Inui Developmen and Inegraed Managemen of a Seaweed Resource in NUNAVIK, Quebec Canada The Region Glyn Sharp Kiely Cove Marine Enerprises & Marc Allard Nunavik Bioscience Ld Nunavik is he land and coasline of Norhern Quebec The region was esablished o allow Inui o manage socio, economic and local poliical issues 4500 years of habiaion by Inui from Pre Dorse imes Nunavik Srucures for Developmen James Bay and Norhern Quebec Agreemen 1975 Special funding for Nunavik Makivik corporaion formed in 1978 manages James Bay funding Nunavik Biosciences Inc (NBI) Nunavik Biosciences in a wholly owned subsidiary of Makivik corporaion Mandae o provide research and developmen of biological resources of Nunavik NBI has chosen seaweeds as a group wih commercial poenial NBI has he goal of providing developmen of marine resources ha is susainable, ecologically responsible and culurally sound for Nunavik villages Seaweeds are he basis for a very diverse world wide indusry worh 6 billion dollars Uses range from ferilizers, food addiives, pharmaceuicals, nuraceuicals, and cosmeics Seaweeds have been a componen of he radiional Inui die Poenial 1
Challenges o Developmen Posiive facors Isolaion of villages Disance from marke Limied means of ranspor Coss of maerials and supplies Limied ime for harves and processing 6-7 monhs ice cover An exensive unuilized resource A local young labour force Local marine infrasrucure Tradiion of work on he waer and manual gahering Local knowledge A grea need for local susained economic aciviy Large ineridal zone Payne Bay Village of Kangirsuk Ungava Bay Sudy Componens Ineridal survey of Fucoid species Sub idal survey of Kelp species Preliminary sudies of growh and producion Leaf Bay George River Sub idal Survey Deph Profiles and Kelp Disribuion in Payne Bay 1 drop camera sies Qualiaive < 1 m -, 1-5 m - >5 m - 1 represenaive dive sies Transec from -3m o 15 m dep Qualiaive < 1 m -, 1-5 m - >5 m - Quaniaive 4 sies sampled 6 samples 3m, 5m, 10 m
Mehods Ineridal survey 3 ransecs op mid and boom of Fucoid zone 6.5 m - samples per ransec Fucoid biomass we weigh, subsrae classificaion Toal samples 460 LOCATION OF SURVEY STATIONS PAYNE BAY AND ENVIRONS Fucus disichus Fucus vesiculosus 3 F. disichus F. vesiculosus 3 F. disichus F. vesiculosus we kg m- kg m- we k 1 1 0 bedrock boulder rock cobble subsrae 0 op mid boom Level 3
Conclusions REMOTE SENSING ASSESSMENT Pachiness in Fucus resources Relief of subsrae criical o developmen of sanding crop Mixed boulder rock subsraes provide proecion from he ice Plans loose floaaion o avoid ice scour Plans recover from basal issues afer loss of large porions of hallus Quick Bird Saellie Image Analysis Fucus Resource The resource is abundan and wide spread There is one sie in he bay where infrasrucure and people are available o harves The access o he resource is limied o -3 hours per day The harves and sun drying season is shor Table 5 Esimaes of Fucoid cover oal sanding crop and harvesable sanding crop of Fucus evanescens Fe and Fucus vesiculosus Fv in Kangirsuk and environs. Augus 005 DEVELOPMENT? Area Access wave exposure Fucoid cover ha Toal Sanding Crop Fucus evanescens Fe Toal Sanding Crop Fucus vesiculosus Fv Harvesable F e Fv Meric ons Annually Harvesable a 10% exploiaion Fe Fv A HA/SS 7 3563 1565 3563 1565 356 156 B MA/SS 1568 4110 10744 1055a 537a 105 537 C LA/SS 661 954 908 467a 1454a 463 145 D LA/S 1309 0109 908 507b 57b 503 6 TOTAL 3765 57036 445 57 10648 57 1064 a 50% discoun for access b 75% discoun for access No indusrial scale Limied ransporaion Limied infrasrucure Limied labour force High cos resource A scale o fi wih radiional huning and gahering Specialy producs cosmeics Food suffs Bio reacives 4
Manual Harvesing of Fucoids Exploiaion Rae Experimens Area Based Managemen Plo Toal Fucoi Fucoi Toal Plo Yield Exploiaion area d d harvesabl Yield kg Rae % of m area cover e kg m - oal 08 m % biomass Fillion harvesable biomass H 3 916 770 84 618 498.54 19 H 4 900 719 80 445 445.49 18. H 11 1033 955 9 351 318.31 9.0 H 1 900 733 81 49 79.31 11. H 18 854 746 87 536 695.81 7.4 H 1 9 615 67 091 197.1 9.4 H 941 677 7 30 190.0 8. Mean 93.7 80.4 570.8 0.4 14.6 Table 1 The cover, harves yield and exploiaion rae from 30 by 30 m plos near Kangirsuk, Nunavik, Quebec. Table 9 Area of Fucoid resources needed o harves 0 annually in area A, Kangirsuk based on hree levels of Fucoid cover and wo biomass values 10 % % Biomass Harvesable 50% Toal h Cover kg m - Crop h -1 exploiaion discoun (0) h -1 h -1 mean 78 1.75 a 13.6 1.4.7 9 min 57 1.75 a 10.0 1.0.5 40 max 91 1.75 a 15.9 1.6.8 5 mean 78 1.44 b 11. 1.1.6 33 min 57 1.44 b 8..8.4 40 max 91 1.44 b 13.1 1.3.7 9 a) Global mean (N=460) Payne Bay 006 b) Mean (N=150) on he Kangirsuk shoreline, area A, 006 Area Based Managemen of Fucoids near Kangirsuk, Nunavik Impac of Harves on he Toal Resource of Fucoids Payne Bay, Nunavik Year Area hecares Sanding Fucoid crop we Quoa We Exp rae Area % Exp % Region A 418 Exp % Payne Bay 3590 011 54 459 0 4.5.05 01 46 391 0 5.5.05 013 51 434 0 5.5.05 014 49 415 0 5.5.05 015 40 340 0 6.5.05 Conrol and Miigaion Precauionary Approach Conrol of harves by managemen plan Daily monioring Annual reporing Scale of harves is low relaive o oal resource base Impacs are of shor duraion and limied spaial exen The harves areas are pulsed over a period of 5 years Recovery is assessed prior o re-harves 5
LOCAL CONTROL Inegraed Co-Managemen The Village of Kangirsuk Inui/Quebec/Federal Agreemen allows conrol of marine resources of Nunavik (010) Kaivik Regional Governmen Managemen commiees 80% Inui Nunavik Wildlife Managemen Board Nunavik Environmenal Impac Review Board Inegraion of souhern science and radiional ecological knowledge and culural realiies Kangirsuk Demographics (006) PROCESSING MARKETING Populaion 465 5% under he age of 5 Unemploymen rae 6.3% 96.5% of employmen relaed o communiy services and managemen THE FUTURE THANK YOU 6