Real Change: A New Plan For a Strong Middle Class (page 44)

"Budget 2016 proposes to provide $197.1 million over five years, starting in 2016–17, to Fisheries and Oceans Canada to increase ocean and freshwater science, monitoring and research activities and to provide support for the Experimental Lakes Area in Northwestern Ontario. Funding will support new and expanded research activities that will promote the health of fish stocks and sustainable aquaculture, enable more comprehensive monitoring of the impacts of aquatic pollution, and enhance our knowledge of freshwater ecosystems." 

("Growing The Middle Class" Budget 2016-2017)

"The Government of Canada is committed to reinvesting funds in support of science programs to help protect the health of fish stocks and support responsible and sustainable aquaculture in the coastal regions of Canada. The Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, has announced three new collaborative research projects, designed to improve our knowledge of the aquatic species populations that are harvested in Quebec.

The Minister announced that $27,000 would be invested in a research project on the Gulf of St. Lawrence redfish to better understand the ecological impacts on the abundance levels, which is required for the redfish fishery to be sustainable. (…)The Minister has also confirmed $51,000 in funding granted to the Aquarium du Québec for a project that monitors and takes inventory of fish species populating the fluvial estuary of the St. Lawrence. (…)Finally, Minister LeBlanc has confirmed an investment of $65,000 in Merinov to study and develop new techniques for reducing the colonization of aquatic invasive species on oyster and scallop production structures."

(Press release, January 26, 2017)

"Dans le budget de 2016, le gouvernement s’était engagé à investir plus de 1 milliard de dollars sur quatre ans à l’appui des technologies propres, notamment dans les secteurs de la foresterie, des pêches, de l’exploitation minière, de l’énergie et de l’agriculture." (Building a strong middle class, March 22, 2017)

"The new Fisheries Act reflects what we heard from two rounds of online public consultations, over a hundred meetings with partners, stakeholders and Indigenous groups, and recommendations from the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans." (Government of Canada introduces new protections for fish and their habitat Government of Canada)