I think, first and foremost, an aquaculture act has to move the industry onto land. Then they're free to grow. They won't have sea lice problems. They won't have low oxygen problems. They won't have the algal bloom problems.
Norway is pushing very hard for the industry to go onto land. In fact, they adjudicate on every land-based or closed containment application made by the industry, because they're trying to save the industry from itself. An aquaculture act in Canada should just move it onto land. Let's build a sustainable, remarkable industry that we can be proud of.
The industry has had 20 years to deal with the sea lice problem, and there's no evidence that they can deal with it. They brought in 80 million dollars' worth of boats last year and said they had it handled, but 37% of the farms this spring were over the three lice per farmed salmon limit that was set 15 years ago by government to protect wild salmon. They just can't control these sea lice in this country or any country.
An aquaculture act should protect the industry and put it on land in closed containment. Honestly, if the three Norwegians who are farming here right now don't want to do that, let's look to Canadians. Maybe there are Canadians who want to get into this industry. There are no Canadian-owned fish farms on the coast of British Columbia and maybe they want to do it.