No. You used to be able to very commonly. It's very clear that some of the fish that were apprehended at the border as recently as a year and a half ago were headed into the live fish trade in Toronto. Everybody down there now knows that they can't do that.
As well, I think everybody down...or not everybody, but some people down there know where they can go to do that. I mean, the story you hear is that the reason these fish are showing up at the border alive is that, to guarantee freshness, they keep them alive until very close to the border, and then they drain the water out of them. That's a violation of U.S. federal law. They are simply not allowed to do that.
I believe the reason they're doing it is that these fish are incredibly robust. If you drain the water out of them close to the border and carry them across dry, you can throw water back at them on the other side and they all come back. Within the space of 15 or 20 minutes, they're swimming around again. They're tough as nails, these things. Then, when you get them into Toronto....
They've busted the same guy now twice. He paid a $55,000 fine the first time, and then he was back at it a year later.
The thing that's remarkable about these things is that, as I told you, 14ยข a pound is what the guys in the Mississippi are being paid for these things at the dock. I find it almost impossible to imagine how anybody would bother shipping them the distances they ship them when that's the going market price for a landed dead Asian carp. It just beggars the imagination. I just can't imagine, right?
So we're asking for a protocol where these things may not be brought into the country unless they've been gutted. If they're dressed, they're dead.