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Fisheries and Oceans Canada


Manuals

  • A practical Guide to the Fisheries Act
  • Access Near Aquatic Areas: A Guide to Sensitive Planning, Design and Management
  • Application of the Habitat Protection Provisions of the Fisheries Act to Existing Facilities and Structures
  • Arctic Marine Emergency Plan
  • Atlantic Recreational Fishing Licence Program
  • Calendar of Courses –Sydney
  • Canada's Federal Marine Protected Areas Strategy
  • Canada's Oceans Action Plan: For Present and Future Generations
  • Canada's Oceans Strategy
  • Canada's Oceans Strategy: Policy and Operational Framework for the Integrated Management of Estuarine Coastal and Marine Environments in Canada
  • Canadian Aids to Navigation System (TP968)
  • Canadian Coast Guard Fleet Orders (CGFOs)
  • Canadian Shellfish Sanitation Program -Manual of Operations
  • Careers -Canadian Coast Guard
  • Cartographic Standing Orders
  • CCG Careers: Engineering Technician, Electronics Technician, Marine Traffic Regulator, Professional Engineer, Radio Operator
  • CCG Ships Crew Officers Training Program -Documentation
  • CCG Ships Crew Officers Training Program -Practical Training Manual
  • CCG Technical Bulletins
  • CCG Technical Standards
  • CEAA Guide: Applying the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act for the Fish Habitat Management Program (Draft, August 2000)
  • Chemical Methods
  • Coast Guard Fleet Logistics Standards
  • Community Greenways: Linking Communities to Country and People to Nature
  • Community Stewardship: A Guide to Establishing Your Own Group
  • Community-Based Coastal Resource Inventories in Newfoundland and Labrador - Procedures Manual (NL)
  • Conservation and Protection Administration
  • Conservation and Protection Operations
  • DFO 5693 Ships of Canadian Coast Guard
  • DFO Underwater Video Site Survey Guidelines
  • Directives Manual, Conversation and Protection (Gulf)
  • Diving and Shipwrecks
  • Dockside Monitoring Program Policy and Procedures (including Regional Annexes) (Gulf)
  • Dynamically Supported Craft Training Program Manual
  • Employees Guide on Work Force Adjustment
  • Facilities Inspection
  • Fatigue Management – A Guide for Canadian Coast Guard Managers, Officers and Crew
  • Finance and Materiel Management Manual
  • Fish Habitat Conservation and Protection: Guidelines for Attaining No Net Loss [National]
  • Fish Habitat Conservation and Protection: What the Law Requires
  • Fish Habitat Protection Guidelines: Irrigation Developments
  • Fish Habitat Protection Guidelines: Overhead Powerlines
  • Fish Habitat Protection Guidelines: Sand and Gravel Pits
  • Fish Health Protection Regulations -Manual of Compliance
  • Fish Products Inspection Manual -Policy and Procedures
  • Fish Products Standards and Methods
  • Fishery Officer's Guide for Habitat Management and Protection
  • Fishing and Recreational Harbours Administrative Instructions
  • Fleet Bulletins
  • Fleet Circulars
  • Fleet Safety Manual
  • Foreign Observer Program Operations Manual
  • Forms Management Manual
  • Freshwater Intake End-of-Pipe Fish Screen Guidelines
  • Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) -Crab Processing
  • Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) -Lobster Processing
  • Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) -Shrimp Processing
  • Guide de gestion des événements maritimes exceptionnels (available in French only)
  • Guide to ISM Code
  • Guidelines for the Protection of Fish and Fish Habitat: The Placement and Design of Large Culverts
  • Guidelines for the Use of Explosives In or Near Canadian Waters [National]
  • Guidelines to Protect Fish and Fish Habitat from Treated Wood used in Aquatic Environments in the Pacific Region
  • Habitat Stewardship Bylaws: A Guide for Local Government
  • Harbour Authorities Manual
  • Harbour Managers Manual
  • Headquarters Fleet Emergency Management Plan
  • Healthy Lifestyle Recipes
  • Helicopter Maintenance Engineer Shipboard Manual (TP‑ 4986)
  • Hydrographic Tidal Manual
  • Ice Navigation in Canadian Waters
  • Icebreaking, escort and flood control - Operational program review
  • Index to Notices to Mariners (annual)
  • Information Management Manual -Vol 1 -Policy
  • Information Management Manual -Vol 2 -Standards and Procedures
  • Inspection Memoranda of Understanding and Agreement
  • International Code of Signals
  • Joint Canada/US Marine Pollution Contingency Plan
  • Laboratory Manual for Chemistry
  • Laboratory Safety
  • Land Development Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Habitat -Lower Fraser Area -Fisheries Act and the Project Review Process
  • Life Cycle Management Systems Guidance Manual
  • Lifeboat Station Guidelines for Shore Base Facilities
  • List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals (4 Vol: Atlantic, Newfoundland, Inland, Pacific)
  • Lower Fraser Area -Project Review Information Requirements for Works Affecting Fish Habitat
  • Marine Forecast Reports
  • Marine Protected Areas (MPA's) Discussion Paper (January 1997)
  • Marine Protected Areas -A Strategy for Canada's Pacific Coast
  • Marine Protected Areas Factsheets (Endeavour Hydrothermal Vents, Bowie Seamount, Basin Head, Race Rocks, The Gully, Manicouagan, Musquash Estuary, Leading Tickles, Gilbert Bay, Eastport)
