Fisheries committee  I do not know of anybody who has modelled that. It's probably a good question for somebody like Brian Riddell or a DFO scientist.

Fisheries committee  Sure enough. That's part of their fish health management plan and the sea lice management strategy. The farms are required to count their lice abundance once per month and for most of the year. In fact, they count their lice more than that: they count twice a month if their lice

Fisheries committee  Yes, I understand. It's a very standardized procedure at the farms, taught by the veterinarians who attend those farms and the provincial government as well. By the way, just so you know, there's a flotilla of cages often, maybe 10 to 12. The farms are instructed to pick one c

Fisheries committee  Yes, and we count side by side.

Fisheries committee  On Slice, again, that's a better question for an official from Health Canada and the Veterinary Drugs Directorate. It is my understanding of the pharmacokinetics of Slice that it is distributed very well inside the fish. It takes some time, once it goes in the mouth, to accumulat

Fisheries committee  No, it's not, no.

Fisheries committee  Yes, there are. The Atlantic salmon are susceptible to sea lice, as are rainbow trout, as are steelhead, for example, in the ocean. Steelhead, for example, will lose their lice as they go back to the estuary and up the rivers, because lice just don't like non-sea water. So they m

Fisheries committee  Before I do, Mr. Donnelly, what was the specific reference? There's no problem to...?

Fisheries committee  Sea lice?

Fisheries committee  Right. Thank you very much. To answer your question about the U.K. report, I have not read it. If it came out recently, I have not read that one. That said, again this falls into the category of extrapolating from one country to the next, extrapolating the types and genetics

Fisheries committee  That's a very astute perspective, Mr. Weston. Welcome to my job. I have a couple of points, if I may. I'm not exactly sure how to answer your question. It is frustrating. There appear to be two different stories, but I think that's largely because the silent majority, the credib

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. It is monitored. It has been monitored for the last eight years. It is on our list of five pathogens of concern provincially, federally, and internationally. Every single sample that we collect at the farms is monitored for that pathogen. Again, Mr. Wes

Fisheries committee  Gladly. I have them here, if I could leave them with you--at least the cover pages, so that would make them easier to find.

Fisheries committee  I have the three papers that I've mentioned. There's one by Beamish and one by Jones et al., as well as the Ozawa paper regarding genetics. There certainly is a link within our fish health reports, and I'm happy to leave our fish health reports here as well for anybody who cares

Fisheries committee  Thanks, Mr. Donnelly. Those are all good questions. The answer to all of those questions, if I can bring you back to the key point, is that B.C. is different. Why is it different? That's been the big question. A number of different things affect the coastline of British Columbia