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Canadian Beaufort Sea - Marine Ecosystem Assessment (CBS-MEA) Stations 2017-2024 Canada Open Gov Dataset
PURPOSE: The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) conducted a baseline survey of biological communities and habitat parameters in the offshore Canadian Beaufort Sea between... Read more -
Seabed Mooring Deployments in the Tarium Niryutait Marine Protected Area Canada Open Gov Dataset
PURPOSE: Eastern Beaufort Sea beluga whales form one of the largest summering aggregations of the species in the Mackenzie Estuary. In 2010, the Tarium Niryutait Marine... Read more -
Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures Canada Open Gov Dataset
This dataset contains area-based management measures that have been recognized as 'other effective area-based conservation measures' (OECMs). It also contains basic information... Read more -
Cold-water coral DNA sequences from Eastern Canada: Part 1 Canada Open Gov Dataset
Cold-water corals are conspicuous in the waters off Eastern Canada. Despite that, there are few DNA sequence records from specimens collected in the region available in GenBank,... Read more -
Inventory of macroalgae and benthic macroinvertebrates on the north shore of... Canada Open Gov Dataset
This inventory, conducted from September 26th to October 3th, 2019, aimed to describe the community structure of macroalgae and benthic macroinvertebrates of five small... Read more -
Fisheries and Oceans Canada Species at Risk Distribution (Range) Canada Open Gov Dataset
The Species at Risk (SAR) Program is responsible for carrying out DFO’s mandate under the Species at Risk Act (SARA) to protect, recover and conserve all listed aquatic SAR in... Read more -
Monthly Temperature Climatology of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean from BNAM... Canada Open Gov Dataset
Monthly mean temperature from Bedford Institute of Oceanography North Atlantic Model (BNAM) results were averaged over 1990 to 2015 period to create monthly mean climatology for... Read more -
Oceanic Waters Canada Open Gov Dataset
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has been conducting surface water trawl surveys since 1992 in the coastal waters of British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and Alaska and in the... Read more -
Pelagic Shark Satellite Tag data - Basking Shark Canada Open Gov Dataset
The basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus), is a species found in Atlantic Canadian waters which is mostly encountered “basking” on the surface waters and sometimes caught... Read more -
Salmon Rivers Presence, Maritimes Region Canada Open Gov Dataset
The names of these rivers in the Bay of Fundy and Port Hawkesbury Area Response Plan (ARP) regions were obtained from Recovery Potential Assessments (see references), and cross... Read more -
NAFO Division 4T Sentinel Trawl Survey Data Canada Open Gov Dataset
PURPOSE: Since 2003, a standardized otter trawl survey was conducted in August by commercial fishing vessels throughout the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (NAFO Division 4T). The... Read more -
Rainbow smelt breeding and feeding areas in the Saguenay River, the fluvial... Canada Open Gov Dataset
Layer that includes the known information on rainbow smelt breeding and feeding areas in the Saguenay River, the fluvial section and Estuary of St. Lawrence according to a... Read more -
Salmon Rivers Geodatabase - by DFO Detachment (NL Region) Canada Open Gov Dataset
This dataset was developed to provide a complete record of salmon rivers within the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is organized by DFO detachment area and can be used... Read more -
Monthly eelgrass data at selected sites in Nova Scotia Canada Open Gov Dataset
This dataset includes metrics of seagrass productivity and resilience collected from field sites along the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, Canada. Field sites were located across... Read more -
Outside South Hard Bottom Longline Surveys Canada Open Gov Dataset
Catch, effort, location (latitude and longitude), and associated biological data from groundfish multi-species longline surveys on the southern British Columbia coast, excluding... Read more -
NAFO 4T Atlantic Herring Biomass Estimates Canada Open Gov Dataset
PURPOSE: These data have been updated following a Canadian Science Advice Secretariat (CSAS) Regional Science Advisory Process. Associated publications are available in the... Read more -
Nunavut ringed seal monitoring Canada Open Gov Dataset
Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada (Northern Contaminants program) have been working with Nunavut community Hunters and Trappers Organizations... Read more -
Presence/absence and abundance of vulnerable marine ecosystem species... Canada Open Gov Dataset
A derivative of DFO’s benthic species survey for the Strategic Program for Ecosystem-based Research and Advice (SPERA) (open data record ID:... -
Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping (2014–2018) Canada Open Gov Dataset
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... Read more -
Diversity, Richness, and Biomass Hotspots Canada Open Gov Dataset
This geodatabase includes hotspot maps of 1) nearshore habitat richness, 2) diversity (fish and invertebrates), and 3) biomass (using catch per unit effort of fish and... Read more