A couple of things are going on there. First of all, the pinks that came back last year went out in a different year, so we have yet to see the result for the sockeye. Those pinks went out in 2008, so it's a different story with the pinks all together. The fish farmers drug their fish from Campbell River to Port Hardy, and we got the pinks through and they came back.
The Skeena River, as I understand, dropped by about 50%, which is biologically a very different situation from the 98% drop we saw in some of the runs of sockeye—and it was the big runs, which is why it brought the whole thing down.
But think for a minute what happens. When our sockeye leave the Fraser River, most of them go up through Campbell River and then they leave Vancouver Island and keep on going. They run through the River's Inlet sockeye and they mingle with the Skeena sockeye and then they arc around the Pacific Ocean and do a couple of loop-de-loops and then they come back down.
I'm not saying I'm right, but if you go with the theory that it's disease, you have all these sockeye that potentially have disease moving through the farms, and they go up the coast. They're carrying the disease with them. That's maybe why there is a diminishing effect as you get farther up the coast.
My point really is that until we know what is going on in those farms and coming out of those effluent pipes, people like me can come up with any theory we want. But there is a way around this. If we get the fish farmers to tell us what has gone on in those farms for 10 years and we compare that to what has gone on in our enhancement hatcheries—because those are fish we handle, and we really know what's going on—you can track strains of disease. We do it with H1N1. We can do it with fish, but we're not doing it. There is this veil of secrecy, and try as we might, we are not allowed to know what's going on inside those farms. We're just starting to get a little bit of sea lice information, but it's packaged in a way that's very difficult to use.
So until they come forward with their information, my theory is really about the strongest one out there, unfortunately.