Fisheries committee  Yes. I think we're probably agreeing on this, that the need is definitely there. The winds of change are there, because IMO was a global agreement and very soon there are going to be the 33 countries, and 35% of the global trade is going to be done by countries that have agreed w

Fisheries committee  We have asked them, as we always do, to push their congressmen and their senators for U.S. legislation. We understand Canada wasn't going to.... We've talked to people such as Lawrence Cannon. We had a meeting with him when he was the Transport Canada minister. At the end of the

Fisheries committee  They could be. And if I were an owner of a shipping organization I would look really strongly at it. If I'm going to spend a million dollars to put technology into my boat that's going to do this, I'm probably going to go with the technology that's at a higher standard, so I don'

Fisheries committee  And the others. That's also helping the lake trout come back.

Fisheries committee  No, you're right.

Fisheries committee  No, the middle lakes: Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, and Georgian Bay. The charts presented show the biomass, the amount of energy in the lakes. What you see is this drop that took place around 2003, the big change that went down, and since then those lakes have been running at the s

Fisheries committee  Nearshore has not changed that much. The nearshore fishery, which would be made up of largemouth and smallmouth bass, you'll find that at certain times of the year all the walleye will be in the nearshore. That has not changed a lot. The biggest change in the Great Lakes has bee

Fisheries committee  They have, but not as much as the round goby. The round goby is prolific. It started on the nearshore, but you find now it's in deep water as well. If you looked at bass, whitefish, lake trout, walleye, if you were to open up the stomach of a lake trout, 65% of what you would fin

Fisheries committee  They are coming back.

Fisheries committee  Well, it's an interesting thing that happened. The slate of scientists, the same ones we're talking about funding, discovered this. The alewife produce an enzyme. That enzyme, when the lake trout would eat it, would break down thiamine. Thiamine is needed in the lake trout's eggs

Fisheries committee  Certainly for the ballast water standards, I don't think it's going to cost you a lot of money to do that. In reality, you're just synchronizing yourself with the U.S. Ships are going to have to do it anyway. They're going to have to be doing it globally, too—and that's coming—un

Fisheries committee  It's a very rocky bottom on certainly a lot of the lakes. In essence, there's not a lot of silt. It's interesting. If you talk to the commercial fishermen who are still using nets for their catches, what they've seen is tremendous growth in the amount of algae. It literally blo

Fisheries committee  I don't think they are. Most of the rainbow trout in Georgian Bay and in the North Channel come from aquaculture operations. They are escapes, and we have a huge volume of escapes from these operations. What happens, actually, is that mussels grow on the side of the nets, which

Fisheries committee  The Canada-Ontario agreement works.... It's actually the Ministry of National Resources and the Ministry of the Environment that do a lot of the work on the Great Lakes. That's kind of Ontario's part of it, in that they actually have the scientists in the boats. They collect the

Fisheries committee  I do not know how they will be able to do that. It may well end up being the end port. If the ship is coming into the Great Lakes and it is going to stop with its load at a Canadian port, it may well be allowed to do that. If it's going to then go and pick up product at a U.S. po