinook salmon, there are 12 or so populations, and they represent about 30% of the adult chinook coming back to the Strait of Georgia and the Fraser River. Those chinook salmon enter the Strait of Georgia six to eight weeks after all of the other chinook salmon, so they are entering an ocean ecosystem that essentially has a different carrying capacity, and they are benefiting from that.
If we really understood the mechanisms responsible, then we, as a community, could begin to focus on what we can do when we have changes in the coastal ecosystems, and that's what's going on.
The reason we're seeing reductions in Japan or up into southeast Alaska is that our coastal ecosystems no longer have the capacity. If you understood what the mechanisms are.... I think that they are as simple as this: The juveniles that grow faster and quicker survive better. Once we understand that, I'm sure that we have the ability and the technologies to maximize the survival in the ocean.