In a couple of weeks Dr. MacIsaac can tell you a lot more about a technique called pyrosequencing, which is a very expensive technique, but as with many of these molecular techniques, we see the price coming down. You all know about all the DNA things that can be done for forensics. Well, that's happening as well for invasive species, where you can take environmental DNA and sample it. Again, you need strategies for where and when to sample, but it can probably speed up the process, although in that case it might just identify where follow-up work needs to be done.
I really think there needs to be both a mentality and an authority to react quickly, even after the identification. As I said, the European ruffe was well identified as an invasive species, and it took over a year to have any type of movement on it. By that time it was decided it was in too many rivers. It needed to be decided on within a month or two.