Fisheries committee  I think there are a few reasons. One is that it wasn't really a very well-known issue. I don't think Canadians were completely aware of it. When we first started doing the testing, we did it around the country to draw attention to the issue. It seems, from the response that we go

Fisheries committee  It comes from studies by Daniel Pauly, out of UBC, and Sylvain Charlebois at Dalhousie. Daniel Pauly is on our board, and is a global scientist who's looked at these global numbers. In the scientific community, that is the accepted number.

Fisheries committee  Do you mean in biomass?

Fisheries committee  Yes, I know it is up to 30% of the global biomass of the catch.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I believe so. There is a paper that came out recently called “Global Fisheries' Sunken Billions”. I can get you a copy of that. It goes into great detail.

Fisheries committee  Yes, we have, when we do our reports. We've gone through an interesting progression, with the departments in the past viewing it as not really being a problem, to now, when I think there's an understanding that this is a problem that needs to be tackled. However, no one departmen

Fisheries committee  It's known as the laxative of the sea.

Fisheries committee  I'll give you some examples from a report that we had put together with all of our sampling, which I can certainly supply to committee members. I'll just read from it, because I'm not good at remembering numbers. Some of the things we found were that, on the menu, sea bass, whi

Fisheries committee  Great. Thanks. I wish I could present you guys with a silver bullet that's an easy fix to this issue, but unfortunately, as Lesley has alluded, it is a very complex issue. What further complicates things is that Canada is lagging behind comparable jurisdictions. There are fewer