Fisheries committee  Mark may actually know better than I that there has been a reduction over the years. The trend is going down, for sure.

Fisheries committee  I can tell you what I would like to see and what a lot of other folks who are in the invasive species councils across the country would like to see, and that is one database for all invasive aquatic and terrestrial species—one that is accessible, in that private citizens and grou

Fisheries committee  I think my number one, because it's probably the lowest hanging fruit, is to fund groups more equitably across the country to do education and outreach. As I mentioned, there are the funding sources that we try to get in New Brunswick, which we have not been successful at getting

Fisheries committee  Off the top of my head, I'm not sure I'm going to try to guess a number, but that program that was introduced in the late-2000s, the invasive alien species partnership program, was a tremendous program. It only lasted five years but it got work going. It got groups like ours goin

Fisheries committee  The evidence is certainly there and there's a reason there has been a lot of effort and attention placed on Ontario and on the Great Lakes. It's because there have been numerous disasters. The point I was trying to make there is that when something happens, we need to respond.

Fisheries committee  Is that eDNA?

Fisheries committee  Yes. I've been informed of that by provincial staff here. That's a concern within the province. You couldn't take something that's not currently in the province and introduce it legally, but the conservation officers are not able to press charges if somebody is moving a species w

Fisheries committee  The reference they made was to the 2015 federal regulations that had improved the situation, but apparently this was still a loophole that was of concern to conservation officers here.

Fisheries committee  There has been some in New Brunswick, but the problem has been that there's been no consistent funding. There's no group. We've heard from some other provinces that there are multiple groups working on this issue. Here it's really been a side-of-the-desk issue for other groups li

Fisheries committee  First of all, thank you to the honourable members for this opportunity. As you say, I'm representing the New Brunswick Invasive Species Council today. We are a volunteer-run group that formed in 2009, with support from the invasive alien species partnership program. This was a