The Government of BC officially transferred the authority to administer a number of environmental and marine statues to the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship (WLRS). This transfer includes the authority to manage tenures under the Land Act, as well as licensing the growth and harvesting of wild aquatic plants under the Fish and Seafood Act. Now that these legal powers have been consolidated within WLRS, we can confidently call it the new home for coastal marine issues in BC, not only in name, but function.