Commercial catches sampling program in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence – snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio)

Commercial catches sampling program in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence – snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) Summary The Quebec region of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is responsible for the assessment of several fish and invertebrate stocks exploited in the Estuary and the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. The commercial catches sampling program is one of the sources of information used to complete these assessments. The data collected by this program, at wharf or at sea, offers among other things the advantage of a relatively large spatio-temporal coverage and provides some of the necessary knowledge to assess the demography and the structure of the exploited populations. This program is implemented by specialized DFO staff whose main mandate is to collect biological data on groundfish, pelagic fish and marine invertebrate species that are commercially exploited in the various marine communities. Data This dataset on the snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) includes the metadata, sample weight, specimen weight, shell width and condition, sex and the right claw height of the specimens measured. This dataset covers the periods of 1984-2003 and 2005 to present. In order to protect the confidentiality of the sources, some informations (such as those concerning the vessel) have been excluded and others (such as the date of capture) have been simplified. Entries where there was only one vessel in a fishing area for a given year were also excluded. Further information including the fishing areas coordinates can be found by clicking on the «Atlantic and Arctic commercial fisheries» and «Fishing areas» links below. 2024-03-11 Fisheries and Oceans Canada gddaiss-dmsaisb.XLAU@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentScience and TechnologyChionoecetes opiliosnow crabGulf of St. LawrenceSt. Lawrence EstuaryFishFisheries resources Atlantic and Arctic commercial fisheriesHTML https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fisheries-peches/commercial-commerciale/atl-arc/index-eng.html Atlantic and Arctic commercial fisheriesHTML https://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/fisheries-peches/commercial-commerciale/atl-arc/index-fra.html Snow Crab DatasetCSV https://api-proxy.edh.azure.cloud.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/4b3154e6-5d6d-11ea-9fca-1860247f53e3/attachments/snow_crab_dataset.csv Snow Crab DatasetCSV https://api-proxy.edh.azure.cloud.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/4b3154e6-5d6d-11ea-9fca-1860247f53e3/attachments/donnees_crabe_des_neiges.csv Data dictionnaryCSV https://pacgis01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/FGPPublic/Commercial_Catches_Data_Quebec/snow_crab/data_dictionnary.csv Data dictionnaryCSV https://pacgis01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/FGPPublic/Commercial_Catches_Data_Quebec/snow_crab/dictionnaire_donnees.csv Fishing gear dictionnaryCSV https://pacgis01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/FGPPublic/Commercial_Catches_Data_Quebec/snow_crab/fishing_gear_dictionnary.csv Fishing gear dictionnaryCSV https://pacgis01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/FGPPublic/Commercial_Catches_Data_Quebec/snow_crab/dictionnaire_engin_peche.csv Fishing areasPDF https://inter-l01-uat.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/infoceans/sites/infoceans/files/Crabe_des_Neiges_en.pdf

Summary

The Quebec region of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is responsible for the assessment of several fish and invertebrate stocks exploited in the Estuary and the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. The commercial catches sampling program is one of the sources of information used to complete these assessments. The data collected by this program, at wharf or at sea, offers among other things the advantage of a relatively large spatio-temporal coverage and provides some of the necessary knowledge to assess the demography and the structure of the exploited populations. This program is implemented by specialized DFO staff whose main mandate is to collect biological data on groundfish, pelagic fish and marine invertebrate species that are commercially exploited in the various marine communities.

Data

This dataset on the snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) includes the metadata, sample weight, specimen weight, shell width and condition, sex and the right claw height of the specimens measured. This dataset covers the periods of 1984-2003 and 2005 to present. In order to protect the confidentiality of the sources, some informations (such as those concerning the vessel) have been excluded and others (such as the date of capture) have been simplified. Entries where there was only one vessel in a fishing area for a given year were also excluded. Further information including the fishing areas coordinates can be found by clicking on the «Atlantic and Arctic commercial fisheries» and «Fishing areas» links below.

Data and Resources

Contact Information

Delivery Point: 850 Route de la Mer

City: Mont-Joli

Administrative Area: Quebec

Postal Code: G5H 3Z4

Country: Canada

Electronic Mail Address: gddaiss-dmsaisb.XLAU@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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