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 12 pages.

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

The Following Fundy Issues fact Sheets are now available online.


#1  Heeding the Bay's Cry: The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Project.

#1a Working Together Within an Ecosystem: The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership

#2  Ti
des of Change: Natural Processes in the Bay of Fundy.

#3  Sandpipers and Sediments:
Shorebirds in the Bay of Fundy.

#4  The Seaweed Forest:
Rockweed Harvesting in the Bay of Fundy.

#5  Dredging Fundy's Depths:
Seabed Mining in the Bay of Fundy.

#6  Right Whales-Wrong Places?
Right Whales in the Bay of Fundy.

#7  Farming Fundy's Fishes:
Aquaculture in the Bay of Fundy.

#8  Fundy's Watery Wastes?
Pollution in the Bay of Fundy.

#9  Dykes, Dams and Dynamos:
The Impacts of Coastal Structures.

#10 Expanding Fundy's Harvest:
Targeting Untapped Treasures.

#11 Whither the Waters: Tidal and Riverine Restrictions in the Bay of Fundy

#12 Gulfwatch: Putting a Little Mussel into Gulf of Maine Marine Monitoring

#13 Keystone Corophium: Master of the mudflats

#14 Fishing in Fundy: Harming Seafloor Habitats?

#15 Fundy in Flux: The Challenge of Understanding Change in the Sea

#16 Salt Marsh Saga: Conserving Fundy's Marine Meadows

#17. Fundy's Wild Atlantic Salmon: Doomed or Simply Down?

#18. Whither the Weather: Climate Change and the Bay of Fundy

#19. Fundy's Minas Basin: Multiplying the Pluses of Minas.

#20. Fundy's Fisheries: Who Should Write the Rules?

#21. Putting the Fun in Fundy: Possibilities and pitfalls of Ecotourism.

#22. Taking Fundy's Pulse: Monitoring the Health of the Bay of Fundy.

#23. Alien Invasions: Introduced Species in the Bay of Fundy and Environs.

#24. Living Lightly on Land and Water: Native People and the Bay of Fundy

#25. Contaminant Concerns: Heavy Metals and the Bay of Fundy

#26. Saving Special Places: Protected Areas and the Bay of Fundy

#27. Parlous POPs: Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Bay of Fundy

#28. "The "Cause" in Causeway: Crossing the Avon River at Windsor (PDF version)



Suggested Topics for Future Fundy Issues
[Issues recently completed or currently in preparation]
(updated: October 1, 2002
)

1. Sensitive and Protected Areas in and around the Bay of Fundy
2. Sustaining Ecosystem Health
3. Habitat Protection and Restoration
4. Exploitation of Lower Trophic Levels
5. Right Whales (Update and expand issue #6)
6. Shorebirds in General
7. Challenges for Community Groups
8. Wharves/Marine Infrastructure
9. Coastal Development
10. Anadromous Fish
11. Fundy Heritage/Culture (including abandoned lighthouses?)
12. Wetlands as Geochemical Filters
13. Aquaculture (update and expand issue #7 - info on new approaches)
14. Tidal Power Impacts
15. Economics of Marine Resources
16. Overview of Marine Conservation Related Networks and Organizations around Bay of Fundy
17. Priority Contaminants in the Bay of Fundy.
              
- heavy metals
           
   - persistent organic pollutants
               - sewage

18. The Fabulous Fossils of Fundy
19. Farming Around Fundy
20. Forestry Around Fundy
21. Sharks and their Fishery in the Bay of Fundy
22. The Seabirds of Fundy.

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