I will clarify that I did not say there should be a ban. I said that we need to really figure out the risks of the marine environment to wild Atlantic salmon. We need to adequately regulate and mitigate those risks and avoid them wherever possible, and we really need to look at much better regulatory systems nation-wide for farmed salmon.
We do not stand up to world-class regulations right now. I happen to know that because I've gone through a process in Nova Scotia where there was an independent regulatory review panel that came out with excellent recommendations. It's called the Doelle-Lahey panel. I would recommend that the federal government look at that as a basis for how we could regulate open net-pen salmon farming in a much better way.
Fully understanding the impacts on wild salmon is very, very important, both on the west coast and the east coast. If we think we're going to be successful in recovering wild salmon populations, we cannot ignore the impacts of farmed salmon.