About Us

Across the country, coastal communities and coastal resource users face critical environmental, economic and social challenges. The Coastal CURA is helping to meet these challenges - both immediate and long-term - through participatory community-based research that builds knowledge and understanding, through improving our analytical and evaluative tools, and through development of organizational and institutional capacity.

We represent a well-developed partnership of academic, civil society, First Nation and fishery-related partners, along with a strong involvement of students. Together, we are exploring what works and what does not in community-focused management of fisheries and other coastal resources, and forging a path toward the community-based governance and sustainable management of marine and coastal resources, in the Maritimes and beyond.

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