"Atlantic Canada’s aquaculture industry continues to expand significantly due to new investment. This Report Card by APEC examines the growth of the industry and the challenges facing it in the future."
Atlantic Policy Congress of First Nations Chiefs Secretariat
Year of publication:
2012
"Since the Marshall Decision of 1999, fishery has become a lively issue within our Communities. It is our goal to provide as much useful and relevant information as possible to everyone who has an interest in this area. The APC staff are here to provide ongoing support and assistance to all Mi'kmaq, Maliseet and Pasamoquoddy communities on fishery-related issues."
"The program was created by The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), in response to a number of issues identified during consultation with Aboriginal groups. Aboriginal peoples ambition to grow with the world around them, sparked a concern for First Nations people who actively participated in already existing aboriginal programs with aquatic and oceans resources."
"Nunavut Fisheries Training Consortium (NFTC) is a not-for-profit organization that was created in 2005 to provide training opportunities to Nunavut beneficiaries interested in pursuing a career in the fishing industry."
The Fisheries Conservation Group is a research group created at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University in 1996, to develop an independent fisheries research and training program with a focus on the fisheries ecosystems of the Northwest Atlantic.
Community structure, function and distribution of northern coastal fishes in fjords and estuarine environments. Emphasis on sampling, field techniques, taxonomy, quantitative characterization, adaptations and habitat relationships. A comparative approach will contrast fish communities from deepwater, estuarine, near shore and freshwater habitats.
Dr. Joe Wroblewski and his graduate students are investigating local fisheries resources of the southeastern Labrador coast which are utilized by coastal communities, but which have not been scientifically documented. We are working with Labrador residents to study the ecology of these living marine resources. We have focused on bay cod and Icelandic scallop, specifically to understand the productivity of the wild stocks and the potential for aquaculture (Wroblewski et al., 1998).
Dr. Wroblewski has been conducting research on a new method of marine fish population restoration, termed "enhancement of reproductive potential" or ERP (Wroblewski, et al., 1996; Wroblewski, et al., 1999; Wroblewski and Hiscock, 2002). This entails trapping late juvenile and young adult fish from the wild, increasing their growth and fecundity by feeding them in sea pens, and then returning the fish to their natural habitat to spawn. Hatchery based enhancement programs have met with criticism regarding genetic changes in cultured populations, and the fitness of released fish.
The Atlantic cod of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland were once a major food source for Europeans and North Americans. France and Portugal began fishing the Grand Banks in the early 1500s, joined by England during the 1600s. Spain, the former Soviet Union, Poland and Canada harvested great quantities of cod with dragnet trawlers during the latter part of the 20th century. In 1992 the northern cod population finally succumbed to decades of overfishing and several years of recruitment failure (poor reproductive success), due to natural climate change in the marine environment.
Welcome to Aquatic Resources at StFX – an interdisciplinary studies program – focused on water, environment and sustainability – offered in Sciences or Arts. Located in a community nestled along Canada’s rugged Atlantic coastline, this program provides hands-on learning that explores water (freshwater and marine) resources, aquatic life, climate change, policy, and the complexities of human-ecosystem interactions.
