THE ZONE Welcome to the Spring 2018 issue of THE ZONE, the CZCA digital newsletter. Coastal Zone Canada 2018 Conference • St. John’s, NL Keith Mercer, Planning Chair: CZC’18 You’re all invited to come to St. John’s, NL, to attend CZC’18, from July 15th-19th. The conference will be held on the Sunday evening marks the opening of the Commentary: campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland and at main conference, with the keynote address 3 Canada’s Oceans other venues in the city. The conference theme is “Seeking by environmental, cultural and human rights Act at 20; A Pacific Practical Solutions to Real Issues: Communities Adapting to advocate, Sheila Watt-Cloutier. In 2007, Watt- Canada Perspective a Changing World”. I’m very proud to say that our planning Cloutier was nominated for the Nobel Peace committee has been working hard to make this event both Prize for her advocacy work in showing the A Scan of the Eastern exciting and informative. Our program is filled with fantastic impact of global climate change on human 9 Canadian Coastal special sessions, concurrent sessions, poster sessions, social rights, especially in the Arctic. This event will Region events, and more! be open to the public, and we expect a big turnout! Coastal Defence We kick off the conference with our Future Leaders Forum, 12 Roles of Mangroves on Sunday, July 15th, at the Delta Hotel Ballroom, in historic From Monday to Wednesday, special sessions on the Amazon- downtown St. John’s. The event is designed to help young and concurrent sessions will focus on the three In this issue Influenced Coast of Guyana, South professionals with networking, employment direction, sub-themes of the conference: Change and America: Review and gaining insight into the future of integrated ocean and Challenge – Realizing Opportunity, Engagement of an Intervention coastal management. It will include an opening keynote and Collaboration – Examples from the Project in an Eroding address, a panel discussion on “Future Trends in Coastal Field, and Tools and Technologies – Practical Coastline Zone Management”, and a speed networking session where Applications. delegates will meet mentors from the field of coastal and oceans management. The conference will conclude with a half-day on Thursday. The morning will start with a keynote address on the status of Coastal Zone Management in Canada and where we Memorial University, St. John’s, NL need to go with it in the future. The keynote presentation will be followed by a discussion July 15-19, 2018 among panelists from across Canada who will consider how we get there and the role of the Conference Sub-themes: Coastal Zone Canada Association in influencing the future of CZM. The morning will also • Change and Challenge – Realizing Opportunity feature the kick-off of our new Cold Regions • Engagement and Collaboration – Examples from the Field Living Shorelines Community of Practice. • Tools and Technologies – Practical Applications All work and no play is no fun, so we are hosting a Tuesday evening social event at The For more information: [email protected] Rooms where the Newfoundland Museum, Provincial Archives and Art Gallery are housed. You are encouraged to walk around and explore this beautiful place, while local musicians entertain you. Registration is still open, so come and attend this important and exciting event. We’ll put the kettle on! http://www.coastalzonecanada.org/czc2018/ THE ZONE • 1 GET IN Submit your news items for the next CALL FOR Please issue of The Zone. We wish to continue consider submitting the dialogue of coastal zone work across Canada between our biennial PAPERS a paper to the next issue of the conferences, so please consider sharing CZCA Newsletter. We are looking for paper an update with us to be included in the submissions of 1000-2000 words on a wide range next issue. of topics covering Canada’s coastal zone: governance and News Items policy, engineering, ocean science, and social science. To submit a news item If you wish to submit a paper please submit your abstracts (maximum 500 words) please send to (maximum of 250 words) to [email protected] by [email protected] September 15, 2018. Papers are due October 30, 2018. Subscribe to Follow this link: www.coastalzonecanada.org/newsletter We would like to sincerely thank all of the contributors to this edition of the Zone, the authors of the papers and articles herein, as well as the reviewers. Photo credit: Brian Elliot Call for CZCA Membership Registration at the biennial conferences French Editors automatically includes CZCA membership dues for two years. If you missed the 2016 The Zone is looking for French speaking conference and would like to update your or bilingual (French and English) membership or become a new member, please volunteer editors. For further information EDITOR visit our website for more details. The fee is please