Thank you, Mr. Donnelly.
Mr. Chair, my question is probably a follow-on to the question that Mr. Hayes asked. Mr. Hayes asked about the potential impacts on the environment of a closed containment facility. What I'm looking for is a list of potential impacts on wild fish from the fish raised in closed containment.
This is a two-part question. The second part is this. I'm from Newfoundland and Labrador and part of the Atlantic caucus of the New Democrats. We had a presentation the other day from the Atlantic Salmon Federation, coincidentally. One of the stats they mentioned in their presentation was that wherever there's an aquaculture industry, there's a decline in the wild salmon population by 50%. This is the number that the Atlantic Salmon Federation gave us. Would that be the case with a closed containment facility?
So the first part of my first question is about the potential negative impacts on wild salmon populations, and the second part is whether the stat I mentioned would also hold true for a closed containment facility's impact on wild populations?