Fisheries committee  That figure could probably be arrived at by looking at U.S. numbers and then at the size of imports and exports between Canada and the U.S. We don't have that number right now. We can try to get that. I'm not sure if it exists, but we can certainly try.

Fisheries committee  We also had the same survey design as many of the international studies that are consistent with our results. In the document we'll be sharing with the committee, we'll have information about that as well.

Fisheries committee  The issue is that imports are dealt with by one agency and labelling by another agency and, in order to implement this, it requires input all the way from the Canada Border Agency to DFO to CFIA. Right now, it really needs to be a larger group that comes together to figure out ho

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. The following is a global number, because we don't have a Canada-specific number. Again, it's from Sylvain Charlesbois. Food fraud represents a $52-billion problem worldwide and is allegedly worth more than the heroin trade and firearms trafficking combined. It is a h

Fisheries committee  An additional 38% was unknown because the state of the fish stock was unknown. Of the health status of fish stocks that we know of, 30% were from vulnerable species.

Fisheries committee  I think that's also something the next witness can speak to more as to where those boundaries are in that regulatory framework. It's also why we are calling for a multi-departmental task force to be put together to untangle this web to see who is going to be responsible for each

Fisheries committee  A lot of our seafood is already exported, a fair amount of it to the EU and U.S. To be internationally competitive and have a market, many companies are already doing increased traceability.

Fisheries committee  DFO's catch monitoring program requires that a certain amount of information be shared with other countries that we are not sharing internally.

Fisheries committee  I'll just clarify that our study does not look at things like volumes. It's really about species mislabelling—species substitution.

Fisheries committee  Right.

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