Fisheries committee  I don't think there's any downside. I'd encourage it. That's exactly the point, even in the recommendations: we need some action. Having comprehensive, directed research and experiments is exactly what I think we should be doing more of.

Fisheries committee  I'd suggest it would be relatively easy. We have deer stations when people go out on the much larger landscape and have to have their animals weighed or measured and aged. Here you're talking about, within an estuary in a lower portion of a river, having a couple of census stat

Fisheries committee  I would say that we don't have any direct evidence of it on salmon, only because they co-occur so infrequently, but there's a huge concern right now in the Miramichi because of the introduction into one headwater lake, that they will now get into the Main Wouthwest Miramichi. The

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  I think it may have been possible in a different system. For instance, there was another predator years ago, in another lake in the Miramichi, but it was a shallower, more simple sort of system, where they were able to eradicate with a poison, rotenone. That was effective. The

Fisheries committee  I'm afraid I don't know very much about this particular situation or the product. I can't comment.

Fisheries committee  I'm unaware of the science supporting any sort of cull at this point, but I don't know what they're feeding on. Like François Caron said, first of all, these are predators. They're going to eat anything that comes near them that they can fit in their mouths. They don't care if it

Fisheries committee  As a scientist, the first thing I would ask is what the question is directed at. Is the presumption here that they are a predator of salmon? My first step in that regard would be to establish that that was the case. Before I would say we should go out and increase the harvest of

Fisheries committee  Then I'd make the decision.

Fisheries committee  Is this the “rec fish” program of about a decade ago? Is that what you mean?

Fisheries committee  I guess the fact that I asked if it was the ten-year-old one probably suggests that I would think it probably hasn't been that effective, in my opinion.

Fisheries committee  It's a tough question, because I certainly have interests in the fresh water. Everyone keeps pointing to the marine side, so I think a significant amount of emphasis has to go to address questions as they relate to marine mortality. Whether that means focusing on what's happening

Fisheries committee  The prevailing theory on that one, as François Caron mentioned, is that it's really the sort of north-south clime. Temperatures are cooler in the rivers. Conditions are better for fish in these systems than they are in the southern end of the distribution for early Atlantic salmo

Fisheries committee  You should do well.

Fisheries committee  In terms of the impacts of aquaculture on Atlantic salmon, there hasn't been an awful lot actually done on this to specifically look at that question. There certainly are speculations and some studies looking at correlations have been done. For instance, in the Bay of Fundy, wher