NATURE

Sea, land, river

PEOPLES

Community

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

Nov 20-21st	Good meeting
	Lots of ideas and viewpoints

Standing room only for the first day’s presentations which will approach here

Key themes (for me)

Marine planning

Current opportunities and threats

How to ‘partner’ not be victim

--- models and lessons learned

	The Elephant in the room—climate change
	While this is from the last presentation of forum – it ran through many of those before – or for me put in question some of the presenters’ approaches --- for example TEK

TEK presentation – but again using local knowledge or Traditional knowledge was an underlying theme

From climate change perspective --- how to look forward as well as backward --- fortunately the conference began with presentations from Beaufort Sea --- (see this CIMP site where scientist and local communities working out mechanisms to monitor and adapt to climate change – note it’s origin was in Treaty resolve to ‘monitor impacts’ – and evolved into Climate Change impacts) --- Here is excellent reports page links from recent ‘Science in the Changing North 2008’

PNCIMA area chosen for Marine Integrated Planning

Process here is just beginning, so valuable lessons to be learned form Beaufort Sea area where much further along

	LOMA (Large Ocean Management Areas)
	Beaufort Sea –with added benefit that Arctic experiencing rapid warming (climate change) thus perhaps suggestive what mechanisms should/ could be in place here Beaufort is ‘fed’ by Mackenzie River – whose watershed reaches down into BC – image left
WWW has numerous documents from Beaufort planning (see this links page) Beaufort Basin Workshop January 2008 Ecosystem Overview and Assessment Report 2008—2.8 Megs PNCIMA also has excellent report from D Suzuki foundation http://www.davidsuzuki.org/Publications/PNCIMA_Hall.asp

(Image from Conf Site)

Richard Binder TEK (Traditional Ecologic Knowledge) and scientists

Richard had many good lines—one was how the midwife was surprised when his mom gave birth to twins—Richard came 1^st—but then his brother emerged as blond and blue eyed ----

One of the confrontations came between local hunters and game managers about how many Beluga whales present – hence how many could be hunted --- after doing some tagging studies – turned out TEK was right ---- One key difference between local1^st Nations and Inuvialuit is latter have signed treaties – thus they approach government as equals – -- all decisions must have their consent etc

Port & facilities in 2008

Cruise Ship facilities etc

But like the new Enbridge facility to go to Kitimat – many of these projects pose significant threats to marine environment and to those that rely upon its bounty for sustenance – see later

Current Opportunities – and Threats

The above is an ‘inside joke’ as one of the presenters on potential is presently working with an innovative tidal energy company

http://www.mavi-innovations.ca/

Kelp as food and forage

Louis Druehl also gave presentations and participated in discussions (as at left)

http://www.canadiankelp.com/

And from his site collecting seaweeds intertidally can lead to disputes – I too have been ‘ordered’ off what a cottager considered ‘his property’ while I was collecting seaweeds

See the Together on the Coast web site for speakers bio – and later the PPT presentations will go online

NATURE

PEOPLES

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

Good meeting