Significant areas of krill in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence

Significant areas of krill in the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence Krill is a generic name for crustaceans of the order Euphausiids, most of which are known to be Thysanoessa raschii and Meganyctiphanes norvegica in eastern Canada. Krill is an important food resource for many marine mammals, in particular the blue whale. The maps show the points of high krill concentration per month from April to November. Each point gives the number of years of high aggregation probability (6 to 10 years). The data were produced from a mathematical model developed in Plourde et al. 2016. The model has allowed to calculate the probability of meeting a strong aggregation of krill over a period of 10 years. High krill aggregations are defined as the 95th percentile of predicted biomass in 10 x 10 km cells covering the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Additional Information Plourde, S., Lehoux, C., McQuinn, I.H., and Lesage, V. (2016). Describing krill distribution in the western North Atlantic using statistical habitat models. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2016/nnn. vi + xx p. Plourde, S., McQuinn, I.H., Lesage, V., Lehoux, C., Joly, P., Bourassa, M-N. in prep. Spatial distribution of krill in eastern Canadian waters: a climatological approach based on historical plankton net and acoustic data. The data are incomplete upstream of Pointe-des-Monts because of the lack of water height anomalies in the area (variable being used to predict aggregations of krill). A less number of years with a high aggregation of krill is thus represented but that should not be interpreted as a less favorable zone compared to areas East of Pointe-des-Monts. 2023-07-11 Fisheries and Oceans Canada gddaiss-dmsaisb@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentScience and TechnologykrilldistributionGulf of St. LawrenceSt. Lawrence EstuaryEarth sciencesOceans Data DictionaryCSV https://pacgis01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/FGPPublic/Krill_AiresConcentrationAreas/DataDictionary_DictionnaireDonnees.csv Number of year with krillCSV https://pacgis01.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/FGPPublic/Krill_AiresConcentrationAreas/Krill_AiresConcentrationAreas_DonneesData.csv Number of year with krillESRI REST https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/FGP/Krill_AiresConcentrationAreas/MapServer/0 Number of year with krillESRI REST https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/FGP/Krill_AiresConcentrationAreas/MapServer/0

Krill is a generic name for crustaceans of the order Euphausiids, most of which are known to be Thysanoessa raschii and Meganyctiphanes norvegica in eastern Canada. Krill is an important food resource for many marine mammals, in particular the blue whale.

The maps show the points of high krill concentration per month from April to November. Each point gives the number of years of high aggregation probability (6 to 10 years). The data were produced from a mathematical model developed in Plourde et al. 2016. The model has allowed to calculate the probability of meeting a strong aggregation of krill over a period of 10 years. High krill aggregations are defined as the 95th percentile of predicted biomass in 10 x 10 km cells covering the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence.

Additional Information

Plourde, S., Lehoux, C., McQuinn, I.H., and Lesage, V. (2016). Describing krill distribution in the western North Atlantic using statistical habitat models. DFO Can. Sci. Advis. Sec. Res. Doc. 2016/nnn. vi + xx p.

Plourde, S., McQuinn, I.H., Lesage, V., Lehoux, C., Joly, P., Bourassa, M-N. in prep. Spatial distribution of krill in eastern Canadian waters: a climatological approach based on historical plankton net and acoustic data.

The data are incomplete upstream of Pointe-des-Monts because of the lack of water height anomalies in the area (variable being used to predict aggregations of krill). A less number of years with a high aggregation of krill is thus represented but that should not be interpreted as a less favorable zone compared to areas East of Pointe-des-Monts.

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