Fisheries committee  Okay. You talk about the predatory groundfish having an impact on the movement of lobsters. Could you explain a bit more how that has an impact on the movement of lobsters and their spatial distribution?

Fisheries committee  The other way you talked about the movement of patterns is that it's through either the larval stage or the movement of juvenile, or I guess medium-aged, lobsters on the bottom. I would imagine that they would have the greater ability to move further in the larval stage with rega

Fisheries committee  Thanks very much.

Fisheries committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you both for joining us today. I really appreciate it. Professor, perhaps I could start with you. I very much appreciate the comments you've made and also the work you've done in the field for many years on the research side. What types o

Fisheries committee  I appreciate what you said about the American lobster settlement index and that there is cross-border collaboration. Is the scientific information that these funding sources support shared cross-border as well with some of the work you do?

Fisheries committee  That's helpful. Thank you for your good work. Those are my questions.

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's very helpful. Thanks very much. Perhaps I'll turn to Dr. MacIsaac, then, to answer the second part of the question. My understanding is that there's an examination of whether or not Asian carp could be used as bait in the lobster fishery on the Atlantic coast. I know

Fisheries committee  Do you have any thoughts about any issues that it may raise or that we should be aware of?

Fisheries committee  It could be a useful way to dispose of these invasive species.

Fisheries committee  Great. Thanks very much. I'd like to turn to you, Ms. Warwick Sears. Earlier today, I was speaking to a colleague of mine, Stephen Fuhr, who is the MP for your area. He told me about the water milfoil control activities that are going on and the concern around it being in confli

Fisheries committee  Thanks so much, Mr. Chair. Ms. Sparks, you talked about the Asian carp program being a useful model, one that incorporated discussions amongst a number of jurisdictions around the Great Lakes. Can you tell me what's going on right now with regard to Asian carp in the Great Lake

Fisheries committee  In setting the terms of this study, we had a discussion. I made it pretty clear, I think, before we determined that this was something we were going to do, what parameters I had in mind. In a short title it may not be easy to capture all of that, so if the word “migration” wasn'

Fisheries committee  Okay. Mr. Pershing, I will turn to you for a moment. I thought your comments were very helpful. I note you made reference to a lobster baby boom that's occurred. Obviously, the lobsters are being dispersed in different ways, but northward I suppose to the northern parts of the G

Fisheries committee  The idea was to track or determine the dispersion of lobsters and whether they are migrating from one area to another, or whether the movements of lobsters themselves or larvae or whatever is having an impact on where we're finding lobsters, because we know that they have been se

Fisheries committee  Yes. You mentioned as well the lobster nursery in Browns Bank as representing LFA 40, which is closed because it's seen as a breeding ground for lobsters. In your comments, you talked about the fact that it's possible that there may be other areas or places that we need to look a