~ FUNDY TIDINGS ~ - Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BoFEP)

At the conclusion of the AGM there will be a brief meeting of the newly elected Steering Committee to elect the 9 members of the Management Committee for BoFEP. [...] The workshop theme is “Fundy’s Future in an Era of Climate Change” Proposed Major Topics: Climate change and the Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy Tidal power development Oceanography of the Bay Mass mortality events The future of wild fisheries Marine protected areas Recovery of the Petitcodiac estuary Shoreline issues Conservation of migratory shorebirds Plastics and chemical contam. [...] Funding for research on Fundy herring stocks The governments of Canada and Nova Scotia recently announced funding of more than a million dollars under the Atlantic Fisheries Fund to "improve the effectiveness and sustainability of the fish and seafood sectors". [...] In yet another positive development, the Government of Canada recently announced the opening of a new shorebird discovery centre in the Shepody National Wildlife Area, located on the NB side of the Bay of Fundy about 60 km from Moncton. [...] Province stalls on removal of turbine from Bay The province seems to be dragging its feet on moving ahead on the removal of a massive tidal turbine, installed in November 2016 and abandoned in the Minas Passage in the inner Bay of Fundy by the companies OpenHydro and Cape Sharp Hydro.