I'd start with integrated fisheries management plans. I think we have 170 formal fisheries, and we have formal integrated fisheries management plans for 130 or so of them across the country. We do it through consultation with the industry and other groups.
It starts with the Fisheries Act. The Fisheries Act provides the overall approach in terms of enabling the minister to establish a total allowable catch. The conditions decide who can fish it and under which conditions you can fish it. Then the plan for the fishery is the integrated fisheries management plan. The plan for the fishery basically says what the season is, who can fish, what the location is, and what the rules are for that fishery, and then the licence conditions outline those things.
Included in the plan is how we're going to monitor it and what information we require from the fishers, whether it's carrying a log book, VMS, observer coverage, or dockside monitoring. There's always some kind of monitoring and an information system. Then we pull all of that information together. We get science advice before the next year, and then we go through the process all over again. There's a regular annual cycle to ensure that we have proper management of fisheries.
I would also point out that this is that third test that the MSC and others look at. They look at the effect on the fishery and on other fisheries, and at the management plan. That management plan, as I've just outlined, is something that is always considered, and it's something that always needs a passing test. I know Canada has always had a passing test.