Thank you, Mr. Small.
It's going reasonably well. As I mentioned, we're moving through the DFAA process. I think by the end of the week we'll have maybe eight of the 37 ready to submit.
If I get too detailed, please cut me off. The stumbling block or the biggest thing we're facing with that program is proving ownership for the infrastructure that's in that marine reserve space, which I believe is 15 metres from the high-water mark, that nobody owns. When you can't own it, you can't insure anything in that space. You also can't have any kind of a deed or title to that, so when it comes to proving ownership to avail this funding, that has proven to be very difficult. It's something that we're working through.
The province is certainly helping with that, but there have been a lot of hoops to jump through, especially when it comes to harvesters who had fishing infrastructure in resettled communities, we'll say, or communities where the population residents were resettled years ago. People basically have their fishing infrastructure there. Sometimes there's a cabin there. There's a wharf and a stage and that kind of thing. That has been very difficult, because there's no town council in place that can prove or provide supporting documentation for ownership of that. So that's been a struggle.
The other limitation we've seen with that program is that it's for uninsurable losses. Vessels are considered insurable. We had three vessel losses in that region of the province, on the southwest coast. Those folks were going to have to move through a different program with that, which I believe was the intention of the ACOA funding as kind of a backstop to the DFAA. We're still awaiting details on that.
Those are a couple of the challenges we have at this point.