{"id":2175,"date":"2021-12-06T13:37:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T17:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bofep.org\/wpbofep\/?p=2175"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T17:37:04","slug":"bofep-report-to-gomc-meeting-june-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/?p=2175","title":{"rendered":"BoFEP Report to GOMC Meeting June 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>GOMC\nCouncil Meeting, June 2021 FINAL REPORT<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>BoFEP\n(Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership)<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> &#8211; Peter Wells<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Next year marks the 25<sup>th<\/sup>\nAnniversary of BoFEP, an NGO group set up to enhance communication about\nenvironmental issues (covering science, information, policy and coastal\nmanagement) around the Bay of Fundy, the north-eastern part of the Gulf of\nMaine. BoFEP has been a formal member of GOMC since 2006.<\/li><li>With a steering committee of 24+\npeople\/partners, we continue with various activities:<ul><li>An active management team that meets\nmonthly.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>The periodic Fundy Tidings Newsletter,\nedited by Dr. Jon Percy, our Communications Coordinator, and sent out to over\n500 people and groups around the Bay of Fundy and the greater GOM (Gulf of\nMaine).<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Planning for the next Bay of Fundy Science\nWorkshop (the 13<sup>th<\/sup> in the series), postponed for 2020, and now proposed\nfor Spring, 2022.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Enhanced website with more social media\nconnections. Our Facebook gets lots of readers and it is regularly fed articles\nof interest.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>A new project under development \u2013 videos\non environmental science projects, e.g., coastal erosion, around the Bay of\nFundy and its watersheds.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>Continued close connection with the new\ncommunity-based Cliffs of Fundy UNESCO Geopark in the Minas Basin. Note that\nthe Bay of Fundy and its watersheds have six UNESCO sites, celebrating the\nglobal importance of the biodiversity, paleontology (geology and fossil\nhistory), and cultural history of this region of the GOM. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Challenges that BoFEP faces include\nrecruiting younger volunteers for key roles, finding funds for a much needed\ncoordinator, and funds for projects that also provide crucial overhead support.<\/li><li>Finally, two other items of interest:<ul><li>There is a recent publication with the\nNova Scotian Institute of Science &#8211; a review of the fish and fisheries of Minas\nBasin and Minas Passage, NS, and their potential risk from tidal power\ndevelopment, by Dr. Michael Dadswell of Acadia University. It is in PNSIS Vol\n51 (1), 2021.<\/li><\/ul><ul><li>The Gulfwatch Contaminants Monitoring Sub-Committee\u2019s\narchival mussel samples are now stored at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre (HMSC),\nSt. Andrews, courtesy of DFO-BIO and the HMSC. Committee members stay in\ninformal contact with each other in the hopes that new funding will be found to\ncontinue periodic sampling and analyses of chemicals of emerging concern.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Respectfully submitted, Peter Wells, Chair of BoFEP\nand GOMC WG Member, June 22<sup>nd<\/sup>, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOMC Council Meeting, June 2021 FINAL REPORT BoFEP (Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership) &#8211; Peter Wells Next year marks the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2176,"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions\/2176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vbofep.geewizdev.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}