Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank our presenters for being here. It's good to see you again. It has been about eight months since I was on this committee. Many tides have flowed in those eight months. I'm sure there's information that has come forward to the committee of which I'm not aware, but I would like to focus on some of the details in your presentation just to understand it better.
Andy, you talked about net-pen aquaculture done on the back of cheap energy. I have a lot of appreciation for the way the aquaculture industry has been working with conservation groups to find sustainable ways of doing what they do, but I would say that it's also done on the back of externalizing waste and risk. When the waste from the net pens falls to the benthic layer, in British Columbia.... A lot of the industrial pollution in British Columbia—this end-of-pipe pollution—has a price attached to it; that's our regulatory mechanism. But I don't think there is such a price attached to the waste produced in the net-pen farms.
When you were doing your calculations of cost comparisons, did you do any calculation of the volume of waste produced? If it were to have a cost attached to it, as much of our industrial pollution has, what would that do to your cost comparisons?