Toward an integrated management of eastern New Brunswick's coastal zones : an overview of community watershed groups and their efforts toward the integrated management of their territory
Description
abstract: Canada's Ocean Strategy (2002), as presented in Canada's Oceans Act
(1996), promotes integrated management for achieving the sustainable development of
Canada's estuarine, coastal and marine ecosystems. In order to have a better
understanding of the existing efforts aimed at this objective in the coastal zones of
eastern New Brunswick, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Oceans and Habitat Division of the
N.B. Eastern Area Office, in collaboration with the Gulf Regional Office, conducted a
survey of the various community watershed groups in eastern N.B. in 2002-03. This report
is the result of the survey. It presents an overview of these groups and their watershed
and respective lands, and lists the numerous efforts undertaken toward the sustainable
development of the watershed. It also includes a summary of the main issues of concern
of each watershed group and gathers these issues and efforts according to ecozones or
coastal management areas to serve as baseline information for the eventual
implementation of integrated management programs as described in the Oceans
Strategy.
