Fisheries committee  Well, I'm not sure what else I could add to what I said earlier. As I say, we have $2 million for the general program for AIS and it's broken up into a number of components. We're able to have all of those components of a national program. Obviously any program can use more mon

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure I have that knowledge. In fact, I'm sure I don't.

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure. We've talked about 182 non-indigenous species in the Great Lakes. Some of those would occur outside the Great Lakes. Maybe some of them are unique, at least within the North American context, in the Great Lakes. But I'm not sure if we have that resolution of data av

Fisheries committee  It's possible. Some of the species we have in the Great Lakes, the freshwater species, are invasive in other fresh waters around the world and are causing problems there as well. Zebra mussels are, for sure.

Fisheries committee  We did mention that we're starting to do some socio-economic work, in addition to the work on ecological risks and damage, to bring a picture of what the socio-economic risks and damage would be. I'm not aware that we're in a position right now to talk about damage across all aqu

Fisheries committee  Around $10 million. Of that, a little over $8 million is dedicated to the sea lamprey program in the Great Lakes. The other $2 million, which we've had since 2005, is for the general aquatic and invasive species program across the country.

Fisheries committee  I think you can always use more resources. That may be a trite answer.

Fisheries committee  With the resources we have, we have been able to put in place all of the components of a full-blown program, everything from the understanding of the science all the way through to the mitigation and monitoring programs, and more recently the regulatory package. I really think

Fisheries committee  Well, we're getting the results we're getting with the resource levels we have.

Fisheries committee  It's a package that's under development right now, so we can't speak about it as if it's done, certainly. As I mentioned, the Canadian Council of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers committee is a key venue for us to talk to the other jurisdictions about this. As you point out, b

Fisheries committee  That is in the Great Lakes, yes.

Fisheries committee  We have 182. I should again stress that's non-indigenous species. Not all of them would be in the high-risk invasive category, by any means. I think that's a current number, actually, Mr. Chair. That's how many we would estimate we currently have. Whether we have been able to

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure it's easy to separate it out on that basis. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, when we think about ecosystem integrity—the science and management approach increasingly is on looking at the ecosystems as a whole—we can parse it out into a number of elements. Aquati

Fisheries committee  As I said, it's an academic network. It's centred in the University of Windsor, and it may involve other universities as well. It's funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. There are quite a few of these kinds of networks in different areas of science and

Fisheries committee  Yes.