In B.C., they have what's called citizen science. I was reading that somewhere. They do some in Alaska too, as well as in Ontario for trout. They have 75 or 77 hatcheries—something like that—in B.C.
I think they would work, with the best available science, but you have to do it right. Take the genetic strain from, let's say, five or six rivers—Exploits, Gander, Terra Nova...where there are counters because the scientists can get the fish, incubate the eggs and then get the hatchery going.
We need numbers. The numbers tell the story. The numbers don't lie, and our numbers are low. There's a place that I think is called Noel Paul's Brook, upper Exploits. They got that one going when the population in the Exploits River was down to 5,000. Then, the numbers went up to 39,000 or 40,000 one year, so we know it worked. The seeding capacity of the Exploits River is 300,000-plus fish, but then it just got cancelled. It does work.
I totally agree with hatcheries. We need our numbers back.