Fishing effort within Significant Benthic Areas in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic marine waters
This entry provides access to spatial layers which show cumulative fishing effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic waters for the years 2005-2019. Production of the spatial layers was based on vessel monitoring system (VMS) and commercial logbook data sources. Fishing effort is provided in standardized spatial layers for various fisheries groupings: all fisheries combined, aggregations of gear type, and fisheries classes as defined in the CSAS reports.
These layers are developed based on the methodology outlined in the Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) Science Advice Report titled ‘Delineation of Significant Areas of Coldwater Corals and Sponge-Dominated Communities in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic Marine Waters and their Overlap with Fishing Activity’ and CSAS Research Document titled ‘Analysis of the overlap between fishing effort and Significant Benthic Areas in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic marine waters’. Layers will be regularly updated following this approach, as new data becomes available.
Important Note: Problems have been identified with the positions of some logbook records originating from the Gulf. This should be taken into consideration when using fishing effort layers in this region. These data layers will be updated when corrected logbook data becomes available.
- Publisher - Current Organization Name: Fisheries and Oceans Canada
- Licence: Open Government Licence - Canada
Data and Resources
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Science Advisory Report 2017/007HTMLEnglish French guide HTML
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Research Document 2018/015HTMLEnglish French guide HTML
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Fisheries logbook percentilesZIPNo linguistic content; Not applicable dataset ZIP
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Fisheries merged effort percentilesZIPNo linguistic content; Not applicable dataset ZIP
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Fisheries VMS percentilesZIPNo linguistic content; Not applicable dataset ZIP
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Fixed mobile aggregates – logbook percentilesZIPNo linguistic content; Not applicable dataset ZIP
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Fixed mobile aggregates – merged effort percentilesZIPNo linguistic content; Not applicable dataset ZIP
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Fixed mobile aggregates – VMS percentilesZIPNo linguistic content; Not applicable dataset ZIP
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Fishing effort layers explained - 1 of 2TXTEnglish guide TXT
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Fishing effort layers explained - 2 of 2TXTEnglish French guide TXT
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Fishing effort within Significant Benthic Areas in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic marine watersESRI RESTEnglish web_service ESRI REST
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Fishing effort within Significant Benthic Areas in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic marine watersESRI RESTFrench web_service ESRI REST
Geographic Information
Spatial Feature
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Fishing effort within Significant Benthic Areas in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic marine waters |
Contact Information
Delivery Point: 80 East White Hills Rd
City: St. John's
Administrative Area: Newfoundland and Labrador
Postal Code: A1C 5X1
Country: Canada
Electronic Mail Address: lauren.gullage@dfo-mpo.gc.ca