NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions

The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Secretariat, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) have collaborated to update the spatial representation of the NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions as defined in Annex 1 to the Convention on Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries (2020) (https://www.nafo.int/Portals/0/PDFs/key-publications/NAFOConvention.pdf).

The NAFO Convention does not indicate which datum should be used for spatial representation. The datum used at the time of development of the NAFO Convention would have been North American Datum 1927 (NAD27). However, all datasets were derived using NAD83.

International boundaries have been updated based on accepted coordinates between the USA and Canada (http://www.internationalboundarycommission.org/en/maps-coordinates/coordinates.php), and Canada and Greenland (https://www.treaty-accord.gc.ca/text-texte.aspx?id=105136).

This version of the NAFO Divisions is not intended to be used for legal purposes and is being provided for mapping / illustrative purposes only.

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Date ( RI_367 )
2021-09-20
Date ( RI_366 )
1979-01-01
RI_414
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Canadian Hydrographic Service / Service hydrographique du Canada ( )
200 Kent St. , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E6 , Canada
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Fisheries policy
  • International cooperation
  • Fishing permits
  • Fishing area
  • International organizations
  • Fisheries
  • Scientific research
  • Fisheries management
  • International agreements
  • Fishing rights
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
otherRestrictions; autresRestrictions RI_609
Other constraints

Please note that the original horizontal datum known for this data was NAD27.

The horizontal datum written in the shapefiles and feature classes is NAD83.

This information is not clear as the Convention does not mention a set horizontal datum for the geographic coordinates.

The difference in position between the two datums could amount to tens or hundreds of metres.
Spatial representation type
vector; vecteur RI_635
Metadata language
eng; CAN; fra; CAN
Topic category
  • Oceans
  • Boundaries
Begin date
1979-01-01
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / EPSG:4269 /
Distribution format
  • ESRI REST ( 10.7 )

  • FGDB/GDB ( 10.7 )

  • SHP ( 1 )

  • CSV ( 1 )

RI_414
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada - Kasia Rozalska ( )
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, 1 Challenger Drive, PO Box 1106 , Dartmouth , Nova Scotia , B2Y 4A2 ,
OnLine resource
Convention on Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions (GDB) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;FGDB/GDB;eng,fra

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions (SHP) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;SHP;eng,fra

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions (CSV) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions (Methodology) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions (Methodology) ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;fra

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions ( ESRI REST: Map Server )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;eng

OnLine resource
NAFO Subareas, Divisions, and Subdivisions ( OGC:WMS )

Web Service;WMS;fra

File identifier
59af1c96-fc8f-4fa0-b398-d65e953eadaa XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2025-04-09T17:16:44.978Z
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 - Canadian Hydrographic Service / Service hydrographique du Canada ( )
200 Kent St. , Ottawa , Ontario , K1A 0E6 , Canada
 
 

Overviews

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NAFO_Divisions_2021_thumbnail.jpg

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