Yes, very briefly.
We had established a Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network. It's a research network led out of the University of Windsor. We continue to work with the academics across the country as well as with other government departments.
We are looking at projects in 2007-2008, looking at alternative ballast water exchange zones outside of Newfoundland, looking at real-time risk assessment systems for ballast water exchange on the Scotian Shelf and Gulf of Maine. We are looking to evaluate sea chests as potential vectors for invasives, and we are also analysing the domestic ship trade as secondary vectors of species invasions in the Great Lakes. Clearly invasives come up every year at the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Those meetings are upcoming in about three weeks.
