Marine Events

Recent Events:

Local Marketplace at the 1st annual NS Seafood Festival, June 28th and 29th, 2009

MIC partnered with Select NS to create a Local Marketplace showcasing some of our province's local and sustainable fisheries within this year's seafood festival. A wonderful group of MIC volunteers and staff worked hard to pull this together. We cooked 400 fishcakes, 30 pounds of shrimp and 1 gallon of clams to offer samples to festival go-ers of local products and to raise the profile of our sustainable fisheries. Chefs Chris Velden of Ryan Duffy's and Dennis Johnston of FID, did an amazing job of showcasing sustainable marine treats with mouth watering cooking demos, as well!

Oceans Day, June 8th, 2009

A beautiful bevy of marine volunteers created an amazing display and wowed all the passerbys with their marine creature impressions on the Halifax waterfront. Children and adults alike learned all about ocean issues and EAC's marine work.

 

 

International Biodiversity Day, May 22nd, 2009

Ocean Treasures and Alien Invaders
We organized a panel discussion on marine biodiversity and invasive species at the Atlantic Maritime Museum. Ashley Sprague from CPAWS-NS enlightened us all on the amazing horse mussel reefs found in the Bay of Fundy, Peter Darnell talked about the impact invasive species has had on his aquaculture operations and Dr. Martha Jones shared the work being done by her UFO (unidentified foreign objects) research group at Cape Breton University. Beautiful space, attendance from many different background interests, and good networking!

Mahone Bay Mussel Fest, May 15th and 16th, 2009

This was a great opportunity for outreach, hosted by one of our local sustainable seafood producers, Indian Point Mussels. Lots of interaction with the public and some yummy, sustainable and fresh mussels, scallops and oysters!

 

Marine Issues Committee

Phone: (902) 446-4840
Fax: (902) 405-3716

Are you interested in mysterious sea creatures, fishing boats and gear, tasty and sustainably caught seafood dishes, or the unique and beautiful Sable Island?  Then you’ll be in good company at our monthly Marine Issues Committee (MIC) at the Ecology Action Centre on the last Tuesday of every month at 5:30.