DFO’S SEVENTEEN IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT FEDERAL SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY THEME III: PROTECTING NATURE

Implementation Strategies for Wildlife Conservation – Species at Risk

Demanding Performance

• 5.1.6 Enhance the implementation of SARA within DFO and EC to protect and recover species at risk relative to their respective mandates. *

Implementation Strategies for Marine Ecosystems (6.3.1 to 6.3.7)

Enabling Capacity

• 6.3.1 Develop a federal-provincial-territorial network of Marine Protected Areas.
  
  
• 6.3.2 Adopt eco-system-based approaches for ocean activities.
  
  
• 6.3.3 Identify indicators and develop draft monitoring plans for existing Marine Protected Areas.

Advancing Knowledge and Communications

• 6.3.4 Undertake research to improve understanding of marine ecosystems and support initiatives to identify and characterize vulnerable marine ecosystems.
  
  
• 6.3.5 Provide advice to decision-makers on potential impacts on migratory birds and species at risk and ecological risks associated with specific high-priority ocean activities.
  
  
• 6.3.6 Develop State of Oceans reports.

Demanding Performance

• 6.3.7 Make demonstrable progress in protecting ecologically significant marine areas by identifying six new Marine Protected Areas under the Oceans Act by 2012.

Implementation Strategies for Managing Threats to Ecosystems – Alien Invasive Species

Enabling Capacity

• 6.4.3 Implement Canada's Action Plan to Address the Threat of Aquatic Invasive Species.

Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Fisheries (7.1.1 to 7.1.4)

Enabling Capacity

• 7.1.1 Deliver an integrated fisheries program that is credible, science-based, affordable, effective and contributes to sustainable wealth for Canadians.
  
  
• 7.1.2 Sustainable development and integrated management of resources in or around Canada’s aquatic environment through oceans and fish habitat management.

Advancing Knowledge and Communications

• 7.1.3 Undertake research to improve understanding of marine ecosystems and knowledge of straddling stocks and highly migratory species such as tuna, swordfish and Greenland halibut.
  
  
• 7.1.4 Increase knowledge of fisheries resources, their productivity and the ecosystem factors affecting them.

Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Aquaculture (7.2.1 to 7.2.4)

Enabling Capacity

• 7.2.1 Deliver an efficient federal-provincial regulatory management regime developed consistent with regulatory best practices.

Advancing Knowledge and Communications

• 7.2.2 Facilitate implementation of certification initiatives and support standards development.
  
  
• 7.2.3 Develop and release the first report to Canadians on aquaculture sustainability.

Demanding Performance

• 7.2.4 Increase the science knowledge base needed to support informed ecosystem-based environmental regulation and decision-making, especially that of regulatory-based programs such as Aquaculture Management.

*SARA is the acronymn for the Species at Risk Act and EC is the acronymn for Environment Canada.