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Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has been conducting surface water trawl surveys since 1992 in the coastal waters of British …
Monitoring programs are an important component of Marine Protected Area (MPA) management, providing requisite information on the state of, and …
These datasets show the general spatial distribution of commercial fishing harvest and landed values by fishery on a 1km x …
Polygons denoting concentrations of sea pens, small and large gorgonian corals and sponges on the east coast of Canada have …
Striped Bass critical habitat (St. Lawrence estuary population) defined by the analysis of available knowledge in 2011 and a scientific …
A geospatial database involving 130 descriptors was created describing the pelagic and benthic habitats of the 0–30 m surface layer …
The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias), is a species found in Atlantic Canadian waters which is encountered in commercial and recreational …
Concentrations of sea pens, small and large gorgonian corals and sponges on the east coast of Canada have been identified …
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) conducts an annual summer multidisciplinary scientific survey with a bottom trawl in the Estuary and …
Fishing event data (e.g. year, date, time, location, catch and effort) and associated biological data from the Offshore Stratified Random …