Economic and social impacts measures protecting the North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) and the Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW)

Project Title:

Economic and social impacts of measures protecting the North Atlantic Right Whale (NARW) and the Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW).

 Project Objectives:

Early in 2019 Transport Canada (TC) commissioned four studies in relation to measures put in place for the protection of NARW and SRKW in 2017 and 2018. Those studies looked at the impacts of the measures, implemented in2017 and 2018, on supply chain, fishing industry and local communities; the economy; and the costs and benefits of the measures.

A separate study looked at the cruise industry in the Gulf of St Lawrence because preliminary evidence from other studies showed that small communities that depend heavily on cruise ship activities are the most impacted by the measures put in place to protect la NARW.

Transport Canada (TC) is seeking to obtain the services of a Contractor to:

• Validate the results of the following studies using updated methodology and information where appropriate:
  1. Local Community and Supply Chain Participant Perspectives on Mitigation Measures for the Protection of the Southern Resident Killer Whale
  2. Community and supply chains assessment of ship speed reductions for the protection of North Atlantic Right Whales
  3. Economic Impact of Measures Protecting the North Atlantic Right Whale and the Southern Resident Killer Whale
  4. Cost-Benefit Evaluation of Measures Protecting the Southern Resident Killer Whale and the North Atlantic Right Whale
• Based on the results of the validation, produce revised quantitative and qualitative analysis of the measures implemented in 2017 and 2018,
• Produce a methodology and assess the quantitative/ qualitative impacts of both the updated measures as well as new measures as put in place for the 2019 season, and changes to the measures within the season on:
  1. The supply chain;
  2. Industry (i.e. fishing, cruise, cargo);
  3. Local communities
     • East Coast includes but is not limited to Saint-John (NB), Gaspe, Sept-Iles, Havre St-Pierre and Charlottetown
     • West Coast includes First Nations communities
  4. The economy
      

     and

• forecast the long-term economic impacts of the measures to be identified by TC on the above-noted quantitative and qualitative areas of focus. 

  Scope of Work:

  The Contractor must:

1. Validate and update the results of previous studies (identified in Article 2 paragraph 4), including the impacts of vessel management measures implemented in 2017 and 2018 on supply chain, industry, local communities, the cost and benefits of those measures and the economic impact of the measures.
2. Assess the quantitative/ qualitative impacts of the revised and new 2019 measures on the supply chain; Industry (i.e. fishing, cruise, cargo); local communities and the economy; and
3. Forecast the long term economic impact of the measures.