FUNDY ISSUES

These fact sheet style publications describe our present scientific understanding of some of the important environmental issues confronting the Bay.  They summarise the available information in an impartial and non-technical manner suited to a general audience. They range from 4 to 16 pages.

Paper copies of some of the Fundy Issues can be
obtained from:
communications@bofep.org

The Following Fundy Issues fact Sheets are now available online.


A. The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership
            Heeding the Bay's Cry: The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Project [FI #1 Autumn 1996]
            Working Together Within an Ecosystem: The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership [FI #1a Spring 1999]

B. Ecology of the Bay
            Keystone Corophium: Master of the mudflats [FI #13 Spring 1999]
            Salt Marsh Saga: Conserving Fundy's Marine Meadows [FI #16 Spring 2000]
            Alien Invasions: Introduced Species in the Bay of Fundy and Environs [FI #23 Spring 2003]

C. Changes in the Bay
            Tides of Change: Natural Processes in the Bay of Fundy [FI #2 Autumn 1996]
            Whither the Waters: Tidal and Riverine Restrictions in the Bay of Fundy [FI #11 Spring 1999]
            Fundy in Flux: The Challenge of Understanding Change in the Sea [FI #15 Spring 2000]
            Whither the Weather: Climate Change and the Bay of Fundy [FI #18 Spring 2001]
         
    Fundy's Fascinating Fossils: The Unique Palaeontology of the Bay of Fundy. (FI #31 Autumn 2010)

D. Wildlife of Fundy

            Sandpipers and Sediments: Shorebirds in the Bay of Fundy [FI #3 Autumn 1996]
            Right Whales-Wrong Places? Right Whales in the Bay of Fundy [FI #6 Autumn 1996]

E. Fisheries and Aquaculture
            The Seaweed Forest: Rockweed Harvesting in the Bay of Fundy [FI #4 Autumn 1996]
            Farming Fundy's Fishes: Aquaculture in the Bay of Fundy [FI #7 Autumn 1996]
            Expanding Fundy's Harvest: Targeting Untapped Treasures [FI #10 Autumn 1996]
            Fishing in Fundy: Harming Seafloor Habitats? [FI #14 Spring 2000]
            Fundy's Wild Atlantic Salmon: Doomed or Simply Down? [FI #17 Spring 2001]
            Managing Fundy's Fisheries: Who Should Write the Rules? [FI #20 Spring 2001]

F. Pollution and Monitoring the Health of the Bay
            Dredging Fundy's Depths: Seabed Mining in the Bay of Fundy [FI #5 Autumn 1996]
            Fundy's Watery Wastes? Pollution in the Bay of Fundy [FI #8 Autumn 1996]
            Dykes, Dams and Dynamos: The Impacts of Coastal Structures [FI #9 Autumn 1996]
            Gulfwatch: Putting a Little Mussel into Gulf of Maine Marine Monitoring [FI #12 Spring 1999]
            Taking Fundy's Pulse: Monitoring the Health of the Bay of Fundy [FI #22 Autumn 2002]
            Contaminant Concerns: Heavy Metals and the Bay of Fundy [FI #25 Spring 2004]
            Parlous POPs: Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Bay of Fundy [FI #27 Spring 2006]
            Flushed with Tide: Municipal Effluents in the Bay of Fundy [FI #29 Autumn 2008] (PDF version)

G. Managing Fundy's Coastal waters
            Fundy's Minas Basin: Multiplying the Pluses of Minas [FI #19 Spring 2001]
            Putting the Fun in Fundy: Possibilities and pitfalls of Ecotourism [FI #21 Spring 2002]
            Living Lightly on Land and Water: Native People and the Bay of Fundy [FI #24 Autumn 2003]
            Saving Special Places: Protected Areas and the Bay of Fundy [FI #26 Summer 2005]
            The "Cause" in Causeway: Crossing the Avon River at Windsor [FI #28 Winter 2008] (PDF version)
          
 Tweaking Tidal Technology: Harnessing Fundy's Phenomenal Tides? [FI #30 Autumn 2009] (PDF version)



Future Fundy Issues?

         Possible Topics for Future Issues
          Sustaining Ecosystem Health
          Habitat Protection and Restoration
          Exploitation of Lower Trophic Levels
          Right Whales (Update and expand issue #6)
          Shorebirds in General
          Coastal Communities and their Challenges
          Wharves and Marine Infrastructure
          Coastal Development
          Anadromous Fish
          Fundy Heritage and Culture (including abandoned lighthouses?)
          Wetlands as Geochemical Filters
          Aquaculture (update and expand issue #7 - info on new approaches)
          Economics of Marine Resources
          Marine Conservation Related Organizations and Networks around the Bay of Fundy
          Farming Around Fundy
          Forestry Around Fundy
          Sharks and their Fishery in the Bay of Fundy
          The Seabirds of Fundy

BoFEP is always open to suggestions for topics for future Fundy Issues........ E-mail your ideas to:  communications@bofep.org