Fisheries committee  As I mentioned, it's going to take millions. Basically, that's it. The number of projects proposed around the province adds up quickly. Hard labour is what it's going to take out there.

Fisheries committee  I think it's hugely important. Speaking on the Cohen commission, there's not one single smoking gun on the issues of salmon. One of the things we've always wanted was to have more monitoring of our migrating species to take place further out. We know that our fish go past Hai

Fisheries committee  Not right at the moment. We're focused more on the management in the river right now. Parts of the agreement point out that things like the Fraser River panel need to require at least 50% first nations members, which the minister agreed to, but those are areas where we're looking

Fisheries committee  In terms of the budgets, when a landslide like this happens, we instantly have to go and find money, basically, to bring food to our community. It's happened for us some three out of the last four years. It's money that's not dedicated funding. We have to search in other differen

Fisheries committee  I can provide an example. This year's proposed budget was to include our Fraser salmon management board, our joint technical committee, as well as our Fraser Salmon Management Council main table directors. Combined, it was worth $757,000. That was just to work on the management p

Fisheries committee  I'll answer just quickly before Greg. The funding we're speaking about right now is part of our Fraser salmon management board and the technical committee itself. We do have some technical experts who are part of those committees, which requires a lot of work. To be honest, bio

Fisheries committee  Yes, Greg.

Fisheries committee  Yes. When it comes to the FSMC province-wide, I think that was the intention of our starting up just with the Fraser River. The initial focus was on the management of salmon, but we had plans in terms of developing this agreement and in developing the organization that our first

Fisheries committee  I think it's something we have begun to discuss at our table, but we haven't had any deep discussions.

Fisheries committee  Not that I'm aware of yet, no.

Fisheries committee  Are there any other organizations in B.C.? Not that I'm aware of. The agreement we signed is pretty unique in the way it's structured. I think the intent was that we want to make this work so it can be a model for other groups to use in getting to this step.

Fisheries committee  Fully? There have been discussions. Where we've hit some bumps in the road is in implementing this, because it is so unique that.... The first nations got organized quite quickly. We assigned our board members and our technical teams, whereas DFO had some troubles in assigning th

Fisheries committee  I think so. I'm looking at Greg over there. I think it's public knowledge right now, so I think we can.

Fisheries committee  At the time, a few of them mentioned.... They had hesitations in working with DFO, basically; that was their word back to us. They wanted to see us put the stuff into real work and see results from it before they would step forward. Some have gone through elections, as you know

Fisheries committee  Well, the future in it is real, true collaborative management. The whole intent of the agreement was to provide first nations a role in the final decision when it comes to the management of salmon. Previously, we had what we called a forum on harvest and conservation planning, an