Fisheries committee  There are actually two ways to analyze environmental DNA. Some of you are familiar with this technique being used in the Chicago area to analyze for the presence of two Asian carp species. In that case, they selected a single gene, a sequence of DNA bases, that they knew was spec

Fisheries committee  This is one of the problems that we have in sampling organisms, particularly underwater organisms and if they're microscopic. We go out and we collect samples with nets. We bring them back to our lab and we analyze them under a microscope. It's very painstaking work. Typically, w

Fisheries committee  It's a good question. In our CAISN network in this particular project, we actually are doing three complementary studies at the same time. Number one, we're doing this pyrosequencing. Number two, we're collecting and we're splitting that sample. For a species for which we can

Fisheries committee  Transport doesn't have a research arm, unlike DFO, but what Transport has done is they have provided funding to research groups to try to get work done that they feel needs to be done. We have been working with Transport funding for up to 10 years now. When Transport came up wi

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. My name is Hugh MacIsaac. I'm a professor at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research at the University of Windsor. I'm also the director of the Canadian Aquatic Invasive Species Network. I've been working on invasive species for