Thanks, Mr. Chair, and my thanks to Dr. Hutchings and Dr. Fleming. It's great to have you here.
Thank you for this report. I think it is a significant contribution to the scientific community. Certainly, it's helpful for this committee to look at in our deliberations on the impacts of aquaculture and wild salmon, as well as disease and parasites, just to name a couple of issues that we've been looking at over the past year and a half.
On March 8 of this year, the CFIA confirmed that ISA was found in a Nova Scotia fish farm in Shelburne. Recently, we had an ISA scare in British Columbia. I'm wondering if you could provide information on this disease and the potential threat, specifically to wild species, and the relationship between aquaculture and those wild species in Canada and possibly in other jurisdictions around the world.