Infographic: Canada's Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas

14 Oceans Act MPAs covering approximately
350,000 km², offer protection to important species, habitats, and ecosystems across Canada’s oceans

Pacific

SG̲áan K̲ínghlas-Bowie Seamount
Designated: April 2008 (Haida MPA since 1997)
Size: 6,103 km²

Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents
Designated: March 2003
Size: 97 km²

Hecate Strait & Queen Charlotte
Sound Glass Sponge Reefs
Designated: February 2017
Size: 2,410 km²

Arctic

Tarium Niryutait
Designated: August 2010
Size: 1,750 km²

Tuvaijuittuq
Designated: August 2019
Size: 319,411 km²

Anguniaqvia niqiqyuam
Designated: August 2010
Size: 1,750 km²

Atlantic

Gilbert Bay
Designated: September 2005
Size: 60 km²

Banc-des-Américains
Designated: March 2019
Size: 1,000 km²

Basin Head
Designated: September 2005
Size: 9 km²

Musquash Estuary
Designated: December 2006
Size: 7 km²

Eastport
Designated: September 2005
Size: 2 km²

Laurentian Channel
Designated: April 2019
Size: 11,580 km²

St. Anns Bank
Designated: June 2017
Size: 4,364 km²

The Gully
Designated: May 2004
Size: 2,363 km²

Previous page, clockwise from top right: Sponge reef, credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Tuvaijuittuq, credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Conservation and Protection; ANMPA beach, credit: Jody Illasiak; TNMPA seine nets, credit: Jasmine Brewster; Ridgeia clumps in Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents

MPA, credit: Dr. Verena Tunnicliffe; Anemones, credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

This page, clockwise from top right: Eastport MPA Duck Islands, credit: Todd Fowler, Skyreach Media; Redfish and seapens in Laurentian Channel MPA,
credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada; St. Anns Bank MPA, credit: Bruce Hatcher; Dolphins in the Gully MPA, credit: Hilary Moors-Murphy; Musquash Estuary

MPA, credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Basin Head MPA, credit: Elizabeth Edmondson; Banc-des-Américains MPA, credit: Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Two loons and a cabin, credit: Corey Morris.