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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... -
Biodiversity of the Planning for Integrated Environmental Response Coastal...
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... -
Fetch and relative wave exposure indices for the coastal zone of the Scotian...
Exposure to wind-driven waves forms a key physical gradient in nearshore environments influencing both ecological communities and human activities. We calculated a relative... -
Speckled Dace Critical Habitat Survey Data
Speckled Dace (Rhinichthys osculus) are listed under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) as endangered. These fresh water fish, of the family Cyprinidae, are found in Canada only in... -
Coastline fetch estimates for Pacific Canada
Fetch is a proxy for wind-wave action and exposure. Estimates of fetch over a total of 39,938 km of the BC coastline were calculated at 50 m intervals, yielding 799,220 near... -
Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Maritimes Region), Northwest Fundy...
The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program is a multi-year Fisheries and Oceans Canada initiative designed to work with Indigenous and local communities and other key parties to... -
Annual multidisciplinary survey for assessing groundfish and shrimp in the...
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) conducts an annual summer multidisciplinary scientific survey with a bottom trawl in the Estuary and the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence since... -
MBON Pole to Pole: Sandy beach biodiversity of southwest New Brunswick, Canada
The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole (MBON P2P) effort seeks to develop a framework for the collection, use and sharing of marine biodiversity data in a... -
Demersal (groundfish) community diversity and biomass metrics in the...
Description Conservation of marine biodiversity requires understanding the joint influence of ongoing environmental change and fishing pressure. Addressing this challenge... -
Megahabitats of the St. Lawrence Estuary and Gulf - Personnal Geodatabase
Available information for the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence on salinity, temperature, dissolved oxygen, depth, slope, and variability in landscape and sediments, were... -
Productivity (Recruits-per-Spawner) data for Sockeye, Pink, and Chum Salmon...
We assembled productivity (i.e. recruits per spawner) estimates for British Columbian Sockeye, Pink, and Chum Salmon. Annual estimates, by brood year, of spawner numbers, catch,... -
Outside South Hard Bottom Longline Surveys
Catch, effort, location (latitude and longitude), and associated biological data from groundfish multi-species longline surveys on the southern British Columbia coast, excluding... -
Pacific Recreational Fishery Salmon Head Depots
Location and contact information for Pacific Recreational Fishery Salmon Head Recovery Depots. The sport fishing community has an important role in the recovery of coded-wire... -
Industry sea lice counts at BC marine finfish aquaculture sites
Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO’s) conditions of licence for marine finfish aquaculture contain monitoring and intervention requirements to minimize the potential exposure of... -
Past and Future Sea Surface Temperature Changes in the Oceans Surrounding Canada
Wang, Z., Greenan, B.J.W., Hannah, C.G., and Layton, C. 2025. Past and future sea surface temperature changes in the oceans surrounding Canada. Can. Tech. Rep. Hydrogr. Ocean.... -
Habitat associations of juvenile American lobster in three nearshore areas...
This project was completed by the Productive Capacity group (Coastal and Freshwater Ecology Section) in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans... -
NAFO Division 4T Sentinel Trawl Survey Data
PURPOSE: Since 2003, a standardized otter trawl survey was conducted in August by commercial fishing vessels throughout the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (NAFO Division 4T). The... -
Beluga Calves Relative Summer Density in the St. Lawrence Estuary
This layer represents the relative summer density of beluga calves in the St. Lawrence Estuary based on 35 aerial surveys carried out from 1990 to 2009. The boundaries of the... -
Scientific survey of Icelandic scallop (Chlamys islandica) in the Mingan...
Research surveys targeting Icelandic scallops (Chlamys islandica) have been conducted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) at one- or two-year intervals in the Mingan...