They say that this bay is home to an island for every day of the year – 365, give or take. Welcome to Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia; the town named after the bay has a population of over 1,000 and is tucked into a small inlet off the North Atlantic Ocean.

If you’ve driven through Mahone Bay, NS, recently, you may have realized that construction is fast underway! The Mahone Bay Living Shoreline as we know it is expanding rapidly!

It is finally that time! The construction of the Mahone Bay Living Shoreline expansion is scheduled to begin!

Coastal Action is excited to announce that the Mahone Bay Living Shoreline is now expanding by 100 metres!

Have you ever walked along the Mahone Bay Living Shoreline, seen an animal on its shores, snapped a picture, and not known where to send it? Worry no-further!

This summer, we officially announced that we are receiving funding from Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) from their Natural Infrastructure Fund (NIF) to continue the expansion of the Mahone Bay Living Shoreline project! 

Our research partner, TransCoastal Adaptations: Centre for Nature-based Solutions at Saint Mary’s University, has been hard at work collecting data and monitoring our living shoreline demonstration site. They’ve compiled their findings into a report that is now available!

We are thrilled to announce that we are preparing to continue construction of the Mahone Bay living shoreline! This next phase of the project plans to see another approximately 100-meters along the shoreline installed with a vegetated bank, tidal wetland restoration, and rock sills!

This first, unseasonably warm winter for the living shoreline is providing ample opportunities for adaptive management and research. Our project partners, TransCoastal Adaptations, are studying the capacity of the shoreline to buffer against climate change in areas exposed to freeze-thaw winter conditions.

The living shoreline has survived hurricane Fiona! The storm came through Nova Scotia on September 24, 2022 causing major damage throughout the province and Atlantic Canada. Fortunately, the impacts of the storm weren’t seen as harshly in the Mahone Bay Harbour

Construction of the living shoreline has been completed! We are now moving into our monitoring stage. Thanks to the help of volunteers and community members there are 1250 plants within the vegetated bank and tidal marsh of the living shoreline

CLOSED - Call for volunteers!

Construction starts on June 16th, 2022, and will last approximately two months.