Fisheries committee  Thank you. I'm happy to offer a bit of information on that. We have done some work to respond to that particular recommendation. Specifically, in the last year, we contracted somebody with the technical expertise to do an assessment of the information we currently hold and the systems that information will live in, to identify what the requirements would be to set up a public registry that would have licensing and quota transactions available and accessible in an easy way.

Fisheries committee  Thanks for the question. We have actually taken a number of steps in response to this—

Fisheries committee  Yes, it's specific to the recommendations. One of them, for example, was about conducting a comparative analysis of licensing and managed regimes on the east and west coasts. We contracted that work. A report was completed and issued around March of 2021. We have also undertaken work in response to the recommendations related to transparency to analyze the technical requirements associated with setting up a licence and quota registry that would be publicly available for anyone to research information.

Fisheries committee  We've implemented some of those mark-selective fishery proposals. We, also under the PSSI, have identified that the expansion of mass marking and mark-selective fisheries is one of the things we would like to explore. In that vein—

Fisheries committee  Certainly, Deputy. As the member may be aware, last year we did receive a series of proposals for mark-selective fisheries from the SFAB, so they were very involved in putting those together. The department reviewed those with input from science but also giving consideration to things like whether the proposals would implicate FSC access for first nations, and made decisions that, quite frankly, were very risk-averse, given the status of stocks in southern B.C., not just those in the Fraser but also others.

Fisheries committee  Certainly, and the member is quite right, this has been an important issue. We have a very well-established advisory process with the recreational fishing sector called the sport fishing advisory board, which is a coastwide process supported by numerous local level committees called sport fishing advisory committees.

Fisheries committee  Thank you for the question. We are in a difficult spot with this one. I think the reference is to the five nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island who have a court-defined right to sell all species except geoduck. A court of appeal decision came out last spring, which directed the—

Fisheries committee  We have reviewed the allocations that we think we are obligated to provide to the five nations rights-based fishery and proposed an increase to their allocation. We completed that analysis in the fall. As soon as that analysis was complete, we communicated to both the five nations and industry.