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Salmon have a complex hierarchical population structure extending from groups of salmon at individual spawning sites all the way up to taxonomic species. These independently functioning aggregates are defined as Conservation Units (CUs) in the Wild Salmon Policy. A stock management unit (SMU) is...

Minister and Deputy Minister Appearance at the House Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on Main Estimates 2024-25

Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) has made available all the publishable limits of modern day surveys whose data has been collected since 1989.

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...

Deputy Minister Appearance before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans (FOPO) on Plans to Prevent Violence During the 2024 Elver Fishing Season

Minister and Deputy Minister appearance at the Senate Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans on Issues relating to the management of Canada’s fisheries and oceans and Examine and report on Canada’s seal populations and their effect on Canada's fisheries.

Subject Matter of Supplementary Estimates (B) 2023-24.

Ministerial Appearance at the House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans, October 26, 2023

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is seeking public input on new regulations for the possession and export of elvers. The information gathered through this engagement process will help DFO refine the proposed regulations and the methods to implement the regulations. Send an email to...

The package of briefing materials prepared for Diane Lebouthillier for the purpose of enabling her to assume the powers, duties and functions of the Minister for Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Main Estimates 2023-2024 Issues Notes – Key Increases CCG Fleet Renewal– New and Reprofiled Funding Hurricane Fiona (Small Craft Harbour Program and Ghost Gear Fund) Oceans Protection Program High Arctic Marine Conservation - Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine and Tuvaijuittuq Marine...

Main Estimates 2023-2024 Issues Notes – Key Increases CCG Fleet Renewal– New and Reprofiled Funding Hurricane Fiona (Small Craft Harbour Program and Ghost Gear Fund) Oceans Protection Program High Arctic Marine Conservation - Tallurutiup Imanga National Marine and Tuvaijuittuq Marine...

The Canada Nature Fund for Aquatic Species at Risk (CNFASAR) is a contribution program that focuses on providing funding for recovery and threat mitigation activities in nine priority places and to address two marine threats to aquatic species at risk. The Priority Places and Marine Threats layer...

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...

Pepin et al. (2014) stated that three nested spatial scales were identified as relevant for the development of ecosystem summaries and management plans: Bioregion, Ecosystem Production Unit (EPU), and Ecoregion. A bioregion is composed by one or more EPUs, while an EPU consists of a combination...

Three marine spatial planning areas are delineated in Eastern Canada to define the spatial extents of marine spatial plans being led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO): the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence (EGSL), the Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Shelves, and the Scotian Shelf and Bay of...

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...

In 2021, the Canada Coast Guard (CCG) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) updated its administrative boundaries following the creation a new Arctic region.There are now 7 administrative regions in DFO (Pacific, Arctic, Ontario and Prairie, Quebec, Gulf, Maritimes, Newfoundland and Labrador)....

The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Secretariat, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) have collaborated to update the spatial representation of the NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions as defined in Annex 1 to the Convention on...

The spatial planning framework for Canada's national network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is comprised of 13 ecologically defined bioregions that cover Canada's oceans and the Great Lakes. Note that the geographic boundaries for the bioregions are fuzzy and may change based on ecosystemic...