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ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1984-85
TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE
1. Overview and Summary 1
2. Small Craft Harbours Branch Planning Framework 3
3. Long Range Planning, Nfld. Region 9
4. Harbour Maintenance and Development Programs 16
5. Harbour Operations 17
Appendices
T. Photographs, Selected Sites
II. Scheduled Harbours by Classification
III. Minimum Services Offered
IV. Condition Rating
V. Project Types
VI. Harbour Planning Status Report
VII. Detail Harbour Plan, Lumsden
VIII. Studies by Consultants
IX. Regular and Special Programs
X. Harbour Managers 1
1. OVERVIEW AND SUMMARY
During the past decade, the Small Craft Harbours Branch
of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans has been providing
facilities such as breakwaters, wharves, slipways, gear
storage, shore protection work, buoys, floats and the
dredging of channels and basins, in fishing and recreational
harbours within the Newfoundland Region.
This second annual report produced by Small Craft
Harbours Branch, Newfoundland Region, covers the major
activities of the Branch for the fiscal year of 1984/85.
In the past year, emphasis has been placed on the
importance of advance planning, reflecting the guidelines of
accommodations and the criteria for classifying harbours.
Attention has also been focussed on the importance of
applying these standards in a uniform manner in all regions,
so the level of service at harbours is related to the
harbour classification system in consistent manner across
Canada.
The report covers the major capital, operational and
maintenance projects carried out in the Newfoundland region during the fiscal year. In addition to the Branch's regular program, it has utilized funds drawn from the Special
Recovery Capital Projects Program (SRCPP), the Storm Damage
Program, and the Supplementary Program. As well, dredging 2
projects carried out by Public Works Canada, and the Small
Craft Harbours Branch's contribution in the CEIC Job
Creation Program, have been used to achieve Branch
objectives.
The report also presents a summary of cost recovery
policy with respect to the Small Craft Harbours Branch's
fee structure, and examines the potential for increased cost
recovery for commercial fishing and recreational harbours. 3
2. SMALL CRAFT HARBOURS BRANCH NATIONAL PLANNING FRAMEWORK
The new form of planning as outlined by Small Craft
Harbours Directorate, Ottawa, titled Harbour Maintenance
Management System (HMMS), poses a more formal procedure for planning, controlling and maintaining harbours administered by Small Craft Harbours Branch of the Department of
Fisheries and Oceans.
The system consists of four (4) components:
1. Harbour Classification
2. Guidelines of Accommodations
3. Harbour Condition
4. Harbour Audit
2.1 Harbour Classification
The harbour classification component of the system defines the different theoretical classes of harbours, under
Small Craft Harbours' jurisdiction (i.e. A, B, C and D), with the "A" harbours being the most active, while D harbours have little or no activity. The criteria used to classify harbours were revised in 1984, with a view of determining the level of activity in each harbour. This ensures that the level of services at all harbours is consistently related to the harbour classification system across Canada. The classifications of all scheduled and potential harbours in DFO's Newfoundland Region is found 4 in Appendix II.
Harbour utilization is now the basic criterion of the revised harbour classification system, and is defined as the number of vessel-metres a harbour is normally called on to accommodate on a daily basis over the fishing season, including both home and transient fleets.