Fisheries committee  The collaborative testing program is in place. The commission talked about endocrine disruptors as a potential impact on reproductivity. The monitoring program we have in place has not detected any of the particular endocrine disruptors that were identified in the commission disc

Fisheries committee  Insofar as the activity around climate change is concerned, I'd say there are two elements. First, the Government of Canada has moved in a particular direction that I think you're very familiar with. A large part of our work is trying to understand and tease out the impacts of cl

Fisheries committee  Yes. Go ahead, Rebecca.

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  Yes, there's a fair bit of information sharing. Some of the core biology of both Atlantic and Pacific salmon is shared, but not a lot, though, because in the Pacific case, as you know, yes, they do grow bigger, but then they die. In Atlantic Canada, they keep going back to sea.

Fisheries committee  I can touch briefly on the risk assessment; I know you're conscious of time. Essentially what we're trying to do is go through each of the pathogens, making our best effort to figure out how disease moves, as I said earlier, between wild and farmed. Within wild, we know there's

Fisheries committee  We don't have anything that suggests wild salmon are infecting farmed salmon and causing farmed salmon problems in the disease context. There are some issues associated with lice transfer from wild to farmed.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  The lab being referred to in West Vancouver has been there, as you know, for a very long time. It's one that is somewhat underutilized, as a nice way to put it. We have a significant capacity there that is not being used. Minister LeBlanc has decided that a key priority for hi

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chairman, I will apologize for what seems like an evasive answer. Please don't take it that way. For sure, we are looking into these issues; I can say that quite categorically. I'd like to be able to say to you: “We've identified the following impacts in the subdominant year

Fisheries committee  They've been specifically allocated to working on salmon biology and research; you would find no one in the department.... We have, for example, approximately five people—new people, I'm talking about—in addition to the 10 or 12, or actually more than that, whom we've already had

Fisheries committee  First of all, I would say concerning the habitat recommendation and the activities recommended, no, we didn't ever down tools. As Rebecca mentioned, the sequencing was not one whereby we just sat and waited for the recommendations to come in, then figured out what to do, and then

Fisheries committee  No, I was just saying to Rebecca that I can offer a quick comment on that before Mr. Simms beeps you—or me, rather. Essentially what we're trying to do through the new investments is substantially increase our understanding of what's happening in the ocean. One of the big chall

Fisheries committee  As far as changing the mandate of the department is concerned, we are not on that track right now. Essentially the way the department has approached this is that if you embrace the concept of sustainability, as distinct from the traditional economy-environment trade-off, a big pa

Fisheries committee  I would turn first to the comment at the beginning, that he didn't, in the report, identify any single smoking gun that is causing these things. I think the phrasing of the excerpt you raised is very carefully chosen. What has been identified in here is clearly that there is a po