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Government of Canada announces nearly $1.6 million in key coastal research initiatives in St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec | |
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2019-07-03 | |
发布年 | 2019 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 加拿大 |
领域 | 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | July 3, 2019 Baie-Comeau, Quebec — Canada is an ocean nation. With the longest coastline in the world, from the Pacific, to the Arctic, to the Atlantic, we are blessed with an incredible diversity of marine ecosystems. Our shores are vital to the lives, well-being and culture of all Canadians, including almost 7 million coastal inhabitants. They are home to valuable fisheries and countless marine species. Our waters support the recreation, tourism and shipping activities that drive our economy. Conserving Canada’s coastal environments while promoting a healthy economy means making well-informed decisions based on sound science. It calls for environmental baseline data that allows us to monitor long-term changes in coastal ecosystems, including the impacts of human activities such as shipping, fishing, agriculture and shoreline developments. To support these objectives, the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, the Minister of Infrastructure and Communities, on behalf of the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, announced today in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, that the Government of Canada is investing almost $1.6 million in six marine environmental data collection projects in the St. Lawrence Estuary through the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program, part of Canada’s Oceans Protection Plan. This investment is supporting approximately 12 jobs at five partner organizations collecting environmental baseline data. Funded as part of the $50.8 million Coastal Environmental Baseline Program, under the Government of Canada’s historic $1.5 billion Oceans Protection Plan, these projects involve close collaboration between Fisheries and Oceans Canada scientists, universities and environmental organizations. With this collaborative work, we are gathering the wide-ranging baseline data needed to characterize coastal environments and detect long-term changes in the study areas, including gaining a better understanding of climate change impacts. The new investment in these six projects from the Government of Canada will paint a clearer picture of the status of the coastal ecosystems and environmental conditions in the St. Lawrence. The data collected from these initiatives regarding the impacts of activities like shipping traffic and the threat of climate change are essential to directing our efforts to protect coastal species and habitats into the future and to making our waters and coasts safer, cleaner and healthier. The Government of Canada understands that we cannot pass off protecting our coasts and our environment to the next generation. We are taking real action now to ensure that our children and grandchildren will not only have access to the world-renowned nature across our country, but will also benefit from sustainable jobs and economic growth on our waters and coasts. - 30 - Quotes
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来源平台 | Government of Canada - Fisheries and Oceans Canada |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/242788 |
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