House of Commons committee of the whole on 2020-21 Main Estimates – DFO

Table of contents

• Opening remarks
• Departmental information
  • Departmental overview: DFO financial outlook (HTML) (PowerPoint version PPT, 1.68 MB)
  • Canada's fisheries - Fast Facts 2019 (PDF, 256 KB)
  • Mandate commitments
• 2020-2021 Estimates
  • 2020-21 Main Estimates
    • Presentation (HTML) (PowerPoint version PPT, 684 KB)
    • Note
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  • 2020-21 Supplementary Estimates (A)
    • Presentation (HTML) (PowerPoint version PPT, 627 KB)
    • Note
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  • 2020-21 Supplementary Estimates (B)
    • Deck (HTML)
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• Current issues
  • Purchase of Clearwater
  • Central coast crab FSC needs
  • Cohen Commission – Discovery Islands
  • The sale of Food, Social and Ceremonial (FSC) catches
  • Indigenous moderate livelihood fisheries
  • Mandate 25% by 2025
  • Eastern Shore Islands
  • North Atlantic right whale
  • Big Bar landslide (general)
  • Big Bar landslide expenditures and planned spending
  • Chinook salmon
  • Petition to ban gill nets
  • Recreational fishery and chinook hatchery
  • Socio-economic iImpact of chinook salmon closures
  • Access to recreational fishery
  • Southern resident killer whale
  • US Navy incidental take authorization
  • TMX Regulatory review
  • TMX (Westridge marine terminal monitoring)
  • TMX (Southern resident killer whales)
  • Striped bass
  • Wild Atlantic salmon
• Aquaculture
  • Aquaculture Act
  • Commitment by 2025 – BC Net-Pen
  • Fisheries and Aquaculture Clean Technology Adoption Program
  • Morton‘Namgis lawsuit - PRV
  • Salmon aquaculture technology
  • Shellfish traceability
  • Sea lice
  • Infectious Salmon Anemia
• Canadian Coast Guard (CCG)
  • New DFO and Coast Guard Arctic regions – reconciliation mandate
  • Environmental response - M/V Cormorant
  • Environmental response – M/V Caruso 
  • Fleet Renewal/National Shipbuilding Strategy (general)
    • Interim icebreakers
    • Medium icebreakers conversion project
    • Third shipyard
    • Polar icebreaker
  • Shoreline infrastructure – Verchères
  • Testing of crew members
• Fisheries and Harbour Management
  • Arctic surf clam
  • Pacific herring (general)
  • Atlantic herring (4T Gulf)
  • Shortage in herring bait supply
  • Rebuilding Atlantic herring stocks
  • Decline in the Fraser River steelhead trout – measures to date
  • Elvers
  • Hatcheries and Salmonid Program
  • Indigenous fishing – illegal sales
  • Pacific herring - Petition for commercial herring closure
  • Redfish (general)
    • Redfish access
  • Gulf shrimp
  • Small craft harbours
• Oceans and Aquatic Ecosystems
  • Invasive smallmouth bass in the Miramichi system
  • Invasive smallmouth bass in Piper Lake and the St Mary’s River watershed
  • Major projects
    • Port of Quebec
    • Port of Montreal expansion
    • Énergie Saguenay project
    • Mary River project: Baffinland
    • Roberts Bank Terminal 2
    • Grassy Mountain Coal project
  • Marine spatial planning
  • Oceans Protection Plan
• Whales
  • Beluga export
  • Link between FA permit and CITES permits
  • Whale sanctuary
• Science
  • Seal predation
    • Atlantic seal science task team
  • Lobster abundance and distribution
  • Lobster assessment and basis for season
  • Lobster – impacts of concentrated effort
  • Climate change
  • Ocean acidification and low oxygen
  • Science at DFO
• Other
  • Ahousaht (Five Nuu-chah-nulth) First Nations
  • Banked licences
  • Blue Economy Strategy
  • Cabot Head lighthouse closure
  • Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing
  • Proposed inshore regulations
  • Plastics and ghost gear
  • Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples
  • UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
  • Seafood traceability
  • Support for fish harvesters
  • West Coast licencing review