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Recreational Vessel Traffic Model for British Columbia
Description: Data on recreational boating are needed for marine spatial planning initiatives in British Columbia (BC). Vessel traffic data are typically obtained by analyzing... -
Maritimes Spring Research Vessel Survey
The Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) ecosystem surveys consist of research vessel survey data collected to monitor the distribution and abundance of fish and invertebrates... -
Fish Habitat Assessment Output from Bay of Quinte Suitability Modelling:...
Fish Habitat Assessment Output: 6 of 16 High Water Level (75.4m ASL) - Juvenile/Adult Habitat - Low Vegetation Association Species (Warmwater Guild) Habitat suitability was... -
Kernel Density Analyses of Coral and Sponge Catches from Research Vessel...
Kernel density estimation (KDE) utilizes spatially explicit data to model the distribution of a variable of interest. It is a simple non-parametric neighbour-based smoothing... -
Marine mammal records collected by the At-Sea Observer program in Arctic,...
Records of marine mammal sightings (N = 5,324) collected by ASOs and submitted to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) between 1979-2024, across three DFO regions: the Arctic,... -
Near-seafloor drift transect video and high-resolution digital still imagery...
Funded under DFO's Marine Conservation Targets Program, this optical imagery benthic survey captured 73 drift-camera transects from September 21, 2022 to October 3, 2024 in the... -
Oceans Protection Plan Regional Response Planning Extents
This dataset is comprised of the spatial boundaries for the Port Hawkesbury and Saint John pilot areas within the Oceans Protection Plan - Area Response Plan (ARP) project. -
A substrate classification for the Inshore Scotian Shelf and Bay of Fundy,...
A coastal surficial substrate layer for the coastal Scotian Shelf and Bay of Fundy. To create the layer, previous geological characterizations from NRCan were translated into... -
Marine Conservation Targets (MCT) - Camera surveys of the subtidal flora of...
To assess the current distribution of kelp beds and other macroalgae in Nova Scotia and Southwest New Brunswick, subtidal drop camera surveys were performed from 2022-2023 at... -
Eastern Canada Marine Spatial Planning Areas
Three marine spatial planning areas are delineated in Eastern Canada to define the spatial extents of marine spatial plans being led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO): the... -
Capelin - Important Sites - FHAMIS
Important sites: reproduction, feeding and concentration area. Data extracted from the Fish Habitat Management Information System (FHAMIS) according to a literature review of... -
Eelgrass (Zostera marina) study in the historical goldmining region of...
Nearshore marine construction activities often involve projects conducted directly in or adjacent to eelgrass beds and can have detrimental effects on eelgrass health, through... -
Likelihood of Presence of Snow Crab in Area Response Planning Pilot Areas
Likelihood of presence of Snow Crab in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury areas. The Coastal Oceanography and Ecosystem Research section (DFO Science) reviewed science sources... -
Bay of Fundy Sea Scallop Commercial Size Abundance Data
This dataset represents abundance data of commercial size Sea Scallop (Placopecten magellanicus; ≥ 80 mm shell height) from 2011-2023 from the Bay of Fundy Inshore Scallop...