  • Marine Protected Areas Policy
  • MCTS Standards Manual -DFO 5608
  • Metal Can Defects Manual
  • National Framework for Establishing and Managing Marine Protected Areas
  • National Marine Emergency Plan
  • National Search and Rescue Manual
  • National Training Plan: Coast Guard Emergencies
  • New Canadian Buoyage System
  • Notices to Mariners (annual) -(TP‑0390)
  • Notices to Mariners (monthly) -(TP‑0136)
  • Observer Program Training Manual -Newfoundland Region
  • Observers' Field Manual Domestic/Foreign Fishing Vessels
  • Occupational Health and Safety Manual
  • Occupational Health and Safety Manual -Pacific Region
  • Officer Cadet Sea Training Manual -Engineering
  • Officer Cadet Sea Training Manual –Navigation
  • Operational guide – Winter Icebreaking Program Eastern Canada
  • Operational Guidelines for Search and Rescue Units
  • Operational Statement: Aquatic Vegetation Removal [NL, NS, NB, QC, MB, BC, YT]
  • Operational Statement: Beach Creation [NL, QC, ON, MB]
  • Operational Statement: Beach Maintenance [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, BC, YT]
  • Operational Statement: Beaver Dam Removal [NL, ON, MB, SK, AB]
  • Operational Statement: Bridge Maintenance [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU]
  • Operational Statement: Clear Span Bridges [NL, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU]
  • Operational Statement: Cottage Lot Development [NL]
  • Operational Statement: Culvert Maintenance [NL, NS, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU]
  • Operational Statement: Directional Drilling [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, BC, YT, NT]
  • Operational Statement: Dock Construction [NL, NS, ON, MB, BC, YT]
  • Operational Statement: Ice Bridges [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU]
  • Operational Statement: Isolated Pond Construction [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT]
  • Operational Statement: Log Salvage [NL, QC, ON, MB, SK]
  • Operational Statement: Maintenance of Riparian Vegetation in Existing Rights-of-Way [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT]
  • Operational Statement: Moorings [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU]
  • Operational Statement: Overhead Line Construction [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT]
  • Operational Statement: Punch and Bore Crossing [NL, QC, ON, MB, SK, BC, YT, NT]
  • Operational Statement: Routine Maintenance Dredging [NL, NS, QC, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT, NU]
  • Operational Statement: Underwater Cables [NL, NS, QC, ON, MB, SK, AB, BC, YT, NT]
  • Pacific General Ships' Orders
  • Personnel - Policy and Procedures
  • Petroleum Refinery Liquid Effluent Regulations
  • PISCES IV Standard Operations Procedures
  • Policy and Operational Framework for the Integrated Management of Estuarine Coastal and Marine Environments in Canada (NL)
  • Policy for the Management of Fish Habitat (1986)
  • Practioners Guide for Writing Letters in Fisheries Act Reviews
  • Practioners Guide to Habitat Compensation
  • Practioners Guide to Writing a Subsection 35(2) Fisheries Act Authorization
  • ·        Practitioners Guide to Fish Passage for DFO Habitat Management Staff
  • Practitioners Guide to Letters of Credit
  •  Practitioners Guide to the Risk Management Framework
  • Procedures Manual for Design and Review of Marine Short‑Range Aids to Navigation
  • Pulp and Paper Effluent Regulations
  • Radio Aids to Marine Navigation
  • Records Management Manual
  • Recovery Guidance Book (ROMAN) 2005-2006 Edition
  • Road Maintenance Activities and the Fisheries Act: a Guidance Document to Avoiding Conflict
  • Safe Waterways – Guidelines for the Design of Commercial Shipping Channels
  • Safety Bulletins
  • SAR Seamanship Reference Manual (available electronically on on the Internet)
  • SAR Skills Training Standard
  • Security Manual
  • Service Standards, Canadian Hydrographic Service
  • Shipboard Helicopter Information and Procedures Manual
  • Ship's Crew On‑The‑Job Training Manual
  • Ship's Environmental Manual - DFO 5326
  • Staff Relations Guide for Commanding Officers
  • Standard Marine Navigational Vocabulary
  • Standard Procedures for Bacteriological Analysis
  • Stewardship Options: For Private Land Owners in British Columbia
  • Stream Stewardship: A Guide for Planners and Developers
  • Summary of (T) and (P) Notices to Mariners (annual)
  • Survey Standing Orders
  • Tackle Guide
  • The Dock Primer: A cottager's guide to waterfront-friendly docks
  • The Drain Primer: A Guide to Maintaining and Conserving Agricultural Drains and Fish Habitat
  • The Shore Primer -A cottager's guide to a healthy waterfront
  • Training Standard for Ship's Officers and Crew
  • Users Guide -Marine Environmental Data Service
  • Vessel Traffic Services Zones Regulatory Specifications -DFO 5765
  • Watercourse Crossings, Second Edition
  • Watershed Stewardship: A Guide for Agriculture
  • Watershed-Based Fish Sustainability Planning: Conserving BC Fish Populations and their Habitat
  • Wetlandkeepers Handbook: A Practical Guide to Wetland Care
  • Working Together for Marine Protected Areas - A National Approach
  • Working Together to Protect and Promote Canada's Oceans