Work the Web

Various groups across Canada are working to reduce the effects of pollution on water systems. Choose one such group and report on their progress in a poster.

Pollution Probe's water-related programs

Great Lakes United — an international coalition dedicated to preserving and protecting the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River ecosystem

International Water Levels Coalition is an environmental lobby group focusing on the St. Lawrence River

Canadian Water Resources Association's activism focuses on increasing awareness of the high priority of clean water resources

Sierra Legal Defence Fund provides free legal services to Canadian conservation groups and concerned citizens.

How are Canadians doing at controlling pollution in our lakes? Report on the success or failure of a pollution control initiative in a water system near you.

Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention

Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Fact Sheets, Environmental Protection Agency of the United States

Great Lakes Links

Making progress on cleaning up the Great Lakes pages, mounted by the government of Ontario

St. Clair River Remedial Action Plan, Environment Canada

Niagara River Area of Concern, United States Environmental Protection Agency

Freshwater Web site, Environment Canada

Toronto – city operating budget for 2004, Water and Water Pollution Control

Canadian Water Resources Association

Many environmental groups are concerned about the Great Lakes. Many problems that once appeared to be beyond solution have been tackled in effective ways. Choose a group that has been working on a solution to a problem. What has the group accomplished?

Great Lakes United — an international coalition dedicated to preserving and protecting the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence River ecosystem

The Great Lakes Information Network

Georgian Bay Association home page

The natural impulse of those desperately trying to clean up an oil spill is to try to help the birds caught in the spill by washing off the oil that coats them. But is that impulse wise? Make a presentation to your class on the results of your research.

Oceanlink Page on cleaning birds caught in oil spills

Oil pollution and birds, Canadian Wildlife Service

Rescuing Wildlife, Environmental Protection Agency of the United States

Save our Sea Birds Oil Spill Response Team home page

Research fishing practices of large fishing nations.

Greenpeace overview of fishing crisis

Canada's Oceans, Experience and Practices, Environment Canada

The Agreement on High Seas Fishing: An Update, United Nations

U.S. Oceans Policy and the Law of the Sea Convention, U.S. government

Eating Whales and the Politics of Power — Japanese Whaling policies, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. Includes links to information on other Japanese fishing practices.

Norwegian Commercial Whaling, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Pacific Halibut Fishery Regulations 2000 for the U.S. and Canada

Fisheries Co-operatives in India by B.K. Mishra

How Bountiful are Ocean Fisheries?, by Brian J. Rothschild, published in Consequences: The Nature and Implications of Environmental Change

U. S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries

Russian Fisheries Under Threat from Poaching, Overfishing, and Habitat Degradation: Will Natural Resource Extraction Wipe Out Russia's Rich Salmon Stocks?, Pacific Environment and Resources Center

Fisheries Resource Conservation Council of Canada's mandate states Canada's position on conserving and managing fisheries.

European Union — Common Fisheries Policy

Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization home page. Follow the links to Conservation and Enforcement Measures and read the PDF file on conservation and enforcement.

Gadus Associates, Nova Scotia, List of Fisheries Web Sites

Overfishing links, University of California at Davis, Department of Geology.

Greenpeace report: Sinking Fast: How Factory Trawlers are destroying U.S. fisheries and Marine Ecosystems (Use this site for research on Spain, USA, Canada, Russia.)

"Mediterranean blue-fin tuna face extinction"
In this article from The New Scientist, Will Knight discusses a forthcoming report from the WWF which indicates that the Mediterranean blue fin tuna faces extinction within a few years due to a loophole in existing fishing legislation.

Porpoises 'under threat', BBC Online Network - News

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Fisheries Department - Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Fisheries Department Review of the State of World Fishery Resources: Marine Fisheries

Pressures on Marine Biodiversity, World Resources Institute

Sustainable Marine Resource Management, World Resources Institute.

Oceans and the law of the sea: Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and fisheries by-catch and discards. Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations

What does the First Nations Environmental Network do where you live? Look FNEN up on the Web and find the representative in your area. Write a report for your school or neighbourhood newspaper.

Local representatives and objectives of the First Nations Environmental Network