Victoria Harbours Atlas
Introduction
The Harbours Atlas is a web-based mapping tool that brings together environmental information pertaining to Portage Inlet, Gorge Waterway, Victoria Harbour, Esquimalt Harbour, Esquimalt Lagoon and the watersheds and urban catchments that drain into them. Harbour management agencies, community and environmental groups, educational institutions and the general public can access the Harbours Atlas and get detailed ecological information about the harbours and their watersheds.
Users can access biological and physical ecological information for the intertidal and subtidal areas of the harbours including the locations of:
- eelgrass, algae and kelps
- native oysters and other marine fauna
- harbour substrates and sediment
- sensitive shoreline habitats
- seasonal bird use and density
Several layers of environmentally significant landscape, land use and watershed information from the CRD’s Natural Areas Atlas are also accessible from the Harbours Atlas including the locations of:
- salmon-bearing streams
- spawning zones
- old growth forests
- endangered ecosystems
- record-sized trees
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