It is, in part. Aquaculture is an important industry, and should be an important industry, in Atlantic Canada. Our organization has certain recommendations about how it should be done.
Taking it to the GM level opens up a Pandora's box for us. Given that all you need is one GM fish to breed with one wild Atlantic salmon, and that trait is then in the wild brood stock, the level of security required is so, so, so much higher. We're talking about one facility now, but you can imagine if there were many facilities with hundreds of millions of fish over many years of production, with lapses and cut corners. There are good operators and there are less-good operators. I know that for a fact. Different companies have different records. We know that from working with different companies. Something is going to happen.
If you had more time, I would suggest you bring in a scientist from DFO to talk to this. I think long term, if we commercialize these species right now, even with the high success around triploid induction, we would see breeding with wild fish. Then for anglers, be they from New York or from Halifax, like me, that would change our perspective on fishing in Atlantic Canada.