The biggest threat to us is the transportation of mussels via trailered watercraft. More specifically, our international border is not really tight enough to those trailered watercraft that are coming in from states in the south that are infested with zebra and quagga mussels. Though the Government of Alberta has worked with Canadian border services to try to identify high-risk trailered watercraft crossing the border, the onus is still on the Government of Alberta to try to track down and hopefully see one of those high-risk trailered watercraft show up at a provincial inspection station.
We'd really like to see support from the Government of Canada and the Canada Border Services Agency with regard to trailered watercraft crossing that international boundary so that inspection and decontamination, if necessary, happen right on site, and so that those boats that are high risk are not slipping through the cracks and then entering into Canada's water bodies.