St. Anns Bank, New Marine Reserve, Open to Non-Trawl Fishing, Including Crab and Lobster
On World Oceans Day, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced that St. Anns Bank, east of Cape Breton, is officially Canada’s latest marine protected area.
St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area is 4,364-square kilometres in size and is located off the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The area is important for conservation, containing leatherback sea turtles, deep-sea corals, sponges, sea pens and recovering populations of Atlantic cod and Atlantic wolffish. Over 100 ...
St. Anns Bank, New Marine Reserve, Open to Non-Trawl Fishing, Including Crab and Lobster
On World Oceans Day, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc announced that St. Anns Bank, east of Cape Breton, is officially Canada’s latest marine protected area. St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area is 4,364-square kilometres in size and is located off the eastern coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The area is important for conservation, containing leatherback sea turtles, deep-sea corals, sponges, sea pens and recovering populations of Atlantic cod and Atlantic wolffish. Over 100 ...