Fisheries committee  Thank you, Camille. What I'd like to do is brief you on our efforts to develop that binational response plan and where we're at with it. I'd like to preface those remarks by saying that the very attempt to develop a rapid response plan is somewhat controversial among Great Lak

Fisheries committee  Somewhere in the Mississippi system.

Fisheries committee  That's a tough one for me, being a Great Lakes person. Sorry, I really can't comment on that.

Fisheries committee  I could give that a stab.

Fisheries committee  I think what that probably refers to is the movement of fish to places where they didn't previously exist, either by government agencies in some cases or by well-meaning but misguided individuals. So we have damaged a lot of fish populations and environments by moving fish around

Fisheries committee  Right. I would agree with that, as a sport fisherman.

Fisheries committee  But as Commissioner Comuzzi stated, some of the problematic species that we already have or could come, like the European carp or the Asian carp, were brought here intentionally by well-meaning individuals.

Fisheries committee  Not directly in the Great Lakes yet.

Fisheries committee  There have been successful eradications of invasive species in bodies of water in the Great Lakes basin, in smaller lakes and so forth, at least on the U.S. side, that I'm aware of.

Fisheries committee  I've heard a little bit about it. It would involve creating a pellet of the correct size that they would likely ingest. They are filter-feeders. So you could imagine such a pellet. You could design a toxic pellet. But even more high-tech, it's possible that you could create a coa

Fisheries committee  Yes, thank you, Joe. But it's not beyond the realm of possibility, and people are working exactly on that.

Fisheries committee  I haven't read it, but they sound like very sensible measures.

Fisheries committee  The short answer is yes, there is quite a bit of coordination. On the particular issue of rapid response, the idea there is that because we might be dealing with international waters, permission might have to be obtained from both sides. That's why we're trying to get those mecha

Fisheries committee  We can take advantage of that.

Fisheries committee  I can give that a stab, if you like. I don't think it's inevitable, but I don't think it's unlikely either. It's a real risk. Even if we went for a physical barrier, which many people are seriously advocating, as I understand it, it might be a decade or two before it's actually