Fisheries committee  Further to that, a very interesting and new circumstance is that the very largest salmon farming company in the world, Marine Harvest, which has several billion dollars in assets, has decided that it's in its business interest to start a closed-containment pilot project, and it i

Fisheries committee  I'll answer the second question on the best place to launch a closed-containment project. Was that the gist of the question?

Fisheries committee  We believe that B.C. has a golden opportunity here because it has hydroelectricity at fairly cheap rates, as well as the infrastructure. With the downturn in the commercial fishery, there are unused fish processing plant opportunities and a skilled workforce. There would be many

Fisheries committee  I think different members of the panel would probably answer the different questions that you've posed there. I'll just answer the first one on the regulations in British Columbia for open-net pen salmon farms. How I would frame it is that there are a lot of regulations, but in

Fisheries committee  This is David Lane responding. I would point out that these are the kinds of systems in general that we're talking about. They are land-based tanks. There are two things I'd point out. First of all, by coming onto land in closed-containment tank systems, you are able to avoid w

Fisheries committee  My name is David Lane. I'm with the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation. To one side of me is John Werring, who is with the David Suzuki Foundation, and Ruby Berry, from the Georgia Strait Alliance. On the other side is Michelle Molnar, also from the David Suzuki Foundation.

Fisheries committee  Okay, very good. We'll be brief, then. We are here representing a coalition of groups in British Columbia called the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform, which is made up of the groups that are here at the table, and also Watershed Watch and the Living Oceans Society. We've