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Marine Ecosections - Coastal Resource Information Management System (CRIMS)

Marine Ecosection classification for coastal and offshore British Columbia. The Marine Ecosections are: Johnstone Strait; Continental Slope; Dixon Entrance; Hecate Strait; Queen Charlotte Strait; Juan de Fuca Strait; North Coast Fjords; Queen Charlotte Sound; Strait of Georgia; Subarctic Pacific; Transitional Pacific; and Vancouver Island Shelf. The British Columbia Marine Ecological Classification (BCMEC) is a hierarchical classification that delineates Provincial marine areas into Ecozones, Ecoprovinces, Ecoregions and Ecosections. The classification was developed from previous Federal and Provincial marine ecological classifications which were based on 1:2,000,000 scale information. The BCMEC has been developed for marine and coastal planning, resource management and a Provincial marine protected areas strategy. A new, smaller level of classification termed ecounits developed using 1:250,000 scale depth, current, exposure, subsurface relief and substrate was created to verify the larger ecosections, and to delineate their boundaries. CRIMS is a legacy dataset of BC coastal resource data that was acquired in a systematic and synoptic manner from 1979 and was intermittently updated throughout the years. Resource information was collected in nine study areas using a peer-reviewed provincial Resource Information Standards Committee consisting of DFO Fishery Officers, First Nations, and other subject matter experts. There are currently no plans to update this legacy data.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2011-03-09
Date ( RI_366 )
2004-07-14
RI_414
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; GeoBC Branch - ( )
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
irregular; irrégulier RI_541
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • Canada
  • ecological classification
  • ecology
  • marine
  • marine ecosection
  • oceanography
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Government information
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - British Columbia (https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/data/open-data/open-government-licence-bc)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
grid; grille RI_636
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Metadata language
fra; CAN
Topic category
  • Oceans
Begin date
0001-01-01
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:3005 / unknown
Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4326 / unknown
Distribution format
  • HTML ( unknown )

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  • WMS ( unknown )

RI_414
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; GeoBC Branch - ( )
OnLine resource
Original metadata (https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
BC Geographic Warehouse Custom Download ( HTTPS )

Dataset;HTML;eng

OnLine resource
CRIMS_MARINE_ECOSECTION ( HTTPS )

Dataset;KML;eng

OnLine resource
CRIMS_MARINE_ECOSECTION ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
CRIMS_MARINE_ECOSECTION ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

File identifier
306effde-2cf9-4d68-9394-a350e342cac4 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-05-06
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
HNAP ISO:19115 - 2003
RI_414
  Government of British Columbia; Government of British Columbia; GeoBC Branch - ( )
 
 

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