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Catalogue Entry: Critical Habitat for Aquatic Species at Risk - Canada
The Species at Risk (SAR) Program is responsible for carrying out DFO’s mandate under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) to protect, recover and conserve all listed aquatic SAR in... -
Catalogue Entry: Monthly Satellite Chlorophyll-a Climatology of the Canadian Pacific...
Description: Chlorophyll-a concentration (a proxy for phytoplankton biomass) was retrieved from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite, with data distributed by the NASA... -
Catalogue Entry: Monthly Satellite Chlorophyll-a Climatology of the Canadian Pacific...
Description: Chlorophyll-a concentration (a proxy for phytoplankton biomass) was retrieved from the MODIS instrument on the Aqua satellite, with data distributed by the NASA... -
Catalogue Entry: Historical trace metals concentrations from sediment samples and suspended...
This dataset is a compilation of numerous data files recovered as part of a data request in 2024 from a historical archive of DFO research data. Sediment and Suspended... -
Catalogue Entry: Recovered Historic Catch and Weight – Length Data of Nearshore Fish...
A goal of the Government of Canada’s Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (CEBP) is to amalgamate historic environmental data from high vessel traffic areas. An extensive DFO... -
Catalogue Entry: Pacific Salmon Stock Management Units
Salmon have a complex hierarchical population structure extending from groups of salmon at individual spawning sites all the way up to taxonomic species. These independently... -
Catalogue Entry: Seasonal Temperature Climatology of the British Columbia Exclusive Economic...
Description: Seasonal climatologies for temperature of the Northeast Pacific Ocean were computed to cover the period 2001 to 2020. Historical observations included all available... -
Catalogue Entry: Seasonal Salinity Climatology of the British Columbia Exclusive Economic...
Description: Seasonal climatologies for salinity of the Northeast Pacific Ocean were computed to cover the period 2001 to 2020. Historibal observations included all available... -
Catalogue Entry: Nearshore Bottom Patches for Pacific Canada. Version 1.0
The shallow, coastal regions of the world’s oceans are highly productive ecosystems providing important habitat for commercial, forage, endangered, and iconic species. Given the... -
Catalogue Entry: Distribution of kelp on the coast of British Columbia extracted from CHS...
Kelp features were taken from digitized survey source fieldsheets produced by the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS). The area covered by this dataset encompasses various... -
Catalogue Entry: Mailing address and contact details for primary offices for Fisheries and...
Localization and contact information of DFO offices. Find, search and locate DFO offices within Canada. -
Catalogue Entry: Predicted distributions of 65 groundfish species in Canadian Pacific waters
Description: This dataset contains layers of predicted occurrence for 65 groundfish species as well as overall species richness (i.e., the total number of species present) in... -
Catalogue Entry: Argo Canada
Argo is a global in situ ocean climate monitoring system consisting in an array of over 4,000 free-drifting floats that collect data on ocean temperature and salinity, and... -
Catalogue Entry: Maritimes Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring Program – Beach Seining
Monitoring programs are an important component of Marine Protected Area (MPA) management, providing requisite information on the state of, and changes in, protected ecosystems.... -
Catalogue Entry: Recreational Vessel Traffic Model for British Columbia
Description: Data on recreational boating are needed for marine spatial planning initiatives in British Columbia (BC). Vessel traffic data are typically obtained by analyzing... -
Catalogue Entry: Commercial Whale Watching in British Columbia
Description: These commercial whale watching data are comprised of two datasets. First, the ‘whale_watching_trips_jun_sep_british_columbia’ data layer summarizes commercial...