We've been working with Dr. Crawford Revie, who's an expert on farm-salmon dynamics. He's been coordinating our monitoring programs for the coordinate area management that we've been doing in the Broughton, and they are starting to see some evidence in New Brunswick, where salmon has been farmed longer. We think that it's only a matter of time before it happens here.
In particular, we saw a huge problem in Norway in 2009. We just heard a talk where they had to resort to a slew of old chemicals, very dangerous chemicals, to control the situation this year. We've heard from lots of sea lice experts at this workshop too on how incredibly adaptable sea lice are to chemical therapeutants.
So it's only a matter of time before we see it definitively in B.C. What we need to do is run bioassays of the resistance of lice to these chemicals. That has not been done on this coast, but it is being done on the east coast.