Fisheries committee  When I said there were three or four cases, I should have said there have been three or four of the bays that have been invaded on the east side. Our current study suggests that the natural spread of the larvae is insufficient to explain the movement, bay to bay. It has probabl

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry, do you mean specifically P.E.I.?

Fisheries committee  You heard me correctly. I'd like to maybe clarify that.

Fisheries committee  I'll try to do it quickly. I think that the monitoring efforts globally are inadequate, and I stand by that. I would think P.E.I. would be a model place to look for it, particularly because of the provincial government's implication in that. They do rigorous monitoring there.

Fisheries committee  Because you were looking for specific examples, again, Australia has our star example. I don't know exactly the authority that allowed it, but they shut down a marina within 24 hours of detecting a new species, and they bleached it. They went in there....

Fisheries committee  Could I just add one comment?

Fisheries committee  I would argue that in the early nineties we could have eliminated the Eurasian ruffe from the Great Lakes if we had taken the same sort of action. I don't want to go into the details of that, and don't want to say “dithering”, but that's the word that came to mind. By the time th

Fisheries committee  I think the most important one, and the one I alluded to earlier, was trying to work with—even though I don't like the word very much, it's very useful—“stakeholders”, with all the parties that are involved. I think P.E.I. was probably exceptional in involving the provincial gove

Fisheries committee  The cooperation I think would be a model, and my knowledge of that is incomplete as well, as I have not worked on ballast water. I do know there was some disjunct in the early days when some was optional and some was required and there were different standards, but I think it's

Fisheries committee  Just from a first principles point of view, that has to be the easiest thing to control. If you put in priorities, intentional releases for bio-control would be the easiest, because that often requires approval by the organizations involved. The live trade where people are inte

Fisheries committee  May I...?

Fisheries committee  My name is Ladd Johnson. I'm a professor at Laval University, a member of Québec-Océan, and also—and I don't think Dr. Ricciardi mentioned this—a member of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network. I'm capable of giving this in French, but I'm a little nervous and I think