Fisheries and Oceans Canada

8 datasets found
  • Open Data

    Near-seafloor drift transect video imagery and high-resolution digital still images from a 2023 survey in support of Marine Protected Area monitori...

    Funded under DFO's Marine Conservation Targets Program, this optical imagery benthic survey captured 16 drift-camera transects in the St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area (MPA - 4364 km2) and 2 coastal transects west of the MPA, Atlantic Canada from August 15-23, 2023. High-resolution still images...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    MBON Pole to Pole: Rocky shore biodiversity of Musquash Harbour and Mispec Bay

    The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole (MBON P2P) effort seeks to develop a framework for the collection, use and sharing of marine biodiversity data in a coordinated, standardized manner leveraging on existing infrastructure managed by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS;...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • FGDB/GDB
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    MBON Pole to Pole: Sandy beach biodiversity of southwest New Brunswick, Canada

    The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole (MBON P2P) effort seeks to develop a framework for the collection, use and sharing of marine biodiversity data in a coordinated, standardized manner leveraging on existing infrastructure managed by the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS;...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
    • FGDB/GDB
  • Open Data

    Conservation network sites for the Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Bioregion

    Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has worked with partners and ocean users to develop a draft conservation network plan for the Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Bioregion. This work led to the 2017 draft conservation network plan. The draft plan was updated after targeted consultations from 2021 to...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • SHP
    • CSV
    • HTML
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Pacific Region Commercial Salmon Fishery In-season Catch Estimates

    The Fishery Operations System (FOS) is the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFO) centralized Oracle database that holds commercial salmon fishery catch, effort and biological data. The FOS database was built in 2001 and continues to be the current repository for all data pertaining to...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Musquash benthic infauna

    As part of the Musquash Marine Protected Area (MPA) Monitoring Plan, this project was implemented to establish a baseline for infaunal biodiversity for this area. Data collection began in 2010 and contributed monitoring information for productivity, biodiversity, and habitat indicators within...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    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...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Seamounts of the Northeast Pacific Ocean

    Seamounts have been identified as Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) due to their unique oceanography and ecology; they frequently serve as sites for fisheries and as habitat for a number of species of conservation concern. A mix of isolated seamounts and seamount complexes...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • HTML
    • FGDB/GDB
    • GEOJSON
    • SHP
    • PDF
    • CSV