Fisheries committee  Your comment was that when you corrected Randy Kamp, I guess it was, on the comment about the demise of the pink salmon run.... Actually, I did the original work on Slice and the use of Slice in the industry. I've been tracking that since 2003, which is when the provincial govern

Fisheries committee  It's a matter of communication and understanding the issues. My biggest frustration with the whole process is when you keep hearing the same things: farmed fish are full of diseases; they're full of antibiotics; there's resistance. Yet you know that there are government agencies

Fisheries committee  Let's talk about ISA. That's probably the easiest one. It's basically an exotic disease. Generally, since 2001 there has been an audit system in place where provincial government technicians go out and audit the farms. So the farms are required to report any fish health events t

Fisheries committee  Basically, I think it has to do with how you import the genetic material, and I believe ISA is endemic to the Atlantic Ocean. So it's there in the wild reservoirs. We don't know what. So the disease is present. What I believe happened in Chile is that it was brought there with t

Fisheries committee  IHN is also a virus. We call it the sockeye disease because sockeye salmon tend to become infected. It can be devastating to that population. Other Pacific salmon have some tolerance of it, depending on which species we talk about. Atlantic salmon are incredibly susceptible to th

Fisheries committee  The work wasn't done by Dr. John Reynolds. It was by another researcher. From my understanding of his research--and I know some of the publications have gone to the media--he did correct what was said.

Fisheries committee  He was saying the numbers of salmon significantly decline once they enter the Queen Charlottes area, but it is again in association. It may be relative to size. It may be relative to the sea lice. But the problem is when you only concentrate on one factor, you ignore all the othe

Fisheries committee  Of course, yes.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  I don't know why there's the downward trend of salmon over decades. We do know that salmon farming has been around since the 1990s but has evolved. The research I have been involved with has been with some of the DFO collaborators. I believe you've already talked to Simon Jones,

Fisheries committee  Bonjour, and thank you for this opportunity to address your committee and to provide you with information from my organization, the B.C. Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences, BC CAHS, and to give you an overview of the knowledge that is essential, based on my research and experienc

Fisheries committee  Okay, I'll slow down. The centre is a small not-for-profit organization located here in Campbell River, with a mandate for conducting research and providing services that contribute to the health of aquatic animals in the environment. BC CAHS started operation in 2005. It is uni