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Fisheries and Oceans

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 Ministry Summary

Vote	(thousands of dollars)	2009–10	2008–09	Difference
		Main Estimates	Main Estimates
	Fisheries and Oceans
1	Operating expenditures	1,167,689	1,178,250	(10,561)
5	Capital expenditures	242,667	294,650	(51,983)
10	Grants and contributions	110,637	90,461	20,176
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	120,446	118,555	1,891
(S)	Minister of Fisheries and Oceans – Salary and motor car
	allowance	78	76	2
	Total Department	1,641,516	1,681,992	(40,476)

Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.

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 and Aquaculture Management

The overall goal of fisheries and aquaculture 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 and Aquaculture Management is responsible for international fisheries conservation negotiations and relations, shared management of interception fisheries in international waters, management of theAboriginal, commercial, recreational fishing in the coastal waters of Canada’s three oceans and creating the conditions for a vibrant and innovative aquaculture industry.

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

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.

Species at Risk Management

Aquatic species at risk are managed to provide for the recovery of extirpated, endangered and threatened species; and the management of special concerned species to prevent them becoming at risk. This program activity involves developing recovery strategies, action plans and management plans for all aquatic species; promoting recovery implementation and monitoring of marine and anadromous (moving between fresh and salt water) species over which the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction; and promoting freshwater species for which certain provinces have specific delegated responsibilities related to fisheries management through regulations under the Fisheries Act .

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.

Strategic Outcome

The following program activity supports all strategic outcomes within this organization.

Program Activity Descriptions

Internal Services

Internal Services are groups of related activities and resources that are administered to support the needs of programs and other corporate obligations of an organization. These groups are: Management and Oversight Services; Communications Services; Legal Services; Human Resources Management Services; Financial Management Services; Information Management Services; Information Technology Services; Real Property Services; Materiel Services; Acquisition Services; and Travel and Other Administrative Services. Internal Services include only those activities and resources that apply across an organization and not to those provided specifically to a program.

Program by Activities

(thousands of dollars)			2009–10 Main Estimates				2008–09
			Budgetary			Total	Main
	Operating	Capital	Grants	Contributions	Less:		Estimates
				and other	Revenues
				transfer	credited
				payments	to the vote
Canadian Coast Guard	484,395	145,484	. . . . .	5,038	49,958	584,959	596,817
Fisheries and Aquaculture Management	227,573	1,000	. . . . .	101,796	. . . . .	330,369	322,726
Internal Services	247,339	64,183	153	234	. . . . .	311,909	337,138
Science for Sustainable Fisheries and
Aquaculture	137,292	2,000	. . . . .	406	. . . . .	139,698	148,862
Small Craft Harbours	61,828	30,000	500	500	. . . . .	92,828	93,480
Habitat Management	55,862	. . . . .	. . . . .	1,875	. . . . .	57,737	69,361
Science for Healthy and Productive
Aquatic Ecosystems	55,355	. . . . .		. . . . .	. . . . .	55,370	54,788
Science for Safe and Accessible
Waterways	35,235	. . . . .		. . . . .	. . . . .	35,305	35,995
Species at Risk Management	16,911	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	16,911	. . . . .
Oceans Management	16,380	. . . . .	. . . . .	50	. . . . .	16,430	18,868
Aquaculture	. . . . .	. . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	3,957
	1,338,171	242,667	738	109,899	49,958	1,641,516	1,681,992

Note: Details may not add to totals due to rounding.

Transfer Payments

(dollars)	2009–10	2008–09
	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	238,000	238,000
Total grants	738,000	738,000
Contributions
Contributions to support increased Native participation in commercial
fisheries, cooperative fisheries management arrangements and
consultations respecting Aboriginal fisheries agreements	67,902,000	57,275,000
Contributions under the Aboriginal Aquatic Resource and Oceans
Management Program	26,939,000	22,750,200
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	5,038,000	4,731,000
Contributions under the Aquaculture Innovation and Market Access
Program	4,700,000	. . . . .
Contribution to the Pacific Salmon Foundation	2,087,000	2,087,000
Contributions under the Aboriginal Inland Habitat Program	1,875,000	1,875,000
Contributions to support the Small Craft Harbours Class Contribution
Program	500,000	. . . . .
Contribution to support the Academic Research Contribution Program for
the support of academic research and development related to science
priorities	406,000	400,000
Contributions to support organizations associated with research,
development, management, and promotion of fisheries and oceans-
related issues	234,000	390,800
Contribution to the Salmon Sub-Committee of the Yukon Fish and
Wildlife Management Board for implementing responsibilities
pursuant to comprehensive land claim settlements	218,000	214,000
Total contributions	109,899,000	89,723,000
Total	110,637,000	90,461,000

 

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