Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is obviously unaware that the 22 fish that he is talking about were in fact male hatchery grilse that had been at sea for one winter only.
They were turned over to the aboriginal community which is appropriate because the aboriginal community's quota for ceremonial and food purposes had not been met. These were hatchery fish and it is important for genetic reasons, to protect genetic stocks of salmon to make sure that the number of hatchery fish are reduced.
In addition, in that very river the number of male fish was double the number of female and that is an imbalance that we wanted to correct.