Funding Enhances Wharves in Preparation for Arrival of New Ferries
The provincial government is allocating $13.1 million through Budget 2015 for renovations to wharf infrastructure to accommodate two new ferries for Bell Island and Fogo Island-Change Islands.
The tender is being called for enhancements to the Fogo Island wharf to accommodate the MV Veteran and tenders were announced in March for wharf improvements at Portugal Cove and Bell Island in anticipation of the arrival of the MV Legionnaire in February 2016.
The tender for Fogo Island wharf ...
Launch of the MV Veteran
The new ferry to service Fogo Islands and Change Islands, the MV Veteran, was launched on Friday, March 27, from Damen Shipyards in Romania and will enter the final stage of construction.
The MV Veteran will have a capacity to carry 200 passengers and 60 vehicles.
The provincial fleet of ferries annually transports over 900,000 passengers, 400,000 vehicles and 20,000 tonnes of freight across more than 50,000 arrivals and departures.
Attendance Up at Eastern Canadian Fisheries Exposition
Three new N.S. inductees welcomed into The Atlantic Canadian Marine Industries Hall of Fame
Last month, the Mariners Centre in Yarmouth once again welcomed the Eastern Canadian Fisheries Exposition.
Held every two years in southwestern Nova Scotia, this is Canada’s longest-running commercial fishing show.
With exhibitors and attendees from throughout Atlantic Canada — as well as across the country and even the Eastern United States — the current strength of the industry was ...
A Hands-On Experience
The Department of Ocean Sciences at Memorial University has wrapped up a two month-long, joint collaboration with the Oceans Learning Partnership.
The program offers high school students and their teachers an opportunity to discover the diverse and fascinating world of ocean sciences. The biodiversity lab program gave Biology 2201 students and their teachers a field trip that provided many of the learning outcomes associated with the biodiversity unit of the course.
“The program is an ...
