Fisheries committee  Not on an individual transfer basis, as that's an individual buyer's decision. On an annual basis for a fishery, we do the market analysis.

Fisheries committee  The shortest answer is that approximately 12 of our major fisheries are ITQ fisheries.

Fisheries committee  Most do, yes, I would say.

Fisheries committee  In terms of the buying and selling of quota, we certainly are aware of and permit the transfer of quota—or movement of quota—between quota holders. That is a regulatory function of the department to permit that. In terms of who currently holds the quota, in order to hold quota,

Fisheries committee  It's in Abbotsford.

Fisheries committee  Yes, we do have a collaborative arrangement with the B.C. animal health centre in Abbotsford, which is a certified lab for disease analysis. We actually have a contract in place in which that lab performs pathology analysis on samples that we collect under our regulatory program.

Fisheries committee  Yes, thank you very much, sir. Now I have a better understanding of the question Mr. Donnelly was asking. There has been in place for a long period of time controls over the importation of eggs. Prior to the amendment of the Health of Animals Act to include aquatic animals, ther

Fisheries committee  Minister Wilkinson recently announced the adoption of an area-based management approach for aquaculture. That would include development of a greater understanding of the concerns of the local indigenous groups in the particular area: Are there factors in a particular area where a

Fisheries committee  I'll answer that question. Under the provincial legislation, they have a lease for the seabed that they're anchored to. Each of those leases is variable in length of time and expiration date based on when they were applied for and how long they were granted for. A number of the

Fisheries committee  I'll just pass on knowledge that there have been a series of experiments conducted, in which acoustic tags were used to track salmon as they swam near net pens, or through areas of the B.C. coast. They were conducted through a series of research programs, both by departmental off

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. There are about 90,000 tonnes of salmon produced annually in British Columbia, or approximately that. I'd have to do the math to convert it, but I can give you an example from the real world that I use. There's one processing plant in Port Hardy that proc

Fisheries committee  We do have statistics on the imports. It's been a number of years since we've had any importation of salmon eggs to the west coast of British Columbia. The vast majority of the industry, if not all of the industry, operates on domesticated stock that produces its own brood stock

Fisheries committee  You're asking for an absolute. The reality is, we've had importations of fish eggs going back into the late 1800s. There was a series of importations of salmon eggs that go back a long period of time. If you're asking me to certify that, in 1850 or 1880, there was no disease on

Fisheries committee  No, there has been no order. My colleague, Wayne, can further lay out that it's part of the process of going through a series of risk assessments under the Canadian science advisory secretariat umbrella and looking at the pathogens that are currently present and determining what

Fisheries committee  Yes, thanks very much, Mr. Hardie, for the question. In terms of transparency, our regulatory program, which requires a significant amount of monitoring and reporting as well as auditing by our regulatory staff, is largely reported on our website. There's a vast amount of data