Nova Scotia coastal fishing maps

Ketch, Sandy & Sambro Harbour fishing maps

Sambro Harbour is ready with an official named-water boundary, contributor-qualified CHS survey contours, measured fishing spots, carefully labeled DFO fish and forage evidence, conservative working-harbour context and current federal guidance. Evidence is not generalized into Ketch Harbour or Sandy Cove.

1 live section2 sourced target species1 attached harbour record

Split by official named water

Why the compound coastal area is divided

DFO's sanitary area groups Ketch Harbour, Sandy Cove and Sambro Harbour, but Natural Resources Canada supplies a separate official polygon for each water. Testing those children independently recovered Sambro without relaxing the fixed shoreline, measured-coverage, assessed-coverage, unsupported-coverage, uncertainty or useful-depth standards.

Quality-assured and searchable

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CHS NONNA · Chart Datum100.0% assessed · 64.0% measured

Sambro Harbour

892-acre Sambro Harbour fishing map with contributor-qualified CHS NONNA survey contours (63.99% measured, 100% assessed), four measured harbour, mouth and basin spots, regional DFO cod, mackerel and forage evidence, working-harbour context, and current groundfish, mackerel and CSSP rules.

Recorded max: 64 ft
Species: Atlantic Mackerel, Atlantic Cod
Harbour record: 1 attached

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Source-backed, not crowd-guessed

What is included on the live page

Boundary: official CGNDB Sambro Harbour polygon clipped only where it meets the current DFO compound sanitary area, with two official open-water segments version-pinned.
Depth: contributor-qualified CHS NONNA cells retained in Chart Datum, with measured, assessed, unsupported and uncertainty gates checked against the exact child.
Fishing spots: four source-traceable central-basin, official-mouth, working-harbour and deepest-basin anchors snapped to directly measured water cells.
Fish and forage: two dated regional DFO trawls, clearly labeled as regional occurrence rather than exact-harbour abundance or recurring seasonal timing.
Access and rules: DFO core fishing-harbour context, exact compound bivalve-closure scope and current regional groundfish and mackerel links, with no recreational access rights inferred.

NRCan CGNDB CHS NONNA DFO Summer RV DFO CSSP map

No quality waivers

Two official siblings remain visible holds

Sambro is the only child promoted. These siblings stay out of search and the sitemap until they independently pass the same fixed gates.

Ketch Harbour: The exact official child is 20.88% directly measured, below the fixed 60% release floor, despite 99.78% assessed coverage, 0.22% unsupported cells and 1.344 m P95 uncertainty; no measured-coverage waiver is applied.
Sandy Cove: The exact official child has 0% directly measured coverage and reaches only 23.85 feet, failing both the fixed 60% measured floor and the 25-foot useful-depth gate; no waiver is applied.

Harbour map questions

Frequently asked questions

Why are Ketch Harbour, Sandy Cove and Sambro Harbour separate fishing-map sections?

Natural Resources Canada publishes a separate official feature polygon for each named water inside DFO's compound sanitary area. Independent pages keep shoreline, depth coverage, uncertainty, fish evidence and access claims tied to the child that was actually tested.

What supports the Sambro Harbour depth map?

Contributor-qualified Canadian Hydrographic Service NONNA 10 cells cover 63.99% of exact-boundary targets as directly measured and 100% as assessed, with no unsupported cells and 1.355 metre P95 vertical uncertainty. Depths are below CHS Chart Datum, not live tide or navigation depths.

Why are Ketch Harbour and Sandy Cove not live?

Ketch Harbour has only 20.88% directly measured coverage. Sandy Cove has no directly measured cells and reaches only 23.85 feet. Both fail unchanged release gates, so Sambro evidence is not extrapolated into them.

Are cod and mackerel exact-harbour survey records?

No. Two nearby DFO Summer Research Vessel sets 16.4 to 35.7 kilometres from the official Sambro Harbour point establish regional occurrence only. The page does not turn those records into exact-harbour abundance, recurring timing or catch promises.

Does the Sambro fishing-harbour marker guarantee public recreational access?

No. DFO identifies Sambro as a core fishing harbour managed by the Harbour Authority of Sambro. That supports working-harbour context, not a recreational ramp, unrestricted berth, parking capacity or shore-fishing permission.