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The Challenges Of Moving From Framework Development To The Real World: Operationalising An Oil Vulnerability Framework For Oil Spill Response In The Canadian Pacific Region, Lucie Hannah, Matthias Herborg, Candice St. Germain, Sharon Jeffery
The Challenges Of Moving From Framework Development To The Real World: Operationalising An Oil Vulnerability Framework For Oil Spill Response In The Canadian Pacific Region, Lucie Hannah, Matthias Herborg, Candice St. Germain, Sharon Jeffery
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference
To support oil spill response planning, and to focus data collection within the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Canada (DFO), an oil vulnerability framework was developed in 2016, and applied to the Pacific region. Using a criteria scoring (Exposure, Sensitivity and Recovery categories) and screening process, the framework identifies and ranks species sub-groups in terms of their vulnerability to oil. The framework outputs have been applied during oil spill exercises and during the recent Jake Shearer incident near Bella Bella in Nov 2017. Operationalising the framework at the spatial scale and within the time constraints of oil spill response requires …