Atlantic Canada Shellfish Water Quality Protection Program

Monitoring data and results are published in departmental reports.
This program is designed to protect consumers of shellfish from health hazards
associated with bacterial contamination through the monitoring of shellfish
growing waters. The water sampling program along the New Brunswick coastline
of Gulf of Maine is carried out under the cooperative bacterial monitoring
program with the local community group (Eastern Charlotte Waterways Inc). Water
samples are analyzed for fecal coliform bacteria (Most Probable Number [MPN]
per 100ml, using the 5-tube MPN method). Other parameters such as water
temperature and salinity are also measured. Other relevant observations such as
pollution sources, weather, antecedent precipitation, shellfish resource and
aquaculture sites, tidal conditions, etc. are also maintained in the database.

Waterbody or Watershed Names: Yarmouth; St. Mary's Bay; Annapolis Basin; Avon
River; Shubenacadie River; Minas/Cobequid; Cumberland Basin; Shepody Shore;
Fundy Shore; St. John River; Magaguadavic Bay; At. Croix River