Coastal CURA Project

Across the country, coastal communities and coastal resource users
face critical environmental, economic and social challenges. This
“Coastal CURA” will help community partners meet these challenges
through research, local capacity building, and support for
community-based integrated coastal management – to help coordinate the
management of multiple coastal uses (fishing, aquaculture, shipping,
tourism, etc.). The CURA is designed to produce both immediate and
longer-term support.

The Coastal CURA will develop
transferable lessons in community-based coastal management, and make
our results available on a national and international scale.

The Coastal CURA Project consists of eight partners
spread across the Maritimes. The university partners are Saint Mary’s
University and the University of New Brunswick. The community partners
fall into three categories. First, the two fishing organizations (Fundy
Fixed Gear Council, and Fundy North Inshore Fishermen’s Association)
are leaders in the Maritimes in developing fishery-community networks,
vertical linkages with government, and research links with both natural
and social scientists. Second, the four First Nations partners (Acadia,
Bear River, as well as Lennox Island and Abegweit who together form the
Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI) are developing their community presence in
the fishery, post-Marshall, and are interested in applying
community-based approaches for a range of other coastal resources.
Third, a regional organization, the Bay of Fundy Marine Resource
Centre, has expertise in community facilitation and in research to
facilitate integrated management, that is a model in the region. These
eight partners are described in greater detail below.

Visit their web site: http://www.coastalcura.ca