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Wells, Peter G.. Health of Our Oceans: A Status Report on Canadian Marine Environmental Quality.  Environmental Canada. March 1991. 167 pp.

This Status Report on Canadian Marine Environmental Quality is a project of the MEQ Advisory Group of Conservation and Protection, Environment Canada. It is the last of three projects assigned to the Group by the Assistant Deputy-Minister, Conservation and Protection, in 1985. The other projects were the first Canadian Conference on Marine Environmental Quality held in Halifax in 1988 (Proceedings published in 1988) and the Five-Year Conservation and Protection MEQ Action Plan approved in 1989. All three projects were intended to bring a new focus and direction to Environment Canada's marine environmental quality programs, and to achieve a higher government and public profile for marine environmental quality issues in Canada. This report evolved conceptually during preparation and contributed to papers, talks and other reports on the state of Canada's seas. The report largely takes a contaminants and pollution approach. It in no way presupposes that Marine Environmental Quality can only or should only be evaluated in this manner. Chapters include: National and International Perspectives, the Pacific, the Arctic, the Atlantic, and Assessment of Canadian Marine Environmental Quality.

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