Weaving Traditional Ecological Knowledge Into Eelgrass Restoration

In Nova Scotia, the Mi'kmaq and Dalhousie University run the Community Eelgrass Restoration Initiative, documenting eelgrass and choosing planting sites with Mi'kmaw harvesters and knowledge holders and planting sods and shoots alongside Mi'kmaw land users. In northern Quebec, a 2016 agreement between the Cree Nation, Hydro-Quebec and the Niskamoon Corporation studies eelgrass and Canada geese along eastern James Bay, requiring coastal Cree land users in all fieldwork and giving them final authority over it.