Fisheries committee  I'm just kidding, but you know what I mean.

Fisheries committee  I think I'm probably overstating the obvious a little bit, in the sense that everybody knows what kinds of effects pesticides can have in general and on other aquatic species that cohabit the streams with sea lamprey juveniles. I think what I said about lake sturgeon earlier is

Fisheries committee  Do you mean other than providing at least the same amount of funding that we had before? I think that funding this research as well as managing, in terms of control, is really important. Please excuse me, I'm not trying to tell you what to do—that's your own decision. But you

Fisheries committee  It's a water quality issue that we have had for quite a long time--namely, all the effluents, mostly industrial effluents, that went into St. Marys. Many of them have accumulated in the sediments too. We used to have a paper mill; I think it's closed now. Anyway, due to usual M

Fisheries committee  I'm not part of the control personnel, so I couldn't give you the exact data, but my understanding is that the present sea lamprey control still relies very heavily on pesticide application, because frankly that is, at the present time, the most efficient way of killing sea lampr

Fisheries committee  From reading the literature as well as the reports that came out from the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, my opinion is there could be several reasons. One of them, which I think everybody is aware of, is nobody likes pesticides being put into drinking water supplies. Now, admitt

Fisheries committee  I cannot give you data because I'm not part of the actual control personnel, but I think there's no question, pesticide is by far the most effective. I alluded to the use of traps that are being used at the present time mostly for population evaluation purposes in terms of what

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. Bonjour, mesdames et messieurs. Thank you very much for inviting me here. It's certainly a pleasure and an honour to be here to talk to you today. My name is Istvan Imre. I am a biology faculty member in the biology department at Algoma University, which i