Fisheries committee  I would like to clarify that before, I was talking about the policy for emerging diseases. In the scientific world, “emerging disease” means something extremely specific. It means a disease that is new to the scientific community or to the world at large, or a disease that has be

Fisheries committee  CFIA, under the national aquatic animal health program, controls imports of live fish as well as germ plasm from fish, and that would include fish eggs. We have very strict import conditions associated with disease. We do not allow any eggs into the country that we feel would be

Fisheries committee  That we haven't had any come into Canada?

Fisheries committee  That is not my area of expertise. My colleagues take care of imports. I wouldn't have the stats at my fingertips.

Fisheries committee  During the audit, they felt that the roles and responsibilities were clear on the existing fish health topics, so in my previous answer, I have just said that DFO is clearly responsible for genetic and environmental and we're clearly the lead for disease. The thing about emergin

Fisheries committee  As both of the introductory comments noted, there has been a working group, from both the department and the agency, that has been sitting together. They have drafted a policy which should be finished by the end of 2018. That policy says there will be a committee that will be for

Fisheries committee  When we talk about health, health is a combination of factors. Under the fishery (general) regulations, we have actually only taken over the part of fish health that involves disease, with the implementation of the national aquatic animal health program. The genetic and the envi