Browsing by Subject "Marine Protected Areas"
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Incorporating concerns of coastal communities in planning and management: The case study of Port Joli and lessons learned from the Eastport Marine Protected Areas
(2012-09-20)Marine environment and resources are experiencing the degradation in Canada. Since Oceans Act was established in 1996, the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has tried to engage a broader view of participatory governance. ... -
An institutional analysis of Canadian advisory committees: Linking committee structure and function to policy changes
(2012-09-20)The creation of Canada’s Oceans Act in 1997 encouraged public participation and the use of advisory committees in marine management. To date however, there have been few comparative studies examining whether these advisory ... -
Marine transport activity in the vicinity of the St Anns Bank area of interest: potential impact on conservation objectives
(2012-09-20)The St Anns Bank area of interest (AOI) on the Eastern Scotian Shelf was announced in June 2011 and will be designated as the next marine protected in Atlantic Canada. The AOI is intersected by dense commercial vessel ... -
SPATIAL ECOLOGY OF DEEP-SEA BENTHOS FOR MANAGEMENT OF MARINE PROTECTED AREAS
(2024-03-25)Deep-water corals, sponges, and other animals play functional roles, such as providing habitat, promoting diversity in seafloor communities in the deep sea. Little is known about the spatial organization of these vulnerable ... -
Spatial Protection for Porbeagle Sharks, Lamna nasus, in the Northwest Atlantic: The Road to Recovery? [graduate project].
(2016)Sharks have dominated the seas as apex predators for more than 400 million years, but today they are being fished by humans at an unprecedented rate. Many of the biological characteristics of sharks make them particularly ... -
A spatially explicit integrated assessment of a social-ecological system: The Galapagos spiny lobster fishery
(2018-12-17)There is a growing recognition that implementation of marine protected areas (MPAs) in combination with co-management regimes can be a solution to enhance the resilience of governing systems to respond to the social-ecological ...