Thank you for the question.
To reiterate, governments have an important role to play in undertaking research in advance of a “call for bids” process to help identify where suitable areas for offshore renewable energy development can be located, taking into consideration such factors as existing uses of the sea.
Throughout the land tenure process, there are numerous opportunities to engage with stakeholders, including the fisheries sector, on those site assessment decisions. Then when we are at the point of a specific project, through the impact assessment and other regulatory steps, the impacts—including the environmental impacts of those projects—will be assessed and the regulator can impose terms and conditions through its authorization process.
In addition to and outside of the accord acts, governments still have an important role to play in research, data collection and cumulative effects assessment to understand the impacts of energy development in the offshore. There certainly is a growing body of evidence from international jurisdictions that have had offshore renewable energy in their offshore for decades that is helping to inform government decisions and the environmental assessment process in terms of the impacts of renewables on the fishing sector and the ecosystem at large.
Those are the types of things we're drawing on and the provinces are drawing on to support the fishing sector in particular.