Vessel Traffic Routes

Name: Vessel Traffic Routes
Creator: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
License: https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada

This service provides routeing measures. These include established (mandatory) direction of traffic flow, recommended direction of traffic flow, separation lines, separation zones, limits of restricted routeing measure, limits of routeing measures, precautionary areas, archipelagic sea lanes (axis line and limit beyond which vessels shall not navigate) and fairways designated by regulatory authority.

Publisher: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Resources: 5
Catalogue metadata updated: 2026-08-11

Data overview

Formats: CSV, ESRI REST, HTML, SHP
File languages: English, French
Available actions: 1 loadable resources

Official sources and licences

Government of Canada Open Data
Open Government Licence – Canada

Resources

Data Dictionary (English, French, CSV) CSV
Chart 1 : Symbols, Abbreviations and Terms (English, French, HTML) HTML
Vessel Traffic Route (English, French, SHP) SHP
Vessel traffic routes (English, ESRI REST) ESRI REST
Vessel traffic routes (French, ESRI REST) ESRI REST

Related open data

Fisheries and Oceans Canada