As you can recognize, working in the marine environment is very challenging. From a Department of Fisheries and Oceans perspective, SARA is one of the tools we have to protect species at risk. There are others. The Fisheries Act also provides a fairly powerful approach to protecting species at risk through a number of regimes. We have, for example, fishery licences for protection of habitat. There are a number of examples there.
Under SARA we have the ability to identify critical habitat and protect the critical habitat. In the case you raise about the killer whale, one of the elements that is used to identify the area as critical habitat is the availability of prey for a species. Under the Fisheries Act, we have the ability to manage salmon stocks through integrated fishery management plans to ensure that prey is available for the species.
If we move to the Atlantic coast and the case of the North Atlantic right whale, we've identified the Roseway Basin as critical habitat for the North Atlantic right whale. One of the main threats to that species has been ship strikes. In order to manage that, through working with the International Maritime Organization, there was a voluntary agreement to change shipping lanes during the period that the right whale occupied that area. Had that not happened, we have the ability to use the transportation acts to require changes in shipping lanes.
So there are a number of different ways we can try to get to the same end objective required under SARA, by using either SARA provisions or those available to us through other pieces of legislation. The primary one, obviously, for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, is the Fisheries Act.