Canada High Sea

South of the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, the western Scotian Shelf meets the deeper waters of the Atlantic. Browns Bank rises from the shelf off southwestern Nova Scotia, while the Fundian Channel separates the Nova Scotian banks from Georges Bank farther west. Currents flow southwestward along the shelf and circulate around Browns Bank, an important spawning ground for fish. These offshore waters stand between the fishing grounds and the open ocean beyond the edge of the shelf.