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Cumulative impacts from anthropogenic activities and stressors on marine...
Fisheries and Oceans Canada has conducted a cumulative human impact mapping analysis for Pacific Canada to support ongoing Marine Spatial Planning. Cumulative impact mapping... -
Northern Marine Coastal and Ecosystem Studies in the Canadian Beaufort Sea-...
This record contains results from chemical analysis including suspended nitrogen (mg/g), suspended carbon (mg/g), and phosphorus (mg/g) based on dry weight sediment samples... -
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... -
Fine-scale observations of high density Heliometra glacialis (Crinoidea)...
A derivative of DFO's benthic imagery surveys for the Marine Conservation Targets Program in the St. Anns Bank Marine Protected Area... -
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... -
Sea pens significant concentration areas in the Gulf of St. Lawrence
Identification of significant concentrations of sea pens in the Gulf of St. Lawrence biogeographic unit using Kernel density estimation (KDE). This method was applied to create... -
Phytoplankton pigments along Line-P
Phytoplankton pigments, determined by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) are measured on DFO cruises three times a year in February, June, and August/September along... -
Queen Charlotte Sound Synoptic Bottom Trawl Survey
Catch, effort, location (latitude, longitude), relative abundance indices, and associated biological data from groundfish multi-species bottom trawl surveys in Queen Charlotte... -
Annual multidisciplinary survey for assessing groundfish in the northern...
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) conducts an annual summer multidisciplinary scientific survey with a bottom trawl in the Estuary and the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence since... -
Biodiversity of the Benthic Infauna Box Core Survey from CBS-MEA program (2021-2023)
This dataset documents the infauna occurrences collected from 2021 to 2023 during the Canadian Beaufort Sea Marine Ecosystem Assessment (CBS-MEA) conducted by the Department of... -
Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat Habitat Status Reports
This series reports on human activities that may impact aquatic ecosystems or components of those ecosystems, including the nature of the activities, their extent, their... -
Aquatic Invasive Species European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas) Monitoring,...
Aquatic invasive species pose economic and ecological threats to Canada's coastal waters. In response, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has established monitoring programs to... -
Land Use Atlas for Coastal Watersheds in the Maritimes Region
Human activities occurring on land can impact marine coastal ecosystems. Baseline information on the locations and intensity of these activities are critical components of any... -
Counts of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) and grey seals (Halichoerus grypus)...
Harbour seals reside throughout the year around Newfoundland and Labrador (NL). The first systematic survey for harbour seals occurred along the NL Shelf during July and August... -
Coastal thermograph network
This dataset contains the surface temperature and salinity data of the enlarged coastal thermograph network of the St. Lawrence river, estuary and gulf system. It includes data... -
Know concentration areas of the Softshell clam in the intertidal zone of the...
The dataset represents known concentration areas of harvested or unharvested Softshell clam (Mya arenaria) in the intertidal zone of the Estuary and the Gulf of St. Lawrence,... -
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... -
Estimates of shrimp and fish on trawling transects at the seafloor of Bones...
These data sets provide information pertaining to epifauna taxa including bottom-dwelling shrimp and fish along trawling transects in Bones Bay and Turnour Bay between 2001 and... -
Matrix of functional traits of species sampled in the annual survey of the...
This dataset contains functional traits for fish and invertebrate taxa sampled in the annual ecosystem bottom trawl survey in the Estuary and northern Gulf of St. Lawrence. The...