Fisheries committee  I seem to be the odd person out here, being the scientist who used to be involved in DFO and who went to CSAS meetings all the time. I'm a retired professor of biology from Acadia University in Wolfville, so I'm also the only person here from the east coast, rather than the west

Fisheries committee  Okay, I'm not surprised.

Fisheries committee  No, they were scientific issues. Basically, as a scientist, I remember when I was a freshman in DFO, and I worked out this hypothesis about why the fishery off the eastern coast of Nova Scotia collapsed back in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. I thought this was rather interesting fro

Fisheries committee  I'd say it basically depends on the landings, as far as I can see. There are area scientific studies going on. I know when I was in DFO we had a fairly big project going in southwest Nova Scotia. I don't know whether that one is still going through, but it might be. We had anothe

Fisheries committee  Okay.

Fisheries committee  Yes. That research was done during the 1980s. I'm trying to remember the name of the fellow who was involved in it, but he did do three or four years of work out on Browns Bank, and so on and so forth, to develop the TAC for that fishery.

Fisheries committee  Not that I know of—

Fisheries committee  —but I may be wrong. I'm not right up to date on who's doing what research where, but I haven't seen anything.

Fisheries committee  No, I don't think anybody, including DFO, is actually monitoring it. Basically what happened is that, through negotiations, they were able to close down the west Greenland inland fishery, to a large degree, and give it a quota. Unfortunately, the same salmon that go up the coast

Fisheries committee  I agree.

Fisheries committee  Before I say anything concerning that question, I just want to apologize to everybody. It turns out that Jay Parsons was my master's and Ph.D. student when he was in university, so I'm afraid he's been corrupted. Getting back to the worldwide development of land-based aquacultur

Fisheries committee  No. There are lots of different species of fishes that are raised in sea cages, and we don't seem to have a salmon lice problem with them. It's probably because, being the species they are, they don't carry too many salmon lice on them. They haven't affected other things—like in

Fisheries committee  I'm not getting the English translation, unfortunately.

Fisheries committee  Probably not.

Fisheries committee  Okay. I'm getting the translation.