Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area to be created

The Green Party MP for Thunder Bay-Superior North says a government bill to create a marine conservation area in Lake Superior near Thunder Bay is now law.

Bruce Hyer has been pushing for the passage of Bill C-61 over the past week, after it was introduced late in Parliament's sitting.

The billwas approved by the Senate on Tuesday and will make theLake Superior National Marine Conservation Areathe largest freshwater conservation area in the world, Hyer said.

"It may mean some regulations on fisheries to establish fish reserves to help to repopulate those populations," Hyer said. "There will probably [be] some land-use planning exercises as well."

In the past, there have been infrastructure funding promises to go hand-in-hand with establishing a conservation area, Hyer said, but it's still to be determined whether that happens.