Protecting Canada S Coastal And Marine Environment

Canada's National Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (NPA) is a partnership between federal, provincial and territorial governments aimed at addressing the interface between fresh and salt waters, river basins and coastal environments to prevent marine pollution from land-based activities and to protect habitat in coastal zones of Canada. NPA focusses on addressing problems within 14 categories under 2 broad themes: contaminants; and physical alteration and destruction of habitat. This document describes each of the NPA categories and provides examples of ongoing actions.

This report considers the environmental impact of oil spills in Canadian waters, both marine and inland and including the Arctic, and discusses means of preventing them and of minimizing damage.

The purpose of this paper is to explain how Fisheries & Oceans Canada is addressing its responsibilities for integrated management under the Oceans Act and Canada's Oceans Strategy. It is intended to foster discussion about integrated management approaches by setting out policy in the legislative context, along with concepts & principles of integrated management. The paper also proposes an operational framework with a governance model, an approach to management by areas, a design for management bodies, and description of the six stages of the integrated management planning process.

This book provides a timely analysis of the role that information-particularly scientific information-plays in the policy-making and decision-making processes in coastal and ocean management. It includes contributions from global experts in marine environmental science, marine policy, fisheries, public policy and administration, resource management