Fisheries and Oceans Canada

3 datasets found
  • 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:
    • SHP
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Conservation network sites for the Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Bioregion

    Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has worked with partners and ocean users to develop a draft conservation network plan for the Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Bioregion. This work led to the 2017 draft conservation network plan. The draft plan was updated after targeted consultations from 2021 to...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • SHP
    • CSV
    • HTML
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Federal Marine Bioregions

    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...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
    • SHP
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST