There are impacts. They're raising issues. It's been an emerging issue, no question about it, from traditional fishers, particularly in southwest New Brunswick and in Nova Scotia. As new facilities are being established in Nova Scotia, issues and concerns are coming forward from local fishers.
The jurisdictional arrangements are different there right now. We have New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, but we do work closely with those jurisdictions. In New Brunswick, we have an integrated sea lice initiative, a management initiative that we're trying to bring to the table...the aquaculture industry, the traditional fishers in the two jurisdictions.... But New Brunswick at this point has the lead on that.
In terms of impacts, whenever a new facility is established, as was the case in Nova Scotia—there were more than two recently—we do an impact analysis. We provide that to the lead responsible agency, which in this case was Transport. We concluded that we didn't believe there would be significant adverse environmental effects from this; and, partly on the basis of that and other things, it proceeded. The interaction is quite interesting.
I would also point out that this is not the case everywhere in Atlantic Canada. My sense is that in Newfoundland and Labrador, in particular in the south of Newfoundland, there are pretty good relations between traditional fishers and the aquaculture industry.
It is something we're mindful of and working on in terms of bringing people together. Our belief is that it is possible for the two to co-exist effectively. Our job is to try to make it so.