Fisheries committee  The other question was on the routes for wild salmon. If you were specifically--

Fisheries committee  I'll take the questions on closed containment, and I could also take brood stock, if you take the rest. We at Marine Harvest believe that if you want to go to closed containment, you have to go land, and you have to go with recirculating aquaculture. That means that most of the water in your system recirculates time and time again.

Fisheries committee  Atlantic salmon have a freshwater stage and a salt water stage. Up to a hundred grams they grow naturally in freshwater; after that they have to move out to sea and they usually, in nature, grow in the ocean. It's true that you can grow Atlantic salmon in freshwater, but that's not without problems.

Fisheries committee  I can take the question on expansion, and you can take the other two. There simply haven't been any new licences issued over the last years. The last two licences were given to us in 2006, I believe. We have many more licences than we actually use. We have 70 licences and we only use 41.

Fisheries committee  That's right.

Fisheries committee  It's all produced in British Columbia, but 70% of it is exported to the United States.

Fisheries committee  May I make one additional comment?

Fisheries committee  You've heard from Dr. Krkosek that in the Broughton Archipelago over the last couple of years, management of sea lice by the farms has been such that the percentage of sea lice on wild salmon is extremely low. What I'd like to extend is that what we do in the Broughton, we do exactly the same anywhere else, so at this point in time, although we have lots of data only about the Broughton, we do believe that the effect of sea lice from farmed salmon, given the way we manage our business today, is very small.

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and members of the committee. Thank you for your invitation to testify before you today. My name is Vincent Erenst and I am Dutch. I am accompanied by my colleague Mr. Clare Backman, who is the director of sustainability. As to my background, I hold a master's degree in science from the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands.