Fisheries and Oceans Canada

14 datasets found
  • Open Data

    Tides and Water Levels

    Canadian tides and water level station information, benchmarks, observed water level data, and tidal predictions. The Canadian tide and water level data archive presently holds water level observations reported from over a thousand stations, with the earliest dating back to 1848. The number of...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • ESRI REST
    • CSV
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    Snow Crab Collaborative Post-season Trap Survey

    This project was completed by the Shellfish Section in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO), in collaboration with industry partners. The Coastal Environmental Baseline program supported the Placentia Bay portion of project work for an ongoing...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • SHP
    • ESRI REST
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    Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Newfoundland Region), Placentia Bay Nearshore Fish Community Sampling

    This project was completed by the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Coastal and Freshwater Ecology Section) in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). The nearshore fish and invertebrate community was sampled annually in Placentia Bay at 14 sites...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • SHP
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST
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    Seasonal use of the Bar Haven Atlantic cod spawning grounds in Placentia Bay

    This project was completed by the Groundfish Section in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). From 2018 to 2020, 14 year-round, acoustic receivers were deployed in Placentia Bay as a part of the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program to form 4 gates:...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • SHP
    • ESRI REST
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    Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Newfoundland Region), Placentia Bay CTD Moorings

    This project was completed by the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (Coastal and Freshwater Ecology Section) in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). From 2020-2023, there were semi-annual deployments and retrievals of 3 moored CTDs in the bay....
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • SHP
    • ESRI REST
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    Atlantic Herring Abundance in Placentia Bay

    This project was completed by the Pelagics Section in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). As part of the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program, a historical research gillnet program was reinitiated in Placentia Bay. Four local fishers each set...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • SHP
    • ESRI REST
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    Habitat associations of juvenile American lobster in three nearshore areas of Newfoundland

    This project was completed by the Productive Capacity group (Coastal and Freshwater Ecology Section) in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). American lobster (Homarus americanus) is a commercially important decapod crustacean species along the east...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • SHP
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST
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    Investigating residency and survival during the early phase of the Atlantic salmon smolt marine migration in northwest Placentia Bay

    This project was completed by the Salmonids Section in the Newfoundland and Labrador Science Branch of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). The Coastal Environmental Baseline Program has supported efforts in 2018 and 2019 of tagged Atlantic salmon smolts leaving the Bay de L’eau River and Rushoon...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • SHP
    • ESRI REST
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    Electronic Navigational Chart (ENC) Maritime Chart Service DFO

    This service provides a compilation of Electronic Navigational Charts (ENC) produced by the Canadian Hydrographic Service. All information provided by this service conforms to the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) Publication S-57. An ENC contains all the chart information useful for...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Resource Formats:
    • HTML
    • WMS
    • ESRI REST
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    Fetch and relative wave exposure indices for the coastal zones of the Scotian Shelf-Bay of Fundy and Newfoundland-Labrador Shelves bioregions

    Exposure to wind-driven waves manifests an important physical gradient in the coastal zone that influences a variety of physical and biological processes (i.e., species distribution). Fetch, the unobstructed distance over which wind-driven waves can build, is a popular proxy for wave exposure at...
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    Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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    • CSV
    • DOCX
    • PDF