Fisheries committee  If you want a complete answer, it's been decreasing since that—

Fisheries committee  It's 74.

Fisheries committee  I don't have the graph with me, but it's been constant for the last 10 years—

Fisheries committee  —or decreased.

Fisheries committee  Yes.

Fisheries committee  It's certainly not Ecojustice's decision to say it's an imminent threat. It's the department that does that, based on science. When the minister is ready to take a decision with the science advice we provide to him and to Minister McKenna, both the competent ministers under SARA,

Fisheries committee  I don't have all the details of all the actions that were taken, but what was announced yesterday is additional measures. We've taken many measures in the recent past, and we've also taken other fisheries management measures over the last years, and we are implementing the action

Fisheries committee  The minister has the obligation under SARA to present an emergency order to cabinet when he's ready, and when he will be ready, he will do so and present the decision of cabinet, so that's something I can't comment on.

Fisheries committee  It doesn't work like that on recovery for species. There's no critical point at which we say it has recovered—

Fisheries committee  Sure. There are some species. I don't have the names with me, but there are some species that were put on the list by COSEWIC and after a certain period of time were reassessed. COSEWIC does reassess the species, sometimes from endangered to threatened or of special concern, or t

Fisheries committee  I don't think you will see a target to say that 76, 85 or 100 is a target. It's about how they survive in the ecosystem, if they are in good health and if they can reproduce. Any increase will be analyzed by our science and the trends will be demonstrated to us, but there's no nu

Fisheries committee  Well, there's no way we can set goals on these kinds of things. Mr. Arnold, I found the answer for the second retardant. It's HBCD. You asked for the two fire retardants.

Fisheries committee  It's a flame retardant that's also used in clothing, mainly.

Fisheries committee  There are several reasons for that. It's multiple departments, so we don't have that with us. What I can say—

Fisheries committee  I don't have the exact numbers for the OPP and DFO. What I can tell you is that last year we spent all the money that was planned for OPP and DFO.