South Coast Overview

1. 1
SEHAB Meeting
South Coast Overview
Resource Restoration/Community
Involvement
June 4, 2016
Masset – Haida Gwaii

2. 2
Outline
• Overview of key
components of our work
• Challenges
• Achievements
• Thoughts moving
Forward…

3. 3
Key Components of Our Work
• Community Involvement Program
– Support the aspirations of our
partners to engage in
meaningful and biologically
sound projects and processes
that result in real benefits to
fish and fish habitat
– CA’s = conduit between
community and Department
– Vancouver Island, Sunshine
Coast, Mainland inlets; 5 CA’s
approx. 120 partnership
groups

4. 4
Key Components of our Work
• Resource Restoration
– Restoration of Aquatic
habitats (“earth moving”
projects)
– Inspection and
maintenance of existing
projects
– Support to Strategic
Watershed Planning
– Support to our colleagues
in DFO

5. Challenges
•Staffing/Succession
Planning/Organizational stability
•Fiscal Resources
SEHAB – Haida Gwaii Meeting 2016
South Coast CIP/RRU Challenges
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6. Achievement 1
•Real gains in establishing stability within
CIP program on South Coast
• Staffing 3 new indeterminate
CA’s this year
• Strong and stable CA team on
South Coast
• Draft CA Roles and
Responsibilities Document
completed
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CIP/RRU Achievements
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7. Achievement 2
•Restoration Decision making Framework
• Resolve RRU License and Tenure issues
• Clarity around protocols for new project
development
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CIP/RRU Achievements
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8. Achievement 3
•Consistent delivery of high quality technical
programming across a broad range of disciplines
with an eclectic group of partners
•Cool projects and significant gains
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CIP/RRU Achievements
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9. • Cool Projects – San Juan
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CIP/RRU Achievements
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10. Cool Projects – Estuarine Restoration
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CIP/RRU Achievements
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11. • Increased Dialogue with South
Coast SEHAB Reps
• Embrace Science, Empower
Change, Have no Fear
• Support Staff
• Succession, overlap, training…
SEHAB – Haida Gwaii Meeting 2016
Minor Profundities Moving Forward
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12. Questions???
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