Salmon Enhancement And Habitat Advisory Board (SEHAB) Roundtable

Date:May 30, 2010

Area:Northern Interior

Representative:Tracy Bond

Challenges/Issues and Opportunities/Successes of the Volunteer Aquatic Stewards

 

 

Management

Fisheries

Aquaculture

 

Enforcement

Fisheries

Habitat:

Continued enforcement of City, Regional District, Provincial and Federal Mandates

Requirement of CA officers to provide stewardship activities, they are not trained and they should be in the field enforcing.

Some areas do not have habitat staff and are being serviced from different communities…therefore priorities, timing make it difficult for D.F.O. to respond

Volunteers can be the eyes and ears in the community and can provide, local, historical and on the ground knowledge

the win by Eco Justice in terms of mining and federal responsibility for environmental assessments.

 

 

Habitat, Freshwater

Protection:Teztan Biny is part of the Tsilhqot’in homeland and the Taseko River / Fraser River watershed.   Taseko Mines Limited wants to build a gold/copper mine and drain Fish Lake and little Fish Lake.It has passed through Ministry of Environment and now goes to the Federal Assessment.There are petitions circulating.

Rehabilitation

Enhancement

 

Habitat, Oceans, Estuaries and Marine

Protection

Rehabilitation

Enhancement

 

Salmon Enhancement

Hatcheries

Production Planning

 

Science

Research

Canadian Hydrographic Service

 

Stewardship & Community

Consultations: Acts, Regulations, Policy

Program Development and Implementation

Capacity, and Partnerships

 

Long term funding that would allow for long term planning – takes years to build and make use of community capacity and it is lost when there are interruptions due to funding cycles etc.

Level of support from D.F.O. and M.O.E. even on their own initiatives

Keeping qualified staff and volunteers

Access to government information from various departments

Continued juggling of partnership requirements/budgets etc.

Continued ability to deliver programs for cheaper

Continued ability to bring varying levels of partners together to work on projects

Continued ability to respond to communities needs (information, services)

Provide the continuity to issues that just isn’t anywhere else

Able to access funding and partnerships that no one else can

Opportunities to get involved in local sustainability planning with Municipalities as they are working on that now

Opportunities for getting involved in Watershed Management Planning from the Provincial level

 

 

Treaty & Aboriginal Programs

Integration and Coordination

Stewardship and Community

 

Safe and Accessible Waters

 

Canadian Coast Guard, Navigable Waters, Small Craft Harbours

 

Environment Canada

Water Quality

 

 

Province OF BC

Invasive Species

Riparian Area Conservation and Protection

Water Licensing

Related Species and

Shared Jurisdiction, DFO and MOE

Watershed Level Planning

Sustainability Planning with Municipalities