Fisheries committee  I would suggest we probably have 30 to 40 chartered fishing enterprises in the municipality.

Fisheries committee  Wellington.

Fisheries committee  Very positive, from our indications.

Fisheries committee  That's certainly part of it, yes. However, we have been struggling with a solution. For at least four years we have been focusing on it significantly. We have looked at options in the U.S. and all over Canada, wherever we can get information on similar facilities. It's funny, we have one right on our back door in Pickering that we hadn't touched on before.

Fisheries committee  No. In all cases it has been wharf facilities and boat ramps, and there hasn't been an environmental issue or a circumstance we've had to deal with.

Fisheries committee  No, it doesn't.

Fisheries committee  Waupoos.

Fisheries committee  Currently it is privately owned. It used to be owned by the Oblate Fathers, which is a religious component of the Roman Catholic Church, I believe.

Fisheries committee  We do not. No, we have an agreement with the barge operator, who purchased the barge from the Oblate Fathers, and he runs the sheep farm on the island. So he now owns the barge, and he has an agreement with the municipality. It's a written agreement dealing with damages to the dock and those various things that we look at on an annual basis and discuss with him.

Fisheries committee  I believe that would be, from what we've been able to see so far, ideal in our situation because theirs is very similar, and it's going to give us an opportunity to see how they progress. But from all the studies we've done—and we've done numerous studies—on how we can resolve this on a long-term basis, extending those jetties farther into Lake Ontario and slightly at an angle appears to be the primary solution.

Fisheries committee  Well, looking at Pickering's, which is very similar in size, we've been estimating anywhere between $5 million and $7 million.

Fisheries committee  Not formally.

Fisheries committee  Yes. One of the things we're doing now is trying to gather some additional information from Frenchman's Bay in Pickering, so that we in fact have a decent proposal.

Fisheries committee  Yes. I believe they have since 2006, but I'm not exactly sure what the current status is. They're working with the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority on this project. We have met with them, and all indications from them are that both governments are very positive about the project.

Fisheries committee  Actually three; we're in the process of the fourth.