Were those papers related to geoduck aquaculture or just a wild harvest?
C. Pearce: Wild harvest. But the harvesting of wild clams would be very similar to the harvest of aquacultured clams. G. Robertson: But in terms of the impact of large-scale…. You mentioned at the end that the research you’ve been doing is on small-scale plots and that the potential impact of industrial scale has not been looked at by peer-reviewed research.[1105] C. Pearce: That is correct, yes. The Goodwin study was done on plots similar in size to what I’m working on. The Breen and Shields study…. I don’t think they mentioned the size of the plots, so they could have been bigger. I don’t know. I’m not aware of any real commercial-scale work that’s…. A. Thomson: I’d just like to interject. The PSARC process is a peer-review process. The findings of the paper are presented at an open meeting that has both departmental scientists, but also external academics as well, attending. It’s actually an open-forum peer review in which criticisms are given of the paper, and the paper is sent bac
