Fundy Issues

The Fundy Issues “fact sheets”  describe our scientific understanding of many of the important issues confronting the Bay or topics of particular interest.  They summarize the available information in an impartial and non-technical manner suited to a general audience. They range from 4 to 16 pages in length.

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

The Following Fundy Issues fact Sheets are available online. They are grouped into themes rather than order of publication. The issue number/date of publication are in parentheses.

A. The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership

• Heeding the Bay’s Cry: The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Project – Fundy Issues #1  [Autumn 1996]
  
• Working Together Within an Ecosystem: The Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership – Fundy Issues #1a [Spring 1999]

B. Ecology of the Bay

• Keystone Corophium: Master of the mudflats – Fundy Issues #13 [Spring 1999]
• Salt Marsh Saga: Conserving Fundy’s Marine Meadows – Fundy Issues #16 [Spring 2000]
• Alien Invasions: Introduced Species in the Bay of Fundy and Environs – Fundy Issues #23 [Spring 2003]

C. Changes in the Bay

• Tides of Change: Natural Processes in the Bay of Fundy – Fundy Issues #2 [Autumn 1996]
• Whither the Waters: Tidal and Riverine Restrictions in the Bay of Fundy – Fundy Issues #11 [Spring 1999]
• Fundy in Flux: The Challenge of Understanding Change in the Sea – Fundy Issues #15 [Spring 2000]
• Whither the Weather: Climate Change and the Bay of Fundy – Fundy Issues #18 [Spring 2001]
• Fundy’s Fascinating Fossils: The Unique Palaeontology of the Bay of Fundy – Fundy Issues 31 [Autumns 2010]

D. Wildlife of Fundy

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

E. Fisheries and Aquaculture

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

F. Pollution and Monitoring the Health of the Bay

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

G. Managing Fundy’s Coastal waters

• Fundy’s Minas Basin: Multiplying the Pluses of Minas – Fundy Issues #19 [Spring 2001]
• Putting the Fun in Fundy: Possibilities and pitfalls of Ecotourism – Fundy Issues #21 [Spring 2002]
• Living Lightly on Land and Water: Native People and the Bay of Fundy – Fundy Issues #24[Autumn 2003]
• Saving Special Places: Protected Areas and the Bay of Fundy – Fundy Issues #26 [Summer 2005]
• The “Cause” in Causeway: Crossing the Avon River at Windsor – Fundy Issues 25. [Winter 2008]
• Tweaking Tidal Technology: Harnessing Fundy’s Phenomenal Tides? – Fundy Issues 30 [Autumn 2009]

 Future Fundy Issues?

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

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
• Sturgeon in the Bay of Fundy