Fisheries committee  I think there were three in the last year, and $20,000 to $50,000 in fines. It did vary. The higher fine was because it was a second offence.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  I think those are our top three right there. Sea lamprey, Asian carp, zebra mussels have had devastating impacts on the ecological as well as the economic sides of things. Those would be the top three that we are currently dealing with. We also conduct risk assessments looking at

Fisheries committee  If I may add, you are correct that the size of the population will determine the degree of impact, so a larger population will have a larger impact. That was one of the results.

Fisheries committee  Yes, there have been people charged by the province for breaking provincial law by possessing live Asian carp. There have been at least three court cases that have gone through and people have been fined.

Fisheries committee  Sure.

Fisheries committee  We do want to be on the proactive side, not the reactive side, when dealing with aquatic invasive species. In the past, by the time we see them, if we're not actively looking for them, they show up and they've already become well established in the system. It becomes very costly

Fisheries committee  He was talking about fishing down an established population. If we can detect things early, we don't even have to get there. The idea is to do very targeted surveillance in key areas where we think they are first likely to show up, as well as to use key techniques in order to fin

Fisheries committee  If I could clarify too, they were looking at all aquatic invasive species, so that would be viruses as well. There were only two that were for a fish.

Fisheries committee  Yes, absolutely.

Fisheries committee  Yes, absolutely. Early detection is part of prevention as well, because the sooner we can locate a species, the more ability we will have to remove it from the system and basically restart the invasion process. Early detection or early warning surveillance is definitely going to

Fisheries committee  Thank you.

Fisheries committee  The work that was done in the last year would not be informing the risk assessment. You do have to draw a time boundary.

Fisheries committee  However, if we were to keep re-evaluating risk over time, recent research would help inform it and may change some of the answers that we did provide in the risk assessment.

Fisheries committee  Yes.