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The selection of an Area of Interest marks the beginning of the Oceans Act Marine Protected Area (MPA) establishment process led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The process includes completing detailed ecological and socioeconomic assessments, setting conservation objectives, determining boundaries and management measures, and eventually developing the regulations under section 35 of the Oceans Act. Stakeholders are involved in each step of this process. There is considerable scientific evidence that marine protected areas provide a number of ecological benefits, including the enhanced recruitment of fish species, including those of commercial value, through the protection of spawning areas, larval sources, habitats and migration routes. A well-designed MPA network can scale these benefits up to the regional level, and provide benefits that individual marine protected areas cannot provide on their own. For example, strategically placing marine protected areas in a network can protect key stops along a species’ migration route, and protect geographically distinct habitats that serve important life history functions. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization has recognized the use of marine protected areas as complementary to conventional fisheries management measures in helping to achieve sustainable fisheries management objectives. ----- Le choix d'un site d'intérêt marque le début du processus de création des zones de protection marines (ZPM) en vertu de la Loi sur les océans placé sous la responsabilité de Pêches et Océans Canada. Le processus comprend la réalisation d'évaluations écologiques et socioéconomiques détaillées, l'établissement d’objectifs de conservation, la détermination de limites et de mesures de gestion, et l'élaboration de règlements en vertu de l'article 35 de la Loi sur les océans. Les parties intéressées prennent part à chaque étape du processus. Les preuves scientifiques des avantages écologiques que présentent les zones de protection marines sont nombreuses. Entre autres, elles accroissent le recrutement des espèces de poisson, y compris de celles qui ont une valeur commerciale, grâce à la protection des frayères, des sources larvaires, des habitats et des routes migratoires. Un réseau de ZPM bien conçu peut décupler les avantages au niveau régional et susciter des bienfaits que les zones de protection marines ne peuvent pas procurer individuellement. Par exemple, la constitution d'un réseau de ZPM dans des zones stratégiques permet de protéger des points clés le long de la route migratoire d'une espèce et de protéger des habitats géographiques distincts qui remplissent des fonctions importantes du cycle biologique. L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture a reconnu que l'utilisation de zones de protection marines en complément des mesures conventionnelles de gestion des pêches pouvait faciliter l'atteinte des objectifs en matière de gestion durable des pêches.
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The selection of an Area of Interest marks the beginning of the Oceans Act Marine Protected Area (MPA) establishment process led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The process includes completing detailed ecological and socioeconomic assessments, setting conservation objectives, determining boundaries and management measures, and eventually developing the regulations under section 35 of the Oceans Act. Stakeholders are involved in each step of this process. There is considerable scientific evidence that marine protected areas provide a number of ecological benefits, including the enhanced recruitment of fish species, including those of commercial value, through the protection of spawning areas, larval sources, habitats and migration routes. A well-designed MPA network can scale these benefits up to the regional level, and provide benefits that individual marine protected areas cannot provide on their own. For example, strategically placing marine protected areas in a network can protect key stops along a species’ migration route, and protect geographically distinct habitats that serve important life history functions. The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization has recognized the use of marine protected areas as complementary to conventional fisheries management measures in helping to achieve sustainable fisheries management objectives. ----- Le choix d'un site d'intérêt marque le début du processus de création des zones de protection marines (ZPM) en vertu de la Loi sur les océans placé sous la responsabilité de Pêches et Océans Canada. Le processus comprend la réalisation d'évaluations écologiques et socioéconomiques détaillées, l'établissement d’objectifs de conservation, la détermination de limites et de mesures de gestion, et l'élaboration de règlements en vertu de l'article 35 de la Loi sur les océans. Les parties intéressées prennent part à chaque étape du processus. Les preuves scientifiques des avantages écologiques que présentent les zones de protection marines sont nombreuses. Entre autres, elles accroissent le recrutement des espèces de poisson, y compris de celles qui ont une valeur commerciale, grâce à la protection des frayères, des sources larvaires, des habitats et des routes migratoires. Un réseau de ZPM bien conçu peut décupler les avantages au niveau régional et susciter des bienfaits que les zones de protection marines ne peuvent pas procurer individuellement. Par exemple, la constitution d'un réseau de ZPM dans des zones stratégiques permet de protéger des points clés le long de la route migratoire d'une espèce et de protéger des habitats géographiques distincts qui remplissent des fonctions importantes du cycle biologique. L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture a reconnu que l'utilisation de zones de protection marines en complément des mesures conventionnelles de gestion des pêches pouvait faciliter l'atteinte des objectifs en matière de gestion durable des pêches.
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This dataset contains area-based management measures that qualify as 'other effective area-based conservation measures' ('other measures') according to DFO's Operational Guidance for Identifying ‘Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures’ in Canada’s Marine Environment (http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/publications/oeabcm-amcepz/index-eng.html). It also contains basic information about these ‘other measures’, specifically their names, objectives, and prohibitions. The identification of existing, and establishment of new, 'other measures' is an important element of Canada’s strategy to meet its marine conservation targets to protect 5 percent of Canada’s marine and coastal areas by 2017 and 10 percent by 2020. 'Other measures' will be evaluated regularly, taking the most recent available information into account. In addition new 'other measures' will be identified or established over time. Therefore, this data set may change over time, and is considered current as of its publication date stamp. The boundaries and attributes in this dataset are for information purposes only, and should not be considered legally authoritative.
