Oceans collaboration and responsibilities

National and international collaboration on ocean conservation, and responsibilities of governments and industry.

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Canada collaborates nationally and internationally to protect the world’s oceans.

How the Government of Canada, provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous Peoples, and the fishing industry support oceans’ conservation.

To date, Canada has conserved nearly 14 % of its oceans.

Canada supports the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (Ocean Decade).

A blue economy requires a strategy to create jobs in coastal communities while ensuring our oceans remain healthy.