Proceedings 2015/019
Proceedings of the National Advisory meeting on the National Risk Assessment for bloody red shrimp (Hemimysis anomala); January 30, 2008
Chairperson: Becky Cudmore
Summary
Many of the science issues facing Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) are associated with significant knowledge gaps and uncertainties. This however, does not relieve the Department of the need to make decisions on these issues. Under these conditions, decisions must balance the risks and uncertainties while ensuring the sustainability of Canada’s aquatic ecosystems. Risk assessment is the process of estimating the risk presented by a hazard, in either qualitative or quantitative terms, to aquatic ecosystems, fisheries resources, fish habitat, and aquaculture that DFO is mandated to manage and protect.
The Canadian Action Plan to Address the Threat of Aquatic Invasive Species identifies risk assessment as one of the implementation strategies to deal with the threat of AIS. By forming the Centre of Expertise for Aquatic Risk Assessment (CEARA), DFO has taken the first steps toward developing the necessary expertise in risk assessment across the country, building on expertise developed in Burlington at the Great Lakes Laboratory for Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. To this end, one of the mandates and objectives of CEARA is to coordinate and to advise on biological risk assessments conducted on priority aquatic invasive species (AIS) of concern. One of these species is the bloody red shrimp, Hemimysis anomala, first identified in the Great Lakes in 2006. A national risk assessment was drafted for Hemimysis and was peer reviewed January 30, 2008 at Burlington, ON. The purpose of this external peer review was to gather experts on mysids, aquatic invasive species or risk assessment to discuss and provide comments on the draft risk assessment in a face to face forum.
These proceedings focus on the key points from the presentations and the resulting discussions and decisions about the draft risk assessment for Hemimysis.
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