Join Seascape Kayak Tours for the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup

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Seascape Kayak Tours is looking for a few seriously committed hard-working paddlers to help us with the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup. Organized by the Vancouver Aquarium, this annual event brings together hundreds of thousands of Canadians who are concerned about the state of our oceans and shorelines.

Seascape will be the Site Coordinator for a cleanup of the shoreline surrounding Deer Island. Contact us if you would like to sign up to help collect trash by kayak on either September 26 or 27. Let’s make Deer Island a better place for the many whales, seals, porpoise and sea birds who call it home.

To learn more about the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, visit
http://www.vanaqua.org/cleanup/home.php

Frances Figart
Director, Marketing and Communications
Seascape Kayak Tours Inc.
40 NW Harbour Branch Rd.
Richardson (Deer Island), NB
Canada E5V 1S1
Toll free 866.747.1884

frances@seascapekayaktours.com
www.seascapekayaktours.com

Don't Eat the Clams!

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Shellfish Harvest Closures In S.W. New Brunswick
More at: http://www.wqdy.fm/2009_06_01_archive.html#6139395086202530530



Friday, June 26, 2009

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) advises the public that the harvesting of bi-valve molluscs, including oysters, clams, mussels, scallops, quahogs and whelks, for recreational or commercial purposes is prohibited until further notice in the foreshore and waters within 1.6 km of Southern New Brunswick from the Nova Scotia/New Brunswick border to the Canada/United States border and within 1.6 km of the Islands of Grand Manan, The Wolves, Bliss, Hills, Frye, Deer and Campobello.

This closure is due to an increase in levels of Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP).

Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP) is a natural occurring toxin often referred to as red tide. This toxin or poison can cause a loss of muscular coordination, paralysis and in severe cases is life threatening.

Last weekend, the Maine Department of Marine Resources ordered the clam flats closed from Cape Neddick in York to the Canadian border due to pollution from last week's heavy rains.

Maine officials said last Saturday, "It shall be unlawfull to dig, take or possess any clams, quahogs, oysters, or mussels from all shores, flats and territorial waters of the Maine coast from Cape Neddick in York to the Canadian border."

Now, Canadian officials have extended the closures within their jurisdiction.

- Tom McLaughlin, WQDY-WALZ News Director -

A Beautiful Hike - An Ominous Picture

Tim Foulkes sent some beautiful shots of his hike around Simpson Hill this weekend. I always enjoy Tim's photos and I hesitated to bring this up, but, as many of us express our concerns about pollution from LNG and quarry operations, we rarely seem to be able to focus on a real killer, air pollution.

Do you see the plume behind Mary? That's from the Woodland mill. Did you know that EPA data for the last available year for this mill, combined with EC data for the St. Stephen flakeboard plant, showed these two local operations were emitting about a ton of toxic chemicals a day into our air, on the average, and this did not include releases to water.

Did you know that the mill has been characterized as among the "top 10% dirtiest" mill operations in the United States. Yet we express little or no concern about this serious long-term pollution in our midst. I believe that it may have impacted stream productivity, fish reproduction, near-shore marine fisheries, and possibly even human health in those areas where the plume most commonly falls, the Maine shore of Passamaquoddy Bay and the islands.

In case you're not sure that this is the mill in the photo, the following map provides an interesting line of sight. http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&ll=45.197038,-67.251434&spn=0.256928,0.482712&t=h&z=11

Want to know more? Get in touch and we will link you to the studies including the chemicals of concern which include 4 carcinogens and a crucible of other chemicals that are implicated in a plethora of human diseases. Or you can go to this link and check it out for yourself.

http://scorecard.org/

Quoddy citizens really need to take notice of the existing as well as potential threats that threaten our eco-economy and health.

That's my opinion tonight.

Art

Thanks to Tim and Mary.