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Understanding Indigenous Consultation in MPA Governance: Mi’kmaq and Eastern Shore Islands Case Study
(2020-04)
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a well-recognized marine conservation tool to aid in protecting marine biodiversity and associated social, economic and cultural values. However, MPAs also have the ability to limit marine ...
Are Atlantic Leatherback Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) at Risk of Plastic Pollution in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean?
(2020-12)
The production of plastic has greatly increased since the early 20th century resulting in an overwhelming abundance on land and in the sea. The solid waste pollution found in the ocean poses sublethal to lethal threats to ...
Understanding the ecological linkages between salt marsh ecosystems and nearshore fisheries
(2020-12)
Salt marshes are some of the most productive ecosystems on the planet however they
continue to experience severe threats from human activities. These ecosystems have been
increasingly recognized for their capacity to ...
Fostering Ocean Literacy through Formal Education in Quebec, Canada: A Case Study of Saving a Coastal School
(2020-12)
Protecting coastal ecosystems, livelihoods, and identities require the active
engagement of ocean literate citizens. Ocean literacy, or the understanding of the ocean’s
influence on us and our influence on the ocean, can ...
Electrically stimulated artificial mussel (Mytilus edulis) reefs to create shoreline protection and coastal habitat in St. Margaret’s Bay, Nova Scotia.
(2020-12)
Infrastructure designed to protect coastal environments, such as seawalls, can have adverse
effects on the area they are supposed to protect. Hard shore armouring can be expensive, disrupt
hydrodynamic processes, eventually ...
An Impact Assessment on Shipping in the Canadian Eastern Arctic: A Baffinland Mine Case Study – Phase 2 Project Proposal
(2020-12)
Sea ice is melting at an unprecedented rate, improving access to the Arctic and greatly increasing development opportunities such as mining. The Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation Phase 2 project proposal aims to expand ...
Managing the Groundfish Industry on Sensitive Benthic Areas of Interest for Marine Protected Area Network Establishment in the Scotian Shelf Bioregion
(2020-12)
Increases to the number and extent of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in recent decades is been critical for the conservation of coastal and marine environments. Canada has met its original target of conserving 10% of their ...
Leaving Space to Roost: An Examination of Human Disturbances to Shorebirds in the Minas Basin, Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia.
(2020-12)
Every year, up to 1.4 million shorebirds, such as the Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla), use the Bay of Fundy and the Minas Basin as a stopover site before continuing their transoceanic migration to their southern ...
Regional Response Planning (RRP) for Ship-Source Oil Spills in Canada: Assessing the Implementation Status of Recommendations and Integration into an RRP Framework
(2020-12)
In 1995, the National Oil Spill Preparedness and Response Regime (NOSPRR) was
established by Transport Canada. Although there has not been a major spill in Canadian waters
since NOSPRR was implemented, experts have ...
FACTORS AFFECTING IMTA (INTEGRATED MULTI-TROPHIC AQUACULTURE) IMPLEMENTATION ON ATLANTIC SALMON (SALMO SALAR) AQUACULTURE FARMS
(2020-12)
Aquaculture operations are currently the fastest-growing food production industry, increasing output over 20 times in the past few decades alone. Waste management on “fed” aquaculture farms, like Atlantic Salmon, is a ...