Maritimes Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring Program - 2019 Beach Seining

Maritimes Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring Program - 2019 Beach Seining In summer 2019, beach seining and paired environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling was conducted at ten sampling sites in coastal Nova Scotia, ranging from the Lunenburg area to the province’s Eastern Shore. A 25-metre Danish bag seine was deployed by boat twice at each site to capture fish and invertebrates data for a baseline of animal diversity at these sampling sites, and to compare with fish diversity captured in the eDNA samples. Each individual fish was identified, and a random subset of 50 to 100 individuals per species were measured for total body length, to examine the size distribution of each species. Invertebrates were noted but not quantified, and regularly included sand shrimp (Crangonidae), Mysids, Periwinkles (Littorina littorea), and invasive green crab (Carcinus maenas). The results of the fish diversity and eDNA metabarcoding comparisons are published by He et al. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2021-0215. 2023-12-27 Fisheries and Oceans Canada nick.jeffery@dfo-mpo.gc.ca Nature and EnvironmentScience and TechnologyGenomics Research and Development InitiativeFishEelgrasseDNAWater SamplingNova ScotiaOceans Data DictionaryCSV https://api-proxy.edh.azure.cloud.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/dbbcb23a-d018-4b70-b8ec-89997aded770/attachments/SeiningDataDictionary.csv Maritimes Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring Program - 2019 Beach SeiningFGDB/GDB https://api-proxy.edh.azure.cloud.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/dbbcb23a-d018-4b70-b8ec-89997aded770/attachments/Seine_downloads.gdb.zip Maritimes Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring Program - 2019 Beach SeiningESRI REST https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/FGP/Maritimes_Coastal_Biodiversity_Monitoring_Program___2019_Beach_Seining/MapServer Maritimes Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring Program - 2019 Beach SeiningESRI REST https://gisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/FGP/Maritimes_Coastal_Biodiversity_Monitoring_Program___2019_Beach_Seining/MapServer Maritimes Coastal Biodiversity Monitoring Program - 2019 Beach SeiningCSV https://api-proxy.edh.azure.cloud.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/dbbcb23a-d018-4b70-b8ec-89997aded770/attachments/SeiningCSV.zip

In summer 2019, beach seining and paired environmental DNA (eDNA) sampling was conducted at ten sampling sites in coastal Nova Scotia, ranging from the Lunenburg area to the province’s Eastern Shore. A 25-metre Danish bag seine was deployed by boat twice at each site to capture fish and invertebrates data for a baseline of animal diversity at these sampling sites, and to compare with fish diversity captured in the eDNA samples. Each individual fish was identified, and a random subset of 50 to 100 individuals per species were measured for total body length, to examine the size distribution of each species. Invertebrates were noted but not quantified, and regularly included sand shrimp (Crangonidae), Mysids, Periwinkles (Littorina littorea), and invasive green crab (Carcinus maenas). The results of the fish diversity and eDNA metabarcoding comparisons are published by He et al. (2022) https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2021-0215.

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Delivery Point: Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1006

City: Dartmouth

Administrative Area: Nova Scotia

Postal Code: B2Y 4A2

Country: Canada

Electronic Mail Address: nick.jeffery@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

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