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May 10

12th Bay of Fundy Science Workshop ~ May 9-12, 2018

“A Changing Fundy Environment: Emerging Issues, Challenges and Priorities”, 9-12 May 2018, Agricultural Campus, Dalhousie University, Truro, NS. Proposed Major Topics: Climate change and the Gulf of Maine/Bay of Fundy, Tidal power development, Mass mortality events, The future of wild fisheries, Marine protected areas, Recovery of the Petitcodiac estuary, Conservation of migratory shorebirds, Plastics and …

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Mar 22

BoFEP Steering Committee Meeting

BoFEP Steering Committee Wednesday, 1 p.m., Wednesday April 5, 2017, Canadian Wildlife Service Office, 17 Waterfowl Lane, Sackville NB  Agenda April 2017 SC  

Feb 18

2008 Tidal Energy Paper Still Relevant to Debate

“Tidal Energy Development: Developing a conceptual framework for the integration of environmental and socio-economic impact information for management decisions, with particular reference to the lobster fishery in the upper Bay of Fundy.” By Patricia Rae Hinch.

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Oct 22

BoFEP 2016 Annual General Meeting

The Annual General Meeting of the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BoFEP) will be held on Thursday, November 10th, 2016 from 1:30 – 4:00 p.m. in Room 125 at the Wallace McCain Student Centre at Mount Allison University in Sackville, NB. Our special guest speaker will be Dr. Al Hanson, Research Scientist with the Canadian …

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Aug 26

Ecological Risk Assessment for Bay of Fundy: DDT and Mercury

Ecological Risk Assessment for the Bay of Fundy: DDT and Mercury Angella Mercer and Karen A. Kidd, Canadian Rivers Institute and Biology Department University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB BoFEP Technical Report No. 9, June 2015, 159 pages. The Bay of Fundy supports a high diversity of marine life and is an ecologically and …

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Jul 20

Successful 11th BoFEP Science Workshop

The challenges for science, policy and society in the Bay of Fundy were amply laid out by the speakers at the thirteen sessions at the BoFEP Science workshop held in Fredericton in June. From new technologies for monitoring to how bitumen moves in the Bay of Fundy, the niche of Striped Bass in the Fundy …

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Jul 20

BoFEP Project – A Framework for Regional Ocean Health Index

The Ocean Health Index (OHI) score for the area stretching between the U.S. border and the Musquash Estuary shows that the area is comparable to the score for the rest of Canada’ coastal and marine areas. The preliminary results of the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership OHI study show an overall score of 65, compared …

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