Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping (2010–2014)

DFO’s Oceans and Coastal Management Division (OCMD) in the Maritimes Region has updated its fisheries landings maps for 2010–2014. These maps will be used for decision making in coastal and oceans management, including mitigating human use conflicts, informing environmental emergency response operations and protocols, informing Marine Stewardship Council certification processes, planning marine protected area networks, assessing ecological risks, and monitoring compliance and threats in coral and sponge closures and Marine Protected Areas. Fisheries maps were created to identify important fishing areas using aggregate landed weight (kg) per 2 x 2-minute grid cell for selected species/gear types.

This dataset has been filtered to comply with the Government of Canada's privacy policy. Privacy assessments were conducted to identify NAFO unit areas containing data with less than five vessel IDs, license IDs and fisher IDs. If this threshold was not met, catch weight locations were withheld from these unit areas to protect the identity or activity of individual vessels or companies.

Maps were created for the following species/gear types:

1. Atlantic Halibut

2. Bluefin Tuna

3. Bottom Longline Groundfish

4. Bottom Trawl Groundfish

5. Cod

6. Cod, Haddock, Pollock

7. Cusk

8. Dogfish

9. Flatfish

10. Gillnet Groundfish

11. Greenland Halibut

12. Groundfish

13. Groundfish (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)

14. Hagfish

15. Herring

16. Large Pelagics

17. Mackerel

18. Monkfish

19. Offshore Clam

20. Offshore Lobster

21. Grey Zone Lobster

22. Other Crab

23. Other Tuna

24. Pollock

25. Porbeagle, Mako and Blue Shark

26. Red Hake

27. Redfish

28. Scallop

29. Scallop (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)

30. Sculpin

31. Sea Urchin

32. Shrimp

33. Silver Hake

34. Skate

35. Snow Crab

36. Squid

37. Swordfish

38. White Hake

39. Wolffish