Fisheries committee  First, the best hatchery is the river system itself, but there are circumstances where hatcheries are needed to try to help restore populations. Aquaculture fish have been reared and kept domesticated for several generations now. In the early phases of our studies on the Magagua

Fisheries committee  Do you mean in terms of their interaction or passing by net pens?

Fisheries committee  The closest case we have to a link--again, it's not definitive--is with ISA and wild Atlantic salmon from the Magaguadavic River back in 1999. As Bill mentioned earlier, we've been monitoring this river since 1992. We don't typically take a wild fish out and do disease screening

Fisheries committee  Certainly. With respect to the water sources, you are limited to a degree. You have to have enough water, obviously, from springs and wells. The water quality is another thing, too. So it can't go just anywhere, but you would have many more options than you have where the net pe

Fisheries committee  They want to provide data on the growth rate survival, key metrics in terms of how the fish are grown, any antibiotics, any chemicals being used, things like that. So today what we have to share is that the fish are doing quite well. There's been about a 5% mortality, and the mor

Fisheries committee  All of our expectations are being met at this stage, yes.