Fisheries committee  Thank you. Speaking specifically to your question, we have a target of about 4,000 lampreys in Lake Erie, a relatively smaller system than those of the other Great Lakes. We were within that target for a large number of years. Then lamprey populations started to increase within

Fisheries committee  I have nothing further to add to that.

Fisheries committee  To follow up specifically to your question, there are two coordinating bodies that exist on the Great Lakes right now. One is a U.S. panel, which is orchestrated through the Great Lakes Commission, called the Great Lakes panel on aquatic invasive species. It serves to bring peopl

Fisheries committee  Yes, sir.

Fisheries committee  Sure. There were two things that happened. One was the creation of a bunch of spawning habitats, primarily for steelhead in the area, which turned out to be wonderful sea lamprey spawning habitat. The second thing was an overall improvement in the water quality that occurred in t

Fisheries committee  No, sir, that does not.

Fisheries committee  They go up and then they're counted. That way, we were able to accurately map the densities of larval sea lamprey within the St. Mary's River. Then we developed a new type of lampricide that we call granular Bayluscide. If you think of a cold capsule, those Contac Cs, we put the

Fisheries committee  No, sir. I think the effectiveness of the granular Bayluscide is about 75%. When we use our lampricide, our TFM, and we apply that in streams, we are usually somewhere between 95% and 99% effective in terms of reducing larval lamprey.

Fisheries committee  Could I just add one quick thing that I think is important? This is that in terms of our strategies for control of sea lamprey, clearly, the application of lampricide in streams is most important. Our second is the use of barriers to block spawning adults from reaching the spawni

Fisheries committee  I think, in our case, no, because sea lamprey cannot jump. If you use a low-head barrier they cannot get past it, so that's very effective. The third is trapping spawning sea lamprey. But the point I want to make is that we had another technique that we used for about 12 or 14

Fisheries committee  I serve on the steering committee for the army corps study, the Great Lakes and Mississippi River interbasin study. What they're looking at now is doing an iterative program stretched over a large number of years. I don't think anyone thinks they're going to cut a cheque for $4.5

Fisheries committee  Sir, if I may, the process that we will go through.... The advisers brought this to us on Thursday afternoon. As a result of that, staff within the secretariat will research that and provide briefing materials to the commission for a commission decision on whether they go forward

Fisheries committee  With respect to Asian carp, we were fortunate about 10 years ago in that the fishery commission went to the state department and said that Asian carp were advancing towards the Great Lakes, and that if they got there, they would like to have some sort of rapid response plan on th

Fisheries committee  With the present technology we have, I think it's just not possible to eradicate the species. Even if you knock the stuffing out of them, getting the last few, or the last 20, or the last 100 would be prohibitive in terms of cost. One of the things that we find.... We were talki

Fisheries committee  Well, as we like to say, unfortunately the carp are moving at the speed of Asian carp, not at the speed of government.