Fisheries committee  Thank you. I'm aware of that work, and you're right; it's been really useful in terms of this work on St. Anns Bank and organizing the different members of that LFA. Absolutely, when I talked about partnerships, that's exactly what I was referring to. There is a chunk of money

Fisheries committee  Thank you for your question. To make sure I understand, you're interested in the breakdown of freshwater-oriented positions versus ocean-oriented positions.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. I'd just like to correct that to say it's 10 in the gulf. I apologize.

Fisheries committee  I may have said it, or perhaps you did, but it's 17.5 in Newfoundland and Labrador. Just to dive into a little bit more detail, the first basket of activities, as I said, focuses on ensuring that we have productive fish stocks. By that I mean ecosystem research and more frequent

Fisheries committee  There aren't any plans to bring back the hatchery, but what we do have is a focused program emphasis on diadromous species, which would capture Atlantic whitefish and Atlantic salmon in that area. There aren't any plans to bring back Mersey, if that's what you're talking about,

Fisheries committee  The $197.1 million over five years is really largely targeted to ocean science and monitoring. Only a small part of it—as I said, $1.5 million per year—is directed to freshwater science. Of that $1.5 million, a contribution will be made to the Experimental Lakes Area, so the rema

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. When the science sector in DFO was challenged to think about the things that are most in need of DFO science investment, we looked at the mandate letter of our minister and at the priorities of the management sectors of our organization that inform s

Fisheries committee  I'll ask my colleague Blair to address that. If I have any additional comments, I'll make them if there is time.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for your question. I'll start by saying that in addition to the work we're already doing at DFO to advance some of the Cohen commission recommendations as they relate to the science elements, absolutely the work of some of these FTEs will contribute to advancing the C

Fisheries committee  I did. I'm sorry, but would you mind giving me a little bit more precision around what you're looking for? I have a lot of detail that I can share.

Fisheries committee  In the Pacific region there will be 28 full-time equivalents, FTEs. In the central and Arctic region there will be 23. In the national capital region, Ottawa, there will be 17 FTEs. In the region of Quebec there will be 15 new FTEs. In the region of the Maritimes there will be 25

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. The parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick that have their rivers drain into the Scotian Shelf or the Bay of Fundy make up part of the Maritimes region, so those FTEs would be based largely at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, as well

Fisheries committee  I'll just talk off the top of my head instead of giving you the exact details. Across the regions and the NCR, we've made investments for existing programs in fisheries, in oceanography, in ecosystem stressors, and in aquaculture in fresh water. In addition to that, we've also c

Fisheries committee  They will be integrating different—

Fisheries committee  Those FTEs that I talked about will be biologists, scientists. There will be technicians and physical scientists, so there will be a range of different categories. The folks who are in the NCR will have national coordination roles. For example, some species span more than one ge