Fisheries and Oceans Canada

18 datasets found
  • Open Data

    Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas

    Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) are areas within Canada's oceans that have been identified through formal scientific assessments as having special biological or ecological significance when compared with the surrounding marine ecosystem. Failure to define an area as an...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • SHP
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
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    Beaufort Sea Marine Fishes Project (BSMFP) 2013 - Fish identification and measurements

    PURPOSE: From August 2nd to September 9th, 2013, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted a baseline survey of marine fishes and their habitats in the southern Canadian Beaufort Sea and Amundsen Gulf as part of the Beaufort Regional Environmental Assessment (BREA) called the Beaufort Sea Marine...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
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    Coastal Environmental Baseline Program

    Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) Coastal Environmental Baseline Program supports the collection of ecological information on the current state of key coastal ecosystems across Canada. This initiative aims to acquire environmental baseline data (physical, chemical and biological) contributing...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    Multidisciplinary Arctic Program (MAP) - Last Ice, 2018 Spring Campaign: Sea ice and surface water bacteria, viruses and environmental variables

    In 2018, Fisheries and Oceans Canada initiated the Multidisciplinary Arctic Program (MAP) – Last Ice, the first ecosystem study of the poorly characterized region of the Lincoln Sea in the Marine Protected Area of Tuvaijuittuq, where multiyear ice still resides in the Arctic Ocean. MAP-Last Ice...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • ESRI REST
    • PDF
    • CSV
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    Oceans Act Marine Protected Areas

    Marine protected areas (MPAs) are one among a number of spatial management tools, and are defined as areas that are established for the long-term, and managed through legal or other effective means, to achieve the long-term conservation of nature with associated ecosystem services and cultural...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
    • WMS
    • SHP
    • KML
    • ESRI REST
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    Oceans Act Areas of Interest

    The selection of an Area of Interest (AOI) marks the beginning of the Oceans Act Marine Protected Area (MPA) establishment process led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. The process includes completing detailed ecological and socioeconomic assessments, setting conservation objectives, determining...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
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    Canadian Beaufort Sea - Marine Ecosystem Assessment (CBS-MEA) Stations 2017-2019

    Between 2017 and 2019, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted a baseline survey of marine fishes and their habitats on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf and slope in August and early September each year. Sampling was conducted from the F/V Frosti at 144 stations along nine multi-year transects, and 32...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • PDF
    • CSV
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    Satellite-measured Chlorophyll-a concentration in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (1998-2020)

    This record contains satellite-sensed chlorophyll-a concentration images of the Canadian Beaufort Sea at 1.1 km resolution. The dataset consists of 276 images, aggregated into two-week composites by calculating the mean value at each pixel, comprising years 1998 through 2020. The dataset spans...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • GeoTIF
    • ESRI REST
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    Minimum Two-weekly Sea Ice Concentration in the Canadian Beaufort Sea (1998-2020)

    This record contains two-weekly minimum sea ice concentration images of the Canadian Beaufort Sea at 1.1 km resolution. The dataset originated from the Canadian Ice Service (CIS) Digital Archive weekly regional charts for the western Arctic (See “additional credit” for a link to these data),...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
    • GeoTIF
  • Open Data

    Beaufort Sea Marine Fishes Project (BSMFP) 2013 - Sampling Stations

    From August 2nd to September 9th, 2013, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted a baseline survey of marine fishes and their habitats on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf and slope. Sampling was conducted from the F/V Frosti at 64 stations along ten transects. Standardized sampling was conducted on the...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • PDF
    • CSV
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    Beaufort Sea Marine Fishes Project (BSMFP) 2012 - Sampling Stations

    From August 5th to September 3rd, 2012, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted a baseline survey of marine fishes and their habitats on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf and slope. Sampling was conducted from the F/V Frosti at 28 stations along four transects. Standardized sampling was conducted at...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
    • PDF
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    Federal Marine Bioregions

    The spatial planning framework for Canada's national network of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is comprised of 13 ecologically defined bioregions that cover Canada's oceans and the Great Lakes. Note that the geographic boundaries for the bioregions are fuzzy and may change based on ecosystemic...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
    • SHP
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST
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    Beaufort Sea Marine Fishes Project (BSMFP) 2014 - Sampling Stations

    From August 6th to September 9th, 2014, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted a baseline survey of marine fishes and their habitats on the Canadian Beaufort Shelf and slope. Sampling was conducted from the F/V Frosti at 56 stations along thirteen transects, with an additional three stations not...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
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    Nunavut ringed seal monitoring

    Fisheries and Oceans Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada (Northern Contaminants program) have been working with Nunavut community Hunters and Trappers Organizations and the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board consistently since 1980 to collect samples from harvested ringed seals. The...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
    • PDF
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    Year-round utilization of sea ice-associated carbon in Arctic ecosystems

    This record contains a comprehensive synthesis of previously published highly branched isoprenoid (HBI) results, providing a quantitative spatial and temporal assessment of carbon partitioning within the Arctic marine ecosystem and validating estimates of sea-ice particulate organic carbon (iPOC)...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST