Fisheries committee  What I can say is that those consultations have begun. Part of the consultations are on the implementation. In fact, the consultations are specifically on the implementation of the policy. What launched it, and what the minister said when he did the Cohen announcement this summer

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It is, and we've had training sessions across the department. That said, there was not the jurisprudence in place to be clear about the direction about that, but we've sought to be clear about the direction.

Fisheries committee  If it's not publicly available, we can make sure this committee's aware of it. I believe it is publicly available, but we'll make sure you can have that.

Fisheries committee  It's everywhere, right? The great thing about the wild salmon policy, it is an ecosystem-based policy that has science, fisheries management, habitat, oceans, and all those elements. It actually is something that has an ecosystem-based approach.

Fisheries committee  The funding is in all the different areas. We have said in the past that, with respect to salmon, on all of those things, we spend, on science alone, around $16 million, and on everything, around $65 million a year. It's a substantive amount of money. We were actually able to pu

Fisheries committee  I don't know the answer to that question.

Fisheries committee  After which?

Fisheries committee  Sorry, that dumped...?

Fisheries committee  I think when we take a decision on closing a fishery, a moratorium on any fishery, science is the foundation. Science is always the bottom line. When we are talking about getting ready to reopen a fishery, we would consider socio-economic impacts, we would consider the views of t

Fisheries committee  I would say that we don't often look at what public opinion says on this. What we would generally look at in this type of a decision, again, we would start with the science, but in addition to the science are the economic impacts and the social impacts. If there is public opinion

Fisheries committee  In terms of enforcement writ large, we have a complement of about 600 enforcement officers across the country. In terms of resources, I'll say two things, because I think you're speaking about the fisheries protection issues. We have 600 enforcement officers writ large dealing wi

Fisheries committee  Section 36, which is the section of the Fisheries Act, is the first piece that is implicated there, and that is an Environment Canada lead. Section 36 is the pollution section. It is about the deposit of deleterious substances into fish-bearing waters. That would be an Environmen

Fisheries committee  I am not aware of that. The department may well be aware of that.

Fisheries committee  In terms of...?