Fisheries committee  But are you required to completely remove a hydroelectric dam? What are the current requirements and what are the new requirements going forward? I know that dams that were built 40, 50 or 60 years ago would have had different requirements from those for the dams built today, in

Fisheries committee  I'm going to move to you, Mr. Norris. You are the only one so far who has brought up the notion of ecological goods and services or alternative land use services being part of the solution as well. That's a different sense of enhancement. From my experience, that is taking margin

Fisheries committee  Well, we didn't specifically talk about the Species at Risk Act, but it's an interesting idea to use habitat banking as a method of funding or providing resources for actually removing species from the endangered or threatened lists. This is definitely an opportunity that I think

Fisheries committee  You mean OFAH.

Fisheries committee  Finally, do you see any distinction in offsets from the perspective of projects, be they major or intermediate-sized, of which the impact will be lasting? For example, I don't know if there is a requirement for a hydroelectric dam to be removed at the end of its useful life. Howe

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Chair. I will not be sharing my time with Mr. Morrissey.

Fisheries committee  For our witnesses who are here, I want to first of all say thank you very much for your input. I guess the concern I have is that the scope of this idea is limited right now to the Fisheries Act. I'll give you an example. We're dealing with reclamation and remediation projects

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Fisheries committee  Good. I haven't talked about Oncorhynchus mykiss in a long time. This is fantastic. The ability, I think somebody said, to use morphometric measures to distinguish versions of Oncorhynchus mykiss as being steelhead and those that are not seems a relatively difficult task, even f

Fisheries committee  Is there a little higher mortality with the wheels than with the traps? Okay.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I agree.

Fisheries committee  You can't get that with a fish wheel per se.

Fisheries committee  Okay. I just wanted to verify that. I want to go back to this whole notion of the COSEWIC listing of Oncorhynchus mykiss. As a species, Oncorhynchus mykiss is ubiquitous throughout British Columbia. It's in virtually every lake. It's in virtually every river system. They're in t

Fisheries committee  If it's something that's driven by the government—for example, the recent changes to chinook fisheries on the west coast—was a socio-economic impact assessment done for that?

Fisheries committee  They would be done on other changes.