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Database of the Distributions of Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada
This dataset contains point distribution occurrences for fish species found in marine waters of Arctic Canada. It was used to create the distribution maps in the book Marine... -
Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler data from the Coast of Bays, Newfoundland
The dataset includes timeseries of horizontal current speed and direction, vertical current speed, water depth, and temperature at instrument depth from Acoustic Doppler Current... -
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,... -
PBDEs and emerging flame retardants in belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) and...
The endangered St. Lawrence Estuary (SLE) beluga population is in decline despite multiple protection measures and exposure to organohalogen contaminants have been proposed as... -
Fish and large decapods in eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds on the Atlantic...
Nekton assemblages in Zostera marina beds and adjacent bare soft-sediments were sampled on the south and eastern shore of Nova Scotia. Sampling gear used were visual snorkel... -
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.... -
Bay of Fundy Benthoscape
The data layer (.shp) presented is the result of an unsupervised classification method for classifying seafloor habitat in the Bay of Fundy (Northwest Atlantic, Canada). This... -
Average Relative Density of Fish Functional Groups and Species in the...
The Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) in the Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) region has been conducting multispecies research vessel (RV) surveys using a... -
Recreational Catch Statistics - West Coast Vancouver Island Recreational Catch
West Coast Vancouver Island Recreational Catch: Annual Summaries of Catch and Effort. -
Margaree River and Tributaries Water Temperatures
PURPOSE: To record hourly water temperatures throughout the Margaree watershed. DESCRIPTION: The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has been deploying water temperature... -
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... -
Strait of Georgia Synoptic Bottom Trawl Survey
Catch, effort, location (latitude, longitude), relative abundance indices, and associated biological data from groundfish multi-species bottom trawl surveys in Strait of... -
Fixed gear sentinel fisheries program - northern Gulf of St. Lawrence
In place since fall 1994, the sentinel fisheries program is the result of a collaboration between Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and Quebec and Newfoundland commercial... -
Herring Biological Database (Commercial) - NL Region
We present a long-term dataset of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) biological and catch information collected from 1974 to 2023 in NAFO Divisions 2J3KL, in Newfoundland and... -
Survey for the assessment of Unit 2 Redfish (CCGS John Cabot)
Monitoring of Unit 2 redfish by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) ceased in 2002. Since then, the Atlantic Groundfish Council (AGC, formerly the Groundfish Enterprise Allocation... -
Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Snow Crab Research Trawl Survey Data
PURPOSE: Trawl survey data used primarily for assessing the status of snow crab stocks in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. DESCRIPTION: Tow, catch, and biological information... -
Pelagic Shark Satellite Tag data - White Shark
The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), is a species found in Atlantic Canadian waters which is encountered in commercial and recreational fisheries. Pop-up Satellite Archival...