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Welcome to the website of the CURRA

The Community-University Research for Recovery Alliance (CURRA) is a 5-year research program of innovative, interdisciplinary research projects related to helping communities and organizations along Newfoundland's west coast develop strategies for the recovery of fish stocks and fishery communities.

Click here to find out more about the CURRA.

Special Feature: Bonnie McCay Presentation

Bonnie McCay is an ecological and cultural anthropologist specializing in the study of coastal and maritime socio-ecological systems, bringing together social and biological sciences to focus on issues in marine and ocean management.

In this video, Bonnie McCay reflects on decades of experience doing research on Fogo Island fisheries.

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The effects of v-notching on reproductive potential in American lobsters (Homarus americanus) in Newfoundland

A CURRA Research Report by Kathryn Goetting.  

 

 


"Off the Hook" Community Supported Fishery

Atlantic Canada's first Community Supported Fishery "Off the Hook" connects a co-operative of small-scale, groundfish bottom-hook-and-line fishermen from the Bay of Fundy to subscribing customers in and around Halifax, Nova Scotia.

 


The Oracle at Gros Morne

Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador's production of The Oracle at Gros Morne, a comedy-drama by Berni Stapleton commissioned by the CURRA, will have its world premiere on July 8, 2010 at the Gros Morne Theatre Festival's Warehouse Theatre in Cow Head, Gros Morne National Park.

The fish are gone and the people are heading to the mainland in droves, so she heads for the mountain. Gros Morne Mountain, that is, to look for answers or direction while her bewildered husband sits at home mending his rotting nets. They both ponder what all Newfoundlanders & Labradorians are asking these days: Will the fish come back? Will we be able to live, and make a living here in the future? Will our people come back? What’s to become of us? Only one being will speak the truth – the Oracle at Gros Morne – that is, if her husband will leave her alone long enough to figure it out.

Directed by Sarah Stanley with set design by Denyse Karn. Image by Ed Hollett.

The Western Shorefast - Spring 2010

The third issue of The Western Shorefast, a joint newsletter of the BBMS and the CURRA, is available here. (PDF)

 

 

Post-doctoral Fellowship: Lobster Population Biology and Sustainable Fisheries

A post-doctoral fellowship will be available in early 2010, to develop the science basis for evaluating several conservation initiatives currently practiced in Newfoundland.

Lobster Research (link)
Advertisement for Post-doctoral Fellowship (PDF)

 

Atlantic Cod Placemat

An informational placemat about the Atlantic Cod, produced by Intervale Associates. Placemat available here. (PDF)

 

 


Fish Plants: Past and Present

Check out the blog for the CURRA project ‘Fish Plants: Past and Present’ by photographer and CURRA co-investigator Pierre LeBlanc.