ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the emergence of community science as a key aspect of the necessary shift required to transform our current governance practices to achieve a better fit between a social-ecological system at the local community level and provincial level of decision-making. The initial goals of the Friends of Port Mouton Bay (FPMB) community science monitoring programme were to document ecosystem sensitivity to nutrient enrichment in Port Mouton Bay and to prevent the siting of aquaculture leases in locations with low flushing rates. There are clearly many accomplishments in the small community of Port Mouton Bay, in drawing on the community's sense of place and strong social cohesion to develop effective community science, and then in using this to push, sometimes successfully, for policy change. While the social network is well documented as a key organisational structure for social learning, the leadership style emerging in the Friends of Port Mouton Bay is somewhat unique.
