I'm from Prince Edward Island, as I mentioned. I have been involved with this fish kill issue for quite some time.
Prince Edward Island is a unique environment. There are literally streams, rivers, and brooks in just about every square inch of the province, as well as rolling hills, which leads to a lot of movement of soil from farmland into waterways.
As one of the witnesses talked about a bit earlier today, the change has really impacted the fish kill issue because of the severe weather extremes and events. In most of the fish kills I have been working with, there is a matter of three inches of rain coming down in 45 minutes, and all of a sudden, that farmer's field is not on his field anymore; it is down in the local brook.
I know that the provincial government in Prince Edward Island has been working very diligently to have setback zones and strips of grassed areas to try to prevent the soil from getting into the waterways.
Our conclusion is that it is not the pesticide itself that's the problem; it is the fact that the pesticide is on the soil, and the soil is moving into the aquatic area. We certainly support those types of stewardship programs and encourage farmers to spray precisely, to have setback zones from sensitive areas, and to have capture strips of grass between their potato fields and any streams or sensitive areas.