Fisheries and Oceans Canada

8 datasets found
Open Maps  Marine Conservation Targets  FGDB/GDB 
  • Open Data

    Ocean Bottom Temperature Variations from CIOPS-E and GLORYS12 Models at St. Anns Bank

    These are derived products of ocean bottom temperature at St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area (MPA), utilizing outputs from two numerical models: 1) The Coastal Ice-Ocean Prediction System for the East Coast of Canada (CIOPS-E) at 1/36° horizontal grid developed and implemented operationally at...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Biodiversity Monitoring Stations for Benthic Macrofauna and Meiofauna in the Disko Fan and Hatton Basin Conservation Areas

    In 2012 and 2013, Fisheries and Oceans Canada surveyed the benthos in two areas closed to bottom contact fishing, the Narwhal Overwintering and Coldwater Coral Zone (now the Disko Fan Conservation Area, DFCA), and the Hatton Basin Voluntary Coral Protection Zone (now the Hatton Basin Conservation...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
    • FGDB/GDB
    • XLSX
  • Open Data

    National Eelgrass Dataset For Canada (NETForce)

    This collection of eelgrass data has been collated to produce a national map of the location and distribution of eelgrass beds across Canada. The data providers collaborating in this initiative include Federal, Provincial and Municipal government departments and agencies, academia,...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • FGDB/GDB
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Glass sponge grounds on the Scotian Shelf and their associated biodiversity

    Emerald Basin on the Scotia Shelf off Nova Scotia, Canada, is home to a globally unique population of the glass sponge Vazella pourtalesi. Through the analysis of both in situ photographs and trawl catch data from annual multispecies bottom-trawl surveys, we examined community composition,...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • FGDB/GDB
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Benthic temperature data from the Gully MPA

    Temperature logger data was collected from two Vemco miniloggers attached to range-testing moorings for an array of acoustic receivers at a depth of approximately 300 metres in the Gully MPA. The data covers 2021 through 2022. Cite this data as: Jeffery, N., Heaslip, S., and Stanley, R. Data...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • FGDB/GDB
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Offshore Ecological and Human Use Information considered in Marine Protected Area Network Design in the Scotian Shelf Bioregion

    In 2016-17, DFO Maritimes Region undertook a Marine Protected Area (MPA) network analysis for the Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy Bioregion. The analysis considered available bioregional-scale ecological and human use data in an effort to identify a draft MPA network design that would protect...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • FGDB/GDB
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Species Distribution Modelling of Corals and Sponges in the Maritimes Region for Use in the Identification of Significant Benthic Areas

    Effective fisheries and habitat management processes require knowledge of the distribution of areas of high ecological or biological significance. On the Scotian Shelf and Slope, a number of benthic ecologically or biologically significant areas consisting of habitat-forming species such as...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • FGDB/GDB
    • TIFF
    • HTML
    • CSV