Fisheries committee  I'll let Eric answer that.

Fisheries committee  It's interesting; when the farms were first being brought in, the Province of British Columbia asked us for input into where these farms should be located. We had input from clam diggers. We had input from commercial fishermen and from local people. We identified only one spot in

Fisheries committee  We were opposed to the open net fish farms because of our knowledge of their history in Europe, in Norway, Ireland, and Scotland. Wherever there are fish farms, the wild species are affected. It's a known fact. So we were concerned about that. We probably could have been the op

Fisheries committee  Of course we like to think so.

Fisheries committee  The site is perfect for this closed containment project. That was confirmed by the experts from the Freshwater Institute in the United States. As I said, we've been operating a fish enhancement project in the Nimpkish River for well over 20 years. We know fish, and the groundwate

Fisheries committee  It was estimated at that time that 80% to 90% of those salmon fry would die. Of course you know there are millions of fry that go out into the ocean, and a certain percentage of them would come in. If you kill off millions of the fry before they even have a chance to go out into

Fisheries committee  We know in the archipelago, where there are about 26 fish farms with a billion or so fish in each farm, the return to the rivers of the archipelago to mainland inlets is very, very low. I think there's only one salmon run. It was in the Glendale Cove, which has a spawning channel

Fisheries committee  I guess it boils down to the fact that there aren't enough studies being done, especially by DFO.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chairman, thank you for undertaking this important study. Our vision is that this project will help to create a land-based closed containment industry in British Columbia that benefits other first nations and our neighbouring communities and industry participants, as well as

Fisheries committee  Gilakasla. That means greetings and thank you in our language, Kwa’kwala. I want to thank you, Chairman, and committee members, for undertaking this important study on closed containment and for the invitation to present to you today. On behalf of the 'Namgis First Nation,

Fisheries committee  No, I don't think we are.

Fisheries committee  We probably didn't know about it.

Fisheries committee  Well, what we're hoping to do once we've completed our study, our engineering, is to approach the small craft harbours program again and ask it to support the building of a rock breakwater and the expansion of that particular breakwater. This is because the existing breakwater th

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  The old harbour?