AVICC Representatives on External Groups
AVICC Representatives on External Groups
The AVICC Executive may appoint representatives to external groups. Currently there are representatives appointed to the following:
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:
- 2020 January 8 Agenda of Group Meeting
- 2019 Southern Resident Killer Whale Management Measures: Post Season Review
- Update on DFO Science Activities in Support of Southern Resident Killer Whale Recovery
- Southern Resident Killer Whale Recovery – Approach for 2020
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 at https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/publications/summary-sommaire-eng.html
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: