Fisheries committee  Is it available on the web?

Fisheries committee  You're talking about the plan for next year and how we will manage? I'm sorry, I'm just not sure.

Fisheries committee  We have a plan to issue licences and tags next year for around the same level of 2,000 tonnes for recreational fishing. The system we're building right now is a system to manage that with stakeholders and to see how we can issue the tags to the fishermen.

Fisheries committee  It's not available now. We're developing it. This year there's no system.

Fisheries committee  Yes. We have a system on the west coast, and we will migrate that system for the—

Fisheries committee  I don't have an exact date, but certainly a few weeks prior to the opening of the season.

Fisheries committee  Yes, there's a new program starting next year under which licences and tags will be allocated, and then we'll be able to have better monitoring. We estimate that there is between 1,500 and 2,000 tonnes caught by the recreational fishery annually. Obviously, with tags and licences

Fisheries committee  The logbooks are part of the licence they receive. They have to fill in the logbooks and send them to us monthly. Then they go to science for analysis.

Fisheries committee  I don't know exactly about the gillnets, but the reason we allow stewardship-fishing harvest levels is to develop more sustainable fisheries with cod. This is so that if and when we reopen the commercial fishing for cod, the quality of the fish will be better. There is a project

Fisheries committee  Yes, it is on the website.

Fisheries committee  It's available and we also communicate it to fishermen through their association when we make a decision, which is usually a day or two after the minister approves his decision, just to build the communications package.

Fisheries committee  Yes, the industry, in this case FFAW, is involved.

Fisheries committee  You're probably referring to a species at risk recovery plan. We're managing the resource through the Fisheries Act, not through the Species at Risk Act. That's why there's no recovery plan as per SARA. We have what is called under the Fisheries Act a rebuilding plan, which achie

Fisheries committee  It's rebuilding plan, because it's done under the Fisheries Act, not under the Species at Risk Act.

Fisheries committee  Yes, I'm sure it is.