The former Fundy Baykeeper believes we have an ‘excellent opportunity’ now to expand the marine protected area of the Musquash Estuary which has just celebrated 10 years of having that designation.
Dave Thompson, who says he worked for about 10 years to accomplish the establishment of the marine protected area, points to the Nature Conservancy of Canada recently acquiring an area of land on Western Head, beyond the mouth of the estuary on Little Musquash Cove.
“On the next harbour down, Little Musquash Cove, and there’s a headland there sticking out into the Bay of Fundy and it’s a very simple matter to extend the boundary where it ends at a place called Gooseberry Cove now, down to Little Musquash Cove.”
The Trudeau government has a target of protecting 10 percent of marine and coastal ecosystems by 2020. The Musquash Estuary is the only marine protected area in New Brunswick.
“We have this opportunity and while the federal government now has a policy to add additional marine protected areas we should move on it without much delay,” says Thompson.
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