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| Siena Margorian, MSc. Student BScH (2023); BEd (2024) Queen's University, Canada. Email: siena.margorian@mail.mcgill.ca
Interests: Transboundary Natural Resource Management, Social-ecologial systems, Resilience, Environmental and Conservation Policies.
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Research Summary:
Assessing the social-ecological fit of American eel conservation and governance in Maritime Canada.
Social ecological systems describe the interdependent and reciprocal relationship between social (ex. institutions, governance, community, etc.) factors and ecosystems. Social ecological fit is the matching between the social dimensions to the ecological needs of a particular ecosystem or phenomenon. The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) is ecologically important to many freshwater ecosystems across North America. With the decline of European and Japanese eel species and the use of eel in Asian culinary markets, the demand for American elvers to be grown in aquaculture has increased dramatically. Consequently, in the coastal rivers and creeks of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, there has been a boom in the elver fishery since 2018. In 2022, the price of elvers reached a high of $5,000 a kilogram. The extremely lucrative nature of the elver fishery led to an explosion of legal and illegal, leading to an eventual closing of the elver fishing season in 2020, 2023, and 2024.
In my master’s research, I will be looking at the social-ecological fit in the context of American eel conservation and the governance of the American eel elver fishery in Maritime Canada.
I am part of the research project NSERC ResNet: A network for monitoring, modeling, and managing Canadian ecosystem services for sustainability and resilience .
Awards and Scholarships:
McCall-MacBain Scholarship (2024-2026)
Graduate Excellence Award (2024-2026)
ResNet Mobility Award, 2024.
Publications:
Still to come.
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