I wouldn't say the system was corrupt. I think that the system had changed and there were a whole bunch of new players from both DFO and from other groups who influenced the decision-making. In my kind way of putting it, they did that very naively. This is a common misperception for a lot of people—that if you put more fish on the spawning grounds on salmon streams, you always get more return. That's not necessarily the case.
In this particular case, that was the guiding influence of why DFO, in conjunction with the Fraser Salmon Management Board, went the way they did. There was enough information. In my 40 years of participating I have learned a few things. It is my estimation that putting all these extra fish on the spawning grounds could actually have negative effects, not necessarily good effects. Unfortunately, they were not listening to me. They weren't listening to others who were saying the same things.