Thank you for the question.
Greenland, as I mentioned, has done an excellent job in reducing their fishery from 1,500 tonnes in the 1970s down to 30 tonnes and about 9,000 salmon.
To put this in perspective, the returns to Canada, in recent years, have been about 600,000. They have been somewhere between 400,000 and 700,000, depending on the year. What we're talking about here is splitting hairs in Greenland.
Our recommendation is to create a maintenance situation with the Greenland fishery, to make sure that we have strong relationships with them and that we incentivize good reporting. ASF works directly with the Greenlanders and the Greenland government on incentivizing, reporting and conducting science. We're expanding that to, I hope, some habitat protection in west Greenland.
We think Greenland has done a good job. We think that Canada should look internally, in places like the gulf region, and reduce the striped bass population to achieve ecosystem balance. That would generate far more returns of Canadian adult Atlantic salmon to Canadian rivers.
