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Lib. (ON)
I just have a question, Mr. Chair.
I'm trying to get my mind around the point you were making about the Chileans. Can you explain that again, because I'm not sure I understand it?
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Lib. (ON)
What I'm missing, Mr. Wickham, is how to control what happens in Chile.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you.
Let's just make a couple of assumptions. Let's assume that the environmental assessment you talk about is conducted and that the aquaculture industry manages to survive that assessment. And let's assume there are practices in place that allow the rearing and production of sablefish without negative environmental consequences; that's an assumption. Let's assume at the same time that we have a sustainable sablefish fishery.
Given those two situations, would you be here asking the government to prefer the natural fishery over the aquaculture industry's raising of sablefish?
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Lib. (ON)
Otherwise, what you're really talking about is the federal government or provincial government—I don't know where the jurisdiction is on this—actually regulating the marketplace for that particular species of fish.
To what extent can you do that? To what extent can the federal or provincial government actually regulate the industry, where the species is not threatened in the wild and where that particular fish is able to be reared in net pens without negative consequences? How do you reconcile those?
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you for your answers.
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Lib. (ON)
Okay. Perhaps if I don't use all of my time, one of my colleagues would be happy to use it.
Mr. Chair, I'd like to put some questions on seals to the people here this morning. I don't think I'd be overstating that many members of the committee feel the situation regarding seals was a significant factor in the collapse of the groundfish fishery. I don't need to go into all of that.
I think the government, in responding to the report, did agree it would promote a sustainable seal harvest. Is that a fair statement? Was there some agreement on the point that a sustainable seal harvest should be promoted? What were the government's efforts, if any, to this point, in terms of actually developing a strategy for the promotion of a sustainable seal harvest?
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Lib. (ON)
Your last statement was interesting. I was actually very interested to know whether the current levels of the harvest matched the demand for seal products. Are you saying that's the case?
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Lib. (ON)
Where is that? Is the demand higher than the supply at the moment?
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Lib. (ON)
Promoting a sustainable harvest, does that in any way involve the department or some other department of government in promoting the market for that harvest?
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Lib. (ON)
I'm not sure you could answer this one, then. The U.S. as a potential market for seal products, what's happening there?
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Lib. (ON)
I think there's a conference coming up in spring 2004 on seal oil products. It was mentioned in the response by the government. Well, we're there. I believe the objective is to outline the findings of current research and development on products such as seal oil, collagen, and protein products.
I'm just wondering whether the department is going to have any role in that, and who's going to be carrying that message and that brief at the conference? Will it be DFO? Will you be participating?
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Lib. (ON)
It was mentioned as part of the response.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Bevan.
Those are my questions, Mr. Chair.
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Lib. (ON)
Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a number of questions, and I hope it won't be considered rude of me when I feel the response has been sufficient to answer my questions to say thank you and to go on to another question. I'm very anxious that the time allotted to me isn't used up by parts of responses that I don't feel are relevant to the question, so--
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Lib. (ON)
I am very happy to hear that the department puts the matter of the prevention and control of invasive species in the Great Lakes at the highest priority. Do I understand that to be the case? You're nodding yes.
I'm also happy, and I guess it's consistent with what you said earlier in your presentation, that that's why the department wants to assume a leadership role with respect to the prevention and control of invasive species.
Now, what we're talking about is invasive species in the Great Lakes. You mentioned earlier that $6.1 million had been allocated for the prevention and control of the sea lamprey in the Great Lakes. You also mentioned that this amount was the lion's share of what the department has allocated towards the prevention and control of invasive species, generally. So I'm assuming that the whole budget is just slightly more than $6.1 million and the $6.1 million is what is dedicated to the prevention and control of sea lamprey.
You mention that there's experimentation being done--I think you said “pheromones”--with respect to the control of sea lamprey and that perhaps by 2010 that might have gone beyond the experimentation stage and that we can expect perhaps to introduce that kind of control.
My question, in view of that premise, is this. I've been a member of this committee for five out of the seven years that I've been a member of Parliament, and the $6.1 million has not been a stable amount, a static amount, of funding towards the program
How do we justify, in view of the figures that the chair related to the committee, that it's possible that the real cost of controlling aquatic invasive species in the Great Lakes could be somewhere between $13 billion and $14 billion and that we're allocating approximately something over $6.1 million for the control of all invasive species at the moment?
How do you rationalize this with your statement that it's such a high priority and such a minuscule amount of the department's budget allocated to that high priority?
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