COASTAL ZONE CANADA ASSOCIATION
NEWSLETTER #3, SEPTEMBER 2002

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Dear CZCA Members:

Welcome to the third issue of the Association's newsletter. You will note that this issue is in both English and French - - thanks to Board Member Marie Lagier of IUCN for translating the English text into French for this and future issues. Please continue to let the editor, Brian Nicholls, have your comments and views on the newsletter. As previously, feel free to circulate the newsletter among your own networks.

WELCOME FROM THE NEW PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION

At the Associations 2002 Annual General meeting, which was held in conjunction with CZC 2002, Peter Ricketts, Vice-President (Academic), Okanagan University College, Kelowna, BC, was elected President of the Association. In response to an invitation from the Editor, Peter has provided the following message to members for inclusion in the Newsletter.

As a founding member of the Coastal Zone Canada Association, I am very grateful to the Association for giving me the honour of serving as its fourth President. I am taking up the Presidency at a time when the Association has just concluded its fifth successful biennial Coastal Zone Canada Conference. For those who were present in Hamilton, the CZC2002 "Managing Shared Waters" Conference was a great success. Bringing together practitioners, academics, politicians, and community activists from both the freshwater and saltwater environments, CZC2002 has added to the cumulative results of the previous CZC conferences with a powerful statement on strengthening capacity building that will be taken forward by Canada's representatives to the 2002 World Summit in South Africa. The conference has brought a new dimension of membership to the CZCA that incorporates watershed and freshwater management. I would like to welcome all those new members to the CZCA, and I invite you to get involved and be active supporters of the Association.

The CZCA is very grateful to our co-sponsoring partners in the conference, namely Pollution Probe and the UN University International Network on Water, Environment and Health, in making this conference possible and organizing such an influential event. I would like to give particular praise to Patrick Lawrence, our VP Great Lakes Region, and Mary Pattenden of Pollution Probe for their tireless efforts in making the conference such a success.

Your new Board will work hard to advance the goals and objectives of the Association and to plan for our next conference, which will be held in St. John's, Newfoundland in 2004. This conference will mark the tenth anniversary of the first CZC conference in Halifax, and so it is fitting to be returning to the Atlantic coast for CZC2004. We want to make this a landmark conference, celebrating ten years of CZC conferences but also assessing where we have come in coastal zone management during that time. The products and results of the CZC conferences have contributed to the advance of coastal and ocean management in Canada and internationally. The passage of the Canada Oceans Act was a major event on the domestic front, and the recent publication of the Canada Oceans Strategy is a welcome development. However, we need to be more critical (and I use this word in the academic context of constructive evaluation) of what Canada is and is not doing in coastal management. An immediate task will be to evaluate the scope of the Oceans Strategy and its likelihood for being a successful mechanism for implementing effective coastal zone management in Canada.

The CZCA has an important role to play in promoting coastal management in Canada and throughout the world. I hope that all of you who were unable to attend CZC2002 will renew your membership in the Association and maintain your support for building a strong national and international movement for coastal and ocean management. I look forward to working with the new Board and all the members of the CZCA over the coming years.

In conclusion, I would like to thank Barry Jones for his excellent work as President for the past four years. Barry worked very hard on behalf of the CZCA, including the organization of CZC2000 in Saint John, NB, and the Association owes him a great debt of gratitude. I am pleased that, despite "retirement", Barry will continue to be active in the CZCA and on the Board as Past President. Thanks, Barry, for a job well done.

COASTAL ZONE CANADA (CZC) 2002 CONFERENCE

In Patrick Lawrence's own words, CZC 2002 was a "great success". As the Association's Vice-President, Great Lakes, he was the key Association person involved in the organization of the conference, and worked long and hard in support of the event. The following highlights are based largely on a summary that Patrick produced shortly after the conference:

• Over 400 participants from 30 countries attended CZC 2002 ( "Managing Shared Waters - - Towards Sustainable Transboundary Coastal Ecosystems"). The conference evaluation forms completed by participants indicated strong support and appreciation for the event, as well as for the efforts of the organizers.
  
  
• With respect to the organization of the event, conference partner Pollution Probe is recognized for its sterling work on all aspects of the conference format. It was involved in numerous tasks and activities that made the event proceed very smoothly. Appreciation is also expressed to the other conference partners, United Nations University (INWEH) and Environment Canada (Ontario Region), for their considerable efforts and support.
  
  
• CZCA maintained a high profile at the conference, with many Board Members serving as presenters and session chairs. The Association was involved in many key products and discussions. The CZCA booth at the Coastal Showcase was well received and visited. The Association's biennial award for coastal zone management achievement was presented; the Association's Annual General Meeting was held; and, following the tradition of previous CZC Conferences, a Youth Session was organized.
  
  
• The Resource Kit, prepared in advance of the conference, and containing key background reports, abstracts, a summary review and evaluation of all abstracts identifying capacity needs and tools, and several other documents, is a conference product that will continue to be an important reference for conference attendees in the future. It will likely gain wider interest internationally for those working in the coastal and water management areas, especially in relation to the four conference case studies and in other transboundary coastal ecosystems.
  
  
• The quality of the program, especially the key-note addresses and panel discussions each morning, was excellent, and was well received. The morning interactive workshops (a CZC conference series innovation) provided the opportunity for participants to reflect on the morning addresses and contribute to discussion on the "theme of the day". The professional facilitators (Lura Consulting) and volunteers did a good job collecting the ideas and thoughts that were then incorporated into the daily summaries.
  
