Canada Marine Planning Atlas
The Canada Marine Planning Atlas (the atlas) is a key component of marine spatial planning in Canada. It is an interactive mapping tool for decision-makers and other end users to access information about ecological processes, bioregion features and human activities in Canada's marine spatial planning areas.
The atlas allows users to discover, view, interact with and download geospatial data relevant to marine spatial planning.
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About the atlas
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) is working with federal, provincial and Indigenous partners to implement marine spatial planning (MSP) in Canada: a transparent, inclusive and sustainable oceans planning and management process. More...
Disclaimer
The maps and data contained in this application have been made available for information purposes only.
Fisheries and Oceans Canada does not warrant the reliability, currency, positional or thematic accuracy of any data or information published in these maps. Misalignment of some datasets may occur due to the methods used to produce the original product. Fisheries and Oceans Canada assumes no responsibility for errors in the content of the provided information.
Under no circumstances will Fisheries and Oceans Canada be liable to any person or entity for any direct, indirect, special, incidental, consequential or other damages resulting from the use of data or information contained in these maps. This includes, without limitation, any lost profits or business interruption.
Use of data or information obtained from the Government of Canada's Open Data portal is subject to the Open Government License. For more information, visit Open Government Licence - Canada.
When accessing data or information, users may be directed to a non-government web service location. Data or information obtained from other web services may be subject to the particular source's license requirements and permissions.
Contact us for help
This application is intended to be a discovery tool for geospatial data layers across Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
For technical issues or if you have data that you want to make accessible (please review our data checklist requirements), please contact: DFO.MarineSpatialPlanning-PlanificationSpatialeMarine.MPO@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.
How to use the atlas
- User guide: Widgets
- Tutorial: Search and Swipe
- Tutorial: Add Data
- Tutorial: Build Report
- Tutorial: Draw and Measure
- Tutorial: Print
- Tutorial: Attribute Table
Data
Atlantic atlas datasets
- NL Aquaculture
- NB Aquaculture - Finfish
- NB Aquaculture - Lobster Pounds
- NB Aquaculture - Shellfish
- NS Aquaculture - Marine finfish points
- NS Aquaculture - Marine shellfish points
- NS Aquaculture - Rockweed
- Stories from the land: Indigenous Place Names in Canada
- DFO Species at Risk Critical Habitat
- Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO Zones)
- Aboriginal Lands of Canada Legislative Boundaries
- Post-1975 Treaties (Modern Treaties)
- Pre-1975 Treaties (Historic Treaties)
- Aboriginal Agreements
- Inuit Regions (Inuit Nunangat)
- Significant Benthic Areas
- National Parks and National Park Reserves of Canada Legislative Boundaries
- Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures
- Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas
- Canada's designated alternate ballast water exchange areas
- EPUs- Ecosystem Production Units in the Northwest Atlantic
- Eastern Canada Marine Spatial Planning Areas
- Federal Marine Bioregions
- Commercial Fishing Catch (kg per grid cell)
- Canadian Anchorage and Anchorage Areas
- Marine Traffic and Transport - Vessel Traffic Routes
- GEBCO Bathymetry contours
Pacific atlas datasets
- Shellfish BC Aquaculture License Holders
- Marine Finfish BC Aquaculture Licence
- Land based BC Aquaculture License Holders
- Floating Structure in the Pacific Northwest- Docks
- Seamounts of the Northeast Pacific Ocean
- Sponge Reef Areas of the Pacific Region
- Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas
- First Nations Location
- Post-1975 Treaties (Modern Treaties)
- Pre-1975 Treaties (Historic Treaties)
- Stories from the land: Indigenous Place Names in Canada
- Federal Marine Bioregions
- National Parks and National Park Reserves of Canada Legislative Boundaries
- Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures
- Environment Canada's protected areas
- DFO Species at Risk Critical Habitat 2022
- DFO Aquatic Species at Risk Distribution 2022
- DFO Gridded Commercial Fishing Data
- BC Ports and Terminals
- BC Parks, Ecological Reserves, and Protected Areas
- Coastal BC Campsites
- Coastal BC Diving Sites
- Coastal BC Marine and Freshwater Kayaking Routes
- BC Recreational Features Inventory
- Pacific Region Commercial Salmon Fishery In-Season Catch Estimates
- Coastal Environment Exposure Layer
- Northeastern Pacific Canadian Ocean Ecosystem Model (NEP36-CanOE) Climate Projections_RCP 8.5 (2046-2065)
- Seasonal current speed of climatology of the Canadian Pacific Exclusive Economic Zone from BCCM model (1981-2010)
- Seasonal Climatologies of the Northeast Pacific Ocean (1980-2010)
- Diversity, Richness, and Biomass Hotspots (Northern Shelf Bioregion Only)
- Marine Traffic and Transport – Vessel Traffic Routes
- GEBCO Bathymetry contours
- Canada West Coast DEM
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