Fisheries committee  It would be an expectation, yes, but based on past history, I'm not confident that we and the residents of British Columbia are going to be heard. But again, there's always hope for the future.

Fisheries committee  No. Outside of a permit for us to move fish [Technical difficulty—Editor] from DFO.

Fisheries committee  No, we did that through two command centres, one in Yale and one in Chilliwack, and organized everybody to attend to where fish were and the animals, people and so on.

Fisheries committee  We received a small amount of money from the province to deal with the sturgeon recovery specifically around Barrowtown. We did get some small donations from people who heard that we needed fuel and so on and so forth. We've paid out no money for time. We had a lot of our membe

Fisheries committee  From my perspective, we have a good relationship with enforcement. We work with it very closely, but outside of that, we largely go unheard.

Fisheries committee  No, we haven't had anybody reach out. Obviously we've had some talks with our local MP, Mr. Strahl, on the impacts and where to go in the future, but nobody from the province has reached out on a plan for the future, what that looks like and then how we can learn from it. Again,

Fisheries committee  Yes. It was not just us, but everybody around who had a boat was trying to help in those early days. We had anywhere from 20 to 25 jet boats running every single day non-stop. Some of these boats had issues. One of our members is now having to replace an engine. We've had props a

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question, Mr. Strahl. Also, thank you for your help on the ground during those floods. We have no access. Mr. Ned probably knows a little bit about this as well. We have two areas that are utilized by first nations, DFO, RCMP, COS, SARs and recreational fishing.

Fisheries committee  The river is always changing, so we do our best to advocate for and to protect key and sensitive areas. During the last several years, we've advocated for regulated closures in certain areas for our fishery here—for the sturgeon fishery. There are always changes. [Technical diffi

Fisheries committee  As I stated, the answer is no. I don't believe it's happened. It's obviously something that we've been trying since November to get some attention to. We've got a good opportunity to make sure that we're ready in the future.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair. We'd like to thank you for the invitation to appear today. We understand that the purpose of the study is to examine the impacts of flood protection infrastructure on fish stocks in the Pacific region. This is an important topic. I want to provide you with the