  
• During a long Thursday evening session, members of the conference organizing committee met to review all the events and products related to the conference, and prepared a conference statement, which was tabled for discussion during the plenary session on Friday morning. A subsequent meeting of the committee later on that day led to completion and release of the statement - referred to as the "Hamilton Statement" - with the commitment that it would be taken forward by Canada's representatives to the 2002 World Summit in South Africa.
  
  
• For additional updates on CZ 2002, including the Conference Report, the Hamilton Statement, and other outputs, refer to the conference website (which is regularly updated) at:

http://www.pollutionprobe.org/managing.
shared.waters/index.htm

CZCA 2002 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

The Association's 2002 AGM was held during CZC 2002. One of the main items of business was the election of Officers and Directors for the next two-year period. The following were elected as Officers of the Association:

• PRESIDENT: Peter Ricketts, Okanagan University College, Kelowna, B.C.
• PAST PRESIDENT: Barry Jones, Fredericton, N.B.
• V.P. (ATLANTIC): Mike Butler, Oceans Inst. of Canada, Halifax, N.S.
• V.P. (PACIFIC): Vacant
• V.P. (ARCTIC): Steve Newton, Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• V.P. (GT. LAKES): Patrick Lawrence, Univ. of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA
• V.P. (COMMUNICATIONS): Vacant
• V.P. (LIAISON): Larry Hildebrand, Environment Canada, Dartmouth, N.S.
• SEC./TREASURER: Brad Fay, Halifax, N.S.

A further 17 persons were elected as Directors of the Association - - they will be listed in the next issue of the Newsletter.

CZCA AWARD (2002)

The Association's biennial award, known as the "H.B.Nicholls Award for Coastal Zone Management Achievement", was presented at CZC 2002 by the President of the Association, Barry Jones. The award consists of a plaque, suitably engraved, and containing the CZCA logo. The winner of this, the second award, is Larry Hildebrand, Manager, Sustainable Communities & Ecosystems Division, Environment Canada (Atlantic Region), Dartmouth, N.S. Larry was the Co-Chair of the Conference Committee for the first CZC Conference, CZC 1994, and subsequently became President of the Association. He is currently Vice-President (Liaison). Larry is well known throughout the coastal zone management field in Canada and internationally, and needs no introduction. He is a worthy winner.

NEWS ON THE NEXT CZC CONFERENCE

The following report was provide by Grant Gardner on behalf of the conference committee for CZC 2004. Regular updates will be provided in subsequent issues of the newsletter:

A small committee has been meeting regularly for more than a year to plan the next Coastal Zone Canada Conference, to be held in St. John's, Newfoundland, in late June 2004. All six members of that committee attended CZC'02 in Hamilton, saw the high standards set by the organizers of 'Managing Shared Waters', and came away with many good ideas. We now have a much better appreciation of the challenges and rewards of mounting a CZC Conference, and look forward to working with CZCA to put together a conference that will be focussed, engaging, and memorable. The working theme of the conference, which will build on the shared-jurisdiction focus of CZC'02, is "Many Uses, Many Users". Within the broad boundaries of that theme, we will explore the complex relations involved in living and working in a multiple-user environment. Our conference will have a strong youth forum, and a series of plenary and contributed presentations designed to facilitate discussion and interaction. We will be working this fall to identify potential collaborators, and put together a draft program. As we develop that program, we will seek in put from the CZCA and from others with vested interests in coastal waters. Our goal is to have a draft program in place and a shortlist of keynote speakers by the end of this year. We will keep you informed as our plans develop, and urge you to pencil CZC'04 into your calendars!

LIAISON WITH CC-SEA

CZCA and CC-SEA (Canadian Coastal Science & Engineering Association) have a long-standing collaborative arrangement that facilitates the exchange of information and the mutual support of each other's biennial, alternate-year, conference. Larry Hildebrand has spearheaded this collaboration on behalf of CZCA. The arrangement includes: CZCA membership on the CC-SEA Board of Directors, and the participation of each Association in the other's biennial conference, specifically an agreement that each Association will organize and convene a special session within the other's event. Despite good intentions, this mutually supportive relationship has not always lived-up to the spirit of the agreement. The issue is compounded by the fact that CC-SEA is having some logistical problems with respect to its 2003 Canadian Coastal Conference (CCC'03). Current indications, however, are that CCC'03 will be held in Kingston, Ontario in the fall of 2003. Discussions have recently been held between CZCA and CC-SEA to review the situation, including preliminary consideration of the form of the collaboration at both CC-SEA's 2003 Canadian Coastal Conference and CZC 2004.

CZCA MEMBERSHIP DUES

Members of the CZCA are reminded that their membership in the Association lapses as of the date of each biennial conference. However, members and other persons who attend CZC conferences are automatically covered for the next two-year period through their conference registration fee. This means that all persons who attended CZC 2002 are now paid-up members of the Association. Conversely, members who did not attend CZCA 2002 are now in arrears in their fees. Members in the latter category who wish to renew their membership in the Association can do so by completing a Membership Application Form and returning it to the CZCA Secretariat, together with payment of the biennial dues of $20.00. Membership Application Forms are obtainable from the CZCA Secretariat at coastalz@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

Questions pertaining to this newsletter should be addressed to the editor, Brian Nicholls at nicholls@telusplanet.net.

Questions pertaining to the Coastal Zone Canada Association should be addressed to the CZCA Secretariat at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, P.O. Box 1006, Dartmouth , N S, B2Y 4A2, coastalz@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca.