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Fisheries committee Absolutely, thank you. Thank you very much, Chair and committee. We're very pleased to be here today. You'll see that there are three of us, and there's a reason each of us is here. With me is Dr. Michelle Wheatley, regional director of science in the department's central and
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I'll defer to my colleague from the region.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee The northern snakehead is native to east Asia but has been brought in as a live food-trade fish. It may have been brought in as well for the aquarium trade. The smaller animals are attractive there. They are currently established in areas of the midwestern United States and in
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee There is no snakehead known to be in the Great Lakes. It's not present in the Great Lakes now. It is one of the key species we are concerned about as a threat that could come to the Great Lakes, but there are no snakehead at the present time.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee Not most. The current funding we have is divided across the various program elements that I mentioned in my presentation. We have a component for research, for monitoring, and for the biological risk assessment. All those are within the area of science, but several other element
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I have a list, which I'll refer to. About one-third of what looks like about seven or eight are in fresh water, and the rest that we have done our risk assessments on are marine species.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee Many of them are, but not all. Some would be freshwater species that are either in B.C. or Atlantic Canada.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee Yes, it's similar in that case. Smallmouth bass is a native species in parts of Canada, but it's moving and has been moved to places where it is not native. It is a sports fish as well, in its own range, and has sometimes been moved into other systems for that purpose. The prob
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee I'm not sure if I can give you a very deep answer to that question. Certainly lampricide, generally, would be a chemical or a poison that would work specifically on the lamprey.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee It is not a problem for other species.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee As I said, it's an academic network. It's centred in the University of Windsor, and it may involve other universities as well. It's funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. There are quite a few of these kinds of networks in different areas of science and
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee Yes.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee It's a package that's under development right now, so we can't speak about it as if it's done, certainly. As I mentioned, the Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers committee is a key venue for us to talk to the other jurisdictions about this. As you point out, b
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee That is in the Great Lakes, yes.
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis
Fisheries committee We have 182. I should again stress that's non-indigenous species. Not all of them would be in the high-risk invasive category, by any means. I think that's a current number, actually, Mr. Chair. That's how many we would estimate we currently have. Whether we have been able to
April 2nd, 2012Committee meeting
David Gillis