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Fisheries and Oceans

Fisheries and Oceans

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Ministry Summary

Vote	(thousands of dollars)	2008-2009	2007-2008	Difference
		Main Estimates	Main Estimates
	Fisheries and Oceans
1	Operating expenditures	1,178,250	1,129,800	48,450
5	Capital expenditures	294,650	232,054	62,596
10	Grants and contributions	90,461	55,130	35,331
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	118,555	121,530	(2,975)
(S)	Minister of Fisheries and Oceans - Salary and motor
	car allowance	76	75	2
	Total Department	1,681,992	1,538,589	143,404
Note: Details in the “Ministry Summary” and “Program by Activities” tables may not add to totals due to rounding.

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Fisheries and Oceans

Strategic Outcome

Safe and Accessible Waterways (SAW).

Program Activity Descriptions

Canadian Coast Guard

The Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) delivers civilian marine services (vessels, aircraft, expertise, personnel and infrastructure) on behalf of other federal government departments or in support of federal agencies and organizations in the achievement of their own specific Government of Canada maritime priorities. CCG provides support to other parts of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (Science and Conservation and Protection), the Department of National Defence, Environment Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Department of Foreign Affairs, and Transport Canada among others.

Small Craft Harbours

The Small Craft Harbours Program directly, or indirectly through Harbour Authorities, operates and maintains a network of harbours, critical to the fishing industry, open, safe and in good repair. These harbours are necessary for the effective operation of the commercial fisheries that contribute to the Canadian economy, directly support employment and that indirectly create tens of thousands jobs, many in rural and isolated parts of Canada.

Science for Safe and Accessible Waterways

This program provides scientific research, monitoring, advice, products and services and data management to ensure departmental and federal policies, programs, decisions, and regulations associated with safe, secure, and accessible waterways are informed by science advice. The science is provided through a network of research facilities, in collaboration with other government departments, private sector, academia and international organizations.

Strategic Outcome

Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture (SFA).

Program Activity Descriptions

Fisheries Management

The overall goal of fisheries management is the conservation of Canada's fisheries resources to ensure sustainable resource utilization through close collaboration with resource users and stakeholders based on shared stewardship. Fisheries Management is responsible for international fisheries conservation negotiations and relations, shared management of interception fisheries in international waters and management of the Aboriginal, commercial, recreational fishing in the coastal waters of Canada's three oceans.

Aquaculture

Aquaculture development in Canada benefits Canadian consumers and producers through the production of aquatic organisms (e.g. salmon, mussels) while upholding the ecological and socio-economic values associated with Canada's oceans and inland waters. Fisheries and Oceans Canada, as the lead federal organization for aquaculture, provides a horizontally managed and integrated intradepartmental approach, to create the conditions for a vibrant and innovative aquaculture industry that is environmentally and socially responsible, economically viable and internationally competitive. The program is delivered in collaboration with other federal departments, provincial and territorial governments, industry, the private sector, non-government organizations, and other stakeholders.

Science for Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture

Provision of advice and recommendations based on scientific research and monitoring, as well as the provision of products and services and the management of data on Canada's oceans and resources. This ensures departmental and federal policies, programs, decisions, and regulations associated with sustainable fisheries and aquaculture are informed by scientific knowledge. The science is provided through a network of research facilities, in collaboration with other government departments, private sector, academia and international organizations.

Strategic Outcome

Healthy and Productive Aquatic Ecosystems (HAPAE).

Program Activity Descriptions

Oceans Management

Oceans management involves the conservation and sustainable use of Canada's oceans in collaboration with other levels of government, Aboriginal organizations and other non-government stakeholders through the development and implementation of objectives-based integrated oceans management plans and the application of marine conservation tools. Modern oceans management arrangements deal with a number of challenges including oceans health, marine habitat loss, declining biodiversity, growing demands for access to ocean resources and regulatory and jurisdictional complexities.

