Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll be as brief as I can. Thank you, both, very much for coming. I appreciated your work on the report and your coming today. I want to ask, first, just a question with regard to your conclusion in the audit that DFO and CFIA had put in place so

Fisheries committee  You indicate in your report that DFO and CFIA had put in place some measures to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases and parasites from farmed salmon but key elements were missing. I'm wondering if you can let us know what key elements were missing from that information.

Fisheries committee  You touched briefly on the measures that are in place to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases and parasites. Can you expand on what measures are in place that you've found to be effective?

Fisheries committee  My time is limited, so I'll move for a moment to the fish escape provisions that you talk about. I note there's a big difference between the number of fish escaping in British Columbia compared to the two Atlantic Canadian provinces that you looked at. What do you attribute the b

Fisheries committee  Okay, and you say they're not required in the Atlantic provinces. It's up to each of the provinces to put in place those regulations—

Fisheries committee  —and that hasn't happened in Atlantic Canada yet.

Fisheries committee  That's my time, so thank you.

Fisheries committee  Mr. Chair, in order to make sure we get to the vote on time it's probably a good time to leave it there for now.

Fisheries committee  We'll come back as soon as we can after the vote.

Fisheries committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. Thank you all for being here with us today. Your testimony has been very interesting. I have a few questions for you. I'll start with you, Dr. Brown. Mr. Michaud, you may answer my question if you wish. The question is regarding fishing gear in the water

Fisheries committee  I see. Mr. Michaud, do you have any comments on that?

Fisheries committee  I agree. Thank you very much for those comments. Mr. Barrett-Lennard, I'd like to ask you a question. You talked about propeller strikes by boats. I wonder if you could help us understand which boats are the principal cause of boat strikes on whales on the Pacific Coast.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for that. Mr. Bain, you mentioned that ocean warming in that area of the Pacific is a particular concern. I'd like you to expand on how that impacts on the chinook or the whale populations and what we're actually seeing with the temperatures in the water in that area.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks very much for being here. I appreciate your taking the time to come to our committee to share with us some of your wisdom. Mr. MacLean, I'd like to start with you. I appreciate your being here on behalf of snow cr

Fisheries committee  It's the highest quality, and it has that reputation. So it's important for the MSC to put that mark of approval on it.