Aquatic Conservation Initiative – Research, Education and Collaboration

Aquatic Conservation Initiative

An environmental non-profit that conserves aquatic and coastal ecosystems through research, collaboration, and education

Water Quality Monitoring – Species Habitat Assessments – Riparian Habitat Connectivity Assessments – Aquatic Invasive Species – Nature Based Solutions to Climate Change – Environmental Education – Litter Clean-ups

Invasive green crab project
St. Mary’s Bay 2025

Green Crab traps set

Green Crab removed

Trapping Locations

Total Green Crab Catch Is In for 2025!
Well, that’s a wrap on our Invasive European Green Crab trapping in St. Mary’s Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador! This year we set a total of

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From Ocean to River: Investigating Factors of American Eel Recruitment in Eastern Newfoundland and Labrador
We have exciting news – in collaboration with Nature Newfoundland and Labrador and Fishing For Success we have been awarded funding through Fisheries and Oceans

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Having a Yarn with Indian Bay Ecosystem Corporation
709 Watershed Podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/546025/episodes/17166519 Last week, Rachael Brown and Gabby Riefesel had a great chat with Darren Shepard, the Executive Director of Indian Bay Ecosystem

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Eel Overwintering Habitat
This past winter, our Coastal Environmental Baseline Project partners Miawpukek Mi’kamawey Mawi’omi were out the ice collecting environmental-DNA samples

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