Fisheries committee  Ruth has covered the majority of it. As Ruth mentioned earlier in her presentation, most other countries have an aquaculture act. Under an aquaculture act, our business would be compared, using similar metrics, to other forms of agriculture--growing of poultry and swine, and ot

Fisheries committee  Well, I think to make a statement that the environmental effect is “destructive” is somewhat alarmist. I think every type of agriculture, whether it's done on land or in the water, makes some change to the environment in order to carry on. I think all forms of agriculture are com

Fisheries committee  We're involved in the consultation for the development of the new federal regulations on the licensing of aquaculture. What we see at this point in time is simply that there is not going to be any relaxation with regard to our requirement to meet the public concern about reducing

Fisheries committee  With respect to the ISA virus, it has never been identified in wild fish in the northern hemisphere of the Pacific Ocean, and it certainly hasn't been identified in our fish. Because it hasn't existed there, it wasn't tested for many years back, but it has been added to the routi

Fisheries committee  It is available now, specifically through the information provided to the Cohen commission. Through that, all the raw data for the last five years, including that information, will become public. It is not on our website specifically. We've been reporting out on sea lice manage

Fisheries committee  Well, we have a commodity in the world--it's called fish meal--that for decades, if not for over a century, has been available for agriculturists to access in making feed. It consists of small fish that are captured in the oceans of the world. Just to name a few, you have mackere

Fisheries committee  Sure. There's been an immense amount of study done on sea lice on the west coast. The effect of sea lice on wild salmon, especially in the juvenile stage, is all relatively new. There was hardly any a few years ago, and now we have quite a bit. The original concern that the sea

Fisheries committee  Those figures are available. As a company, we have been routinely producing those figures and posting them on our website. I'll make them available to the committee.

Fisheries committee  We monitor the effectiveness of every treatment of this SLICE product every time it's used. That's the first way of knowing whether or not we're seeing any indication of resistance. We haven't seen a decline in the effectiveness of the SLICE product. The second way is through a l

Fisheries committee  That's not to diminish the fact that we do take that very seriously and that we are making progress in managing the impacts of salmon farming. I mentioned, for example, that in the Broughton Archipelago the incidence of sea lice on our fish and on the wild fish has been going dow

Fisheries committee  I think it's important to realize why we grow fish in the first place. Fish are very excellent converters of feed into protein. We have other options--poultry, swine, beef--but those tend to take, depending on the animal, five to ten times as much feed “in” to produce a pound of

Fisheries committee  Just very quickly, we've heard those numbers of 10:1 in the past for fish converted into salmon. Let's remember that those kinds of numbers are very dated. Today, as an example, through substitution with land-based protein, my company has reduced the use of fish in the feed to

Fisheries committee  We've been looking with great interest at the results of the post-monitoring system, the monitoring of the juvenile sockeye, as they've been moving through the water channels. It's relatively new; we don't have a lot of data on it yet. It is true that they've reported in one set

Fisheries committee  Well, they haven't been recommended by government, but they have been taking place nonetheless. A combination of actions by industry and the environmental movement and DFO this year monitored the effect of coordinated fallowing, which is effectively shutting down some of the chan

Fisheries committee  I'll be very brief. I realize we're running short on time. I just wanted to add to the discussion about the closed containment pilot project that has been mentioned to the committee a couple of times in past presentations. This is the Marine Harvest commitment to learning more