Environmental Thematic Maps and Graphics:
Marine and coastal modifications: aquaculture sites and oil licenses, circa 2016-2020

The title of this map is “Marine and coastal modifications: aquaculture sites and oil licenses, circa 2016-2020.” This map displays point data on two types of aquaculture sites, as well as ocean areas in with oil licenses.

On the page, there are four maps and a legend to the bottom right. The first map (top left) displays the entire country with inset boxes labeled A, B and C displaying the location of the other three maps. Map A (top right) displays part of the Arctic Ocean, Map B (bottom left) displays the West Coast and Map C (bottom right) displays the East Coast.

The legend categorizes aquaculture sites by type: finfish (red point) and shellfish (blue point). The legend categorizes oil license areas by type: exploration (yellow), production (purple) and significant discovery (pink). The legend also has two boundary categories: dashed lines indicate provincial boundaries and fine black lines indicate marine ecoregions.

The maps show that there are significant numbers of aquaculture sites in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, along the Nova Scotia coast, the Bonavista and Fogo areas in Newfoundland and in the Strait of Georgia and on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Oil license exploration and discovery licenses are densely located in the area to the north of the Yukon and offshore on the Newfoundland and Scotian shelves, with all production licenses occurring in the Atlantic offshore.

Notes: There has been a moratorium on oil exploration on the Pacific Coast of Canada since 1972 and for new activities on the Arctic Coast since 2016. As of 2019, all oil and gas activity is prohibited in Canadian Arctic offshore waters.

Sources:
Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association, 2016, Industry by the Numbers, https://naia.ca/index.php/aquaculture-nl/production-stats (accessed July 20, 2020);
Newfoundland and Labrador Aquaculture, Fisheries and Land Resources, n.d., Licensed aquaculture sites, 2015, https://www.fishaq.gov.nl.ca/pdf/aquaculture_2015_year.pdf (accessed February 14, 2019);
Nova Scotia Fisheries and Aquaculture, 2020, Nova Scotia Marine Aquaculture Leases, https://data.novascotia.ca/Fishing-and-Aquaculture/Aquaculture-License-and-Lease-GIS-Database/h57h-p9mm (accessed December16, 2020);
Mills, D., 2014, PEI Aquaculture Licenses, http://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=16aa8830c7084a8a92ce066b525978b4 (accessed December 16,2020);
Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation du Québec, 2019, Portrait-diagnostic sectoriel de l’industrie de la mariculture au Québec, https://www.mapaq.gouv.qc.ca/fr/Publications/Portrait-diagnostic_mariculture.pdf (accessed October 20, 2019) and https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/data/mapaq/f9558184-92d8-4925-b280-bcfbd75ea20f/mariculture_mapaq_2017.xlsx (accessed July 20, 2020);
New Brunswick Department of Agriculture, Aquaculture and Fisheries, 2019, Marine Aquaculture Site Mapping Program (MASMP), https://nbdnr.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=24c65e8718724c5db1de77899172630d (accessed October 20, 2019);
British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, 2011, Saltwater Finfish Tenures – Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS), GeoBC, (accessed November 10, 2019);
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2017, Shellfish Integrated Management of Aquaculture Plan, Version 2.1, https://www.pac.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/aquaculture/management-gestion/shellfish-mollusques/background-contexte-eng.html (accessed April 25, 2019);
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2017, Current Valid British Columbia Aquaculture Licence Holders, https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/522d1b67-30d8-4a34-9b62-5da99b1035e6 (accessed July 20, 2020);
Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board, n.d., Mapping Information and Shapefiles, https://www.cnlopb.ca/information/shapefiles/ (accessed February 26, 2019);
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, 2019, Maps and Coordinates, https://www.cnsopb.ns.ca/what-we-do/lands-management/maps-and-coordinates (accessed November 30, 2020);
Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board, 2019, GIS Information, https://callforbids.cnsopb.ns.ca/2011/01/gis_information.html (accessed November 30, 2020;
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, 2015, Oil and Gas Rights, https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/208ddd6d-dea8-4d1c-bf62-5b49e8983a51#wb-auto-6 (accessed May 20, 2020).