Fisheries committee  I don't know.

Fisheries committee  Yes, there are several limitations. I mentioned at the beginning that there was a very narrow scope, addressing only sockeye salmon and only in a very specific area, which was the Discovery Islands. They also didn't take into account new information that came out in the last couple of years.

Fisheries committee  Yes. PRV is a virus that is highly prevalent in salmon farms, but it's a virus that has been demonstrated to impact all Pacific salmon. We have an overwhelming amount of evidence from around the world that different types of PRV can actually induce disease in Pacific salmon, so that is already one piece of evidence.

Fisheries committee  Well, again, we have to calculate the costs and benefits, and the impact on the spreading of agents from the farms has a lot of variables depending on where the farm is located. If you are in a very slick channel, of course, it's easier to contain the agents in that channel going back and forth with the tides.

Fisheries committee  To put it very simply, that will be one of the effects you can have. You have less food, so the fish have a harder time to find food and they don't grow as much. Some of them might die because they don't have enough food.

Fisheries committee  I would say so.

Fisheries committee  I will start with yes, it's real. I'm not the only one saying that. I will start with that. The impact of climate change on salmon can happen in different aspects. Fish are ectothermic, which means they use the temperature of the surrounding environment to.... They have the same temperature as their environment.

Fisheries committee  Yes, and they didn't do their job later either, when they did the nine CSAS reviews. Again, by narrowing the scope and ignoring a lot of other issues, they didn't succeed in doing that even later.

Fisheries committee  Are you referring to the situation about controlling diseases or promoting a rebound of Pacific salmon? Those are two different things. Which one are you referring to?

Fisheries committee  As I said, as a fish shelter operator, I would say there definitely needs to be more monitoring and control of those operations, and, as Ms. Wristen also said, a definite transparency in the results, so we can take an informed decision on how to deal with diseases happening in the farms and how we can help in not having these agents infect wild fish either.

Fisheries committee  Unfortunately the answer to the question depends on the species. The sockeye don't go inside the bays like chinook and coho. They stay in open water, so in that case, they—

Fisheries committee  As I said in my opening statement, we can control anthropogenic impact on the survival of fish. Honestly we have very little control over climate change other than maybe in the great scheme. Definitely, available food is controlled by climate change. I don't think we have much here that we can do to fix that directly.

Fisheries committee  It's ubiquitous in the Pacific Ocean, but it's definitely more prevalent around salmon farms.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it can impact several different species. The mouth rot that Ms. Wristen was referring to is a particular manifestation for Atlantic salmon. Tenacibaculosis—that's the name of the disease—occurs in different species.

Fisheries committee  I don't think there's been a challenge where it has tried to go from one species to another, but I wouldn't exclude that.