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Watch our short documentary on the Climate Ready BC Seafood Program!
Ocean acidification and hypoxia threaten British Columbia's coastal food security. In 2023, concurrently with the release of the BC Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia Action Plan, the Province of British Columbia provided a $2M funding envelope to create the Climate Ready BC Seafood (CRBS) Program. This short documentary highlights some of the 11 projects funded by the CRBS Program. Learn more about how these groups are working to further our understand the impacts of ocean acidification and hypoxia in BC to provide knowledge for mitigation and adaptation that supports enhancing the resiliency of BC's seafood.
PROGRAM INFORMATION
Lead Organizations
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Tula Foundation, Hakai Institute
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Province of British Columbia
Project Description
With support from British Columbia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Food, the Tula Foundation is delivering the Climate Ready B.C. Seafood Program. This program will provide $2 million in funding to support actions identified in the B.C. Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia (OAH) Action Plan. The B.C. OAH Action Plan was developed with support from an advisory committee and input from scientists, community members, aquaculture and fisheries representatives, Indigenous, Local, Provincial, and Federal governments. The Action Plan highlights the impacts of ocean acidification and hypoxia on marine organisms and ecosystems, with resulting effects on aquaculture and wild capture fisheries.
Read the B.C. OAH Action Plan:
The B.C. OAH Action Plan is supported by a comprehensive scientific assessment: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/climate-change/adaptation/climate-risks/bc-ocean-acidification-hypoxia-scientific-assessment.pdf
The Climate Ready B.C. Seafood program is addressing priorities identified in the Action Plan and aims to fund projects to support coastal communities in understanding, mitigating, and adapting to the impacts of OAH on B.C.'s oceans and coasts. In particular, the program will fund projects that support four key program areas:
● Advancing scientific understanding of ocean acidification and hypoxia (OAH)
● Collaborations, knowledge transfer, awareness and understanding related to OAH
● Mitigation, adaptation and resilience to OAH
● Interactions between Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal approaches and OAH
Eleven proposals were selected for funding as they displayed strong alignments with program priorities, meaningful collaborations and high impact on understanding B.C. OAH. Successful proposal applicants include industry associations, research institutions, Indigenous communities and organizations, and non-profit organizations. Many successful proposals displayed strong collaborations and partnerships across stakeholders and rights holders. Projects will run from April 1, 2024 to March 31,2026.
BC OAH Action Forum
On March 3, 2026, the BC Ocean Acidification and Hypoxia (OAH) Action Forum, hosted by the Tula Foundation, was held at the Vancouver Island Conference Centre in Nanaimo. The CRBS Program was strongly featured, including a premiere of the CRBS documentary, and lightning talks with panel discussions from the CRBS project recipients. To read the CRBS project abstracts and Forum Executive Summary, and explore other outputs of the Forum, please visit the Forum event page.
BC OAH Action Forum event page
Relevant Documents:
Related Programs
Relevant Links
Contact
Emily Paroo, Program Manager, Tula Foundation: emily.paroo@tula.org
Credit: Bennet Whitnell, Videographer, Tula Foundation
THE CRBS PROJECT STORYMAPS
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THE CRBS EDUCATIONAL OAH TOOLKIT
As part of the Climate Ready BC Seafood Program, an educational OAH toolkit was created by the CRBS administrative team to help bring together OAH resources relevant to BC and to connect them to the BC OAH Action Plan goals, objectives and actions. The toolkit was compiled during the CRBS Program (mainly 2024 - 2025) and is not an exhaustive list of OAH resources.
Goals of the OAH toolkit:
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Assemble and organize resources related to ocean acidification and hypoxia (OAH) specific to British Columbia.
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Identify tools, guidance, and information relevant to addressing OAH impacts in BC and connect available resources to the actions identified in the BC OAH Action Plan.
Process used:
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Searched for and compiled existing resources relevant to OAH, with a focus on BC-specific and regional resources where available.
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Organized resources according to their relevance to specific Action Plan actions to make them easier to identify and use.
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Included some resources from outside BC where they provided useful information or approaches that could be relevant to OAH work in the province.
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The toolkit was developed as a practical compilation rather than an exhaustive or systematic review, and resources were selected based on their relevance and usefulness at the time of compilation (2024/2025)
To use this toolkit, we recommend viewing it in fullscreen by clicking the "view larger version" button in the bottom right corner of the viewer. The toolkit has a "Resources" tab that lists all of the resources compiled, which is filterable. The second tab lists all of the goals, objectives, and actions from the BC OAH Action Plan.
Last updated 2026-08-20