A central goal of the CURRA is to use our existing funding and networks as a platform for adding more projects and, in the long term, to build momentum so the Bonne Bay Marine Station can continue similar work in the longer term.

New initiatives supported by the CURRA to date include:

A project on the invasive species - Bryozoan Membranipora membranacea	Community Food Security
Lobster Reproductive Value	Parker's Brook Arctic Char
The Forests of Newfoundland	Towards an Encyclopaedia of Local Knowledge

Other new initiatives of the CURRA include:

• Towards an Encyclopaedia of Local Knowledge
• Snow Crab Fishery Closure
• Social-ecology of Pelagic Fisheries in Bonne Bay