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  • Open Data

    Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas

    Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) are areas within Canada's oceans that have been identified through formal scientific assessments as having special biological or ecological significance when compared with the surrounding marine ecosystem. Failure to define an area as an...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ZIP
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas

    Marine protected areas (MPAs) are one among a number of spatial management tools, and are defined as areas that are established for the long-term, and managed through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
    • WMS
    • SHP
    • KML
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

    This dataset contains area-based management measures that have been recognized as 'other effective area-based conservation measures' (OECMs). It also contains basic information about OECMs, specifically their names, size, objectives, associated prohibitions, and DFO region.  Spatial data for...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
    • WMS
    • SHP
    • KML
    • ESRI REST
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