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Catalogue Entry: Important Areas for Geography in Strait of Georgia Ecoregion
This layer details Important Areas (IAs) relevant to important geographic features in the Strait of Georgia (SOG) ecoregion. This data was mapped to inform the selection of... -
Catalogue Entry: Bay Scale Assessment of Nearshore Habitat Bras d'Or Lake - St. Andrews 2011
Bay Scale Assessment of Nearshore Habitat Bras d'Or Lake - St. Andrews 2011 data is part of the publication Bay Scale Assessment of Nearshore Habitat Bras d'Or Lakes. A history... -
Catalogue Entry: Canada Coast Guard Regions
In 2021, the Canada Coast Guard (CCG) and Fisheries and Oceans Canada updated its administrative boundaries following the creation a new Arctic region. There are now 4... -
Catalogue Entry: Likelihood of Presence of Bluefin Tuna in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Bluefin tuna landings are reported to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and stored in the Maritime Fishery Information System Database. This database was queried in January... -
Catalogue Entry: Exploratory Video-Sidescan and Echosounder Survey of Welch Cove
Towfish (sidescan and video) and echo sounder surveys were utilized to examine bottom type and macrophyte cover within the area of two coastal marine finfish aquaculture sites,... -
Catalogue Entry: Passamaquoddy Bay monthly Conductivity Temperature and Depth (CTD) sampling...
A systematic oceanographic monitoring program was initiated in September 1989 at twenty-five monitoring stations in the Passamaquoddy Bay area and approaches by Dr. Shawn... -
Catalogue Entry: Ecological and biological significant areas in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence
Identification of ecological and biological significant areas (EBSA) in the Estuary and the Gulf of St. Lawrence according to six groups of the food chain : primary production... -
Catalogue Entry: Fieldnotes 2023-2024: Pacific Science Field Operations
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) conducts research and undertakes monitoring surveys of the marine and freshwater environment in support of sustainable fisheries, healthy... -
Catalogue Entry: Federal Marine Bioregions
The spatial planning framework for Canada's national network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is comprised of 13 ecologically defined bioregions that cover Canada's oceans and... -
Catalogue Entry: Likelihood of Presence of Bottlenose Whales in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Bottlenose Whales in the Bay of Fundy and the Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science)... -
Catalogue Entry: Seamounts of the Northeast Pacific Ocean
Seamounts have been identified as Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) due to their unique oceanography and ecology; they frequently serve as sites for... -
Catalogue Entry: Likelihood of Presence of Finback Whales in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Finback Whales in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science)... -
Catalogue Entry: Important Areas for Invertebrates in Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area
This layer details Important Areas (IAs) relevant to key invertebrate species (which are not corals or sponges) in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA).... -
Catalogue Entry: Species Distribution Modelling of Corals and Sponges in the Maritimes Region...
Effective fisheries and habitat management processes require knowledge of the distribution of areas of high ecological or biological significance. On the Scotian Shelf and... -
Catalogue Entry: Estimates of anthropogenic nitrogen loading and eutrophication indicators...
The excessive input of nitrogen derived from human land-use activities remains a major cause of the eutrophication of coastal ecosystems around the world. However, little data... -
Catalogue Entry: Fieldnotes 2022-2023: Pacific Science Field Operations
The Fieldnotes dataset represents the anticipated locations of DFO Science field operations for 2022-2023 in the North Pacific and Arctic oceans, as well as in the coastal and... -
Catalogue Entry: Exploratory Video-Sidescan and Echosounder Survey of Jordan Bay
Towfish (sidescan and video) and echo sounder surveys were utilized to examine bottom type and macrophyte cover within the area of two coastal marine finfish aquaculture sites,... -
Catalogue Entry: Recreational Shark Fishing Tournament Landings Data and Canadian Dart Tag Database
These data consist of the Recreational Shark Fishing Tournament landings database (1993-2022 inclusive) and the Canadian Dart tag database (2006 onwards; updated annually). Both... -
Catalogue Entry: Likelihood of Presence of Harbour Seal in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Harbour Seal in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science) reviewed... -
Catalogue Entry: NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions
The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Secretariat, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) have collaborated to update the...