Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping (2019–2023)

These datasets show commercial fisheries catch weight landings of directed fisheries and bycatch from the Scotian Shelf, the Bay of Fundy, and Georges Bank from NAFO Divisions 4VWX and the Canadian portions of 5Y and 5Z. Five-year composite maps (2019–2023) that aggregate catches for each map series are publicly available. The maps aggregate catch weight (kg) per 10 km2 hexagon grid cell for selected species, species groupings and gear types to identify important fishing areas. These maps can support decision making in coastal and oceans management, including marine spatial planning, environmental emergency response operations and protocols, Marine Stewardship Council certification processes, marine protected area networks, and ecological risk assessment.

Reported catch locations may have rounded coordinates or contain errors. Although some errors have been corrected, it is assumed that additional errors remain in the data.

These datasets have been filtered to comply with the Government of Canada's privacy policy. Privacy assessments were conducted to identify DFO unit areas containing data with less than five vessel IDs, licence IDs or 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, species groupings and gear types:

1. Groundfish (all species)
2. Groundfish Bottom Trawl
3. Groundfish Bottom Longline
4. Groundfish Gillnet
5. Groundfish (seasonal composites)
6. Atlantic Cod
7. Atlantic Cod, Haddock and Pollock
8. Flatfish
9. Atlantic Halibut
10. Greenland Halibut (Turbot)
11. Hagfish
12. Cusk
13. Dogfish
14. Redfish
15. Red Hake
16. Silver Hake
17. White Hake
18. Monkfish
19. Sculpin
20. Skate
21. Wolffish
22. Squid
23. Herring
24. Mackerel
25. Herring and Mackerel Gillnet
26. Purse Seine
27. Large Pelagics
28. Bluefin Tuna
29. Other Tuna
30. Swordfish
31. Snow Crab
32. Other Crab
33. Scallop
34. Scallop (seasonal composites)
35. Offshore Clam
36. Shrimp Trawl
37. Shrimp Trap
38. Offshore Lobster
39. Disputed Zone Area 38B Lobster
40. Whelk