Fisheries committee  I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt. We do provide funding to organizations such as the Marine Conservation Caucus, which is a collection of environmental [Technical difficulty—Editor] in British Columbia. We do support some of their activities in terms of consultation with the

Fisheries committee  I would add that part of the value of the consultation process is to ensure that we have a greater understanding of the activities that the sector groups—the fishers—are actually doing and what impact those specific activities may have on the environmentally sensitive areas of th

Fisheries committee  I would just add that I think one of the critical things indigenous groups bring forward to us is how we include or consider some of their traditional ecological knowledge in our consultative process, in terms of what areas they consider to be ecologically sensitive, in addition

Fisheries committee  Yes, I would agree. I think a broad consultation strategy should very clearly lay out how you go about it—plan the time frame, set up meetings, etc.—so the client sectors have information ahead of time to plan to be able to attend the meetings and contribute meaningfully. I think

Fisheries committee  We do have a very structured agent process with our client sectors, with licence-holders and such. Much of the consultation planning goes through regularly scheduled meetings. Within Pacific Region A, we also have a consultation secretariat that helps to maintain a calendar of on

Fisheries committee  Yes, definitely. It has been very useful in the context of MPAs in particular in terms of helping to define the environmentally sensitive areas and to provide advice to the oceans group as well as to the fisheries management group as to the boundaries and areas that should be pro

Fisheries committee  Depending upon where they are, of course, there are a lot of migratory stocks, from halibut to sailfish to salmon. In providing some refuge from commercial fishers in some of these areas that they may be transiting, you are providing a refuge from capture. I don't know what the m

Fisheries committee  Steelhead is a provincially managed species, but we have been working very closely with our provincial colleagues to try to address some of the concerns for the South Thompson steelhead, which is in some critical state in terms of its returns this year, and also some other steelh

Fisheries committee  That was mentioned by me.

Fisheries committee  I believe there is a website for them. We can provide a link.

Fisheries committee  Yes, thanks very much, Mr. Hardie, for the question. In terms of transparency, our regulatory program, which requires a significant amount of monitoring and reporting as well as auditing by our regulatory staff, is largely reported on our website. There's a vast amount of data

Fisheries committee  No, there has been no order. My colleague, Wayne, can further lay out that it's part of the process of going through a series of risk assessments under the Canadian science advisory secretariat umbrella and looking at the pathogens that are currently present and determining what

Fisheries committee  We do have statistics on the imports. It's been a number of years since we've had any importation of salmon eggs to the west coast of British Columbia. The vast majority of the industry, if not all of the industry, operates on domesticated stock that produces its own brood stock

Fisheries committee  You're asking for an absolute. The reality is, we've had importations of fish eggs going back into the late 1800s. There was a series of importations of salmon eggs that go back a long period of time. If you're asking me to certify that, in 1850 or 1880, there was no disease on

Fisheries committee  I'll answer that question. Under the provincial legislation, they have a lease for the seabed that they're anchored to. Each of those leases is variable in length of time and expiration date based on when they were applied for and how long they were granted for. A number of the