Environment committee  I prefer the COSEWIC criteria because they are based on the biological ones. This comes back to some of the earlier questions that the committee was discussing. The COSEWIC process uses the best available science. In other words, you may not have a whole lot of information on c

Environment committee  Highly qualified personnel are available. We can probably cobble together, through partnerships, the equipment necessary to do this. What is missing is the operational funding.

Environment committee  We're probably talking a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year. It would probably have to go on for about ten years.

Environment committee  I am honestly mystified by the consultation procedures, because when you get to the point where everybody seems to agree on what needs to be done and how to do it, it then disappears into government considerations and doesn't come out again, for reasons that are totally unknown.

Environment committee  In the case of these inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon, I think the issue is clearly resources. We know the problem is marine survival. Everybody agrees on that. We know what the technologies are to attack it, to find out where the murder site is, and when and where they're goin

Environment committee  I think this is a very positive step. Something in the order of 35% of the available habitat for inner Bay of Fundy salmon were located in the Petitcodiac River itself. This is an extraordinarily important keystone river for that particular complex of salmon, so this is very posi

Environment committee  Absolutely.

Environment committee  You're probably talking in the range, for the live gene banks, of a couple of hundred thousand dollars a year to maintain them for the 32 populations that are present in those areas. I would hope as well we'd begin to address some of the core problems, such as the habitat issue.

Environment committee  The project is proceeding in the correct fashion. They've decided to undertake a two-year trial. A monitoring program is in place to try to address some of those concerns. Rather than speculating and compensating somebody for an impact that may not occur, let's go and find out wh

Environment committee  I'm confused as to who the question is directed to.

Environment committee  We view the aquaculture and salmon farming dossier as one of probably a sequence of events that are affecting salmon right now. There are many straws that have gone onto the camel, and the camel's back is broken right now. I don't know how many of them I'm going to have to take

Environment committee  Yes. We are in a position right now where on an emergency basis we are trialling alternate chemicals to Slice, because Slice is proving not to be as effective as it was before. There is evidence of a resistance developing in this particular region.

Environment committee  The primary step they've already implemented are these live gene banks. A live gene bank is the genetic stock from a number of these inner Bay of Fundy salmon rivers that has been put into hatcheries, and they are maintaining fish populations through breeding. They are maintainin

Environment committee  I do not believe so. In point of fact, the biologists and the socio-economists who were involved in this dossier would agree that they were both suffering mightily. The species declined extraordinarily rapidly, and so did the jobs related to the sports fisheries for these species

Environment committee  That's correct.