Fisheries and Oceans Canada

4 datasets found
Open Maps  Oceans  Government and Politics 
  • 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...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • SHP
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Program Activity Tracking for Habitat (PATH) system

    The Government of Canada continues to strive to be ever more open and transparent. This means a government that is open by default providing better digital capacity and services for Canadians. Under a modernized Fisheries Act, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has made available an online...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • XLSX
    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Ecosystem Production Units in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean

    Pepin et al. (2014) stated that three nested spatial scales were identified as relevant for the development of ecosystem summaries and management plans: Bioregion, Ecosystem Production Unit (EPU), and Ecoregion. A bioregion is composed by one or more EPUs, while an EPU consists of a combination...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • PDF
    • SHP
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Eastern Canada Marine Spatial Planning Areas

    Three marine spatial planning areas are delineated in Eastern Canada to define the spatial extents of marine spatial plans being led by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO): the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence (EGSL), the Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Shelves, and the Scotian Shelf and Bay of...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • SHP
    • FGDB/GDB
    • CSV