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This contribution is based on the testimony of Captain Michel Pouliot, recorded by Louise Décarie and Bernard Genest at Saint-Jean de l'île d'Orléans during the summer of 2021. Michel Pouliot was an important member of a dynasty of sailors and, according to the Spring 2010 issue of Le Pilote canadien, was known for more than 25 years as the most influential figure in Canadian and international maritime piloting. Bernard Genest begins his presentation of the captain by detailing historical, geographical and family contexts, after which he deals with his training and his work experiences, including his involvement with Canadian and international navigational authorities regarding questions of maritime security, regulatory decisions and the professional recognition of his field.

The practice of the poetic fragment characterizes the collections of the Mauritian writer Édouard J. Maunick. While the latter inscribe at the heart of the text a personal, ancestral and collective memory marked by human displacement and colonial violence, they also reveal the subterranean, or more precisely underwater, links that are woven between the land, horizontally, and between the times of history, vertically. The migration of ancestors, linked to the slave system and indentured servitude, is re-enacted in the poet's voluntary exile, as he leaves his native island to link the lands that make up his intimate geography. In this way, the spatial journey is doubled by a temporal exploration in which historical strata ebb and flow on the surface of the poetic text. This marine rhythm, cyclical rather than linear, which permeates literary creation, echoes the thinking of the Barbadian author Kamau Brathwaite.

Keywords: Édouard J. Maunick, fragment poétique, insularité, Kamau Brathwaite

Since 1992, I have been exploring ecoformation both as a research concept and as an interventional educational model in the field of environmental education. This issue of the journal allows me to revisit this path through first as a physical education teacher leading nature classes (1), then through three action-research projects carried out as part of the work of the Groupe de Recherche en EcoFormation (GREF) : sea classes (2) ; gardens (3) ; and the use of electricity in everyday household life (4). The final section (5) shows that environmental education that incorporates ecoformation into its aims and pedagogy is possible, whatever the context in which it takes place, and whoever you are as an educator (teacher, organizer, even parent). But it requires us to push back or break down walls, work around constraints and remain humble in the influence we can have. Ecoformation was also, for me, a life project : that of participating in the eco-social transformation of relationships with the world, moving from dualistic and aggressive relations of domination with an objectified living being, to sensitive, attentive and pacified relations of kinship, erasing the dualism of object and subject between co-inhabitants of the planet.

Keywords: formation tripolaire, auto-écoformation, socio-écoformation, corps sensoriel et moteur, monde sensible, éco-naissance, vivant., tripolar formation, self-formation, socio-formation, eco-formation, sensory and motor body, sensitive world, living.

Spirulina maxima est une algue pluricellulaire qui contient environ 65% de protéines de son poids sec. Actuellement, on cultive dans un milieu synthétique cette algue sur une base industrielle. Un des coûts principaux, pour la culture de cette algue est la consommation des sels minéraux. Des études préliminaires ont été entreprises afin de remplacer le milieu synthétique par un milieu naturel, l'eau de mer. L'addition de bicarbonate de sodium, tampon du milieu de culture basique de Spirulina maxima, précipite avec les ions calcium et magnésium de l'eau de mer. Un étude par design factoriel permet de mettre au point une méthode d'élimination des ions calcium et magnésium en surplus de l'eau de mer. Ce nouveau milieu, additionné de sels de phosphate, nitrate et de fer …

Le rôle du Tribunal international du droit de la mer, en tant que juridiction internationale spécialisée dans le droit de la mer, révèle une importance certaine dans le contentieux international. En tant qu’organe chargé de trancher un différend sur la base du droit, le Tribunal contribue à la mise en oeuvre de la règle, à son interprétation, ainsi qu’à son développement. La présente étude interroge la manière dont le Tribunal oeuvre à l’interprétation des dispositions de la Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit de la mer qui peuvent enfermer des points obscurs que le Tribunal tente toutefois d’éclaircir dans les affaires qui lui sont soumises. De ce point de vue, mes réflexions montreront, sous un angle original, qu’en s’inscrivant dans un maillage juridictionnel qui …

J'ai mené des expériences afin d'étudier les réponses de l'oursin Tetrapygus niger à la prédation des étoiles de mer. L'oursin était capable de différencier les étoiles de mer prédatrices des non-prédatrices mais également de distinguer différents niveaux de risques associés aux étoiles de mer, Heliaster helianthus et Meyenaster gelatinosus. Les oursins soumis à un haut niveau de risque hérissaient rapidement leurs épines, puis étendaient leurs pieds ambulacraires pour fuir le prédateur. L'oursin associait un risque plus grand à M. gelatinosus. J'ai également démontré l'existence de la chimiodétection à distance des prédateurs. La micro-distribution des oursins sur les surfaces élevées semble représenter une stratégie pour limiter la prédation par les étoiles de mer. Le nombre de celles-ci étant plus réduit sur ces surfaces élevées, leur capacité …

This article deals with juridical control of land and marine pollution, as well as the law concerning management of coastal regions, in order to describe the effect of international covenants and state practice on the protection of the coastal environment. The author examines how the three different systems, which are often parallel and share common goals, though based on diverging or contradictory principles, co-exist. The author outlines the chronological order in which the principal instruments were adopted, as well as their relative importance, in order to describe the general legal framework relating to coastal areas towards which the three different systems work.