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Projects of Interest

Projects relevant to the CURRA's mandate.


Oceans and Coasts Network Canada Policy Briefs

A publication of the Oceans and Coasts Network (OCN) - Canada. Contents include "Hydrocarbons development in the Gulf of St. Lawrence: A challenge for policy and ecosystem sustainability" and "Salmon Cage Aquaculture in Canada: Issue Analysis".

February 2012 - Volume 2; Round 1.



Sivullitinit Pisimajut Inoset / A Legacy 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.



Too Big To Ignore: Global Partnership for Small-Scale Fisheries Research

Too Big To Ignore is a new research network and knowledge mobilization partnership to promote and revitalize small-scale fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, North America, and around the world. The first goal of the network is to enhance the understanding of the real contribution of small-scale fisheries to food security, nutrition, sustaining livelihoods, poverty alleviation, wealth generation and trade, as well as the impacts and implications of global change processes such as urbanization, globalization, migration, climate change, aquaculture, and communication technology on small-scale fisheries. The second goal is to create an innovative and interactive web platform, a Small-scale Fisheries Information System (SFIS), for global and local analysis of small-scale fisheries and their contributions to the broader society.



Ocean Management Research Network

The aim of the Ocean Management Research Network is to create and share knowledge for the application of critical thinking and best practices to oceans management in Canada. The OMRN is interdisciplinary, with an initial focus on social science, providing a forum for researchers, managers, and policymakers to evaluate timely and innovative linkages, integrate lessons learned, transfer and share knowledge, and help create an expert core of ocean researchers. The OMRN facilitates value-added research, provides seed funding, and seeks to establish a long-term research agenda.



Discoveries of the Census of Marine Life: Making Ocean Life Count

Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Cambridge University Press, 2010

Over the 10-year course of the recently completed Census of Marine Life, a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations has collaborated to improve our understanding of marine biodiversity - past, present, and future. Providing insight into this remarkable project, this book explains the rationale behind the Census and highlights some of its most important and dramatic findings, illustrated with full-color photographs throughout. It explores how new technologies and partnerships have contributed to greater knowledge of marine life, from unknown species and habitats, to migration routes and distribution patterns, and to a better appreciation of how the oceans are changing. Looking to the future, it identifies what needs to be done to close the remaining gaps in our knowledge, and provides information that will enable us to manage resources more effectively, conserve diversity, reverse habitat losses, and respond to global climate change.

"This book is a terrific account of everything the Census of Marine Life has learned about what lives in the world's oceans. It superbly illustrates fascinating marine organisms, scientists at work, and incredible scientific results and will make everyone who reads it want to become a marine biologist." - Enric Sala, National Geographic Ocean Fellow

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For Cod's Sake

An engaging documentary about cod in the Baltic Sea, directed by Folke Ryden.



"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.



Global Aquaculture Performance Index

University of Victoria marine ecologist Dr. John Volpe and his research team have developed the Global Aquaculture Performance Index (GAPI), a new system for objectively measuring the environmental performance of fish farming.



Gaspé Fisheries-Tourism Pilot Project

A new experiential fisheries-tourism product is being developed with commercial fish harvesters in the Gaspé Region of Quebec. Led by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) and Economic Development Canada (DEC) in partnership with the Southern Gaspé Peninsula's professional fish harvesters' group, the pilot project will offer tourists in the region the chance to go on a fishing boat with an accredited fish harvester to catch some seafood. The harvester will share with them the culture and heritage of the region's coastal fishery. By encouraging new collaboration with the tourism sector, the project aims to provide new approaches to ensuring the viability of lobster fishing on the Gaspé Peninsula.

Thanks to John Lubar of DFO for providing the documents below, and to Julia Temple for French-English translation.