The Lord could better answer this question, but there are a number of reasons. I think one that is really important is that DFO did an assessment, but only of the export of 100,000 eyed eggs from P.E.I. to Panama.
They did not do an assessment of the commercial grow out. I'm still worried about the P.E.I. facility, but unless we get a mammoth hurricane or there's some kind of serious eco-sabotage, it is unlikely there is going to be interaction between those fish and the few remaining wild fish left in P.E.I.
When you go to commercial grow out, as I've said, and I can't emphasize it enough, we're talking about hundreds of millions of fish. Imagine a facility like that right beside the Miramichi River. Fish have escaped from land-based facilities. If you're talking numbers, if there are a million fish, 2%, that's 2,000. If it's 100 million, that's 200,000.
I get it that the chances are low, but the longer it happens and the more fish you produce, the more the risk goes up. I think the probability eventually approaches 100%. It would be best to ask DFO, but I think you can get comparable growth rates. If you have optimum conditions for both types of fish, you can get growth rates that are comparable.