Fisheries committee  There is a study under way in the United States to determine the effectiveness of the barrier. To date the work that has been done to monitor the situation of the barrier is showing us that it is working as it's intended to. They do tag other species in the area and they do swim

Fisheries committee  I believe the barrier effectiveness is due either later this calendar year or early next calendar year.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  No, I don't think anyone would argue that activity such as that would be 100% effective, but it is dealing with the adult species, and with the young as well. They've been doing studies to determine the most effective level of electricity required in order to prevent that movemen

Fisheries committee  You're correct.

Fisheries committee  To maximize the ability to prevent dispersal through those five areas, the electric barrier is actually quite further downstream. It's number 7. The populations are still quite a way downstream from there.

Fisheries committee  The idea is to prevent them from moving up and then through those areas. It's that bottleneck area, number 7.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's a way to define the fact that this is just not acceptable. We cannot be bringing these species in live. They are intended for sale. They're not intended for release into the environment, but those releases have occurred in the past. Having the fines and the prohibitions

Fisheries committee  Is there funding assigned to what?

Fisheries committee  Yes, there's a lot of research on containment and the ability to corral species to direct them to areas where we could fish them out. We could poison a smaller area. There's a ton of research under way to have a plan B. The idea is that the game is not over and we would be able t

Fisheries committee  Is it possible? Because of the nature of the work under way in the Chicago Area Waterway System, there are a lot of boots on the ground. There are miles and miles of nets out there. It was mentioned before that we haven't been very good worldwide at eradicating species. That's

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. We have a commitment to establish rapid response planning and a framework to better understand who does what. Luckily, there has been work done that we can build from. We also have mutual interest with the United States in this species. These are priority species for

Fisheries committee  Yes. We have a lot of good news stories concerning management activities that help prevent the introduction and spread of aquatic invasive species, ballast water being one of those stories. In terms of Asian carp specifically, the U.S. is having to move very quickly. Even though

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I'm glad we have a chance to clarify that. I don't think they are more important; in fact, I believe outreach and education would be more important. But I think we need these punitive measures as well, basically making a two-pronged approach to deal with this aspect o