Fisheries committee  Once the harbour is divested, we don't spend any more at that site.

Fisheries committee  There are 30 harbour authorities managing, I believe, 34 harbours; there might be one or two almost ready to sign up.

Fisheries committee  There are two additional requests on the table. There are maybe about 16 harbours in the prairie provinces, in the freshwater part of Canada, and seven in Nunavut.

Fisheries committee  In the prairies it's 16 freshwater harbours.

Fisheries committee  We don't use municipal landfills. Our dredging is a lot smaller than my colleagues', but we have to find other ways of dredging and putting our disposal back a little way. Usually it's off-site, above the high-water line.

Fisheries committee  Do you mean regionally?

Fisheries committee  At this time, there are 57 fishing harbours and 165 recreational or non-core harbours.

Fisheries committee  It is all of the 165. Of the 57, there may be a few undecided. Those would be fishing harbours, so we may have to do some consultation with the fishermen to decide if we're going to keep them or not.

Fisheries committee  Initially there were 516 harbours, so if we were to subtract 218, it would be almost 300.

Fisheries committee  Sometimes we remove the infrastructure and revert the land back to the province.

Fisheries committee  I'm not precisely sure of all the Ontario harbours, but in the prairies all of them have gone back to the province or the municipality. In Ontario I think most of them have gone to the municipality.

Fisheries committee  I don't want to speak for another region, but I believe a bit of that happens in Pacific. We are having some challenges in our area to find a project to restore the habitat when we build harbours in our more remote areas. So at this point, we're meeting with our habitat colleague

Fisheries committee  Even harbour authorities fall under our jurisdiction to do the major works and so on. There are three harbour authorities on the Great Lakes at this time. There are a few other harbours that could potentially be harbour authorities, and we should look into that in the near future

Fisheries committee  I would like to make maybe a bit of a preamble. Because our budget is rather small, Public Works and Government Services Canada doesn't have perhaps we'd say the economies of scale to have a good network of marine engineers on staff. So this is posing a particular problem to ou

Fisheries committee  I don't have a list, and we have not done a comprehensive analysis of each one. The fishery has evolved in a number of these sites. On the back-side of Lake Winnipeg they have remote sites that are only fly-in or by-vessel access. They're trying to relocate their fish plants wher