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Catalogue Entry: Biodiversity of the snow crab trawl survey on the Lower North Shore of the...
A research survey on snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) was conducted from July 1 to July 17, 2018 on the Lower North Shore of the Gulf of St. Lawrence between Havre-Saint-Pierre... -
Catalogue Entry: Coast of Bays Metrics: Geography, Hydrology and Physical Oceanography of an...
This dataset was compiled as part of a multiyear effort lead by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to support sustainable aquaculture regulation in the Coast of Bays, an area of... -
Catalogue Entry: Lake sturgeon - Important sites - Presence, breeding, feeding, concentration - FHAMIS
Lake sturgeon's presence zones, breeding, feeding and concentration areas according to a literature review of documents produced between 1976 and 2002.Data extracted from the... -
Catalogue Entry: Important Areas for Other Vertebrates in West Coast Vancouver Island Ecoregion
This layer details Important Areas (IAs) relevant to key vertebrate species, other than fish and cetaceans, in the West Coast Vancouver Island (WCVI) ecoregion. This data was... -
Catalogue Entry: Bay Scale Assessment of Eelgrass Beds Using Sidescan and Video - Bouctouche
The assessment of the status of eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds at the bay-scale in turbid, shallow estuaries is problematic. The bay-scale assessment (i.e., tens of km) of... -
Catalogue Entry: Institute of Ocean Sciences Moored Instrument Data (Arctic), 1974-present
Moored instrument time series data include current velocity, temperature, salinity, oxygen, fluorescence, transmissivity, turbidity, and particle capture of carbon, nitrogen,... -
Catalogue Entry: Inside North Hard Bottom Longline Surveys
Catch, effort, location (latitude and longitude), and associated biological data from groundfish multi-species longline surveys in the northern portion of the inlets and... -
Catalogue Entry: Important Areas for Geography in Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area
This layer details Important Areas (IAs) relevant to important geographic features in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA). This data was mapped to inform... -
Catalogue Entry: Northeastern Pacific Canadian Ocean Ecosystem Model (NEP36-CanOE) Climate...
This dataset consists of three simulations from the Northeastern Pacific Canadian Ocean Ecosystem Model (NEP36-CanOE) which is a configuration of the Nucleus for European... -
Catalogue Entry: Fleming Survey of Juvenile Atlantic Cod in Coastal Avalon and Northeast...
The Department of Fisheries established a survey of demersal juvenile Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the nearshore (<10 m deep) in 1959. This survey aimed to characterize the... -
Catalogue Entry: Coastline fetch estimates for Pacific Canada
Fetch is a useful proxy for exposure (an important driver of nearshore species distributions) in the absence of a wind-wave model. We derived the first-ever coast-wide estimates... -
Catalogue Entry: Floating Structures in the Pacific Northwest
These data were created under DFO’s Strategic Program for Ecosystem-based Research and Advice - Aquatic Invasive Species Program: “Evaluation of the movement of marine... -
Catalogue Entry: Characterization of the Batture-aux-Alouettes kelp bed in 2018-2019
The purpose of this study was to characterize the kelp bed at Batture-aux-Alouettes, a preferred food source for the green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis). The... -
Catalogue Entry: Important Areas for Cetaceans in Strait of Georgia Ecoregion
This layer details Important Areas (IAs) relevant to key cetacean species in the Strait of Georgia (SOG) ecoregion. This data was mapped to inform the selection of marine... -
Catalogue Entry: Sea pens significant concentration areas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Identification of significant concentrations of sea pens in the Gulf of St. Lawrence biogeographic unit using Kernel density estimation (KDE). This method was applied to create... -
Catalogue Entry: Pelagic Fish Trawl Survey of Lake Winnipeg
To better understand patterns of temporal and spatial variation of fish assemblages in offshore waters of Lake Winnipeg (Manitoba, Canada), pelagic trawl tows were conducted at... -
Catalogue Entry: SCUBA surveys to assess lobster population structure and density in the...
Total number of transects surveyed and total number of lobsters measured for each site in each year. There are some sites that do not have any coordinates identified, therefore... -
Catalogue Entry: Benthic invertebrates in seagrass and bare soft sediments in Atlantic Nova Scotia
This dataset contains the abundance (per m²) and the biomass (mg dry per m²) of macrofauna (≥ 500µm) in eelgrass and adjacent bare soft sediments, collected at sites in the... -
Catalogue Entry: Active Commercial Shipping Anchorages in Pacific Canada
This is a point layer of the names and locations of the actively used commercial shipping anchorages in British Columbia. These point locations were manually compiled from... -
Catalogue Entry: Spatial density models of cetaceans in the Canadian Pacific estimated from...
Many cetacean species were depleted in Canadian Pacific waters by commercial whaling, which ended in 1967. Although some populations have since shown evidence of recovery, there...