Thank you very much. I appreciate the introduction. I'll just add a few more contextual comments to help bring a bit of life to what these supplementary estimates mean for Fisheries and Oceans. Obviously, we won't cover this line by line, as it would take us the duration of the meeting. I'll be brief.
We are coming forward, as the deputy minister just mentioned, with supplementary estimates (B), and we will also then follow on with the supplementary (C)s. My summary estimate is that we will only be seeking about another $23 million or $24 million in those supplementary (C)s, bringing us to $1.88 billion in total authorities by the end of the fiscal year.
On slide 3 of the deck that we prepared for you, I'll jump right to the bottom line. Part of this is a cut-and-paste right out of the supplementary estimates, which members of the committee will easily recognize. I've added, for a bit of context, the increase since our main estimates.
We opened the year with $1.605 billion. I was here alongside the deputy and other members of DFO at the main estimates briefing in March, outlining that $1.605 billion. Since then, we've received the carry-forward for capital and for operating, which you can see shown in the centre column of “Authorities to Date”.
The starting point today, as the deputy just mentioned, is $1.68 billion. Moving to the column called “These Supplementary Estimates”, this is the composition by vote structure of the amounts that we'll be bringing in, totalling $178.2 million. Ultimately, as a result of these, we'll be moving forward, as noted, on $1.86 billion of plans.
We'll go to the next slide on page 4. The deputy just gave you a pretty good snapshot of the key items. Out of the 25 listed items in our supplementary estimates, the first 14 or so are actual voted items. This is a kind of hit list of the signature ones. Just to give a little more detail on how these are functioning for us, for the first three items on the page it says very clearly that they are budget 2014 items, so we're accessing these funds for the first time.
For AICFI and PICFI, as we call them for short—the Atlantic integrated commercial fisheries initiative and the Pacific version as well—PICFI will bring in $21 million out of that $32 million. The other $11 million will be available to the AICFI program, which, as the committee is probably well aware, helps our first nations fishery enterprises integrate into commercial fisheries and helps first nations participate in decisions around fisheries management.
For the next item, you'll recall that we had a good discussion on this during the main estimates, when the announcement for the small craft harbour increase was fresh off the press. As we know, it's a very successful program that augments spending on construction and maintenance, repair, and dredging, whatever the requirements are at local core fishing harbours across Canada. As a result of the announcement of the $40-million increase over two years that was set out in budget 2014, these supplementaries will bring in year one of that money, or $17.8 million. With that, we plan to embark on 28 projects across the country.
The next item is the recreational fisheries conservation partnerships program. Just to give some sense of how this one is working, it's a two-year announcement, which represents both an augmentation of and an extension to the existing formerly announced two-year programs. Just to demystify this, budget 2013 set out $10 million for Fisheries and Oceans over two years. We're in year two, 2014-15, so that was a five and five.
What this supplementary estimate will do is bring in the $5-million augmentation this year. It will boost the program in 2014-15 from $5 million up to $10 million and then extend the program into 2015-16 for a new additional year at a full $10 million. Then the program will have run for three years: at $5 million, at $10 million this year, and at $10 million next year. That program allows us to partner with local community organizations, not-for-profit groups, to restore fish habitats, and we expect over the life of the three years that we will have undertaken around 385 projects.
Moving into funding that was previously earmarked for Fisheries and Oceans and which we are now bringing into the organization, the coast guard increase of $78.8 million here is made up of three very discrete projects. The first big piece is $63.6 million for the offshore fisheries science vessel procurement, where we're having three science vessel trawlers built out on the west coast at the Vancouver Shipyards. Those vessels, as the committee is likely well aware, are for important scientific work that supports the sustainable development and conservation of our oceans.
The next item that makes up this $78.8 million is $9.5 million, which is part of a shared initiative between ourselves and DND to help that shipyard hit full stride in manufacturing capability or construction capability for our vessels. It's called horizontal engineering program plan. Basically, what we're doing is investing in the shipyard's capability to get itself up to capacity, to start churning out vessels.
Finally, $5.9 million, the remainder of the $78.8 million, is for refitting one of our icebreakers, one I'm sure the community is well aware of, the largest in the fleet, called the Louis S. St-Laurent. This is necessary for us to be able to keep that ship at sea for a little bit longer, up to the end of 2020-21, to align its life cycle with the planned delivery of the polar class icebreaker, the John G. Diefenbaker.
The next item is $20.6 million. This is the first major installment of a $183-million plan to put 15 new light helicopters into our service. We'll see the first one come into service this year. With this money, we will also build the building that will house the flight simulation training facility for both the light and the medium helicopters that will come on stream in time.
The last item noted on the page is outer limits, continental shelf, at $7.1 million. That was a capital project designed to enable us to add multibeam sonar capability to our icebreaker fleet in order to continue with our mapping exercises across the north. That's a good look at the signature items. I have a couple more points to make and then I'll be wrapping up.
We're on slide 5 now. The remainder of the supplementary estimates are about another 11 items. They are transfers to and from the department with other federal agencies, or internal adjustments among our votes. Quickly, on the slide, it points out that we'll see a net increase of $1 million in transfers to our department for six items. It's a couple with Environment Canada of around—