News Releases and Publications

News Releases and Backgrounders

• News Release: Anderson endorses Sable Gully Conservation Strategy (1998)
     
• Backgrounder: Sable Gully Conservation Strategy (1998)
   
• News Release: Minister Thibault announces final public consultations on regulations for the Gully Marine Protected Area (2003)
   
• Backgrounder: Regulations proposed for the Gully Marine Protected Area (2003)
  
• Backgrounder: The Gully Marine Protected Area (2004)
   
• News Release: Minister Regan Announces Designation of the Gully Marine Protected Area (2004)

Other

• Gully Factsheet
• "A Virtual Tour of the Sable Gully " cd-rom
• Designated Marine Protected Areas (DFO National)

Publications

The following publications of the Gully are available upon request.

Fenton, D. G., P. A. Macnab, and R. J. Rutherford. 2002. The Sable Gully Marine Protected Area Initiative: History and Current Efforts. Pages 1343 to 1355 In. Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, Neil W.P. Munro, Gordon Nelson, J.H. Martin Willison, Tom B. Herman and Paul Eagles (Editors). Managing Protected Areas in a Changing World, SAMPAA, Wolfville, Canada (2002).

Harrison, W. G., and D. G. Fenton. 1998. The Gully: A Scientific Review of its Environment and Ecosystem. Canadian Stock Assessment Secretariat Research Document 98/83, Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Gordon, D.C. and Fenton, D.G. (editors) 2002. Advances in Understanding The Gully Ecosystem: A Summary of Research Projects Conducted at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography (1999-2001). Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2377:vi + 84p.

R.J. Rutherford and H. Breeze. 2002. The Gully Ecosystem. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2615: vi + 28 pp.

Breeze, H. 2002. Commercial fisheries of the Sable Gully and surrounding region: Historical and present activities. Can. Manuscr. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2612:vii + 83 pp.

Fader, G. 2003. The Mineral Potential of The Gully Marine Protected Area, A Submarine Canyon of the Outer Scotian Shelf. With Contributions from Edward L. King. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1634.

LGL Ltd. Environmental research associates. Assessment of Noise Issues Relevant to Key Cetacean Species (Northern Bottlenose and Sperm Whales) in the Sable Gully Area of Interest. Prepared for: Oceans and Coastal Management Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2000

Defence Research Establishment Atlantic. Background noise levels in the area of the Gully, Laurentian Channel and Sable Bank. Prepared for: Oceans and Coastal Management Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, April 2001

Sameoto, D. Cochrane, N. and Kennedy, M. 2002. Seasonal abundance, vertical and geographic distribution of mesozooplankton, macrozooplankton and micronekton in the Gully and the western Scotian Shelf (1999-2000). Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 2427. v + 37 p.