Fisheries committee  The water flow is definitely different, so the last stage in the life of the fish living in those areas is different. When we talk about the Discovery Islands, we're talking about those islands between Vancouver Island and the mainland. Usually the fish use that area to migrate up north when they are juvenile and come down when they are adult.

Fisheries committee  We have to approach this in two ways. There is definitely worldwide evidence that aquaculture operations have impacts on wild populations when they coexist in the same region. We're talking about here in the west coast, and the same thing applies in Europe. As Karen Wristen just mentioned in her previous statement, it's a cumulative sum of the different parts that actually raises the question of whether there is actually such a minimal impact or much more than that.

Fisheries committee  If you put all the evidence together, yes, there is more.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you to all the members of the committee for inviting me here. It's a big honour for me to be here today to attend this session. I've been told to say my statement is going to take five minutes and 50 seconds, so hopefully I'll be able to say it all.