Fisheries committee  I can't tell you specifically in that almost $12 million cut, because, as I say, there is still some consideration on that. I can say that there was some nervousness last year when we talked about multi-species assessments and some changes to how we do our science. We can assure

Fisheries committee  Certainly. That was the third part of the question. The second part of the question is the magnitude of the cuts that you see here. As we did say earlier, some of the cuts, or what appear to be cuts, are sunsetter programs, and we don't know whether they will be found in the next

Fisheries committee  That's one of the sunsetter programs, and it is one we are looking at very carefully. As I say, we don't know what will come from the budget, but any priority areas of science that need to be done will be done.

Fisheries committee  Some species require assessment even more than once a year. Some species require a yearly assessment, and some species are okay for a three-to-five year period. Our decisions on that will be based on the requirements of the species. Whether the shrimp will be.... No, I would say

Fisheries committee  There are no reductions either.

Fisheries committee  I can assure you that aids to navigation will never be completely cut; we are still going to have those services. Meanwhile, Roch will give you the technical explanation as to where you can find that money in the budget.

Fisheries committee  We shouldn't make any assumptions around future spending around these programs. As all sunsetter programs do, they undergo a review at the end of five years to determine their value to Canadians, and then there are further budget discussions about them. So there are no decisions

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. I will ask Jody to speak in greater depth to the question itself. The technologies we use, particularly telecommunications but also any other of the tools we use, are moving and are rapidly changing and we need to take advantage of those. Wherever pos

Fisheries committee  Those are good questions. I will let Mr. Balfour and Mr. Stringer give more detailed answers on this, but I can tell you where it came from. The department has been looking at its suite of policies for a number of years now. You may all know that we are in constant consultation

Fisheries committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you for the invitation to be here with you today. As you know, we're here to discuss our main estimates. Our minister will be joining us shortly. In the meantime, we thought our chief financial officer would take a few minutes to walk you through

Fisheries committee  Well, on our behalf, I want to thank you for having us here and listening to us.

Fisheries committee  The full program was a five-year program. There have been three calls for proposals, if that's what you want call them. That was the plan and that was how we put it together through that tough year which the lobster fishery went through three years ago, as we all remember. But it

Fisheries committee  I'm not sure I'd want to take credit for something like that, which is so driven by nature rather than by the actions we could take. I can say that we've made great strides and have put a lot of effort into ensuring that we have a good working relationship with the Atlantic Sal

Fisheries committee  On the issue of the seiners, as David said, it's a fishery that we monitor really carefully. As you know, there are the spring and the fall spawners. There are two different fish that are caught, and they're targeted at different sectors of the fishery. As to what may have happe

Fisheries committee  No, that's not the case. It's not the case that we want to move all fisheries to a multi-year cycle. There's certainly room for us to move to a more multi-year system for the various fisheries in which almost no cycles happen; but there are others that require significant attenti