There are many studies that are ongoing with regard to all of these things. We're actively engaged in collaborating right at the moment with the sea lamprey office out of Sault Ste. Marie, where they're using commercial fishers on Lake Erie, for starters—they're going to be doing it on others—to provide them with baseline information on the state of the sea lamprey population. They have some indications from their own studies that these things are more abundant and more widespread than they were aware. One sentinel group that is out on the lake on an ongoing basis is the commercial fishery. So our guys are actively engaged on that very basic level.
As well, as an industry we're part of the Canadian Capture Fisheries Research Network—I'm the vice-chair. We collaborate with academics all over the country around these sorts of things. I have been engaged with the risk assessment process that's ongoing around Asian carp, which is being led by Becky Cudmore and Nick Mandrak. I don't know if they've spoken. They're the folks at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters in Burlington, who are leading the international risk assessment process with the U.S. So I've attended those and participated in the scoping and data collection for those as well.
We have a number of concerns. It's really difficult, when you're talking about any element of the ecosystem, to tease apart the components and study them in isolation. For example, on Lake Erie right now, all of a sudden we've got all of these lamprey that we don't think should be there. The lake has been treated twice, back to back, and all the streams at once, and they should be gone. So the question is, where are they coming from? Clearly, they're spawning somewhere that we didn't know about.
One of the questions we have, and one of the questions we put to them as well was.... They've been rehabilitating the sturgeon spawning habitat in the Detroit River fairly aggressively for the last number of years. Are they sure they aren't building lamprey spawning habitat? The answer was they designed it with the intent to eliminate that possibility, but clearly something's going on, right? That's a habitat issue.