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1. Fisheries and Oceans Canada:
Offsets and the Fisheries Protection Program
Presentation for Biodiversity Offsets in Canada
Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa
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February 13-14, 2014
2. The Fisheries Act
• New Fisheries Protection
Provisions:
• Purpose of decision-making to
provide for sustainability and
ongoing productivity of fisheries
• Prohibition against causing serious
harm to fish that are part of or
support a commercial, recreational
or Aboriginal fishery
• Framework for decision-making
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3. New national policy on fisheries protection
• Policy goal: provide for
sustainability and ongoing
productivity of fisheries
• discusses key elements of the
Fisheries Protection Provisions
• interprets “serious harm to fish” and
the scope of application
• describes the factors to be
considered prior to authorizing
projects that cause serious harm to
fish
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4. How offsetting fits into fisheries protection at DFO
• general advice and project reviews to
help proponent’s avoid serious harm
to fish
• where serious harm to fish is
unavoidable, offsetting is a required
• Offsets become a condition of
authorization and failure to comply is
enforceable
• offsetting can range from localized
improvements to habitat to more
complex measures to address factors
limiting production
5. New guidance on offsetting
• aims to maintain or enhance sustainability and
ongoing productivity of fisheries through
avoiding, mitigating and offsetting
• outlines the proponent’s responsibility to avoid
and, when it is unavoidable, to engage affected
parties to select appropriate offsets
• recognizes the importance, and challenges of,
determining equivalency, effectiveness, and
identifying appropriate options in some
environments
• designed to provide flexibility in offset choices
guided but is guided by clear principles and
informed by science
6. Offsetting
increase
Target: achieve at least original level of productivity
Net effect
decrease
mitigable
effects
Mitigation
Original impact (affected site)
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total serious
harm to fish
Productivity
Time
residual
effects
Adapted from: ICMM IUCN (2012) Independent report on
biodiversity offsets. Prepared by The Biodiversity
Consultancy.(Figure 1).
offset of residual
serious harm to fish
Offset plan
Simultaneous
impact & offset
7. Developing an offset plan
1. Characterize the residual serious harm to fish
2. Select offsetting measures
3. Determine the amount of offsetting required
4. Establish the monitoring and reporting of conditions
5. Submit plan to DFO
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8. Guiding principles of offsetting
1. Support fisheries management objectives or
local restoration priorities
2. Benefits from offsetting measures should
balance project impacts
3. Offsetting measures should provide
additional benefits to the fishery
4. Offsetting measures should generate selfsustaining benefits over the long term
13. Summary
• The Fisheries Act and associated policies have
provided an opportunity to revise the way DFO
thinks about offsetting
• The emphasis is on outcomes that maintain or
enhance fisheries productivity
• Development of more detailed guidance is ongoing
with continued collaboration from scientists,
regulatory partners and stakeholders
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14. Thank you
• For more information: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/pnw-ppe/index-eng.html
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