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made in North America and Europe during their rapid technological development, and above all that it will help to generate a public attitude which is receptive to and interested in the notions of a steadystate, cyclical economy which must surely come within the lifetime of the present children. ROGER M. GIFFORD, Society for Social Responsibility in Science (ACT), PO Box 48, 0 'Connor, Canberra, A C T 2601 Australia
system of pipes and holding tanks for both freshwater and seawater fishes and other marine life, and also for the purchase of research equipment--including temperature control apparatus and associated emergency control equipment to prevent interruption of seawater flow, which could destroy months or years of research. NATIONALRESEARCHCOUNCILOF CANADA, Ottawa 7, Ontario, Canada.
MARINE BIOLOGICALSTATION FOR WESTERN CANADA NEW MIGRATORY BIRDS REGULATIONS FOR CANADA The Western Canadian Universities' Marine Biological Society (WCUMBS) has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the National Research Council of Canada to assist in the development of research facilities for a marine biological station on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The grant will be paid in equal instalments over the next two years. The centre will be the first of its kind on the Canadian west coast. Canada operates three marine biology teaching and research centres on the east coast and one in Barbados. The grant provides for close cooperation between WCUMBS and the new federal Department of the Environment. The new centre will be at Bamfield, a fishing village on Barkley Sound, and will make its headquarters in an old federal cable station which was closed 12 years ago. The cable station, now owned by WCUMBS, was designed by the same architect who designed the Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C. It was designated a historic site and monument in 1930. The building is admirably suited for conversion to a marine research station. The western Canadian Universities Marine Biological Society consists of a consortium of five universities-Alberta, Calgary, British Columbia, Simon Fraser, and Victoria. In 1970 the consortium bought 190 acres (ca 77 ha) of land at Bamfield, including almost two miles of shore-line. The Bamfield station will function as a major centre of marine biological research on the west coast. It will promote contact between resident and visiting scientists, and will complement existing inner-coast facilities of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada at Nanaimo and West Vancouver and those of the University of Washington south of the United States border. The NRC grant will be used to help finance a
Recent changes in the Migratory Birds Regulations are part of a continuing Canadian Wildlife Service programme to make the general regulations federally uniform and to avoid legal redundancy and unenforceable prohibitions. Hunters must check provincial regulations for additional restrictions, as these have been largely deleted from the federal regulations. Daily bag and possession limits on migratory birds remain much the same as previously. Hunters may now use power boats in order to recover a bird which has been crippled. Other uses of power boats, as defined in the regulations, are still prohibited. Crippled birds may be shot from a power boat only when the engine is turned off and forward motion has ceased. Provincial amendments include: closing an area of central New Brunswick to Woodcock hunting because of high DOT residue levels, closing part of Norfolk County in Ontario to the hunting of geese, creating a new southern zone in Manitoba and extending the size of goose management areas there, shifting the southern boundary of the northern zone in Saskatchewan southwards to provide relief from damage to crops caused by waterfowl, creating a new zone in Alberta to coincide with provincial regulations, and adjusting to a common opening date on both sides of the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border in order to rationalize management in that area. Abstracts of the Migratory Birds Regulations have been mailed to 405,650 hunters who bought Canadian migratory game-bird hunting permits in 1970. Abstracts are also available from post offices, as well as from provincial game departments and CWS offices. Post offices are displaying posters of the regulations. Hunters in all ten provinces must carry a valid migratory game-bird hunting permit (available at post offices for $2.00), in addition to any required
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made in North America and Europe during their rapid technological development, and above all that it will help to generate a public attitude which is receptive to and interested in the notions of a steadystate, cyclical economy which must surely come within the lifetime of the present children. ROGER M. GIFFORD, Society for Social Responsibility in Science (ACT), PO Box 48, 0 'Connor, Canberra, A C T 2601 Australia
system of pipes and holding tanks for both freshwater and seawater fishes and other marine life, and also for the purchase of research equipment--including temperature control apparatus and associated emergency control equipment to prevent interruption of seawater flow, which could destroy months or years of research. NATIONALRESEARCHCOUNCILOF CANADA, Ottawa 7, Ontario, Canada.
MARINE BIOLOGICALSTATION FOR WESTERN CANADA NEW MIGRATORY BIRDS REGULATIONS FOR CANADA The Western Canadian Universities' Marine Biological Society (WCUMBS) has been awarded a $500,000 grant by the National Research Council of Canada to assist in the development of research facilities for a marine biological station on the west coast of Vancouver Island. The grant will be paid in equal instalments over the next two years. The centre will be the first of its kind on the Canadian west coast. Canada operates three marine biology teaching and research centres on the east coast and one in Barbados. The grant provides for close cooperation between WCUMBS and the new federal Department of the Environment. The new centre will be at Bamfield, a fishing village on Barkley Sound, and will make its headquarters in an old federal cable station which was closed 12 years ago. The cable station, now owned by WCUMBS, was designed by the same architect who designed the Parliament Buildings and Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C. It was designated a historic site and monument in 1930. The building is admirably suited for conversion to a marine research station. The western Canadian Universities Marine Biological Society consists of a consortium of five universities-Alberta, Calgary, British Columbia, Simon Fraser, and Victoria. In 1970 the consortium bought 190 acres (ca 77 ha) of land at Bamfield, including almost two miles of shore-line. The Bamfield station will function as a major centre of marine biological research on the west coast. It will promote contact between resident and visiting scientists, and will complement existing inner-coast facilities of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada at Nanaimo and West Vancouver and those of the University of Washington south of the United States border. The NRC grant will be used to help finance a
Recent changes in the Migratory Birds Regulations are part of a continuing Canadian Wildlife Service programme to make the general regulations federally uniform and to avoid legal redundancy and unenforceable prohibitions. Hunters must check provincial regulations for additional restrictions, as these have been largely deleted from the federal regulations. Daily bag and possession limits on migratory birds remain much the same as previously. Hunters may now use power boats in order to recover a bird which has been crippled. Other uses of power boats, as defined in the regulations, are still prohibited. Crippled birds may be shot from a power boat only when the engine is turned off and forward motion has ceased. Provincial amendments include: closing an area of central New Brunswick to Woodcock hunting because of high DOT residue levels, closing part of Norfolk County in Ontario to the hunting of geese, creating a new southern zone in Manitoba and extending the size of goose management areas there, shifting the southern boundary of the northern zone in Saskatchewan southwards to provide relief from damage to crops caused by waterfowl, creating a new zone in Alberta to coincide with provincial regulations, and adjusting to a common opening date on both sides of the Nova Scotia-New Brunswick border in order to rationalize management in that area. Abstracts of the Migratory Birds Regulations have been mailed to 405,650 hunters who bought Canadian migratory game-bird hunting permits in 1970. Abstracts are also available from post offices, as well as from provincial game departments and CWS offices. Post offices are displaying posters of the regulations. Hunters in all ten provinces must carry a valid migratory game-bird hunting permit (available at post offices for $2.00), in addition to any required