Fisheries committee  A register...? I'm not sure. Certainly we document all the authorizations that we develop. There is a database that collects that information, yes.

Fisheries committee  Absolutely. That's not my area of expertise. I don't know if any of the panel members would view that. There certainly have been a lot of studies. I've seen them myself.

Fisheries committee  There would be the interface where B.C. would be looking at farm runoff, as an example, and ways to mitigate it. We would be looking at the management of the fish, the impact on the habitat.

Fisheries committee  I can't speak to the staffing levels in B.C., but I think that we are always challenged to have enough habitat people on the ground, given the significant territory they have to cover.

Fisheries committee  The province has responsibilities for fresh water, with the exception of the management of salmon. When you're looking at agriculture, land types of decisions, water flow and water availability, those are areas where we do interact with the Province of B.C. It has responsibilitie

Fisheries committee  As I said, there is a ton of work to be done. We work collaboratively with B.C. We have MOUs with it. We do our best to work together. The BCSCRIF, for example, is jointly funded, so Canada and B.C. together set those priorities and have put money aside to support this. I think t

Fisheries committee  We view the role of indigenous people as absolutely critical to any plan and strategy that we develop. We have a number of governance processes already in place that will help levers that work. For example, there is the Fraser Salmon Management Board, which was recently created f

Fisheries committee  Well, there are many challenges facing salmon. There are any number of impacts on their survivability. It's not just harvest; there's climate change, there are impacts upon habitat. They encounter any number of ways that cause their decline.

Fisheries committee  That's really what we want to do when we create the governance structures and put the advisory processes in place: to be strategic about where to spend the money. It's not that all populations are in decline. We have examples of salmon populations improving, and those—

Fisheries committee  Well, some of the chinook populations are in good health, for example. There are a number of examples. We have, though, some very significant challenges that impact upon some of those stocks. You have climate change, you have warming water conditions, urbanization, habitat, devel

Fisheries committee  My recommendation is that we will achieve a lot more by working together in partnership, by setting priorities together and by agreeing on the broad outcomes we want to accomplish.

Fisheries committee  Well, I've given you four categories in which we should make efforts, including habitat restoration for sure. We also need to do some harvest transformations, and we need to make sure our governance pieces are—

Fisheries committee  We fully intend to use the money wisely. We are extremely pleased to have this level of support to protect wild Pacific salmon. It's an extremely exciting opportunity, and we take very seriously our responsibilities to deliver value for money and ensure that as we set priorities,

Fisheries committee  From an internal perspective, it will be a matter of whether we can get the staff in place. We do have a structure in place right now. I can imagine it will be quite a few months to get it fully staffed. From an external perspective it will take longer, because we do need to cons

Fisheries committee  No. I would put that in the same category. We have a number of ideas and strategies that have very recently been accepted and announced. Now we have to do the work to really start to build them out.