Scholarships Available
UINR, in partnership with Georgia Pacific and Port Hawkesbury Paper, has $15,000 in scholarships available to students in Cape Breton’s Mi’kmaq communities. Studies in Forestry, Science, Technology and Natural Resources are all eligible. Please download the applications here: Port Hawkesbury Paper and UINR Scholarship Fund (5) $1,000 Port Hawkesbury Paper and UINR Forestry Scholarship $5,000...
Welcome back Jason!
Welcome back Jason MacLean, UINR’s Assistant Forestry Manager. Jason graduated with honours as a Forest Technician from Maritime Forest Ranger School and also holds an honours certificate in Forest Resources. A graduate from Riverview High School, Jason has worked as a Forest Technician, chainsaw operator and labourer in Margaree, Ontario and British Columbia. Jason has also worked...
Eel Video Day 10-Winter Eeling
It’s time for today’s eel video– Winter Eeling. You can watch it here. This video shows how eel are traditionally speared during the winter. Eel fishers Kerry Prosper and John Sylliboy explain everything about winter fishing from digging through the ice to how to spear. UINR researcher Shelley Denny looks at some of the traditions...
Public Notice to Boaters Using Middle River
UINR wishes to inform the public to exercise caution when using the Middle River for recreational boating purposes between April 20 and June 30, 2013. UINR will be installing a Rotary Screw Trap (smolt wheel) on Middle River at approximately 46° 05’ 49.8N, 60° 55’ 18.8W to catch Atlantic salmon smolts to estimate their...
Eel Video Day 8-Making a Spear
It’s time for today’s eel video– MAKING AN EEL SPEAR. You can watch it here. Kerry Prosper takes us through the entire process of making an eel spear, from finding just the right tree to how spears are made. Mi’kmaq youth are shown the tools and learn their place in the ancient eel tradition. Every...
Eel Video Day 7–Commercial Eeling
It’s time for today’s eel video– COMMERCIAL EELING. You can watch it here. The commercial fishing of eel is a controversial topic to say the least. UINR’s John Couture joins Kerry Prosper, Winston Bernard, Charlie Joe Malikewe’j, Albert Marshall, and John Sylliboy in a discussion about the commercial eel fishery from several perspectives. They look...
Eel Video Day 2-Eel Lifecycle
Today’s Eel video is EEL LIFECYCLE. You can watch it here. Eels can live to over 40 years and have a unique and complex lifecycle, starting life down south in the Sargaso Sea and finding their way to live and mature in Cape Breton lakes and rivers. Parks Canada Ecologist James Brigland joins UINR’s Shelley...
Everything You Wanted to Know About Eels…
UINR is releasing a series of ten short videos on the American eel. Together, the series tells everything we know about the American eel in Cape Breton. Produced in cooperation with Parks Canada,scientists from UINR, Parks Canada and Cape Breton University, fishers, cooks and Elders from around Cape Breton tell stories of the eel’s fascinating...
UINR 2011/2012 Annual Report
UINR’s Annual Report 2011/2012–Continuing the Tradition– covers UINR’s activities from April 2011–March 2012. Our Annual Report also outlines our partners and lists our staff and board of directors for the period. The report also gives an overview of our audited financial statements. You can download a copy here.
Kataq: Journey of Our Eels
A new children’s book was published today that tells the story of a Cape Breton eel from a Mi’kmaw perspective. Kataq: Journey of our Eels is illustrated by well-known artist Dozay Christmas and is written by Angela Denny and Shelley Denny of the Unama’ki Institute of Natural Resources. The book is in English with side-by-side...
Wli Nipi Alasutma aqq Pusu’l Puna’ne!
The Board of Directors and staff at UINR wish you a wonderful holiday season and look forward to working with you in 2013! UINR will close for the holidays starting Thursday December 20 and will reopenThursday January 3.