Fisheries and Oceans Canada

14 datasets found
  • Open Data

    Traditional knowledge of nearshore fisheries for the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence (1994-1997)

    In 1998, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) published an atlas called "Traditional Fisheries Knowledge for the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence". The document is composed of a series of maps that contain useful information primarily on nearshore fisheries and fish habitat in the eastern shore of New...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • FGDB/GDB
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Fisheries monitoring and biological data of the Yellowknife River Cisco (Coregonus artedi) population, 1999–2020

    PURPOSE: "Biological, relative abundance, and environmental data have been collected from the Yellowknife River Cisco population that can be used to inform fisheries management decision-making. Under the conditions of a commercial licence issued under the New Emerging Fisheries Policy, licence...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • PDF
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Mean fork length of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) from 1971-2021

    Mean fork length for returning adult Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) that spent one or two years (1SW and 2SW, respectively) in the marine environment for 16 rivers throughout Eastern Canada spanning an 10° latitudinal gradient. These data were collected as part of monitoring programs for Atlantic...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Floating Structures in the Pacific Northwest

    These data were created under DFO’s Strategic Program for Ecosystem-based Research and Advice - Aquatic Invasive Species Program: “Evaluation of the movement of marine infrastructure as a pathway for aquatic invasive species spread”. This geodatabase contains floating dock locations in coastal...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • HTML
    • FGDB/GDB
    • JSON
    • SHP
  • Open Data

    Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl Surveys - North

    Catch, effort, location (latitude and longitude), and associated biological data from the Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl surveys - North on the coast of British Columbia. Introduction: The Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl survey - North (Eul-N) is part of the in the Eulachon...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Demersal (groundfish) community diversity and biomass metrics in the Northern and Southern shelf bioregions

    Conservation of marine biodiversity requires understanding the joint influence of ongoing environmental change and fishing pressure. Addressing this challenge requires robust biodiversity monitoring and analyses that jointly account for potential drivers of change. Here, we ask how demersal fish...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • TIFF
    • CSV
    • PDF
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl Surveys - South

    Catch, effort, location (latitude and longitude), and associated biological data from the Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl surveys - South on the coast of British Columbia. Introduction: The Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl survey - South (Eul-S) is part of the in the Eulachon...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
    • CSV
    • ESRI REST
  • Open Data

    Contaminants in fish database

    The contaminants in fish database is a compilation of contaminant data analysed from fish tissue at the Fresh Water Institute from 1970 to 2005. Data include lab number, region, analysis, organs, species, lake, form (whole fish, headon dressed, headless dressed), weight, and length and...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
  • Open Data

    Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl Surveys

    Catch, effort, location (latitude and longitude), and associated biological data from the Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl surveys on the coast of British Columbia. Introduction: The Eulachon Migration Study Bottom Trawl surveys are divided into two parts; the Eulachon Migration Study...
    Organization:
    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
  • Open Data

    Pacific Region Commercial Salmon Fishery Post-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:
    • CSV
    • PDF