Addressing environmental issues in the Bay of Fundy: An overview of BoFEP and its next steps

Coastal Zone Canada 2025 Conference information, including program and abstracts, can be found here

Abstract

This talk describes the early beginnings, accomplishments, recent activities, and new directions of the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership (BoFEP), as it reflects on 30 years of work since 1995. BoFEP is both an on-line and in-person information and knowledge network for the Bay of Fundy’s unique marine ecosystems. Its major activities have been its Fundy Tidings newsletter, website, biennial science workshop, and working groups. Its institutional challenges, e.g., volunteers and funding, are numerous, as its current participants bring attention to issues as wide ranging as climate change, coastal erosion, sustainable fisheries, and development pressures along the Bay’s long and changing coastline. BoFEP’s principal focus for the future will be on communication, outreach, education, conduct of working groups, and advocacy with its broad network of partners. It has begun to develop ways to enhance ocean and climate literacy in the schools and communities around the Bay. BoFEP welcomes, indeed it needs, participation of everyone concerned with the long-term health of the Bay and its watersheds in a rapidly changing world.

Citation

Wells, P. G., Percy, J., Daborn, G., & Butler, M. (2025). Addressing environmental issues in the Bay of Fundy: An overview of BoFEP and its next steps. Coastal Zone Canada Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 9-11 June 2025.

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