Thank you for the question. I think you have the gist of it, in that in doing that extrapolation and assessing all of the data we have, we'd be looking at a few things.
The first is that conservation risk: What would the encounter rates of any stocks of concern be? That's not necessarily limited to just Fraser-bound stocks. I believe there have also been some questions about the ability to collect sufficient brood stock for local chinook stocks in Howe Sound, which we would also be assessing.
As my colleague mentioned, we would also be looking at moving forward. If we were to contemplate fisheries here, what kind of capacity do we have to mass mark, such that it could facilitate mark-selective fisheries? In a fishery we permit, would the rate of capture of marked fish be high enough such that our concern for the catch of unmarked fish—and the subsequent release of those fish and any associated mortality—is low enough that we think it doesn't pose any risks to those unmarked stocks that would be caught and returned to the water? Those are examples of some of the factors we would carefully assess.
