Certainly, it is important to set priorities and to understand how the work we do in science can be used to inform fisheries decision-making and decision-making in other parts of our mandate—marine conservation, for example. We have maybe 2,200 staff across the country who are working in different parts of the science work that we do. Fishery science is our largest science program within DFO, but as I said, there are a number of questions that we would need to ask and really think about in order to be able to answer your question.
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