Fisheries committee  Thank you. You read my mind. I've been out and about in the Broughton Archipelago, a beautiful, remote area, for 26 years, and I just want to tell you that the oceans are not dying. When I arrived, there were no humpback whales. There are now 27 whales that use the area. The san

Fisheries committee  Ian Roberts needs to go under oath. There's an alliance of environmental organizations in British Columbia called the Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform. They have spent millions negotiating with Marine Harvest. This includes the David Suzuki Foundation, Living Oceans, the

Fisheries committee  As I said, these are localized effects. I have no doubt of that study, but you have to talk to the scientists who have been following these animals around. Dr. Trites' whole life is studying pinnipeds, which are seals and sea lions, and he is telling us, from looking at their sca

Fisheries committee  If they certify a fishery that's been in decline for 10 years, with virtually no commercial fishing for the last three years, we could take it that the certification is invalid. If you look to Alaska, they're actually having record runs of sockeye. That's where you might want to

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. There were some great recommendations made by that forum, and I agree that the number of lice has been reduced. It's due to the drug. Unfortunately, that's a temporary situation. That's the concern. However, the most profound recommendation the forum made was the fo

Fisheries committee  That's a very good question. Fortunately, I just attended a presentation by Dr. Andrew Trites on this exact subject in terms of the Fraser sockeye. What he said was twofold. One is that they pick up the scat from seals and analyze what these seals have been eating. In general, fo

Fisheries committee  I will.

Fisheries committee  Yes, and I'm sorry if I didn't make that clear. British Columbia is very happy that this inquiry is happening. The people there are trying to have some faith in it because they're so frightened at this point. The issue of the Fraser sockeye has brought together warring factions

Fisheries committee  As I understand it, the federal government can do whatever they want with this industry. I would really like to see the Fisheries Act applied, and if they don't meet that bar, if they simply need to get out of the ocean, I think the support this would have would be enormous. But

Fisheries committee  The permanent solution to preventing lice from becoming resistant to drugs and therefore killing our wild salmon is to put a complete barrier between the wild and farmed fish. That's the only thing that needs to happen here on all of the issues of waste and disease and impact. We

Fisheries committee  I take great hope with the Cohen inquiry. Unfortunately, I've seen many government studies sidelined, so I'm not confident. But they do have the power, as I understand it, to get these disease records and to question some DFO scientists who I think need to be questioned. I am c

Fisheries committee  I'm not confident they'll be ready, particularly since first nations seem to have opposed the most recent draft. I have participated in those consultations as a member of the public. I have said to Mr. Swerdfager again and again that he has to consider it might not be possible

Fisheries committee  A couple of things are going on there. First of all, the pinks that came back last year went out in a different year, so we have yet to see the result for the sockeye. Those pinks went out in 2008, so it's a different story with the pinks all together. The fish farmers drug their

Fisheries committee  You bet. I don't have a great set of credentials. I have been doing this for a long time. I'm a registered professional biologist, and I've now written 17 scientific papers that have been published. As a result, Simon Fraser University is giving me an honorary doctorate of scien

Fisheries committee  It would take a minute to list all the journals, but they include the North American Journal of Fisheries Management, Alaskan journals, the journal Science, the ICES Journal of Marine Science in Europe, and many others.