It's a fairly complex jurisdiction. When somebody comes forward looking for an aquaculture site, they come to Fisheries and Oceans relevant to the Fisheries Act and habitat provisions. The Navigable Waters Protection Act is administered by Transport Canada. That may trigger a CEA, which is administered by the agency. Once all those steps are gone through, in most provinces, with the exception of P.E.I., the sites are actually provided by the province. So all of the steps then lead you to the province, which approves the site based on all the criteria they have along with the criteria that we have, as a federal government. When the fish is in the water it's property, so that means it's joint federal and provincial jurisdiction. Once it starts to come out of the water, it's property. It goes into a processing plant, subject to registration by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and they apply standards set by Health Canada. So it's a fairly complex array of agencies and groups involved in the regulation of the industry.
On May 15th, 2007. See this statement in context.