Fisheries committee  This is the downside of not being nervous in these sorts of situations. It always falls to me.

Fisheries committee  We're very big advocates of an approach to management decision-making that's commonly called structured decision-making. On the west coast I think the buzz phrase is management strategy evaluation. It used to be called decision analysis and adaptive management, but basically it's

Fisheries committee  Yes. In fact, there are two things there. One, the thiaminase in smelt is not as toxic as the thiaminase in.... It's a different type of thiaminase. It's a little less toxic than the one in alewife. And walleye is one of the species that's resistant to it.

Fisheries committee  Not totally, but largely.

Fisheries committee  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 eve

Fisheries committee  I can't really speak for the ministry on this one, but my understanding is that, yes, they have done some of that. They have an ongoing initiative, I think, working with some of the folks. They're Asian fish markets where these things are being sold. They cater to the Asian com

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  In fact the common carp has been enormously destructive for a number of native species.

Fisheries committee  They're very destructive in wetland habitat, which is really rough on things like pike. There are a number of native.... If you go into Hamilton harbour, Burlington Bay, that area, they've invested huge amounts of money in getting the carp out of this area, called Cootes Paradis

Fisheries committee  I guess it would be politic to begin with one of the things that I think is good about what's being proposed, which is legislation to address the Larocque judgment. This is going to make some small amount of money available for research through formulas that used to be used but n

Fisheries committee  It's very difficult to know sometimes. The Army Corps of Engineers and the organization—whose acronym I forget—of governments and mayors on the U.S. side just commissioned a study, and none of the Canadian numbers were included in it. So it's not at all clear to me that the numbe

Fisheries committee  I'm a major proponent of risk management as a way of dealing with fisheries issues generally as long as it is fully open, transparent, and accountable to stakeholders. I think this is an issue that could very well be structured through that kind of approach very productively. For

Fisheries committee  Who knows?

Fisheries committee  It's a very thin border. It's very difficult. When we were dealing with the Asian carp stuff, the Ministry of Natural Resources people approached the Border Services guys, and I am told the Canadian Border Services guys were just effusive in their gratitude. They had nothing. The

Fisheries committee  That's it up to a point. I think actually there was a lot of real clarity about what Asian carp did when they were brought into the United States. They were brought in with the express purpose of cleaning up nutrient-rich waters that were nutrient rich because they were polluted.