Canso Bank

Canso Bank lies between Cape Canso and Misaine Bank on the inner Scotian Shelf. Its sandy bottom rises to about sixty metres below the surface, with deeper channels around it. The nearby harbour of Canso became an early French fishing station, used intermittently from the seventeenth century. These waters support cod and haddock, while fog is a frequent visitor where warm air meets the colder sea off the exposed cape.