the amendments focus the acts regulatory regime for the protection of fish and fish habitat on managing threats to the sustainability and ongoing productivity of canadas commercial recreational and aboriginal fisheries they also provide enhanced compliance and protection tools provide for clarity certainty and consistency of regulatory requirements through the use of standards and regulations and enable partnerships with agencies and organisations best placed to provide fisheries protection services one of the questions in the fishery checklist asks for the status of the stocks seventyfour stocks were in the healthy zone above their upper stock reference point were in the cautious zone between their biological limit reference point and their upper stock reference point stocks were in the critical zone below their biological limit reference point and the status of stocks was unknown