Fisheries committee  I would agree with you about the point, I will pass it over to my colleague Mr. Swerdfager to add to it. But in terms of the analysis—and we don't have it here, but it can be provided on a province-by-province basis—historically we had been reviewing in the order of 8,000 referr

Fisheries committee  I'm afraid I'm going to give you a bit of a process answer, because we have advice from COSEWIC about the listing of the silver lamprey. What lies ahead for us is to go through a recovery potential assessment and what that would require. We would also need to carry out consul

Fisheries committee  I don't know if we have the information with us to be able to answer that specific a question. I do think that with the investment we did have a capability throughout the prairie provinces and Ontario to review projects. We certainly were involved in doing that. But I think I'd p

Fisheries committee  The department remains committed to advancing forward our plans on the establishment and operation of marine protected areas. We have currently eight marine protected areas in place now, which represents, I believe, protecting in the order of 1% of Canada's marine spaces. We have

Fisheries committee  Again, I would just say that we will be responding to requests from the industry to move in different directions. We haven't had those types of discussions. I do know that if, let's say, a lobster harvester in a particular LFA came to us and asked us to consider measures to impro

Fisheries committee  I don't see a reference, just looking at it quickly, to a figure of 400 on that page. Did you want to speak to that one, Roch?

Fisheries committee  As we move into the future, we will continue to rely more and more on partnerships with provinces, municipalities, industry, and other organizations that can do screenings of projects so that we won't have to be directly engaged in doing the work, and thereby resulting in savings

Fisheries committee  This is on the fish protection side, in terms of the review of projects. On the enforcement side, the new act has provisions that will make enforcement more effective. Under the previous act, if there was an infraction where an authorization had been issued and it had not been fo

Fisheries committee  Okay. If I understood the question—

Fisheries committee  I think the short answer to that is no. But I would say that the department is open to discussing with the commercial fishing industry proposals that would come from them about moves to individual quotas or tradeable quotas, or anything of that sort that would assist the industry

Fisheries committee  I think it's a question for Ms. Thomas.

Fisheries committee  With respect to the fish protection program, we are in a state of transition with the new fish protection provisions in the Fisheries Act. We are moving our organization to effectively deliver on the new approaches that are laid out in the act. In the past, many of the activities

Fisheries committee  I want to start by referring back to the presentation Roch Huppé provided and the reductions you would see to the small craft harbours program, which are the result of the sunsetting of temporary measures that had been established, such as the funding to provide for emergency rep

Fisheries committee  It was over four years, and that has also sunset. What we're really looking at now, and what you see in the RPP document, is the core A-base funding of the small craft harbours program. There are no reductions to the program other than the phasing out of planned sunset programmi

Fisheries committee  I have to be the first to admit that we don't necessarily have a standard set of definitions. What we do have is a continuum of categories of fisheries—what we call competitive fisheries—where there is an overall TAC established. Participants will catch as they can until the tota