Fisheries committee  With regard to drugs, antibiotics, and/or sea lice, I will group them for this discussion into one: sea lice treatments. We use a number of strategies in order to minimize release of drugs into the environment. We use feeding strategies if and when we have to medicate, which as M

Fisheries committee  That's correct.

Fisheries committee  There are no specific studies that I can provide now off the top of my head, but certainly I would refer you to some of the standards I mentioned. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Compassion in World Farming both have standards that deal with fish fa

Fisheries committee  The biological limitations that I was speaking to were the control systems that we put in and the research systems where we maximize temperature in order to maximize growth. There is a limitation in temperature profiles. Obviously, in open-net pen systems you don't have control o

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you for the opportunity to speak to the committee today on closed containment. My name is Peter McKenzie. I'm a veterinarian. I've been working in the aquaculture industry for over 10 years and I've worked with multiple different versions of cl