contact us at Victoria J. Fernandez $20/year or $40 for two years. [email protected] ASSISTANT EDITOR Patricia Manuel www.coastalzonecanada.org GRAPHIC DESIGN Karen G. Bagnell THE ZONE • 2 Commentary: Canada’s Oceans Act at 20; A Pacific Canada Perspective Jamie Alley, University Centre of the Westfjords, University of Victoria and Jamie Alley and Associates. Former Vice President, Pacific CZCA This article is based on a presentation by the author, Collaboration in Delivering the Oceans Act in Pacific Canada; Lessons for Delivering New Governance Models made to the “Oceans20 Workshop” in Ottawa in June 2017. The full workshop report may be found at https://www.wcel.org/publication/oceans20- canadas-oceans-act-workshop-report This commentary is the author’s contribution fail”. The valuable lesson that I took from this, and issues tenures under the BC Land Act for to documenting experiences with the is that law and social values are intimately activities on crown land covered by water. The implementation of Canada’s Oceans Act in connected. In this context I have always found province also manages most upland activities Pacific Canada over the first twenty years of its great inspiration in the preamble to the Oceans that heavily influence the quality of our marine existence. It is based on personal experiences Act and its Whereas Clauses, which present a waters. Local and regional governments have as the BC government’s Director of Oceans and set of values for Marine Fisheries, as a member of the national Canadians about Oceans Task Group of the Canadian Council our oceans. Photo credit: Brian Elliot of Fisheries and Aquaculture Ministers (2004- The preamble 2009), and as the co-chair of the Canada-BC tells us that Oceans Coordinating Committee. our oceans are our common Early efforts at inter-governmental collaboration heritage, that on coastal and marine management date back we wish to be to the 1960s and offer lessons and suggestions world leaders for improving oceans and coastal management in oceans in Pacific Canada. Canada’s federal government, management, coastal provinces and territories, indigenous and that we governments, local governments and coastal will promote communities are at crossroads in each part sustainable of the country; they have the opportunity to development chose paths that will result in a truly collective using an national effort to preserve and protect Canada’s ecosystem marine environmental heritage and to provide approach for its sustainable use. The author offers these to maintain comments in the spirit of choosing wise paths. biological As an ancient mariner once said, “if we don’t diversity. The change course, the ship will end up where it’s Act also promotes a precautionary approach zoning powers and control most development headed”. to protect Canada’s natural resources and on our coastlines and in some cases extend collaboration to develop a national (not their planning and zoning powers into the Three Underlying Themes Federal) strategy. marine environment. First Nations also have deep spiritual connections that inform their There are three underlying themes to these With the words of the preamble in mind, I laws, traditions and protocols, developed over remarks that should be borne in mind when have always believed that the Oceans Act is millennia, that have been used to share and reviewing experiences with oceans and coastal best seen as not belonging solely to the federal wisely manage coasts and ocean resources management in Pacific Canada: firstly, Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, nor only among their communities. There are lots of Oceans Act belongs to everyone; secondly, we to the federal government and its departments tools in our marine management toolbox. need to use all the tools in our toolbox; and and agencies. Rather, with the preamble’s calls thirdly, we need to learn to share out tools to world leadership and collaboration, the Act What is needed are approaches across better. An explanation. is best thought of as truly national legislation, Canada that bring all orders of government belonging to all Canadians, and its powers and and interested Canadians into venues where When I was the BC Ministry of Environment’s obligations are to be shared with all orders of everyone’s legal, financial and scientific Director of Policy and Legislation, a Deputy government. In a similar vein then, we should capacities can be brought to bear collectivity in Minister remarked to me that “things that a also recognize that in a complex federation caring for our coasts and oceans. In short then, society passes into statute law, should be a like Canada, the Oceans Act is only one tool of the Oceans Act belongs to all of us. It’s one of reflection of our highest values, beliefs and many needed to fully manage our coastlines many important tools, and we need to share aspirations.