AMIK’s environmental department offers biomass assessment, coastal and marine ecosystem monitoring, collection and implementation of traditional knowledge as well as education and awareness support to its member communities. The team is currently composed of a Biologist/Project Co-ordinator as well as two project managers. Other personnel, such as interns and supplemental project managers, may join the team occasionally. For any questions on the environmental sector, please contact Claire Pédrot, Environmental Sector Manager.
Monitoring Species and Ecosystems
Across the world, almost 230,000 species of marine life are known, but thousands, possibly millions of others remain to be discovered.
AMIK is developing a number of projects with its member communities on the subject as one of its mandates is to inform its members and support them in the protection of coastal and marine biodiversity. To this end, the agency develops projects that allow them to collect information and data, conduct follow-ups and develop diverse teaching aids. For commercial species, the projects appear on the Sustainable Fisheries Management page.
Examples of Achievements:
Ecosystems
- Temperature Monitoring of 13 Innu Salmon Rivers on the North Shore (2016/18 – Ongoing)
- Monitoring Eelgrass Beds and Fish Biodiversity at the Mouth of the Romaine River and in the Baie de Sept-Îles (2011/18 – Ongoing)
- Surveying Eelgrass Seabeds, a Critical Habitat: an Aerial Survey of the Lower North Shore (2010)
- First Nations Community Involvement in the Protection of Endangered Species and Their Habitats (2008/10)
Species
- Migratory Birds
Endangered Species
- Monitoring Eelgrass Beds and Fish Biodiversity at the Mouth of the Romaine River and in the Baie de Sept-Îles (2011/18 – Ongoing)
- Publication of an Innu/French Storybook Entitled “Histoires du Nitassinan : Les animaux en danger de disparition” (2012)
- First Nations Community Involvement in the Protection of Endangered Species and Their Habitats (2008/10)
- Awareness Training and Monitoring of Aboriginal Fishermen on How To Proceed With the Endangered Marine Life of the Saint Lawrence (2008/09)
- Collection of Traditional Indigenous Knowledge on the Endangered Marine Life of the Saint Lawrence River (2007/08)
- Awareness Workshops on Endangered Marine Mammals (2007/08)
