Fisheries committee  What we're seeing around the world where wolves are being reintroduced—or beavers in Scotland—is the discovery that top-down predation is creating, in terrestrial ecosystems, greater stability and longer-term sustainability, biodiversity and productivity. I believe the same thing

Fisheries committee  I haven't seen any harms—

Fisheries committee  Okay.

Fisheries committee  We often see numbers thrown out on the tonnage of fish mammals are eating, or references made to seine boats and whatnot equivalents. The reality is that when we look at what people consume, we find the average American.... When we weigh the food they're consuming, on average, it

Fisheries committee  There certainly are problem seals. Where Washington state is focused is at the dams and up in the rivers. While the sea lions there did not create the problems, they are benefiting from having dammed the rivers, and they're preventing salmon from getting up and spawning. Those ar

Fisheries committee  Log booms are perhaps not the biggest problems on the Fraser River, but log booms have provided artificial habitat and areas where animals can rest, breed and get more access. There are efforts to remove log booms and recover some of the estuaries, but certainly, log booms have b

Fisheries committee  I don't know the particulars—

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. My name is Andrew Trites. I am a professor at the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries at the University of British Columbia and the director of the marine mammal research unit. I have been studying increasing and decreasing populations of marine mammals

Fisheries committee  Thank you. I think there's often a disconnect between science and management. Science is a bottom-up process. Management seems to be top-down. I feel that, in many cases, the two are not talking together. It would be a much better process if the managers built relationships with

Fisheries committee  That you for the question. The idea of a research cluster is to get the advice from those who fish, those who do research, those who do management and those who do cutting-edge research. In terms of salmon, I'll give you an example. We were doing a study on killer whales, aski

Fisheries committee  Sorry, could you rephrase the question.

Fisheries committee  I think the CSAS model is a good approach. I think where the rubber meets the road is often with the certainty that different scientific studies have. It seems that very few people ever ask, what is your confidence in your result? Typically, for example, we've got some models t

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My name is Andrew Trites. I am a professor at the institute for the oceans and fisheries at the University of British Columbia and director of the marine mammal research unit. I have been studying marine mammals for over 40 years. My research encompasse