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 waters of the Pacific Northwest, from Puget Sound, Washington to Southeast Alaska. These data were assembled by Josephine Iacarella and used in an analysis to understand the role of floating infrastructure as a vector in the spread of marine nonindigenous species (Iacarella et al., 2019). The data are represented as point vectors, though docks have associated size estimates. Data were collected with the aim to have the most accurate representation of coastal coverage of structures in 2017. The most recent images from Google Earth were used, though in some areas these date back a few years.

Floating docks included those that extended into the subtidal and were not fixed on pilings. Dock locations were binned into size categories, with small docks and associated marina structures grouped together as ‘marina areas’ based on spatial clustering and a visual estimate of size (haphazard measurement selection, n=35 per category; small: 57.2 m2 ± 6.7, medium: 379.1 m2 ± 42.8, marina area: 4,453.5 m2 ± 744.4). A total of 7,809 floating dock sites were recorded, covering an estimated area of 2.3 km2.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2021-01-28
Date ( RI_366 )
2016-01-01
RI_410
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Science - Josephine Iacarella ( Research Scientist )
Cultus Lake Salmon Research Laboratory, 4222 Columbia Valley Rd , Cultus Lake , British Columbia , V2R 5B6 , Canada
1 (236) 380-0955
RI_419
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Science - Anya Dunham ( Research Scientist )
Pacific Biological Station, 3190 Hammond Bay Road , Nanaimo , British Columbia , V9T 6N7 , Canada
1 (250) 756-7012
Credit
Cite this data as: Iacarella, J. C., Davidson, I. C., & Dunham, A. 2019. Biotic exchange from movement of ‘static’ maritime structures. Biological Invasions, 1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-018-1888-8. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10530-018-1888-8.pdf.
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
Maintenance note
Please note that the data portrayed within these resources are a snapshot of when they were collected. Due to the nature of "static" structures in a marine environment, some locations may not represent their current whereabouts.
Keywords ( RI_525 )
  • British Columbia
  • Pacific Ocean
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Floating structures
  • Oysters
  • Mariculture
  • Docks
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Aquaculture
  • Fish farming
  • Molluscs
  • Wharfs
  • Navigation
  • Invasive species
  • Fisheries
Classification
unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Biota
  • Environment
Begin date
2016-01-01
End date
2018-03-31
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Reference system identifier
http://www.epsg-registry.org/ / EPSG:3005 / 9.8.4
Distribution format
  • FGDB/GDB ( Unknown )

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  • SHP ( Unknown )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Science - Josephine Iacarella ( Research Scientist )
Cultus Lake Salmon Research Laboratory, 4222 Columbia Valley Rd , Cultus Lake , British Columbia , V2R 5B6 , Canada
1 (236) 380-0955
OnLine resource
Floating Structures PNW (Docks) ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

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References ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Floating Structures PNW (Docks) - Geodatabase ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Floating Structures PNW (Docks) - JSON ( HTTPS )

Dataset;JSON;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Floating Structures PNW (Docks) - Shapefile ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Floating Structures PNW (Docks) ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

File identifier
049770ef-6cb3-44ee-afc8-5d77d6200a12 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-02-06T12:18:32.317Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Science - Jackie Waldron ( Open Data Technician )
Institute of Ocean Sciences 9860 West Saanich Road P.O. Box 6000 , Sidney , British Columbia , V8L 4B2 , Canada
 
 

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