Fisheries committee  It's in Guelph.

Fisheries committee  Let's take an example. Again, it's public education. Most people figure that goldfish are benign. There was a study at McGill many years ago—I wasn't involved with it—that showed goldfish act like little carp, little aquatic pigs, basically, rooting around in the sediment, and th

Fisheries committee  You would have to move all the continents together at the same time and still you wouldn't approach what's happening now. Mass invasions have occurred in the past when continents collided together. What we're seeing now is something that still does not compare to what's happene

Fisheries committee  Piranhas are found almost every year in the Great Lakes. They are red-bellied piranhas that are found, which are sold in pet stores. It's easy to guess how they got into the Great Lakes. Somebody decides it's getting too big and it's eating everything else in the tank so let's ge

Fisheries committee  Yes. The process of invasion is just as natural as the process of extinction. And like extinction, under human influence it has been altered; it has been accelerated. In fact I have compared rates of invasion from the prehistoric record and modern record, and the differences ar

Fisheries committee  I've heard of a study being done in Britain—I can't remember the details—that is applying exactly what you just talked about. It's recent. It applies the hot spots of crime approach, or the statistical approach toward establishing that, to exotic species, or to species outbreaks,

Fisheries committee  Well, from sources like canals, for example.... The Welland Canal still can function as a source for allowing species, once they get into the St. Lawrence River, to bypass Niagara Falls and get in, just like the sea lamprey, the alewife, and a few other things did. Canals breach

Fisheries committee  Remember that live trade includes lots of sub-vectors. We're talking about moving species for commercial purposes. We're talking about aquarium dumping after the aquarium industry has distributed species. There is bait-bucket dumping. After the bait trade has distributed species,

Fisheries committee  It's your chance up at bat, Ladd. Hit it out of the park.

Fisheries committee  I'm not familiar with how efficient European countries are in dealing with this problem. I mentioned Australia and New Zealand. I can mention South Africa and to some extent the United States—the United States I'm not certain of, but certainly the other three countries—as being a

Fisheries committee  The sea lamprey example, which was the reason for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission being born, is an example of the great cooperation between the United States and Canada. We recognize that invasive species is yet another transboundary issue, because they don't recognize bounda

Fisheries committee  Scientific researchers deal with other universities—absolutely.

Fisheries committee  Yes—the International Maritime Organization.

Fisheries committee  Australia and New Zealand have either ministries or departments—I get confused as to which one is which—of biosecurity that serve to coordinate efforts to deal with species that are crossing their borders, whether we're talking about pathogens, species that affect threshold ecosy

Fisheries committee  You've already heard a lot about the sea lamprey, I imagine.