Fisheries committee  Currently the largest recommendation that we've had from universities has been primarily from the University of Minnesota and Michigan State University, and that is all of the research that is ongoing in terms of our sea lamprey pheromone work. Those recommendations have been put

Fisheries committee  We do research with universities on two fronts. First, as Dr. Gaden indicated, the commission has a responsibility to coordinate, conduct, and communicate research. As a component of that, we have two research programs. One is called our fishery research program, and the other is

Fisheries committee  Yes, sir.

Fisheries committee  It is from the private sector and from funding organizations. Yes, sir.

Fisheries committee  With the present technology we have, I think it's just not possible to eradicate the species. Even if you knock the stuffing out of them, getting the last few, or the last 20, or the last 100 would be prohibitive in terms of cost. One of the things that we find.... We were talki

Fisheries committee  Well, as we like to say, unfortunately the carp are moving at the speed of Asian carp, not at the speed of government.

Fisheries committee  Obviously there's the barrier—that's ongoing. There's another very large program they have below the existing barrier. That's a very intensive netting program whereby they're going out and removing large quantities of Asian carp in the areas immediately downstream of the barrier.

Fisheries committee  With respect to Asian carp, we were fortunate about 10 years ago in that the fishery commission went to the state department and said that Asian carp were advancing towards the Great Lakes, and that if they got there, they would like to have some sort of rapid response plan on th

Fisheries committee  Sir, if I may, the process that we will go through.... The advisers brought this to us on Thursday afternoon. As a result of that, staff within the secretariat will research that and provide briefing materials to the commission for a commission decision on whether they go forward

Fisheries committee  I serve on the steering committee for the army corps study, the Great Lakes and Mississippi River interbasin study. What they're looking at now is doing an iterative program stretched over a large number of years. I don't think anyone thinks they're going to cut a cheque for $4.5

Fisheries committee  Could I just add one quick thing that I think is important? This is that in terms of our strategies for control of sea lamprey, clearly, the application of lampricide in streams is most important. Our second is the use of barriers to block spawning adults from reaching the spawni

Fisheries committee  I think, in our case, no, because sea lamprey cannot jump. If you use a low-head barrier they cannot get past it, so that's very effective. The third is trapping spawning sea lamprey. But the point I want to make is that we had another technique that we used for about 12 or 14

Fisheries committee  Yes, sir.

Fisheries committee  Sure. There were two things that happened. One was the creation of a bunch of spawning habitats, primarily for steelhead in the area, which turned out to be wonderful sea lamprey spawning habitat. The second thing was an overall improvement in the water quality that occurred in t

Fisheries committee  No, sir, that does not.