Fisheries committee  It all depends on how it's written and how it's implemented. So, of course, just reading the wording of it, yes, but I don't think the intent is necessarily to target one industry more than another, but to make sure that when we have conservation targets, all the tools that are a

Fisheries committee  Yes, and it is challenging because it's fast; we're already in 2017. It is an exciting challenge that I think we will meet with all the measures we were able to put in place with our partners: parks, and environment, and also other stakeholder provinces and the fisheries closure.

Fisheries committee  How they're integrated in the target?

Fisheries committee  The way we do it right now is that we develop the criteria. We have consulted on these criteria with science, with a council of academics—it was a CSAS process—and with other stakeholders, while we were defining those five criteria. We are in the process of looking at all the e

Fisheries committee  They'll be included.

Fisheries committee  It's part of the mandate of the fisheries officers to also look at the protection offered under the Oceans Act. It's part of their duties. However, the proper answer to your question is that every time we designate an MPA, we also have to put a management plan in place. It's in

Fisheries committee  The Aichi targets set 10% for marine protected areas in country, and Canada subscribes to that. By 2020 we should meet the criteria, the international target. Some countries are more aggressive, but we believe we can meet the 2020 target and be comparable to other countries.

Fisheries committee  Certainly they can. If you consider, for example, what they can provide as protection for habitat and reproduction of certain species that could be endangered or just have lower stocks, MPAs—because fish do swim and go outside of the MPAs— can provide other opportunities elsewher

Fisheries committee  Usually no. We analyze everything, but no, there's no program to compensate for the impact of these measures. We're trying to accommodate the industry for the impact they may have, as I mentioned earlier, maybe by just changing the fisheries from one area to another and buying

Fisheries committee  Well, no, not exactly. The criteria of protection that are not under the Oceans Act protections.... On page 9 of the presentation, you have the five criteria that are used, which we believe are criteria that will enable us to designate some of the fisheries closures as protected

Fisheries committee  I'll say a few words and then turn the floor over to Mr. MacDonald. An area of interest may become a marine protected area if we believe that additional protection measures are needed to ensure the resource remains sustainable. Overfishing and climate change can have an impact o

Fisheries committee  The PNCIMA is not an MPA, it's....

Fisheries committee  Measures will be developed by the stakeholders around the table, so for now it's a governance to be developed where we hope to implement the marine spatial planning. The objective of PNCIMA is not to necessarily create an MPA. It could end up adding some MPAs or adding a network,

Fisheries committee  It all depends on the conservation agenda and where the MPAs are. Shipping is permitted in most of the MPAs unless there is some direct impact. Usually the measures to stop the shipping in one area, where there is an MPA, or, for example, where there are other measures like a cri

Fisheries committee  There are some Jeff knows of.