Yes, mass marking is a tool to enable selective fisheries. It's used to a small extent now in southern B.C. and the ongoing science work to look at the details of the interception in areas that have ongoing mark-selective fishing or where it is proposed, like in Owen Sound, as we discussed. All that science work will support a decision to enable larger access of mark-selective fisheries.
The other component of it is to have the science and capacity to mark the fish, because having a large proportion of the aquaculture fish marked depends on that capacity. It allows the opportunity for the mark-selective fishery. It allows records to be kept for whether targeted fish are kept, which are those raised from the hatchery, or are put back in the water, like the salmon stocks that we want to protect.
