Fundy Whale (fundywhale.blogspot.com) and I Love Quoddy Wild (ilovequoddywild.blogspot) were developed to allow the community at large to participate in enjoying and keeping track of our natural assets; the marine mammals, birds, fish, and invertebrates that abound throughout Quoddy. For the last few months we have been pleased to see the response. Now we are attempting to map these natural "assets" so that everyone is aware of this special place and we can compiled the data in a more "formal" way. We have many of the historical records, but would particularly like to have information from the last 10 years, particularly north Atlantic right whale sightings at Head Harbour entrance and passage as well as Friars Bay.
Why is this important? Well, there is little time, but we are trying to accelerate our mapping development so that we can submit sighting data from the Quoddy community to FERC's Environmental Impact Assessment for the Downeast LNG proposal at Robbinston, ME, which must access their proposed terminal through HHP. You can see the beginning of our online mapping at either of the 2 blogs above. Believe it or not, they seem to have missed the whales, seals, and birds that use and NEED Head Harbour Passage, Cobscook Bay and the surrounding Quoddy area in the Bay of Fundy. If you have sighting data (species, when, where, numbers, comments) please send them to this email or [email protected] so we can provide documentation that will indicate the importance of these vital resources. There's an early July deadline. Thanks Art _______________________________________________ MARMAM mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvic.ca/mailman/listinfo/marmam
