Fisheries committee  I'm not sure if I can give you a very deep answer to that question. Certainly lampricide, generally, would be a chemical or a poison that would work specifically on the lamprey.

Fisheries committee  It is not a problem for other species.

Fisheries committee  There is no snakehead known to be in the Great Lakes. It's not present in the Great Lakes now. It is one of the key species we are concerned about as a threat that could come to the Great Lakes, but there are no snakehead at the present time.

Fisheries committee  Not most. The current funding we have is divided across the various program elements that I mentioned in my presentation. We have a component for research, for monitoring, and for the biological risk assessment. All those are within the area of science, but several other element

Fisheries committee  I have a list, which I'll refer to. About one-third of what looks like about seven or eight are in fresh water, and the rest that we have done our risk assessments on are marine species.

Fisheries committee  Many of them are, but not all. Some would be freshwater species that are either in B.C. or Atlantic Canada.

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's similar in that case. Smallmouth bass is a native species in parts of Canada, but it's moving and has been moved to places where it is not native. It is a sports fish as well, in its own range, and has sometimes been moved into other systems for that purpose. The prob

Fisheries committee  The northern snakehead is native to east Asia but has been brought in as a live food-trade fish. It may have been brought in as well for the aquarium trade. The smaller animals are attractive there. They are currently established in areas of the midwestern United States and in

Fisheries committee  I'll defer to my colleague from the region.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely, thank you. Thank you very much, Chair and committee. We're very pleased to be here today. You'll see that there are three of us, and there's a reason each of us is here. With me is Dr. Michelle Wheatley, regional director of science in the department's central and