Coastal Environmental Baseline Program - National
The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (CEBP) was established in 2017 as one of the initiatives under the Protecting the Marine Environment pillar of the Government of Canada’s Oceans Protection Plan. This Program contributes to coastal and waterway protection by providing funding for scientific activities that help us learn more about Canada’s coastal ecosystems.
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The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Britt Dupuis
The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program collects baseline ecological data at six key coastal sites in Canada. What's unique about the approach that the program uses is that Fisheries and Oceans Canada works with partners to work on different science projects to collect all the data that's needed to establish a baseline.
Yannick
Canada is a huge country with a very long coastline. So supporting the people who live in those regions to describe the ecosystems is a really important win.
Marie Carillon Maltais
It gives us the possibility to have the tools to better manage our regions, and expand our knowledge.
Ethan Augustine
With First Nations, we are the primary people that are going to notice something is going off because we're always out there practicing our traditional rights.
Ben Kovac
We're here 365 days a year. We know so much that DFO can use.
Claire Goodwin
I think it's really great to be asked and what's important to us and to take the knowledge of all the different partners on board in structuring the program.
Roxanne Mackinnon
As a small NGO. We've been able to employ multiple people to work on these projects and building that capacity within our local regions to support more research going forward.
Aruna Jayawarane
This program helped to fill data gaps… habitat, species, populations, species at risk in the Saint John Harbor.
Sandrine Vigneron
Our niche is diving, so we can share all of the data we’ve collected with the public. It’s very interesting.
Pakak Picco
The way DFO has been doing their program up here, asking the community what we want .. are interested in, asking the community what we know is going on and asking how they can help us expand their knowledge into two fronts. You know, the traditional in the scientific knowledge, I find that, you know, that's probably the best approach.
Bethany Reinhart
It's been really rewarding to be able to work so closely with indigenous organizations and non-profit groups and the fishing industry and academics. Everyone brings their own ideas and they have been collaborating on new studies for the future as well.
Emily Cumming
We are currently in a historical global moment where change as a result of the changing climate is inevitable.
Roxanne Mackinnon
What we do is important for Canadians because we are trying to understand the environment that we all live in.
Rylan Command
There's so much life at the bottom of the ocean that contributes to the functioning of the system and all the benefits that we derive from that. So understanding about the distribution of the animals on the seafloor is crucial for that.
Amy Migneault
20, 30 years in the future, we need to have this information in order to be able to determine how things have changed and how things are going to continue to change.
Emily Cumming
The work that our organization did in concert with countless other organizations will provide a baseline for decision making, potentially for the next decades for policymakers and for really everyone in the country.
Pakak Picco
Now that I find myself as the next generation of Inuit men who are going to be helping in this kind of research while also taking part in our traditional activities. It's a really great feeling and I hope it continues on into the future for the next generations.
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Thanks to all those involved in the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program.
We are greatful to have filmed all of the interviews in this production on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg people.
Special thanks to
Arctic UAV
Explos-Nature
Comité ZIP de la Rive Nord de l'Estuaire
for the use and provision of video/photographic imagery.
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