Thank you.
I want to first thank all three of you for coming. I hope to have questions for each of you.
Chief Pitka, congratulations on your niece's graduation, and welcome back to the committee. You're certainly welcome.
I want to start with Mr. Curtis.
David, you and I have had many salmon conversations over the last couple of years. I want to allow you to talk specifically about chum salmon and the significance of the collapse—perhaps a more recent collapse—of the chum fishery and how we may have overlooked that somewhat in our focus on chinook salmon, but also the interplay, you know, the effect on the overall ecosystem and the interplay between chum salmon and chinook salmon survival and sustainability.