Fisheries committee  It is complete, and our response to the report is on the website. What it basically says is that we've set some priorities for 2017 and are planning to get that specific plan into the public domain. I can tell this committee, as the deputy already said, there are four that we p

Fisheries committee  What is on the website is our response to the committee, and it says that we have a plan. The plan is focused on short-term objectives—what we are going to do this year—and priorities for future years. That is what we have.

Fisheries committee  That is always our objective. There's no question that fisheries management plays into this as an important factor, but when the commissioner looked at the stocks that are in the critical zone, she identified 12. That was from our 2014 report. There are now 16. One of the addit

Fisheries committee  As I understand it, it's been 660,000 tonnes for years and years and years. Science has adjusted the model and is now saying it's 882,000 tonnes, but where we're at in terms of the percentage has not changed. I would have said that we were at 34% of the limit reference point. The

Fisheries committee  I think the deputy answered that one. You'll always find public servants looking for additional funds, etc., right?

Fisheries committee  Thanks. I'm happy to add to that. As the deputy said, it is a challenge in rural coastal Canada to have observers and dockside monitors who have no relation to the fishery. It is a challenge, so those conflicts exist. We do two or three things that we've done for many years. Fi

Fisheries committee  That's right.

Fisheries committee  It's 34% of that limit reference point. The limit reference point is the average of the 1980s.

Fisheries committee  I think there are a number of things, but I would touch on a couple of them. In those days, we did not have the precautionary approach. We did not establish a limit reference point, and that limit reference point, I think, is the key. The limit reference point says that if it go

Fisheries committee  Halibut has not had a formal rebuilding plan, but effectively there has been a rebuilding plan, which started by saying we're not going to take any fish smaller than 81 centimetres, I think it was, and we'll limit the total allowable catch, set harvest limits, set IQs in some fis

Fisheries committee  I don't know about 2015—

Fisheries committee  What I would say is that there is an objective in terms of conservation for stability of access and allocation. If everybody knows what they're going to get as the stock grows, we have a better chance of good stewardship partners. That's been a general objective. There are eigh

Fisheries committee  That process did not take place in 2015.

Fisheries committee  I don't think there was a public.... There was nothing on our website that explained what the process was. There was a decision.

Fisheries committee  There's no question that cash always helps. You won't find a public servant that doesn't say that and you won't find a public servant that doesn't say that they will manage, regardless of what the resource levels are. It will be based on....