Very good.
The marine refuges that were put in place and announced by the minister in December are fisheries closures under the Fisheries Act. Oil and gas activity is regulated in Newfoundland and Labrador under the Canada-Newfoundland offshore petroleum act, and as a result, it's a different regulatory regime. Where the two have overlapped in the sense that there is a fisheries closure but oil and gas permits still exist in the area, we still close the area to fisheries because what we are protecting in that area is the bottom species—more specifically, corals, sponges, and sea pens. The area is closed to fishing, but we are not counting the entire area as contributing to our targets.
The criteria that Mr. Morel outlined in his opening remarks are the ones we're following. In an area where we have a fisheries closure but other human activities taking place, we're closing the area to protect the benthic areas, but we're not counting it towards our targets because it doesn't meet the criterion specifically that there are no other human activities in the area. Human activities are being defined on a permit basis, so even if the permits are valid but not being exercised, we're still not using that particular geography as contributing towards our targets.