Finance committee  No. I don't believe so.

Finance committee  Yes. The value of the resource that would be used if this tool were available would be fully in addition to what our current investment in science and management is.

Finance committee  Generally speaking, we feel there is an opportunity to re-engage more fulsomely with the fishing industry in the discussion about collaborative work. The court ruling of 2006 has had the effect of dampening the amount that we have been able to do with the industry, because, quite

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  It's difficult to be specific, because—

Finance committee  Yes, and I believe it will—because of the industry engagement, as my colleague explained—provide it the opportunity to bring more detailed information about the resource that it can use in its business-planning and economic-planning cycles, as well as in conservation.

Finance committee  Yes, I can. There are quite a few arrangements that we had in place before the court action in 2006. One involved a fishery for which the department had a science program that was able, using our own resources, to take us a certain distance in terms of understanding the resource.

Finance committee  I think we have to keep in mind that the regular appropriation comes to the department and, among many other activities, we use it for the activities that go to the purpose you speak of. There always seems, however, in my experience to be an additional amount of information tha

Finance committee  I think I would describe it as creating an opportunity, maybe a better opportunity than we currently have, to enter into a joint project agreement with fishermen through an organization, maybe, or a company. It's always something that's done with their engagement and obviously th

Fisheries committee  It could be. I think that was one of our examples for how the development of federal regulation could play a role in complementing the provincial legislation and the regulations that are in place. In Ontario, for instance—Dave was covering some of this a second ago—where there

Fisheries committee  Well, we're working on that—

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry. I didn't hear the question.

Fisheries committee  I'm not familiar with that. It's not my field directly, so....

Fisheries committee  As I mentioned several times, and you've just mentioned, the program is highly collaborative. We have a lot of leveraging of our activities within it across the country. We were talking in the context of Asian carp, where there are a lot of organizations that we can and should b

Fisheries committee  With regard to the smallmouth bass, thinking positively, we have a three-year program, and we'd like to think that we would be able to effectively take that species out of that lake. Do you need to monitor afterwards, obviously, to see whether you've been able to achieve that? Of