They had entered into a formal arrangement with Fraser River first nations. It was some marine area. It's called the Fraser Salmon Management Board. They had provided, through a memorandum of understanding, the right for that group to set the escapement goals. As I said earlier, setting the escapement goals is the foundation for end-times fisheries management. It was their naive belief on some of those established escapement goals that had a very negative effect on all our fisheries, particularly, as I said earlier, upon the late run, which basically was the determining factor on how we managed the fish there in 2025.
All salmon stocks tend to mix together. Some of them come earlier, some of them come later, but at some point they overlap. You might have a whole bunch of abundant stocks, but if they overlap with smaller stocks or less abundant stocks then you fish to the lowest common denominator.
In this case, the late runs obligated a 10% harvest rate, which was a lot less than the 50% we were allowed on the early summer runs.