Habitat Management

In collaboration with others, Habitat Management involves conserving and protecting fish and fish habitat from the impacts of activities occurring in and around fresh and marine fish-bearing waters, and improving (restoring and developing) fish habitat through the administration of the habitat protection provisions of the Fisheries Act , providing advice on related provisions of the Act, and the application of non-regulatory activities. It also involves conducting environmental assessments prior to regulatory decisions listed in the Law List Regulations of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and participating in other environmental assessment regimes. These activities are performed in a manner consistent with the Species at Risk Act ; the Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat and other operational policies; consultation with Aboriginal groups; the goals and principles of sustainable development; and the policies and priorities of the federal government.

Science for Healthy and Productive Aquatic Ecosystems

This program provides research, monitoring, advice, products and services and data management to ensure departmental and federal policies, programs, decisions, and regulations associated with the integrated management of Canada's oceans and fish habitat resources are informed by science advice. The science is undertaken through a network of research facilities, in collaboration with other government departments, private sector, academia and international organizations.

Program by Activities

(thousands of dollars)			2008-2009 Main Estimates				2007-2008
			Budgetary			Total	Main
	Operating	Capital	Grants	Contributions	Less:		Estimates
				and other	Revenues
				transfer	credited
				payments	to the vote
Canadian Coast Guard	539,131	220,311	. . . . .	4,881	50,058	714,265	689,439
Fisheries Management	298,934	4,532	. . . . .	82,361	. . . . .	385,827	345,760
Science for Sustainable Fisheries and
Aquaculture	182,589	28,274	33	506	. . . . .	211,402	187,880
Habitat Management	106,673	674	. . . . .	1,975	. . . . .	109,322	78,904
Small Craft Harbours	77,453	30,603	500	. . . . .	. . . . .	108,556	89,172
Science for Healthy and Productive Aquatic
Ecosystems	68,574	8,370	15	. . . . .	. . . . .	76,959	73,987
Science for Safe and Accessible Waterways	45,059	1,600	70	. . . . .	. . . . .	46,729	47,954
Oceans Management	23,575	251	120	. . . . .	. . . . .	23,946	20,456
Aquaculture	4,951	35	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	4,986	5,037
	1,346,939	294,650	738	89,723	50,058	1,681,992	1,538,589

Transfer Payments

(dollars)	2008-2009	2007-2008
	Main Estimates	Main Estimates
Grants
Grant Program for the disposal of small craft harbours	500,000	500,000
Grants to support organizations associated with research, development,
management, and promotion of fisheries and oceans-related issues	238,000	214,000
Total grants	738,000	714,000
Contributions
Contributions to support increased Native participation in commercial
fisheries, cooperative fisheries management arrangements and
consultations respecting Aboriginal fisheries agreements	57,275,000	30,400,000
Contributions under the Aboriginal Aquatic Resource and Oceans
Management Program	22,750,200	15,400,000
Contribution agreements with the Canadian Coast Guard Auxiliary for
the provision of voluntary search and rescue services and the
promotion of boating safety through accident prevention and
education	4,731,000	4,500,000
Contribution to the Pacific Salmon Foundation	2,087,000	962,000
Contributions under the Aboriginal Inland Habitat Program	1,875,000	1,875,000
Contribution to support the Academic Research Contribution Program
for the support of academic research and development related to
science priorities	400,000	400,000
Contributions to support organizations associated with research,
development, management, and promotion of fisheries and
oceans-related issues	390,800	299,000
Contribution to the Salmon Sub-Committee of the Yukon Fish and
Wildlife Management Board for implementing responsibilities
pursuant to comprehensive land claim settlements	214,000	210,000
Total contributions	89,723,000	54,046,000
Items not required
Contributions to At Sea Mentoring and Fisheries Operations
Management Initiatives	. . . . .	370,000
Total items not required	. . . . .	370,000
Total	90,461,000	55,130,000

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