Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to keep on that theme for a second and make a comment and then ask a question in my three minutes.
I come from a riding in the lower Fraser River, where much damage to the fishery has already happened—over decades, in fact—and it has happened because of permits for housing, commercial buildings, roads, bridges, etc. In the Fraser estuary, that very productive and critical area for fisheries habitat, some scientists say about 70% or more of the area has been lost because of cities, resource extraction, farming, etc.
It's important to look at this when we're talking about jurisdictions. I think cows and fish was mentioned, a provincial program, so that it's a provincial jurisdiction. We're talking about some issues that are in municipal jurisdictions, and then, obviously overlaying these, is the Fisheries Act, which is federal jurisdiction.
We're talking about things such as farmers' ditches or drainage ditches for housing that are being considered habitat now because of the past, when so much valuable fish habitat was degraded and is gone. It's paved over; it no longer exists. I think that's part of the issue that DFO officers and the department have to contend with.
I want to switch gears for a second, though, back to one of Dr. Fuller's recommendations on stock rebuilding plans. Could you elaborate, in the few seconds left, on what legalizing stock rebuilding plans would look like for you under the Fisheries Act? You mentioned the Magnuson-Stevens act, for instance.