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Fisheries and Oceans

Ministry Summary

Vote	(thousands of dollars)	2010–11	2009–10	Difference
		Main Estimates	Main Estimates
	Fisheries and Oceans
1	Operating expenditures	1,283,084	1,167,689	115,395
5	Capital expenditures	427,591	242,667	184,925
10	Grants and contributions	129,231	110,637	18,594
(S)	Contributions to employee benefit plans	127,752	120,446	7,306
(S)	Minister of Fisheries and Oceans – Salary and motor car
	allowance	79	78	. . . . .
	Total Department	1,967,737	1,641,516	326,221

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 the Aboriginal, 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)			2010–11 Main Estimates				2009–10
			Budgetary			Total	Main
	Operating	Capital	Grants	Contributions	Less:		Estimates
				and other	Revenues
				transfer	credited
				payments	to the vote
Canadian Coast Guard	509,565	259,296	. . . . .	4,921	47,915	725,867	584,959
Internal Services	272,006	81,646	153	234	. . . . .	354,038	311,909
Fisheries and Aquaculture Management	229,924	1,000	. . . . .	118,058	. . . . .	348,982	330,369
Small Craft Harbours	117,763	83,649	3,350	500	. . . . .	205,262	92,828
Science for Sustainable Fisheries and
Aquaculture	138,039	2,000	. . . . .	6	. . . . .	140,045	139,698
Habitat Management	57,794	. . . . .	. . . . .	1,875	. . . . .	59,669	57,737
Science for Healthy and Productive
Aquatic Ecosystems	56,033	. . . . .	15	. . . . .	. . . . .	56,048	55,370
Science for Safe and Accessible
Waterways	38,819	. . . . .	71	. . . . .	. . . . .	38,889	35,305
Species at Risk Management	23,036	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	. . . . .	23,036	16,911
Oceans Management	15,850	. . . . .	. . . . .	50	. . . . .	15,900	16,430
	1,458,829	427,591	3,588	125,643	47,915	1,967,737	1,641,516

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

Transfer Payments

(dollars)	2010–11	2009–10
	Main Estimates	Main Estimates
Grants
Grant Program for the disposal of small craft harbours	3,350,000	500,000
Grants to support organizations associated with research, development,
management, and promotion of fisheries and oceans-related issues	238,000	238,000
Total grants	3,588,000	738,000
Contributions
Contributions to support increased Native participation in commercial
fisheries, cooperative fisheries management arrangements and
consultations respecting Aboriginal fisheries agreements	71,017,900	67,902,000
Contributions under the Aboriginal Aquatic Resource and Oceans
Management Program	25,729,717	26,939,000
Contribution to support the economic viability and long term
sustainability of the Quebec and Atlantic Canada lobster fishery
(Atlantic Lobster Sustainability Measures)	14,300,000	. . . . .
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	4,921,000	5,038,000
Contributions under the Aquaculture Innovation and Market Access
Program	4,700,000	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	500,000
Contributions to support organizations associated with research,
development, management, and promotion of fisheries and oceans-
related issues	289,500	234,000
Contribution to the Salmon Sub-Committee of the Yukon Fish and
Wildlife Management Board for implementing responsibilities
pursuant to comprehensive land claim settlements	223,300	218,000
Total contributions	125,643,417	109,493,000
Items not required
Contribution to support the Academic Research Contribution Program for
the support of academic research and development related to science
priorities	. . . . .	406,000
Total items not required	. . . . .	406,000
Total	129,231,417	110,637,000

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