Overview of the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program, its goals, project partners and locations.

The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program Overview infographic describes key facts about the first five years of the program. The infographic is divided into 4 sections, each describing a different element or statistic of the program.

On the left hand side, the 4 national goals that drive the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program are listed as follows:

• Address community concerns
• Coverage along all three ocean coasts
• Include local communities in regional program design and implementation
• Data meet national and international standards and are publicly accessible

In the center, a map of Canada is showing the six key coastal areas where ecological data was collected to set benchmarks for future development and ecosystem health. Each coastal area shows the number of projects led by partners or DFO scientists:

• Port of Prince Rupert, located on the North Coast of British Columbia, has 16 partner projects and 14 DFO projects.
• Port of Vancouver, located on the south coast of British Columbia, has 3 partner projects and 11 DFO projects.
• Iqaluit, located in Nunavut in the northeast, has 17 partner projects and 8 DFO projects.
• Lower St. Lawrence Estuary, located in southeastern Quebec, has 18 partner projects and 9 DFO projects.
• Port of Saint John, located on the east coast in southern New Brunswick, has 21 partner projects and 8 DFO projects.
• Placentia Bay, located on the far east coast in Newfoundland, has 22 partner projects and 11 DFO projects.

Below the map of Canada, the total number of partner and DFO projects is shown. There are 98 total partner projects, with one additional project focused on data collection with a national scope. There are 61 total DFO projects.

On the right hand side, the partner organizations are broken down by category, represented by a circular diagram made up of different colors to represent types of partner organizations, with a legend underneath.

• Dark green: academic institutions
• Teal: research centers
• Bright yellow: indigenous organizations
• Light green: non-governmental organizations
• Muted yellow: Provincial/Territorial Government and Port Authorities
• Green: fisheries organizations

Non-governmental organizations and Indigenous organizations make up the majority of partners (approximately one third each). The last third is mainly composed of academic institutions, followed by research centers, provincial/territorial governments and port authorities, and fisheries organizations, in descending order.