Fisheries committee  This will require.... I will provide more in writing, as time is probably running out, on more resources to look at past spills so we can attribute different debris to different spills. What this comes down to is funding from the federal government and resource allocation, such that we can use it at the time of incident.

Fisheries committee  To keep it brief—again, recommendations will be provided in writing—I have 67 suspected Zim Kingston items, which include different particulate matter from packaging, which degrades quite quickly. It is important to establish where this debris comes from, from day one. Our database that we are producing, in partnership with other B.C. marine working group members, comes from the data collected from individuals who have been involved since our day one of response, from the engagement point.

Fisheries committee  Because of the time frame of the spill and our response, we were able to find freshly packaged debris related to the incident. I've been in contact with a professor from the University of Hawaii who has been modelling other container ship spills. We've been coordinating between our manifest that we've created to determine which debris is from which incident.

Fisheries committee  The knowledge has been offered by.... We've created a collective between all of the B.C. marine debris working groups. We've been contacting different individuals, the Canadian Coast Guard and the various other stakeholders involved. We've been met with the reporting desk, so we send our debris and our data to a reporting desk.

Fisheries committee  There is a huge amount of other debris. We are focusing our surveys on suspected Zim Kingston debris. We hope that the Coast Guard will bring to light and confirm whether we know which debris is from which spill, but that requires sharing of the manifest, and unfortunately the manifest doesn't sound very detailed.

Fisheries committee  Thank you to the committee for having me. The Rugged Coast Research Society is a Nanaimo-based registered charity developed to research remote coastal habitats and coordinate restoration efforts in sensitive ecological areas in partnership with local indigenous communities. Rugged Coast was created in 2017.