Fisheries committee  But they do. What that means is that the fine, or the potential of the penalty, is not deterring the movement of it. It means that the law enforcement is not as strong as it should be. We need fish and wildlife service agents, which have the authority to do this, in the states,

Fisheries committee  I have a couple of other quick points, too, Mr. Allen. The governments need to have the will to do a rapid response if those carp are seen above the barrier. I think that's something that we just need to be part of our control effort until this separation has occurred. Separate

Fisheries committee  That's a great question, and it's one that's been asked by a lot of folks in the basin. The law enforcement people you talk to will tell you that the penalties are high and that it's really an issue of enforcement. It is actually having the boots on the ground and having the fo

Fisheries committee  Could I add something, Commissioner? Research on the Asian carp issue is a case in point. Canada has a centre of excellence for invasive species in Burlington. It's a national centre, but it's located in Ontario, and it looks at, among other things, the risk of invasive species.

Fisheries committee  The first thing that has to be done is monitoring, because you have to know where these species are. You have to be able to see them when they emerge, and monitoring is just something that you have to do. It's not sexy. It's not something that governments like to devote resources

Fisheries committee  Yes. For one option, the range is about $4.5 billion, and at the high end it is about $9.5 billion. So Mr. Donnelly, we're talking about a substantial cost to the United States should they decide to re-establish that natural disconnect between the Great Lakes and Mississippi basi

Fisheries committee  Under the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries of 1954, we have a direct responsibility to control sea lamprey. It's a boots-on-the-ground program, so that should naturally take up about 90% of our budget. But out of the five duties the fishery commission has in the treaty, spec

Fisheries committee  It's a relatively small part of our budget, but it's a huge part of what we do in the fishery commission. So we get an awful lot of cooperation for a relatively small portion of our budget.

Fisheries committee  It's important to note that's the most effective control technique we have for that river. We don't have an alternative for the St. Mary's River. It's too big to treat with the regular lampricide.

Fisheries committee  Maybe I'm the governance expert. We have, let me say, a mature assortment of institutions in the Great Lakes basin to deal with governance, and you're looking at one of them, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, which operates under a treaty. We have the International Joint Commi

Fisheries committee  I believe it was sent last Thursday or Friday, so I haven't seen a response yet.

Fisheries committee  Our staff at the fishery commission actually did the faxing of the resolution to the Prime Minister's Office. We facilitated that communication. We have not had a chance, given that we drove back from the meeting last Friday, to follow up on that. But it did come from our commi

Fisheries committee  I have a little background about the committee of advisers, too, and this goes back, actually, to a few of the points Mr. Hayes brought up about partnerships. Back in the days of the formation of the fishery commission, it was very much envisioned that this commission would be a

Fisheries committee  Yes, Mr. Hayes, I will speak to that. One of the interesting things about Great Lakes fishery management—for the MPs who represent coastal ridings on the east or west coast, this might be a little different—is that in the Great Lakes region the state and provincial boundaries go