Fisheries committee  It might be appropriate to draw a comparison with the chicken industry, with the outbreak of avian flu, which meant that you very quickly had to bio-isolate flocks by keeping them indoors.

Fisheries committee  I can speak to that. I'm speaking as a mathematician. When I talk about undefined or less defined, we know quite well that it might be six versus seven employees per 10,000 metric tonnes of production. A net pen is less than four notionally. So there's definitely an increase in j

Fisheries committee  No, not at all, sir. I'm suggesting that if you take the full academic work of Peter Tyedmers, which would suggest that you do a full LCA.... There's a list of all the attributes, from human toxicity potential to eutrophication, and if you account for all those effects and get in

Fisheries committee  I would say that we believe we have a very good number, because we've produced a bio-plan and determined the number of people needed to support that bio-plan. Unlike in the case of engineering energy, for instance, where you can compute how many pumps you need to shift so many c

Fisheries committee  In our modelling and assessment work and the DFO work, financing was assumed to occur at commercial rates. That's all factored in. On this particular project—and I'm not familiar with the deep numbers, because there's a team and I'm not the financial guy—I think we're supported

Fisheries committee  I would counsel you to look carefully at the Cohen commission. This has been a very difficult area and it is probably inappropriate for me to weigh in on it, but Judge Cohen has done a very thorough job of looking at all the aspects, and at all the disease impacts in particular.

Fisheries committee  It's not so much a matter of savings. It's the difference between it being estimated by committee without commercial quotes, versus commercial quotes, which is what we did.

Fisheries committee  We are doing that as we speak for our specific design, which we've just tabled. What I would say to you is that the model developed by DFO, which you have sort of tabulated there in that report, is actually an excellent model in terms of being able to explore all those sensitiv

Fisheries committee  I also think you could get very creative around a five-year migration window, for instance, from net-pen to on-land industry. I think you could be creative about how you use the first few farms, because instead of growing your smolts to 100 or 200 grams and placing them in the oc

Fisheries committee  No, it's not. We did cost the price of land and we also have the luxury that hasn't been explored here. In British Columbia we have a huge amount of crown land that is available for low-lease consideration. The former deputy minister for agriculture and lands in British Columbia

Fisheries committee  From a hardcore engineering perspective, I would say the barrier to entry at the moment is true lack of knowledge of how to build these farms. One of the things I'm proud about in the 'Namgis project is that the package of information we're going to develop—all of the intellectua

Fisheries committee  That is where we will essentially start our business so that we're profitable from the beginning. There's also another market pressure. Again, I encourage you to call Kelly Roebuck, from Living Oceans, who studied the marketing perspectives deeply. By 2015, market pressure will

Fisheries committee  I would like to ask the committee to also take into account the work of Professor Andrew Trites at UBC, who has researched the diet of sea lions in particular. They also prey extensively on the prey of salmon. So there's a very fine ecosystem balance there: if you take the top pr

Fisheries committee  I would be delighted to. I've actually walked Peter through our discussions and we have spent time going over his paper. I wouldn't say they're discrepancies. I think it's an area of focus. Our electricity in British Columbia is largely fossil fuel-free: it comes from hydro dam

Fisheries committee  Let me be very clear. The land-based farms are significantly lower in GHGs and energy consumption. Net-pen farms are not free. They run generators to run the lighting systems that illuminate the nets for photoperiod manipulation. They run generators to blow feed into the nets,