Arctic SDI catalogue
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 values.
Currently, Fisheries and Oceans Canada has a number of MPAs designated under the Oceans Act and Areas of Interest for new MPAs at various stages of progress towards designation. These areas are ecologically significant, with species and/or features that require special management consideration.
An Oceans Act MPA can be established for any of the six conservation purposes outlined in the Act:
• The conservation and protection of commercial and non-commercial fishery resources, including marine mammals, and their habitats;
• The conservation and protection of endangered or threatened marine species, and their habitats;
• The conservation and protection of unique habitats;
• The conservation and protection of marine areas of high biodiversity or biological productivity;
• The conservation and protection of any other marine resource or habitat as is necessary to fulfill the mandate of the Minister; and
• The conservation and protection of marine areas for the purposes of maintaining ecological integrity
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- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2016-03-20
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2010-03-08
- Date ( RI_368 )
- 2024-07-30
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
- Keywords ( RI_525 )
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- Arctic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- MPA
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Marine conservation areas
- Conservation
- Regulations
- Marine heritage
- Classification
- unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
- Other constraints
- The boundaries and attributes in this dataset are intended to provide a visual representation of the area and are for information purposes only, and should not be considered legally authoritative. Please refer to the legal regulations for official coordinates and information about Ocean Act Marine Protected Areas.
- Spatial representation type
- vector; vecteur RI_635
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN; fra; CAN
- Topic category
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- Planning cadastre
- Biota
- Boundaries
- Environment
- Oceans
- Begin date
- 2010-03-08
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:3978
- Distribution format
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ESRI REST
(
10.8.1
)
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FGDB/GDB
(
10.7.1
)
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SHP
(
10.7.1
)
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WMS
(
1.3.0
)
-
ESRI REST
(
10.8.1
)
- OnLine resource
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Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas
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HTTPS
)
Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary
(
HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;PDF;eng
- OnLine resource
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Data Dictionary
(
HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;PDF;fra
- OnLine resource
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Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas
(
OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;eng
- OnLine resource
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Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas
(
OGC:WMS
)
Web Service;WMS;fra
- OnLine resource
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Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;SHP;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
-
Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;KML;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
-
Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas
(
ESRI REST: Map Server
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
-
Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas
(
ESRI REST: Map Server
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- File identifier
- a1e18963-25dd-4219-a33f-1a38c4971250 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-26T14:28:51.251Z
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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