In March 2012, the federal government announced that due to budget constraints, cuts would be made to the Biological Station. The plan will see most of the holdings in St. Andrews transferred to Halifax, Nova Scotia in September.
Former St. Andrews Mayor Nancy Aiken tells Tide News it is a $4 million dollar library that just opened last year and it is a resource to roughly 20 organizations from the fishing industry, including universities like UNB and UNBSJ, as well as aquaculture and conservation groups and the Huntsman Marine Science Centre.
Aiken says they are taking a grassroots approach now within the communities, after not getting much of a response back from Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Keith Ashfield, or MP for South-West New Brunswick John Williamson. She says they are bringing the issue to those most concerned in the community.
She says the closure will have a seriously negative impact on Charlotte County's already struggling economy.
