The Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) has announced that it will permanently discontinue the printing of all volumes of the Paper Chart Catalogues, Atlases of Tidal Currents and Notices to Mariners, effective from March 1st, 2022.

Published 3 years ago

In announcing the changes, the CHS said advances in technology bring a new era of marine navigation with a focus on digital and electronic products, resulting in the organisation transforming the way it delivers quality data and services to clients, in a timely manner, to support decision-making.

Paper Chart Catalogues 

From March 1st, 2022,  the printing of all volumes of the Paper Chart Catalogues will cease. They will only be available digitally and will not be available in paper format. Paper Chart Catalogues are available for free in a variety of digital formats on charts.gc.ca.

Atlases of Tidal Currents

The Canadian Hydrographic Service has made available free downloadable PDF files of the Atlases of Tidal Currents on charts.gc.ca and will permanently discontinue the printing of all volumes listed below effective March 1st , 2022. All future volumes will only be available digitally and will not be sold in paper format.

• P240 St. Lawrence Estuary from Cap de Bon-Désir to Trois-Rivières
• P241 Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine
• P244 Juan de Fuca Strait to Strait of Georgia

Notices to Mariners

The process to communicate these changes to the mariners will be amended as follows starting January 2022:

• All digital volumes will include a new section entitled “Record of Changes” which will list all updates that were incorporated during the current calendar year;
• The Canadian Hydrographic Service will permanently discontinue the publication of these changes in Section 4 of the monthly Notices to Mariners;
• Section 4 of the monthly Notices to Mariners will instead list the titles of the volumes that were amended during the previous month and link to their download page on charts.gc.ca; and
• CHS will no longer maintain the separate “Cumulative Corrections for Sailing Directions” currently available on notmar.gc.ca.

Due to the availability of all volumes of the Sailing Directions on the CHS website as free downloadable PDF files, CHS will also permanently discontinue their printing effective March 1st , 2022.  As such, all future volumes will only be available digitally and will not be sold in paper format.

For more information, visit the Canadian Hydrographic Service.

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