Fisheries committee  If I recall correctly, it's targeting the larval stages that live in the sediments. So there's an example where the lampricide is applied with that specific life stage in mind. Normally, we don't look at it that way. Where eradication has been applied in other parts of the world

Fisheries committee  We need rapid identification, then risk assessment to decide what threat it poses, once we know what it is. The difficulty is in knowing what it is. I'm assuming your question was partly prompted by the fact that I said there are species in the Great Lakes and we're not even sure

Fisheries committee  We have no system that coordinates expertise, taxonomic expertise for example, that would allow us to rapidly identify species, which is the first stage towards assessing a threat. The next stage after that is once you know what you have coming in through ballast water or whateve

Fisheries committee  I'm not a manager, but you'd have to have someone find the organism, so that requires monitoring. You'd have to be able to identify using, let's say, an expert database, who is capable of identifying species of that group of organisms, whether it's fish or molluscs or other kinds

Fisheries committee  Do you mean which species should be studied?

Fisheries committee  We are developing models to identify, by creating a kind of criminal profile, if you like, of a species that could cause harm or undesirable impacts. We're not the only ones doing this. This is something that's going on around the world. Even if we're not aware of what species m

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  You can't hold them in Ontario. And I'm not sure, but I think there are other provincial.... In terms of other provinces, I'm not sure if B.C. has a regulation against them also. But clearly there's great heterogeneity in legislation at the provincial level. There is nothing th

Fisheries committee  Of course there should be.

Fisheries committee  Natural disasters.

Fisheries committee  It sounds like you've been reading some of the stuff I've written.

Fisheries committee  Most governments, including ours, aren't. We're not alone in that. Just to elaborate on what I proposed, a colleague of mine, Norm Yan, a professor at York University, suggests that we should treat invasive species with the same kind of serious attitude that we treat natural di

Fisheries committee  One of the things we've learned about successful eradication of invasive species in general, not just aquatic ones, is that there are some patterns that differentiate successful eradication from the more dominant, more common, unsuccessful ones. One of the things we've learned

Fisheries committee  That's a famous example. It's not the only one, but it's one that's well known. There was a mussel that's similar to the zebra mussel, except it's marine, and it was brought into Darwin Harbour, in Australia. It was brought in by yachts from the Caribbean. It invaded three marin

Fisheries committee  The regulation would have to be based on solid risk assessment, as it is in the countries I named, which are well advanced in this, both in the science of risk assessment and the application and regulation. They are Australia and New Zealand, which have ministries or departments