Fisheries committee  In a couple of weeks Dr. MacIsaac can tell you a lot more about a technique called pyrosequencing, which is a very expensive technique, but as with many of these molecular techniques, we see the price coming down. You all know about all the DNA things that can be done for forensi

Fisheries committee  As I said, I think we only have blunt tools right now. For me, and I think Dr. Ricciardi would agree with me, I would suffer a lot of collateral damage to put out an invasive species. It's a hard one for the public to swallow, but I think that's where the education comes in again

Fisheries committee  It's Guelph. Basically, you send a piece of tissue in and they'll tell you right away. As part of the first CAISN network, there was an invasive tunicate bank developed in P.E.I. where people could send.... I'm not sure if they could send samples to get them identified, but the

Fisheries committee  Oh, that's the detection, yes.

Fisheries committee  The problem of identifying quickly is just thorny because it's often done pro bono and it's diffuse. It's getting worse at an international level. That type of expertise is no longer really well rewarded. The bright side is...especially with the DNA bar-coding program in Windso

Fisheries committee  Just to follow up, the invasion of South America with the formation of the Isthmus of Panama was actually a natural catastrophic invasion.

Fisheries committee  Well, without being paid, you're going to get nothing for nothing. But with your smallest investment, your biggest bang for your buck in the long term I think might very well be public education, with the caveat that you have to assess how effective it is.

Fisheries committee  Agreed. And perhaps it could even correct it by obviously putting a law on the books that says that it's illegal to do it. I don't know what that costs. I'm sure it doesn't come free, but I'm sure it's pretty inexpensive in comparison. I would follow it up again with enforcement,

Fisheries committee  Could I follow with a question on that to help perhaps clarify something for me?

Fisheries committee  I know that in the province of Quebec authority over fish, especially freshwater fish, is pretty much a provincial concern. How does the new law apply to cooperation between federal and provincial authorities?

Fisheries committee  I'm always the second at bat. Sometimes I hope I can hit not a home run, but.... I think the thing you have to realize with Australia and New Zealand—because they come up—is that it's not an accident that those are the countries that are ahead of us. Number one, as isolated is

Fisheries committee  There are intentional introductions. I raised this earlier. I definitely remember a time when someone was going to block boat transport to a lake, and someone made an anonymous call. It was a washing station where they were going to require people to wash their boats, and someone

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's the tough question.

Fisheries committee  I would go towards targeted public education, because I think that will affect some of these difficult vectors to target. Sowing seeds for the future will not have a big turnaround in the near term, but sensitizing school kids.... It could be included in curricula.

Fisheries committee  May I add to that?