AVICC Representatives on External Groups

The AVICC Executive may appoint representatives to external groups. Currently there are representatives appointed to the following:

Transport Canada, Oceans Protection Plan: Salish Sea Strategy Joint Planning Committee

Appointee: Director Vanessa Craig, Regional District of Nanaimo.

Meeting Resources:

2023-04-28 OPP SSS Joint Planning Committee Meeting Information

Department of Fisheries & Oceans: Southern Resident Killer Whale Indigenous & Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Group

Appointee: Director Vanessa Craig, Regional District of Nanaimo.

2022 June updates:

2020 January updates:

Department of Fisheries & Oceans: Aquaculture Management Advisory Committee (AMAC) for Shellfish

Appointee: Director Daniel Arbour, Comox Valley Regional District

Next meeting – October 2022

Department of Fisheries & Oceans: 2019 Aquaculture Sustainability

In June 2019 the DFO announced a number of initiatives to enhance aquaculture sustainability in Canada, including the establishment of three Technical Working Groups and a coordinating Indigenous and Multi-Stakeholder Body. UBCM and AVICC were offered the opportunity to have representatives on these groups.

The engagement process was completed in the summer of 2020, and a summary of the engagement process and the Technical Working Group reports are available on Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s website.

Indigenous and Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Body – Josie Osborne, District of Tofino

Technical Working Groups:

Area Based Management – Daniel Arbour, Comox Valley RD
Aquaculture Production Technologies – no appointee
Fish Health – no appointee

2020 March updates:

The AVICC acknowledges that we are grateful to live, work, and play on the traditional territories of the
Coast Salish, Nuu-Chah-Nulth and Kwak-Waka’wakw Peoples