Fisheries committee  It's perfect timing for that question, because we have developed a Fraser salmon management board and a joint technical committee, which are going to do the bulk of the hands-on work. The Fraser salmon management board is made up of both DFO and first nations members. It's kind

Fisheries committee  Yes, I think it is. I think it's been shown to work in some of the coastal communities where they are out there checking people and protecting the stocks. Where there were some hiccups, I guess, was in the implementation of it all—where the authority lies and whether our guardian

Fisheries committee  Definitely.

Fisheries committee  I'm somewhat in agreement there with Mr. Zeman, because the breakdown of projects that actually have been funded shows that a lot of them are focused right on the Lower Mainland area, the southern half of B.C. There were a few proposals that were sent in from Upper Fraser nations

Fisheries committee  I think enforcement is important, especially in those areas that were mentioned. We hear directly from some of the enforcement officers in that branch at some of our meetings during the off season. The number of man-hours they put in to try to cover the very large areas they're a

Fisheries committee  A lot of the things I want are just budgetary. I guess it would be the involvement of industry folks in terms of keeping in line with environmental guidelines that are put in place. We hear that it's always a balance between the environment and economics. Economics plays a huge

Fisheries committee  Yes, I did.

Fisheries committee  Sorry; did you ask if it be detrimental if the fish aren't going to be taken? Please repeat the question.

Fisheries committee  Yes, definitely, that's what we've been saying for years. Because of the disaggregate management that's going on in the Fraser, it's already been a hindrance and a contributory to the decline. A lot of the stocks are past hope. There's a saying, and the phrase is kind of sad, t

Fisheries committee  It's not hatcheries. It was actually just elders talking about restocking the streams themselves, taking from one stream that had an abundance of fish and physically taking them as they're spawning and bringing them up to streams that they know are in trouble. We've heard those s

Fisheries committee  They don't want to go with the status quo, I guess they would say, because they've been around for years and they've seen what some of the past governments have called collaboration—you know, meeting, consulting and checking your box to say that you've met with these people. They

Fisheries committee  Well, collaboration is a key word in there, meaningful collaboration, getting all the parties involved, because we're all trying to get to the same goal here of preserving wild salmon of the Pacific. It's right in the budget. We've had ways that have worked in the past, and oth

Fisheries committee  We were not consulted directly on how much funding should go for each of these issues. They are addressing some of the areas that we've sent countless letters of concerns to the department about, specifically around funding hatcheries and funding habitat work with B.C. SRIF, as w

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's the direction we headed. The numbers that I shared earlier show that we're reaching the point of extinction on two of these cycles, with fewer than 100 returning sockeye on two of the runs—oh, man. As Jason Hwang was saying, the point is not to create fish so that we

Fisheries committee  Yes. All right.