Mr. Speaker, the department actively seeks out information, both on a scientific basis and also on a traditional basis, in order to establish what would be called a management plan, for fish, caribou, muskox, mountain sheep, grizzly bears and all the other species we harvest or
that are available for sport hunting. We do some scientific counts by aerial survey. Others are done in other ways, using traditional knowledge of hunters and aboriginal people.
The baseline data, as the Member calls it, is available. It's the basis on which we do our planning. The co-management plans that we develop with the aboriginal people and the harvesters are based on that. Thank you.