The answer to your question of whether federal regulation and involvement will improve the situation is clearly yes. The involvement of the federal government will certainly bring more clarity around some of the regulatory aspects of the industry.
If you go back to the business of potential conflict between the wild capture and aquaculture industries, it is very important to keep returning in the British Columbia context. Jurisdiction over the land base and where aquaculture takes place remains with the province. So the resource land-use conflicts, to the extent that they exist today, in theory at least will exist in the future, but will be mediated or addressed primarily by the province.
The federal government today has a significant role in helping to contribute to provincial decisions and ensuring that new sites don't negatively affect fish and fish habitat. So there is some role there already. But by virtue of the federal involvement in licensing individual sites, we will be in a situation where once the province zones or allocates a particular part of the province for aquaculture, the individual site decisions will be much more directly made through licences from the federal government.
Some of the conflicts will certainly remain. The federal government is going to have a different role to play now, and will probably move to a model similar to the commercial fisheries, in which we develop integrated fisheries management plans and put those in place for aquaculture.