Program directory · Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Conservation and Protection

Department

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Program code

BTF07 (FO)

Core responsibility

Fisheries

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Promotes compliance with legislation, regulations, and management measures for the conservation and sustainable use of aquatic resources, takes enforcement action against potential offenders and works in close collaboration with its partners/stakeholders to implement effective controls and acceptable standards using innovative compliance and enforcement tools & strategies. It is made up of the National Fisheries Intelligence Service, Enforcement Operations and Program and Operational Readiness, and is delivered through an intelligence-supported enforcement approach using a number of tools to achieve its goals based on 1) education, shared stewardship and stakeholder engagement; 2) monitoring, control, and surveillance activities; and 3) major cases and special investigations. It works closely with partners including industry to ensure safe, peaceful and orderly fisheries, to detect and enforce illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing and monitoring contaminated shellfish closures ensuring only legally harvested & safe products enter the marketplace. It contributes with the CCG to the protection of Canadian sovereignty and in identifying potential marine safety and security threats in Canadian waterways. The program is supported by third-party services and partnerships. The public assists by reporting violations through “Observe, Record, Report” programs.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.