Fisheries committee  I mean, I certainly have heard criticism by members of the public and questions about that. My view is that we understand our role and responsibility for the management of wild salmon and the management of aquaculture, and we do it appropriately.

Fisheries committee  One of the key changes that has taken place over the past couple of years is the creation of the Pacific salmon strategy initiative. You have a separate group within the organization leading the changes needed for salmon protection overall. That program, which has $647 million ov

Fisheries committee  I don't have those numbers available. Sarah may be able to respond briefly, but it may be something we need to get back to you on. If you don't mind my turning to Sarah, she might be able to respond.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the question. The way we're organized in the Pacific region is that we have a regional director of fisheries management, Neil Davis. He has responsibilities for salmon management. We also have a Pacific salmon strategy initiative, which is a direct repo

Fisheries committee  Our job was to provide advice to the minister and, from a science perspective, give her the information that was generated through the risk assessments that were completed. I'm fully satisfied we did that properly. The minister took that information and made decisions, and I thin

Fisheries committee  For clarification, are you talking about the science integrity policy?

Fisheries committee  If you're referring to the science review process, the process itself is public. There are external participants. I'm not sure I'm quite understanding your question. I apologize.

Fisheries committee  The SSHI was organized through a series of phases. We have completed phase two of the program. Phase three, which requires the establishment of a wet lab, a facility, is not funded at this point, so the work under way right now is writing up the papers and doing that type of acti

Fisheries committee  Thanks very much. We have over 9,000 individual stocks in B.C. and the Yukon. We don't have stock assessment information for all of them. We do have a very comprehensive collection of stock assessments for the main runs. That information is used in evaluating fisheries every yea

Fisheries committee  We have a regional director of science and a regional director for fisheries management who work together on those two aspects.

Fisheries committee  We do have a selective fishing policy that we apply for salmon.

Fisheries committee  The policy is implemented by all fishery managers—

Fisheries committee  The intent is to continue to work with the industry for future years. We haven't precluded an outcome. We haven't said it's going to be this or that. We're going to work with industry on developing that solution.

Fisheries committee  I can ask Nicole to give the statistics, but we may need to get back to you on those particular numbers.

Fisheries committee  We actually have found a reasonable solution that addresses the concerns, and for me, being able to implement the regulation is an appropriate measure for us to take.