Fisheries committee  I don't have a specific recommendation on that. I know people are working hard to get these design projects through. Sometimes things can be slowed down in the process of procurement, that's for sure. At the same time, guardrails have been put in place during the procurement proc

Fisheries committee  I'm sorry about that.

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. If funding is not available, you want to start out with a project that will allow for future upgrades. For example, if funding is not available to put your wharf at a certain elevation, you want to at least make sure the structural members to support it

Fisheries committee  You would want to look at the design options with and without the impacts of hurricane Fiona included, and at the costing, to see whether the costing can accommodate the upgrade. If it cannot, that means it's vulnerable to future storms, such as Fiona.

Fisheries committee  Every case can be slightly different, but my guess would be that it's mostly in terms of the structural strength of the wharf. For the deteriorated infrastructure you'd have old timber and deteriorated concrete and the like, which would be a lot more prone to wave action, whereas

Fisheries committee  I apologize for that. The $1-million figure was an order of magnitude in terms of a starting point. Typically you can't get much done for less than $1 million, so in an order-of-magnitude sense, is it $1 million, $10 million or $100 million for a harbour? I was saying, as a start

Fisheries committee  Cost would be part of the answer to that. You have a certain budget to allocate to the entire area of small craft harbours, and steel tends to be, of course, on the more expensive end of things. That would be the primary reason, I think.

Fisheries committee  There are no standards in terms of a definite guidebook for now. Certainly the official projections from the IPCC are what we use for, first of all, sea level rise. Depending on the emissions scenarios, you get different rates of sea level rise anywhere from today to into the nex

Fisheries committee  That can be a complicated math question, and the numbers can balloon pretty quickly if you estimate that this will be for several hundred small craft harbours around Atlantic Canada. I think the ballpark number is around 800, with a lot of them in Newfoundland for one, as well as

Fisheries committee  For construction...?

Fisheries committee  The designing can be a couple of months, depending on what available data there is. Then there's the time to tender and construction. I'd say that a year is probably a typical timeline, but it could be more or less, depending on the complexity and the amount of data that's needed

Fisheries committee  That's a good question. I doubt that all the wharves can be fully rebuilt by then, but it depends on the amount of damage. It could be that only a portion of some wharves was damaged or destroyed. In this case, it's easier to build in the fast track to repair. Where it's the enti

Fisheries committee  Climate resilience can mean many things, depending on what coastal processes are at play there. If you're talking about a harbour that's, say, on an Atlantic shoreline with a rocky coast, it means high wharves and good breakwaters for wave protection. If you're talking about a sm

Fisheries committee  Yes. A number of projects are ongoing right now. They actually started before hurricane Fiona. We have redesigned wharf elevations and coastal protection and the like to incorporate Fiona. It's part of the ongoing work we do for these harbours. There's always work on the go. I'

Fisheries committee  We have some projects that are a direct rebuilding of some fish plants, for example, and properties that have lost shoreline. In terms of the overall picture from the small craft harbours program, I would defer that question to someone working directly at the small craft harbour