Marine Station
The Fishing for the Future Film Festival 2012 is a partnership between the Nickel Independent Film Festival and the CURRA. The Festival will mark the 20th anniversary of the closure of Newfoundland and Labrador's northern cod fishery, and will provide an opportunity to celebrate and learn from past and present film and video work on maritime communities, oceans, marine fisheries and aquaculture in Canada and around the world.
The Festival has issued a call for submissions. The deadline is May 21, 2012. Click here for submission rules and other information.
An international symposium, Rebuilding Collapsed Fisheries and Threatened Communities, will be held in Bonne Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, October 1-4, 2012. Bonne Bay is in the heart of Gros Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in western Newfoundland, and the home of Memorial University's Bonne Bay Marine Station.
We are inviting proposals for sessions dealing with the lessons learned from taking a problem-solving approach to rebuilding fish stocks, fisheries and fishing communities including the challenges, trade-offs, barriers and opportunities for rebuilding.
Information and Symposium Program will be available in May 2012. For more information about the symposium, contact Dr. Barbara Neis.
The Bonne Bay Marine Station (BBMS) is a prize asset of Memorial University. It actively contributes to the three University pillars: Research, Teaching and Engagement. The CURRA has released a report entitled The Future Station: Sustaining Multidisciplinary, Community-Engaged Research, Teaching and Outreach at the Bonne Bay Marine Station to discuss the future of the Station.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada has released the The Future of Canada's Commercial Fisheries, a document discussing changes to fisheries policy and management practices. The CURRA has established a page to highlight responses to the document, and to encourage discussion.
Fisheries-Tourism in Bonne Bay - Summary Report
A summary report prepared for the CURRA by Kristen Lowitt, PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Studies, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
The ninth issue of The Western Shorefast, a joint newsletter of the BBMS and the CURRA, is available here. (PDF)
for Life
For thousands of years Atlantic salmon (Kavisilik) and Arctic charr (Ikaluk) have persisted along the Labrador coast. The Labrador Inuit have acquired a wealth of knowledge about natural rhythms associated with the availability of their fishery resources. Today the Aboriginal people of Nunatsiavut believe in keeping healthy the Labrador populations of Atlantic salmon and Arctic charr and in preserving the rich traditions relating to their fisheries. Atlantic salmon and Arctic charr remain at the center of their culture and heritage, helping to define who they are and how they relate to their natural world.
A 30 minute documentary produced by Intervale Associates with the help of Vidcraft Productions for the Torngat Joint Fisheries Board.
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