Fisheries committee  Yes, I agree.

Fisheries committee  That's true. They are fairly sparse.

Fisheries committee  Yes, that's a 2013 study that we have tracked down, which was estimating the cost in British Columbia.

Fisheries committee  I did not do the study, so I can't speak at this moment to how that was calculated, but I can certainly speak to some of the impacts and where those costs come from. A few of the other witnesses have mentioned the impacts to hydro power. One of the impacts of zebra and quagga mus

Fisheries committee  It was primarily because of the combination of ecological and economic costs that are so well documented from the eastern regions of North America where the infestation has been going on for decades. It's very well known what those impacts are. It's also well known that infestati

Fisheries committee  You actually mentioned quite a few of the funders that are providing funds in our area specifically for monitoring. We conduct a very extensive monitoring program. We sample every water body in our region, basically every two weeks, all season, and those samples are tested by the

Fisheries committee  I can speak to that a little bit. This is Erin from CKISS. We've done some eDNA work here in British Columbia on invasive bullfrogs. At this point, eDNA is mostly a monitoring tool. It's used to measure the residual DNA that's left in the environment when a specific species inha

Fisheries committee  Thank you so much for having me today. The Central Kootenay Invasive Species Society is a regional invasive species organization in the interior of British Columbia. We have a mission to protect ecosystems and communities by preventing and reducing the harmful impacts of invasiv