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Funded under DFO's Marine Conservation Targets Program, this two-year optical imagery benthic survey captured 41 drift-camera transects in the St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area (MPA - 4364 km2) and 4 coastal transects west of the MPA, Atlantic Canada from August 15-23, 2023 and August 08-17, 2024. High-resolution still images (n=3605) were taken periodically throughout each transect, while continuous high-definition downward- and forward-facing video (~20 hours of each) was collected simultaneously along with over 14 hours of forward-facing Go-Pro video (only in 2024). Transect and image locations were collected using an acoustic positioning operating system (Kongsberg APOS) acquired in 2024; year-one of the survey relied on the vessel position. Distance travelled and distance between still images (m) was calculated using ArcGIS tools. Field of view (FOV) was estimated by measuring the length and width of a subset of still images from year-one of the survey (n=500) in ImageJ2, using 10-cm lasers for scale. FOV was standardized for each reported altitude. Transects ranged from 319 m to 2.8 km in length (~47 km surveyed in total), collecting imagery for 12 minutes to just over 1 hour at a time, surveying depths from 17 to 160 m below chart datum. Transect locations were selected based on unique bathymetric features and benthoscapes as well as areas previously surveyed from 2009-2015. Cite this data as: Lawton P, Teed L. Near-seafloor drift transect video imagery and high-resolution digital still images from a two-year survey in support of Marine Protected Area monitoring of St. Anns Bank, Atlantic Canada. Published January 2025. Coastal Ecosystems Science Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, St. Andrews, N.B.
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This dataset contains area-based management measures that qualify as 'other effective area-based conservation measures' ('other measures') according to DFO's Operational Guidance for Identifying ‘Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures’ in Canada’s Marine Environment (http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/publications/oeabcm-amcepz/index-eng.html). It also contains basic information about these ‘other measures’, specifically their names, objectives, and prohibitions. The identification of existing, and establishment of new, 'other measures' is an important element of Canada’s strategy to meet its marine conservation targets to protect 5 percent of Canada’s marine and coastal areas by 2017 and 10 percent by 2020. 'Other measures' will be evaluated regularly, taking the most recent available information into account. In addition new 'other measures' will be identified or established over time. Therefore, this data set may change over time, and is considered current as of its publication date stamp. The boundaries and attributes in this dataset are for information purposes only, and should not be considered legally authoritative.
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The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole (MBON P2P) effort seeks to develop a framework for the collection, use and sharing of marine biodiversity data in a coordinated, standardized manner leveraging on existing infrastructure managed by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS; IOC-UNESCO), the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The MBON Pole to Pole aims to become a key resource for decision-making and management of living resource across countries in the Americas for reporting requirements under the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), Aichi Targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD), and the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This collection corresponds to the species registered on sandy beaches of the Musquash Harbour, Mispec Bay, and New River Beach, New Brunswick, Canada, using the MBON P2P sampling protocol for sandy beaches, with funding from the Government of Canada's Coastal Environmental Baseline Program. Citation: Reinhart B (2024). MBON POLE TO POLE: SANDY BEACH BIODIVERSITY OF SOUTHWEST NEW BRUNSWICK, CANADA. Version 1.5. Caribbean OBIS Node. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.iobis.org/mbon/resource?r=sandybeachesbayoffundynb&v=1.5
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The purpose of this feature class is to show areas that are National Marine Conservation Areas (NMCAs). Parks Canada is responsible to protect NMCAs and to manage them for visitors to understand, appreciate, and enjoy in a sustainable manner. (See http://www.pc.gc.ca/progs/amnc-nmca/intro_e.asp) for more information on NMCAs. This POLYGON layer is structured to store attributes for NMCAs that consist of multiple components. (Note, currently, all 4 NMCAs are single polygons, however, future NMCAs may consist of multiple components that require separate records. For this reason, the layer is structured to be compatable with the National Park Components layer and National Historic Site Components layer).
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We evaluated an autonomous environmental DNA sampler produced by Dartmouth Ocean Technologies Inc (Dartmouth, Canada) compared to time-at-sample filtration in the laboratory to determine the performance of moored samplers for monitoring in the marine world. We deployed three autonomous samplers from DOT in the Bedford Basin (Canada) over a nine-week period in summer/fall 2023. The samplers filtered seawater in situ at programmed interviews over this time period, and we collected contemporaneous samples with a standard vacuum pump during each sampling period. Both eDNA sample types captured similar fish diversity, including typical diversity for the Northwest Atlantic. The invertebrate community detected using the COI marker was different between each sample type, likely due to differences in filter pore size. We found biofouling on the moored samplers was minimal over the study period, even in a high-traffic area such as the Bedford Basin, likely due to the relatively short experimental period, and copper screening covering in the inlet and outlet valves of the instruments. Overall, our results show promise to deploy autonomous eDNA samplers in marine conservation areas to contribute to monitoring in the temperate ocean, but further testing over longer periods of time is needed to determine if DNA remains well-preserved in the autonomous samplers at ambient ocean temperatures. Cite this data as: Jeffery, N.W., Van Wyngaarden, M., and Stanley, R.R.E. Evaluating an Autonomous eDNA Sampler for Marine Environmental Monitoring: Short- and Long-Term Applications. Published: December 2024. Coastal Ecosystems Science Division, Maritimes Region, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth NS.