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Canadian Marine Invasive Screening Tool (CMIST)
CMIST is a peer-reviewed screening-level risk assessment tool for marine invasive species (Drolet et al. 2016). It is a short questionnaire that follows the invasion process... -
Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas
Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) are areas within Canada's oceans that have been identified through formal scientific assessments as having special... -
Fishing during extreme heatwaves alters ecological interactions and...
PURPOSE: The data files contained herein are meant to serve as supplementary material for a published paper regarding the effects of clam digging during extreme heat waves on... -
Likelihood of Presence of Grey Seal in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Grey Seal in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science) reviewed... -
Likelihood of Presence of North Atlantic Right Whales in Area Response...
Likelihood of Presence of North Atlantic Right Whales in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO... -
Likelihood of Presence of Atlantic Cod in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science) reviewed the presence of Cod in the Population Ecology Division (DFO Science) Ecosystem Survey trawls to... -
Likelihood of Presence of Finback Whales in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Finback Whales in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science)... -
Likelihood of Presence of Soft Shelled Clams in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Soft Shelled Clams in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science)... -
Likelihood of Presence of Harbour Porpoise in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Harbour Porpoise in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science)... -
Likelihood of Presence of American Lobster in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science) reviewed the presence of Lobster in the Population Ecology Division (DFO Science) Ecosystem Survey trawls... -
Likelihood of Presence of Atlantic Salmon in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Atlantic salmon postsmolts were surveyed via surface trawling during 2001 and 2003. These data were provided to the Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section of... -
Likelihood of Presence of Bottlenose Whales in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of Presence of Bottlenose Whales in the Bay of Fundy and the Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science)... -
Likelihood of Presence of Bluefin Tuna in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Bluefin tuna landings are reported to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and stored in the Maritime Fishery Information System Database. This database was queried in January... -
Reports of Atlantic salmon captured in BC waters
Fisheries and Oceans Canada's (DFO’s) Atlantic Salmon Watch Program (ASWP) was established in 1991 to study the abundance, distribution and biology of Atlantic salmon in British... -
Known concentration areas of the Sea scallop and the Iceland scallop in the...
Sea scallop (Placopecten magellanicus) and Iceland scallop (Chlamys islandica) concentration areas of this layer are described as being known and commercially exploited... -
Escapes of cultured finfish from BC aquaculture sites
Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO’s) Pacific Aquaculture Regulations and Conditions of Licence for aquaculture in B.C. require licence holders to take various fish escape... -
Incidental catch at BC marine finfish aquaculture sites
Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO’s) Conditions of Licence for finfish aquaculture include requirements to minimize harm to wild fish that swim into facilities. Facility... -
California Sea Lion Haulout Counts in British Columbia
The United States population of California Sea Lions (Zalophus californianus) range from southeast Alaska to the Pacific coast of central Mexico. While this population does not... -
Snow Crab Collaborative Post-season Trap Survey
This project was completed by the Shellfish Section in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), in collaboration with industry... -
Traditional knowledge of nearshore fisheries for the southern Gulf of St....
In 1998, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) published an atlas called "Traditional Fisheries Knowledge for the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence". The document is composed of a...