Fisheries committee  Our methodology for all aquaculture is based on five criteria: the amount of wild fish needed for feed, so the fish in, fish out ratio, for example; the risk and impact of escapes from that facility; the risk impact of disease and parasite transfer to wild fish; control of waste

Fisheries committee  The environmental way to farm salmon is through closed containment.

Fisheries committee  Okay. You referred to the good runs for the Fraser River in the last couple of years, but really we can't just look at one particular stock and one particular aspect. As we know, the IUCN has some populations that are on their red list, so there are a number of threatened and end

Fisheries committee  First I would like to just touch on the impacts on wild salmon and—

Fisheries committee  Okay. But still, that is just a snapshot of different stocks. We have to look at the big picture. There are also some endangered and threatened stocks there. As for jobs, a report independently commissioned by the Province of B.C. quoted the net pen industry as having 2,945 dire

Fisheries committee  I'd say there's a lot of independent science that would dispute that there is necessarily 100% recovery when it comes to the impacts on the sea floor. Secondly, when it comes to...you said Montana, for example. There are also in the lower mainland, in the Fraser Valley, a numbe

Fisheries committee  Yes, it is, and that's not exclusively what is funding SeaChoice.

Fisheries committee  I would say that Canada needs to be investing in conservation efforts. Unfortunately, if that investment is lacking, then those conservation efforts could come from a variety of sources.

Fisheries committee  Living Oceans as well, yes.

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. There's a differing methodology in place, for sure, and it's based on zero to 100, when it comes to the Marine Stewardship Council. You can have a pass at 80 and over, but you can also have a conditional pass with the Marine Stewardship Council of 60 and

Fisheries committee  Currently, independent science-based assessments do have environmental concerns on the impacts of wild stocks from open-net pen farmed salmon.

Fisheries committee  Living Oceans and CAAR have been closely working with AgriMarine and have had constant dialogue over the last 10 years, and we fully support the improvements they are working towards. As for SeaChoice, we hope to see an assessment for AgriMarine in the future.

Fisheries committee  Wild caught is quite complex, for sure. We can't blanket wild caught. It has to go down to stock by stock, species by species, and also to the seasonality of that run. At the moment, based on the assessment of closed containment farmed coho salmon in Washington State, it is the b

Fisheries committee  That is a good question, indeed, and I would like to refer to—

Fisheries committee  With the Monterey Bay Aquarium and SeaChoice, because we need to have peer-reviewed assessments, the one closed containment assessment that has turned out to be a supergreen best choice is the AquaSeed closed containment coho, farmed in Washington State. Then when it comes to th