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NS Regional Meeting

Posted by Laura Addicott on December 2, 2013 in News

On Wednesday Nov 13, 2013, Lucia Fanning (Fish-WIKS Principal Investigator), Stephanie Boudreau (Post-doctoral Fellow) and Amber Giles (Fish-WIKS Master’s student) journeyed to Eskasoni, Cape Breton, for a think tank session with First Nations partners in Nova Scotia. The purpose of the session was to have an open discussion on promoting relations-building among the research partners and to discuss areas for research priorities. The think tank was led by Elder Albert Marshall and was organized by Fish-WIKS partner, Shelly Denny, and Fish-WIKS Community Liaison Coordinator, Tyson Paul. The session was facilitated by Clifford Paul and also included Tom Johnson, Crane Seafoods and commercial fish captains Albert Paul and Lawrence Paul.