Fishing Effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic Waters

In 2009, Fisheries and Oceans Canada published the Policy on Managing the Impacts of Fishing on Sensitive Benthic Areas. To support the implementation of this policy, a Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat (CSAS) process was initiated to: assess the distribution of fishing effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic waters from 2005-2014, evaluate the overlap between fishing effort and Significant Benthic Areas (SiBAs), and identify areas of potential conservation concern. Although Research Document 2018/15 (Koen-Alonso et al. 2018), detailing this work, has not been updated since publication, the methodology outlined within it is still used to generate updated fishing effort layers as new data becomes available.

This record illustrates cumulative fishing effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic waters from 2005-2022, and is based on commercial logbook and vessel monitoring system (VMS) data. Fishing effort has been standardized into percentiles, whereby the top 20th percentile of intensity (cell values ≥20) represent cells containing the most intense fishing activities.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2018-06-08
Date ( RI_367 )
2024
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - NL Ecological Sciences / Sciences Ecologiques TNL (DFO/MPO) ( Physical Scientist )
80 East White Hills Rd , St. John's , Newfoundland and Labrador , A1C 5X1 , Canada
709-772-4396
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Aquatic animals
  • Conservation areas
  • Oceans
  • Environmental sciences
  • Fisheries
  • Environmental impact
  • Conservation
  • Aquatic wildlife
  • Marine biology
  • Marine conservation areas
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
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Environment
Begin date
2005-01-01
End date
2019-12-31
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https://epsg.io / EPSG:3857 /
RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - NL Science Data / Données Scientifiques TNL (DFO/MPO) ( )
80 East White Hills Rd , St. John's , Newfoundland and Labrador , A1C 5X1 , Canada
OnLine resource
Science Advisory Report 2017/007 ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Fishing Effort Layers Explained_ENGLISH.pdf ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
Percentiles_ENGLISH.zip ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;eng

OnLine resource
Percentiles_FRENCH.zip ( HTTPS )

Dataset;TIFF;fra

OnLine resource
DataDictionary-DictionnaireDonnées_EN.csv ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
DataDictionary-DictionnaireDonnées_FR.csv ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;fra

OnLine resource
Fishing Effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic Waters (EN) ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Fishing Effort in Canada’s Atlantic and Eastern Arctic Water (FR) ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
Research Document 2018/015 ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Fishing Effort Layers Explained_FRENCH.pdf ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

File identifier
273df20a-47ae-42c0-bc58-01e451d4897a XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-11-28T14:52:13.825Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_420
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Science - NL Ecological Sciences / Sciences Ecologiques TNL (DFO/MPO) ( )
80 East White Hills Rd , St. John’s , Newfoundland and Labrador , A1C 5X1 , Canada
 
 

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