Rehabilitating and Restoring Unique Landscapes
Within Five Nova Scotia Watersheds Along the Bay of Fundy
The “Five Watersheds Project”, is a multi-year Coastal Restoration Fund Project – a program component of the multi-year Oceans Protection Plan (OPP), of the Government of Canada.
The five-year project will address issues of coastal erosion and physical barriers to fish passage in the (1) Chiganois, (2) Debert, (3) Folly, (4) Great Village, and (5) Portapique Watersheds (the Watersheds), within the Cobequid Bay of the Inner Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. From that information, the Project will identify areas of habitat concern and create a restoration plan with a focus to ameliorate fish passage barriers caused by aboiteaux and erosion.
Four of the five watersheds within the scope of the project area are identified as critical habitat for the endangered Inner Bay of Fundy, (IBoF) Atlantic Salmon which contain the remaining native IBoF Atlantic Salmon populations. Through physical reconnaissance and surveys, planning, engineering and community support; this project will help to restore fish habitat by enhancing coastal entry points and removing obstructions from migration routes for IBoF Atlantic Salmon. The project will assess and propose innovative solutions for aboiteaux replacement on the Chiganois River. Through these actions, the project will help contribute to the recovery of the endangered IBoF Atlantic Salmon.