Takeaways:
- Canada has signed an international declaration to set aside 30 per cent of ocean waters by 2030.
- The area is the Eastern Canyons Marine Refuge, a 44,000 square kilometre area of ocean off Nova Scotia’s coast.
- All bottom-contact fisheries (which include trawls, traps and longlines) will be prohibited, and vessels operating in the area must have federal at-sea observers on board.
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