 running of this very event and I would like to say this day possible. Dinkston Distillery, who donate bottles of whiskey, one of which I think is going to be poured into the river. Not the whole bottle, it's not the whole bottle. Thank you for that. Monaco More Hotel and the Lewis family who helped with our catering as do Campbell's. Dingling Active, who kindly donate our media and marketing and the Dunandinstone Pipe Band, I think they deserve a round of applause. Sterling Council. Well this morning was a real privilege for me to be able to open this salmon season on the teeth. As everybody knows the teeth is a migratory fishery of excellence. It has international status, SAC and of course the government has classed it as a class one fishery. Particularly pleased to open it because I'm a great supporter of Sterling Council's fishery team. They've done so much over the years to promote conservation and best practice. And one of the projects this year is to make it the year of the youth. And that's really important to me because the youth are the caretakers of the river in the future and our future anglers. So I very much support that. I'm very pleased that my family is associated with the river because the river, especially the river teeth, has been a big part of my life through fishing. I'm particularly keen on fishing for sea trout at night. I'm very pleased to see my granddaughter who's only, she's just coming up for seven. She's interested, she's got her own wee rod and all the rest of it. And her dad, my son-in-law, I consider to be one of the, a really, really excellent flyfisher and I believe that he's going to pick up a prize tonight at the dinner. And while the teeth itself is well known for its fishing and all the rest of it, there are one or two problems that we really need to talk about. And for me who stays, my front door is 60 yards from the river and I'm down at the river on a day-to-day basis seeing what's going on. And one of my concerns over the last two or three years is the increase in population on sawbills, mergansers, cormorants and things like that. And the reason I want to talk about this, it's a controversial subject. Species conflict is always, you know, it's difficult. But the fact of the matter is that there's far too many of our smokes are getting eaten before they get anywhere near the sea. And that to me is a big concern. Now surely 2018, surely we can all get together, both sides can get together and with a wee bit of compromise and a wee bit of collaboration we can find a way forward. I'm certainly not advocating that we should go out and shoot them or anything like that. That's against the law and that's not what I'm saying. But what we need to do is to talk about it. There should be no winners, there should be no losers in this, but now is the time that we need to talk about it.