National Marine Conservation Area Reserve Feasibility Assessment
Central Coast Nations are working on a feasibility assessment of a possible National Marine Conservation Area Reserve for the Central Coast.
The Common Voice: CCIRA Newsletter
Common Voice: Issue #12, December 2020
Our latest newsletter — Common Voice: Issue #12 — is available. Click to learn more!
Vicki Sahanatien: Arctic to the Central Coast
CCIRA welcomes Vicki Sahanatien as our new Program Director, Marine Planning & Conservation!
Charlotte Whitney: Back to the Central Coast
CCIRA is thrilled to welcome Charlotte Whitney to the team, as our new Program Director, Fisheries Management & Science.
Adapting to Climate Change on the Central Coast
With the full research paper published in the journal Ecology and Society, we share insights from CCIRA’s Charlotte Whitney and the Central Coast community members she interviewed about their perceptions and approaches
to climate change.Tracking Salmon Abundance in the Pacific Ocean
As salmon populations continue to decline across the Central Coast and beyond, researchers are looking to the open ocean to help understand salmon survival dynamics.
Issue # 11, March 2020
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Five Things You Should Know About Rockfish and Marine Protection
Since 2013, CCIRA has been using science and traditional knowledge to build the most extensive database for rockfish ever compiled for the Central Coast. This growing body of work is providing insights that can help improve the design of the Marine Protected Areas network…
MPA Network and Fisheries Reconciliation Agreement Create Hope for New Opportunities
25 years from now things could look very different on the Central Coast. Ocean ecosystems could be healthier and fish populations more robust with a thriving food fishery for local people. These outcomes are some of the possible benefits from the implementation of the Government-to-Government-Government Northern Shelf Bioregion Marine Protected Area (MPA) Network process –…
CCIRA Joins International Research Expedition
2019 was a bad year for salmon returns coast-wide in British Columbia, and an international team of scientists has been trying to figure out why. This March, the research team travelled back to the open Pacific for a second expedition to study the ocean survival of salmon, and this year CCIRA’s Field Technician, Tristan Blaine,…
