Fisheries committee  Mr. Chairman, I'd like to just mention how pleased we were when we got the invitation to come and visit with you folks today. We're proud of the group of people with whom we work. We think they're experts in their field. We have some problems that we're trying to confront on th

Fisheries committee  Sophisticated.

Fisheries committee  I haven't seen anything.

Fisheries committee  Before we leave that, you bring up a pretty good point, I think. Something that we're not doing is on the sea lamprey. All we've done since we found the sea lamprey is control it, and we're doing a marvellous job. I think it's a scientific miracle how we control the sea lamprey o

Fisheries committee  Devils Lake was really not a new issue. I can recall Devils Lake being on the agenda 20 years ago, and we knew it was one day going to be a very serious problem. But before it became a serious problem, we kind of talked about it and then went away. But as the water levels started

Fisheries committee  First off, for invasive species, there are two problems. One is the invasive species that comes in through the ballast water on ocean-going vessels, and the other is the invasive species that's transported intra-basin on lakers and ships that don't leave the basins. What is it,

Fisheries committee  Canada should be very proud of that organization, inasmuch as they adopted the principles of how we control invasive species coming in on salties. Eventually everyone bought into the Canadian Coast Guard's procedures and Environment Canada's procedures. Now we have invasive speci

Fisheries committee  It's important to know that the IJC alerted both governments some years ago about the threat of the Asian carp. Not to get political, but we alerted, and we don't think there was much done about it. I don't know how many people in the room know that the Asian carp is not brought

Fisheries committee  It was brought into somewhere in the Mississippi system to prevent something else from happening. It was working out fairly successfully until a huge flood came and released all of the dikes and so on, and the Asian carp got loose and started swimming north. That's how the Asian

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for asking us back. I thought that after the first time we were here you took a look at us and said we shouldn't ask those guys back. That's quite an honour for us for you to extend the invitation again. I'm very happy to introduce to you our heavy hitt