Having worked in the forest industry in the past, I was used to pictures of new clear-cuts that always look bad, yet when you go back to a 30-, 40-, 50-, or 60-year-old forest, it is rapidly reverting to the original condition, so this is a piece of work that really needs to be done.
I was a little surprised that neither of your testimonies talked about the effect on wild salmon. For example, you're probably aware that the Atlantic salmon runs in eastern Canada are increasing fairly dramatically. This particular year was one of the best years ever, even though when I was on the Miramichi I couldn't catch a fish, but that's another story.
I asked Mr. Taylor of the Atlantic Salmon Federation point blank if we will ever need to commercially fish wild Atlantic salmon any more because of aquaculture—and I know their stand on net pen aquaculture—and he had to admit that the commercial fishing of wild salmon should probably never have to occur again, given the production of farmed fish.
Don't you think that's a significant advantage of net pen aquaculture?