Plan St-Laurent - Pour un développement durable

• Close-up on the
  St. Lawrence River
  • Monitoring the
    State of the
    St. Lawrence River
  • Overview of the
    State of the
    St. Lawrence River
    • 2004 (PDF Format)
    • 2008 (PDF Format)
  • Fact sheets
    • Indicators of the State of the St. Lawrence River
    • State of the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence Ecosystem
  • Schedule of
    dissemination
    of results
    • Format PDF
  • Rendez-vous
    St. Lawrence
    • Program – 2006

Monitoring the State of the St. Lawrence River Program

Six government partners — Environment Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Parks Canada Agency, the Ministère du Développement durable, de l’Environnement et des Parcs du Québec, the Ministère des Ressources naturelles et de la Faune du Québec — and Stratégies Saint-Laurent, a nongovernmental organization that works actively with riverside communities, are pooling their expertise and efforts to provide Canadians with information on the state of the St. Lawrence and longterm trends affecting it.

To this end, environmental indicators have been developed on the basis of data collected as part of each organization’s ongoing environmental monitoring activities. These activities cover the main components of the environment, namely water, sediments, biological resources, uses and shorelines.

A coordinating committee was established to execute the new program during Phase IV of the SLP (2005-2010).

Two fact sheets on the indicators of the state of the St. Lawrence River are now available:

Beluga Whale Population of the Estuary

Water quality of Richelieu and Yamaska Rivers