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Closed Consultation
National DFO-ENGO Workshop on Fish Habitat
When: November 5-6, 2007
Where: Gatineau, QC
Under the direction of the National Fish Habitat Coordinating Committee, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and RCEN organized a National DFO-ENGO Workshop on Fish Habitat. The purpose of this workshop was to bring together DFO officials and ENGOs involved in fish habitat stewardship to discuss fish habitat concerns and the implementation of DFO’s habitat management program.
Priority issues identified by the Canadian ENGO community were addressed at the workshop in order to develop specific recommendations to improve DFO habitat management policy and its implementation, as well as to identify opportunities for ENGOs and DFO to collaborate towards these objectives.
Read the Summary Report on the Workshop (including ENGO recommendations to DFO)
Read the full What Was Said Report
The selected ENGO delegates were as follows:
- Susanna D. Fuller, Ecology Action Centre, NS*+
- Martha Kostuch, The Friends of the Oldman River, AB*
- Olga Schwartzkopf, The Soil & Water Conservation Society - BC Chapter*
- Cliff Wallis, Alberta Wilderness Association, AB*
- Julie Huntington, CPAWS, NL +
- John Werring, David Suzuki Foundation, BC +
- Doug Badger, Regional Environmental Action Committee, AB
- Denys Bourque, Club d'ornithologie du Madawaska, ltée / Les Intendants du Madawaska, NB
- Meredith Brown, Ottawa Riverkeeper/Waterkeeper Alliance, ON
- Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club of Canada Atlantic Chapter/Nova Scotia Environmental Network, NS
- Lisa Marie Fox, Cochrane Environmental Action Committee, AB
- Jen Graham, Coastal Coalition of Nova Scotia, NS
- Joseph Hnatiuk, Canadian Society of Environmental Biologists, SK
- Sharon Jeffery, Vancouver Aquarium Marine Sciences Center/University of British Columbia, BC
- Bruno Marcocchio, Sierra Club of Canada, NS
- Allister Marshall, Potlotek Fish and Wildlife Association, NS
- Zo Ann Morten, Pacific Streamkeepers Foundation/SEHAB, BC
- Isabel Muzichuk, Saskatchewan Eco-Network, SK
- Dianne Ramage, Pacific Salmon Foundation, BC
- Jeffery Young, David Suzuki Foundation, BC
* ENGO member of the National Fish Habitat Coordinating Committee
+ ENGO member of the Workshop Organizing Committee
Workshop Presentations
ENGO Case Studies
The Coastal Coalition of Nova Scotia by Jennifer Graham
Duck Pond Mining Project: an example of economic growth at the expense of the environment by Julie Huntington
Marine Habitat – Impacts of Fishing (coming soon)
Nanoose Bay Estuary
Sydney Tar Ponds – Sierra Club of Canada
DFO Presentations
Developing and Implementing a Fish Habitat Risk Management Framework
DFO Compliance Program
DFO Gulf Region: Risk Management Framework Implementation
DFO Pacific Region: ENGO-DFO initiatives and Implementation of the Risk Management Framework
Habitat Compliance Modernization
The Habitat RMF: Science, Policy, Values and Judgments.
NRIA-DFO
Overview of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) Habitat Management Program (HMP)
Other Resources:
Links to MOUs between DFO and partners
Habitat Branch Practitioners Guide
Science documents on the Pathways of Effects
DFO Organizational Chart
Background Information
This workshop is a result of the joint ENGO-DFO National Fish Habitat Coordinating Committee. Established in 2007 through the RCEN and DFO, the purpose of this Committee is to facilitate, organize and coordinate cooperative activities between ENGOs and DFO that are in support of fish habitat management in Canada.
This workshop builds on the outcomes of the National ENGO and DFO Workshop on Strengthening the Application of the Habitat Protection Provisions of the Fisheries Act, which took place in Ottawa in October 2006; and on the West Coast Regional DFO-ENGO Workshop held in March 2007.
For more information, contact Leela Ramachandran, telephone: (613) 728-9810 ext. 223.
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