Fishing effort within Significant Benthic Areas in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic Marine Waters
In 2009, Fisheries and Oceans Canada published the Policy on Managing the Impacts of Fishing on Sensitive Benthic Areas. To support the implementation of this policy, a Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) process was initiated to: assess the distribution of fishing effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic waters from 2005-2014, evaluate the overlap between fishing effort and Significant Benthic Areas (SiBAs), and identify areas of potential conservation concern. Although Research Document 2018/15 (Koen-Alonso et al. 2018), detailing this work, has not been updated since publication, the methodology outlined within it is still used to generate updated fishing effort layers as new data becomes available.
This record illustrates cumulative fishing effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic waters from 2005- 2021, and is based on commercial logbook and vessel monitoring system (VMS) data. Fishing effort has been standardized into percentiles, whereby the top 20th percentile of intensity (cell values ≥20) represent cells containing the most intense fishing activities.
Important Note: In 2021, problems were identified with the positions of some logbook records originating from the Gulf. These problems have since been corrected and the data layers provided here represent the most accurate fishing effort records available at the time of publication.
- 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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Fishing Effort Layers Explained - EnglishPDFEnglish guide PDF
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Logbook_Percentiles_ENGLISH.zipTIFFEnglish dataset TIFF
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Logbook_Percentiles_FRENCH.zipTIFFFrench dataset TIFF
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Merged_Percentiles_ENGLISH.zipTIFFEnglish dataset TIFF
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Merged_Percentiles_FRENCH.zipTIFFFrench dataset TIFF
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VMS_Percentiles_ENGLISH.zipTIFFEnglish dataset TIFF
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VMS_Percentiles_FRENCH.zipTIFFFrench dataset TIFF
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Fishing effort within Significant Benthic Areas in Canada's Atlantic and Eastern Arctic marine waters (English)ESRI RESTEnglish web_service ESRI REST
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Research Document 2018/015HTMLEnglish French guide HTML
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Fishing Effort Layers Explained - FrenchPDFEnglish guide PDF
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