Mr. Mark Griffin:

If no fishing is taking place on a river, the stocks should start to regenerate naturally. Fishing bans have been in place on a large number of rivers in recent years on the basis of scientific advice from the standing scientific committee that most of them were below the conservation limits. We want to see them regenerate naturally. If a salmon river is restocked with salmon that do not come from that river, from a scientific point of view I do not know whether those salmon return to that river post-migration. I cannot answer that aspect of the question.