Fisheries committee  Yes, the section, the proposed amendment, does include traditional knowledge or indigenous knowledge, but it also includes community knowledge. It's another knowledge that the minister, on top of science, needs to consider before taking any decision. When there's no indigenous

Fisheries committee  It is disturbing. The reinvestment made in science two years ago in budget 2016 provided the department with some resources for support to research the aquaculture impact on the ocean and on wild fish. There's a series of 10 risk assessment studies being done right now. One was r

Fisheries committee  I haven't seen that particular legal advice, so it's a difficult for me to say what it is. Certainly one of the objectives of the modification was to bring certainty to investors and proponents and clarity for other stakeholders in how we manage fisheries. Is that referring to th

Fisheries committee  Darren, do you want to answer? Darren is the DG for enforcement.

Fisheries committee  Of course, there are many people in the department who are studying the Ahousaht decision. It's a very important decision on how we will manage the fisheries and also our relationship with indigenous people. We are looking at all the impacts, but right now I don't have an analysi

Fisheries committee  We have a court decision every week that impacts DFO's operations, so we always take into consideration the decisions made by courts and we adapt. Even in the Fisheries Act, there are some amendments that we call “housekeeping” because they incorporate some changes that were requ

Fisheries committee  We don't have a precise one, but we're on it right now.

Fisheries committee  The codes of practice are exactly made for that. The previous regime knows that the self-assessment on the website also brought to light uncertainty. Codes of practice are best practices to conclude a work. As the minister described earlier, it could be a culvert, it could be a

Fisheries committee  A good example would be a dock that has interaction with a fish habitat. The code will describe the kind of analysis you need to provide before starting the work and how the work should be done in a way that it does not impact the fish or the fish habitat. That code will be devel

Fisheries committee  I will just take two minutes. You introduced my colleagues, and we are pleased to be here with you today and will devote most of the time to respond to your questions. We circulated a presentation yesterday to committees. The presentation is also available on the website. We us

Fisheries committee  Yes, totally. I think it will bring certainty for stakeholders when we consult them on what the protection could be. That's also part of the discussion, and when we talk about minimum standards, it's also part of the categorization of MPAs, and some may have different protection

Fisheries committee  Maybe I'll answer the first part and ask Ms. Chute if she wants to add something. We've been consulting extensively and I also heard testimony previously and last week that some may think that Ocean Group is not consulting the fishing industry and vice versa. It's not true. Fir

Fisheries committee  Sure. The process to establish an MPA starts with the EBSAs, or ecologically and biologically significant areas. After that, it may lead to an area of interest. Under the Oceans Act, the process now is to wait to implement some protection, from the moment the areas of interest

Fisheries committee  There are more enforcement resources. They have increased a little bit over the last years. I don't have the numbers, because this is not in my sector, but for every MPA we designate, the appropriate monitoring and enforcement will be identified, whether it comes from a guardian

Fisheries committee  There's no formal conflict resolution, and thus no administrative tribunal or something like that. What we're trying to do is share science with all stakeholders. We do listen to stakeholders and communities and indigenous people, and we try to reach consensus. In some cases, the