Thank you for your question. I apologize, I do not speak French well enough to answer in French, but may I repeat your question in English to confirm that I have the gist of it?
Yes, I've given you an opposing opinion about where the lice come from. Others have said the lice come from the farmed fish. I'm saying the lice come from the wild fish.
The last part of the question is that you said I said fewer lice were on the Pacific fish compared to the Atlantic fish, the farmed fish. Is that your question?
So that's true. If we backtrack, we know that the lice do come from the wild. The Atlantic salmon that are grown in the cages come from the hatcheries, and they're completely lice-free. They do not start to acquire lice until they get into the marine cages. Small Atlantic salmon can acquire lice, but they generally have many fewer lice than the larger fish. As they get older, they start to accumulate things in the next season. So the lice do come from the wild fish.
In the package that I delivered earlier, you will notice that there's a typical pattern of where lice increase in the farm cages at the same time that the Pacific salmon are coming back. I think it's well understood that those lice are coming from the Pacific salmon that are returning to the coastline.
In terms of there being fewer lice on the Pacific fish than the Atlantic fish, no, I said that in the last five years, in measuring both the farmed fish--in the out-migration period of the small Pacific fry from March until June--there was a decline in both populations, the farmed fish as well as the presence of lice on the wild fry in that same period for the last five years.
Does that answer your question?