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Catalogue Entry: Characteristics of Environmental Data Layers for Use in Species Distribution...
Species distribution models (SDMs) are tools that combine species observations of occurrence, abundance, or biomass with environmental variables to predict the distribution of a... -
Catalogue Entry: Charting the Course of the Historical Lobster Fishing Districts in the...
This report outlines the results of a project that created a series of maps tracking inshore historical Lobster fishing district boundaries from 1899 to present. This work has... -
Catalogue Entry: Groundfish biodiversity change in northeastern Pacific waters under...
ABSTRACT In the coming decades, warming and deoxygenation of marine waters are anticipated to result in shifts in the distribution and abundance of fishes, with consequences for... -
Catalogue Entry: DFO Maritimes Biofouling Monitoring Program
Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) National Biofouling Monitoring Program (BMP) has conducted annual field surveys to monitor the introduction, establishment, spread, species... -
Catalogue Entry: Bottom temperature data from St. Anns Bank MPA acoustic telemetry receivers...
The St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area was established in June 2017. Data describing the spatial-temporal patterns and drivers of species movement is essential for evaluating... -
Catalogue Entry: National Aquatic Invasive Species (AIS) Risk Assessment for Zebra (Dreissena...
Zebra Mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and Quagga Mussel (Dreissena rostriformis bugensis) have a long history of invasion in European and North American freshwater ecosystems,... -
Catalogue Entry: A Soft-Shelled Clam (Mya arenaria) Habitat Suitability Model For The DFO...
The data in this layer represents habitat suitability of soft-shelled clams (Mya arenaria) in the DFO Maritimes region, and was developed using an interdepartmental approach.... -
Catalogue Entry: Pacific Herring spawn index data
Pacific Herring spawn index data for British Columbia from 1951 to present. Note that the spawn index is a relative index of spawning biomass. In addition, “NA" indicates that... -
Catalogue Entry: Biological Sensitivity Mapping for Oil Spill Planning and Response, Quebec Region
The Planning for an Environmental Response (PIER) initiative falls under the umbrella of the Government of Canada's Oceans Protection Plan (OPP), whose goal is preserving marine... -
Catalogue Entry: Presence/absence and abundance of vulnerable marine ecosystem species...
A derivative of DFO’s benthic species survey for the Strategic Program for Ecosystem-based Research and Advice (SPERA) (open data record ID:... -
Catalogue Entry: Pacific Marine Ecological Classification System and its Application to the...
Description: Biophysical Units: Under the Pacific Marine Ecological Classification System (PMECS; DFO 2016; Rubidge et al. 2016), biophysical units are areas of distinct... -
Catalogue Entry: Updated Species Distribution Models for Marine Invasive Species Hotspot...
Monitoring data from DFO invasive species monitoring programs, along with occurrence information from online databases and the scientific literature, have been paired with high... -
Catalogue Entry: MARITIMES SUMMER RESEARCH VESSEL SURVEY
“Summer” missions occur in June, July and August and these focus on the Scotian Shelf and Bay of Fundy (i.e. 4VWX 5Yb, expanding recently to include the Laurentian Channel and... -
Catalogue Entry: Canadian Extreme Water Level Adaptation Tool (CAN-EWLAT)
Extreme water level along the marine coastline is a result of a combination of storm surge, tides, and ocean waves. Future projections of climate change in the marine... -
Catalogue Entry: Community-Based Coastal Resource Inventory
Points, polylines and polygons where species and features have been found, harvested or detailed. Community Based Coastal Resource Inventory (CCRI) – Fisheries and Oceans Canada... -
Catalogue Entry: Glass sponge grounds on the Scotian Shelf and their associated biodiversity
Emerald Basin on the Scotia Shelf off Nova Scotia, Canada, is home to a globally unique population of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesi. Through the analysis of both in situ... -
Catalogue Entry: Striped Bass Spawner Abundance Estimates in the Northwest Miramichi Estuary
Spawner abundance estimates of Striped Bass in the Northwest Miramichi estuary based on Catch per unit effort (CPUE) analysis in the commercial gaspereau fishery. -
Catalogue Entry: NAFO fishing division 4T Herring Spawning Grounds Acoustic Survey
In 2015, a spawning ground acoustic survey that follows the design of the fishery-independent acoustic survey was initiated. This survey is the result of a partnership between... -
Catalogue Entry: Epifauna Diversity on Dockside Surface Perimeters in Burrard Inlet and...
These data sets provide information pertaining to epifauna and substrate estimates collected at dockside perimeters of floating docks located in Burrard Inlet and Fraser River... -
Catalogue Entry: Mackenzie River Exploratory Fishery 1989-1993; Investigation of the...
An exploratory fishery was carried out in the Mackenzie River Delta between 1989 and 1993 at the request of the Inuvik Hunters and Trappers Committee to assess the commercial...