Perhaps I'll deal with some of the fisheries aspects of the question, and then I'll turn things over to Jody with respect to the coast guard.
The use of new technologies is a key element of our strategy for modernizing fisheries management and improving the effectiveness and efficiency of the services we deliver to fish harvesters. One example I would cite is the initiative we have brought into place to permit fish harvesters to renew their commercial fishing licences online. Whereas in the past fish harvesters had to come to DFO offices, line up, and go through a transaction to be able to receive their licences, which took them away from more critical work, like getting geared up to actually go out in the fishery, they can now renew their licences and receive their conditions of licence and other documents online 24/7. This is all part of improving the services.
We're also at a pilot stage of looking at what we call electronic log books, as opposed to fish harvesters using a manual record of recording where they're fishing, what they're catching, and so on. They'll be able to do that electronically and transmit that information to the department on a real-time basis, so it can be immediately actionable by the department.
We've introduced vessel monitoring systems in many fisheries, where we have transponders on vessels that signal the location of vessels, so we're able to confirm that vessels are fishing in areas that are open to fishing rather than areas that are closed to fishing. It allows us to be a lot more effective in terms of delivering conservation outcomes.
Maybe with that I can pass it over to Jody for some of the initiatives in the coast guard.