Case Studies of Fish Habitat Compensation in Eeyou Istchee: Compensation Projects Prioritize Facility over Effectiveness : Fish Habitat Compensation in Eeyou Istchee: Is Trying Enough?
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| Názov: | Case Studies of Fish Habitat Compensation in Eeyou Istchee: Compensation Projects Prioritize Facility over Effectiveness : Fish Habitat Compensation in Eeyou Istchee: Is Trying Enough? |
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| Autori: | Church KDW; Université du Québec en Outaouais, Institut des Sciences de la Forêt tempérée, Ripon, QC, Canada. kathleen.church@mail.mcgill.ca., Aguilar-Melo AR; Université du Québec en Outaouais, Institut des Sciences de la Forêt tempérée, Ripon, QC, Canada., Asselin H; Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, School of Indigenous Studies, Rouyn-Noranda, QC, Canada., Turgeon K; Université du Québec en Outaouais, Institut des Sciences de la Forêt tempérée, Ripon, QC, Canada. |
| Zdroj: | Environmental management [Environ Manage] 2025 Dec; Vol. 75 (12), pp. 3384-3400. Date of Electronic Publication: 2025 Sep 15. |
| Spôsob vydávania: | Journal Article |
| Jazyk: | English |
| Informácie o časopise: | Publisher: Springer Verlag Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 7703893 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1432-1009 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0364152X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Environ Manage Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: New York Ny : Springer Verlag Original Publication: New York, Springer-Verlag. |
| Výrazy zo slovníka MeSH: | Ecosystem* , Conservation of Natural Resources*/methods , Conservation of Natural Resources*/economics , Fishes*, Animals ; Quebec ; Fisheries ; Mining |
| Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Compliance with Ethical Standards. Conflict of Interest: The authors declare no competing interests. Ethical approval: No approval of research ethics committees was required, as this study involved compiling and summarizing publicly available documents used to authorize and monitor fish habitat compensation projects. Industrial activity, particularly hydropower and mining projects and their associated road networks, are prevalent in Eeyou Istchee, the traditional home of the Crees in the James Bay region of Northern Quebec. Since the mid-1980s, industry proponents must outline plans for fish habitat compensation in order to receive authorization from Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans to engage in any development activity that will result in the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish or fish habitats. The goal of these fish habitat compensation projects is No Net Loss of Canada's fish habitat productivity, with fish habitat compensation serving as a compromise between continued industrial development and the preservation of Canada's fisheries resources. In this paper, we outline five recent industrial development projects and their associated fish habitat compensation projects in Eeyou Istchee. These projects include a hydropower project, two mining projects, a road extension project, and the repair of two existing roads. The inclusion of Cree traditional knowledge, the impacts of the development projects on fish and fish habitats, the avoidance and minimization measures taken during the habitat compensation work, and the implemented fish habitat compensation projects are summarized and compared for each project. The priority for these five fish habitat compensation projects was their structural integrity and potential ability to function as designed, rather than any proven beneficial effects on fish reproduction and fish population dynamics. In cases where fish populations continued to decline despite the habitat compensation projects, nothing further was done. Proponents were only held accountable for the completion of the planned compensation work, but not for the consequences of their fish habitat compensation projects. (© 2025. The Author(s).) |
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| Grant Information: | ref. IT27366 Mitacs |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: Eeyou Istchee; Fish habitat compensation; Indigenous Knowledge (IK); Industrial development; No Net Loss (NNL) |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20250915 Date Completed: 20251031 Latest Revision: 20251102 |
| Update Code: | 20251102 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC12575471 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00267-025-02276-1 |
| PMID: | 40952455 |
| Databáza: | MEDLINE |
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Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstrakt: | Competing Interests: Compliance with Ethical Standards. Conflict of Interest: The authors declare no competing interests. Ethical approval: No approval of research ethics committees was required, as this study involved compiling and summarizing publicly available documents used to authorize and monitor fish habitat compensation projects.<br />Industrial activity, particularly hydropower and mining projects and their associated road networks, are prevalent in Eeyou Istchee, the traditional home of the Crees in the James Bay region of Northern Quebec. Since the mid-1980s, industry proponents must outline plans for fish habitat compensation in order to receive authorization from Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans to engage in any development activity that will result in the harmful alteration, disruption or destruction of fish or fish habitats. The goal of these fish habitat compensation projects is No Net Loss of Canada's fish habitat productivity, with fish habitat compensation serving as a compromise between continued industrial development and the preservation of Canada's fisheries resources. In this paper, we outline five recent industrial development projects and their associated fish habitat compensation projects in Eeyou Istchee. These projects include a hydropower project, two mining projects, a road extension project, and the repair of two existing roads. The inclusion of Cree traditional knowledge, the impacts of the development projects on fish and fish habitats, the avoidance and minimization measures taken during the habitat compensation work, and the implemented fish habitat compensation projects are summarized and compared for each project. The priority for these five fish habitat compensation projects was their structural integrity and potential ability to function as designed, rather than any proven beneficial effects on fish reproduction and fish population dynamics. In cases where fish populations continued to decline despite the habitat compensation projects, nothing further was done. Proponents were only held accountable for the completion of the planned compensation work, but not for the consequences of their fish habitat compensation projects.<br /> (© 2025. The Author(s).) |
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| ISSN: | 1432-1009 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00267-025-02276-1 |