Fisheries committee  I would have to look.

Fisheries committee  No.

Fisheries committee  Yes, just from a newspaper report.

Fisheries committee  You want to make sure that the fish are not contaminated excessively with any type of organic compounds, but if the flesh is safe in terms of contaminants and if you can demonstrate that you're not going to be transmitting parasites or something like that to a new area, you may b

Fisheries committee  I think it could, yes. Sure. There's a lot of biomass there. Yes. I would look at it for sure.

Fisheries committee  I mentioned hull fouling. That's the next principal vector that I would be focusing on: hull fouling and the live trades. I think the best case study would be hull fouling in Australia.

Fisheries committee  Climate change is a huge issue, and I realize that your government is doing its best on this. It's an enormous global issue to address. Invasive species are an international, national or regional issue. In many cases, effectively managing an invasive species problem will be eas

Fisheries committee  I hate to tell you that often they do have natural enemies, and in many cases, if they didn't initially, then very shortly thereafter many native species will go after them. There are colossal disasters where humans have tried to introduce other things. We introduced the mongoose

Fisheries committee  My second-last slide addressed that. I think it's a very—

Fisheries committee  Whenever these cases come up you want to make an informed decision, and you have to be able to quickly call upon a variety of expertise to address the question. It may include hydrology. If we apply a toxin, where is it going to go next? Do we have endangered species in this syst

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure. I would say that in most cases, there probably is not.

Fisheries committee  With the sea lamprey, the U.S. and Canadian governments monitor lamprey abundance annually. You can see there's a very significant reduction associated with this expenditure. It's money well spent, but it's the type of thing where you're spending it for the rest of your life. We

Fisheries committee  I'd like to go back to your previous question. In most cases you see a tight coupling of the number of invaders in a country and the size of that country's economy. The more you trade, the more invaders you get. Many years ago, Herb Gray was the member of Parliament in my area.

Fisheries committee  I think there was a trial and error period in P.E.I., particularly with moving aquaculture species around, and at first, people didn't realize they were going to be the pathway that was going to move the species to another bay. I think that phase we've passed and people now recog

Fisheries committee  Australia and New Zealand, Australia, in particular.