Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance Launches First Trans-Atlantic Mapping Survey
Today, a multinational team of Canadian, European and American ocean mapping experts launch the first trans-Atlantic mapping survey under the Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance.
The survey is one of the first projects to be launched by the Alliance, formed in May 2013 following the Galway Statement on Atlantic Ocean Cooperation, whose goals are to join resources of its three signatories to better understand the North Atlantic Ocean and to promote the sustainable management of its resources.
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Bringing Education Home
The Fisheries and Marine Institute (MI) of Memorial University’s Centre for Community Based Education Delivery (CBED) delivers training in communities throughout Newfoundland and Labrador each year.
In many cases, the opportunity to offer these courses and programs is initiated by someone in the area who recognizes a need or who may require the training themselves.
These individuals are community champions and they are critical to facilitating training in rural parts of the province. ...
Five Months at Sea: The Canadian Coast Guard’s Annual Arctic Trips
Anyone who works onboard a vessel knows that a lot goes into planning and preparing for a trip at sea.
From fuel and equipment to food and crew; there are a lot of details to be worked out. The length of the trip, size of the vessel, the number of crew, the kinds of work you will be doing, and the geographical location of the work can significantly affect the requirements for the trip.
So when the Canadian Coast Guard sends its icebreakers to the Canadian Arctic each year, it is a big ...
Peering Under the Surface
The funny thing about fishing is how little we know about the animals that form the basis of this industry.
For most commercially-exploited species in Canada, we know roughly where they live, how many there might be and if we’re lucky, what eats them and what they eat. Beyond that, there are far more mysteries than facts in the ocean.
Compare what we know about fish to what we know about large land mammals, like moose. To understand moose, we can walk in the woods and get a pretty good ...
