Public concern about the environmental health of the Northumberland Strait developed
around the time of construction of the Confederation Bridge, when significant declines in fishery yields of lobster, rock crab, scallops and herring were being reported. The Northumberland Strait Environmental Monitoring Partnership was created to improve cumulative effects assessment in the region and facilitate collaborative [...]
The Saint John Harbour is a major marine port with high shipping traffic. It is also an urban centre, with dredging, discharges of municipal wastewater and industrial effluents from oil refining, brewing, and pulp and paper production. All of these activities are overlaid on 8 metre semi-diurnal tides. This multi-year project established baseline data that [...]
The results of this research are being used to assess the effects of existing and future best management practices (BMPs) implemented within the Tobacco Creek watershed, to inform the design of monitoring programs for hydrology, aquatic chemistry, and biotic integrity, and to support management decisions aimed at remediating and protecting Lake Winnipeg and other prairie [...]
In 2010, the Slave River and Delta Partnership (SRDP) was formed to address the changes people were noticing in their environments and in harvested foods from the watershed. In 2011, community members worked with Paul Jones from the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) to collect fish samples to analyze fish health in the Slave [...]