The Pacific and Atlantic integrated commercial fisheries is a program that's intended to help integrate first nations and aboriginal fishing enterprises into existing commercial fisheries. It also supports increased accountabilities through increased management and enforcement. These initiatives began in the 2007 budget and have been sequentially renewed. This particular funding is to support first nations fisheries, as I mentioned, providing training and continuing to provide for voluntary relinquishment of non-aboriginal commercial fisheries access. It's also to improve catch monitoring reporting and enforcement focused in B.C., but may also be implemented across the country, and finally, to invest in bilateral and multilateral collaborative management processes to improve fisheries management and to address sustainability and conservation.
On November 20th, 2014. See this statement in context.