Fisheries committee  The other comment I would make is that DFO has produced the 90-day S0 fish from a point of view of the least cost. They can produce a large number of them at the least cost and get them out of the hatchery and then essentially wait until the next cycle. The S1s require husbandry year-round, and it's roughly a dollar a fish to produce.

Fisheries committee  The suggested program is largely limited by the ability to slowly grow overwintering chinook because of the cold water that the Omega Pacific hatchery has, as compared with the warmer waters that the existing DFO hatcheries have. They simply cannot grow them as effectively as Omega Pacific can.

Fisheries committee  The only comment I could offer is that the target for prey has not been established. The target for chinook food availability has not been established either. Much of the discussion has thus been around conservation and initial closures, but there is no grow or go program that would allow us to actually produce more chinook as a collective strategy of private and public hatcheries and various nested strategies that could result in more prey.