Join your local harbour authority: Make a difference in your community
Harbour authorities currently operate and manage approximately 700 small craft harbours across Canada. These individuals represent different segments of the local population. Getting involved in the program allows them to play a vital role in the economic and social life of a community by ensuring the continued harbour activities. These ambassadors of coastal communities are motivated by the fact that their contributions are valued and make a real difference.
Transcript: Join your local harbour authority: Make a difference in your community
Text on screen [In 1988, DFO created the Harbour Authority Program to help manage its many harbours across the country. Today the program relies on the engagement of over 5,000 local volunteers.]
Patrice Élément [speaking in French]:
The role of the harbour authority, as defined by Fisheries and Oceans, is to manage facilities belonging to Fisheries and Oceans or to Small Craft Harbours.
Camille André Mallet [speaking in French]:
The government has decided to delegate this responsibility to local management, entirely through volunteers.
Charles Elliot:
The harbour being managed by people who use it is important because we know what the harbour needs, what it's used for.
We made it safe as fishermen and the board of directors and the harbour authority helped help make it safe, and pretty too.
Cindy Blicq:
I think that it's such an importantrole that the board members play and the volunteers play in making decisions about the harbour and just managing it in a way that it makes it still good for the fishing community.
I think that's the priority and it really, you need people to be involved to keep that going.
Douglas Howlett:
Well, it’s a good experience for one thing like, you meet a lot of people and it’s a sense of pride, like you know, in your community.
Ross Petten:
You got to have a passion for volunteering especially, trying to help people would be the number, you know, and see that, you know, you got some knowledge and you're satisfied to learn something. And do it for the right reasons.
Alan Jones:
Oh, I, I get a great, sense of accomplishment from, from providing my time and my efforts to look after the harbour. It's, it's just a feel good.
Patrice Élément [speaking in French]:
whether it is as a director or in any other role, given that harbour authorities are managed locally If you really want to have an influence, get involved, because you will.
Chris Kristjanson:
On a big, big program of Small Craft Harbours it's a team, and it's a big team right across Canada. Right from coast to coast to coast. We are Small Craft Harbours. We are here, we are Canadians, and we are creating a difference.
Text on screen [Join the harbour authority team!]
Text on screen: [No matter your skills, we have a role that will enrich your life. Take the next step with us today. Get in touch with your local HA or visit: https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/sch-ppb/list-liste-eng.html]
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