Recovered Historic Catch and Weight – Length Data of Nearshore Fish Populations on Sturgeon and Roberts Banks, Fraser River Estuary, British Columbia

A goal of the Government of Canada’s Coastal Environmental Baseline Program (CEBP) is to amalgamate historic environmental data from high vessel traffic areas. An extensive DFO biological sampling program was conducted from 1980 to 1981 on Sturgeon and Roberts banks located on the outer Fraser River estuary, BC, Canada. This report collates and simplifies three data sets: water quality and nearshore fish catch previously published as DFO Data Report 340 (Conlin et al.1982), and un- published weight-length (W-L) data for two locations on Sturgeon Bank (Iona and Steveston) and near Westshore Terminals (Coal Port) on Roberts Bank. W-L data were reconstructed from archived computer printouts using Optical Character Recognition methods. Analyses of water quality data indicate that the two banks provided different fish habitats with Sturgeon Bank having a greater freshwater influence. Although Iona area water quality was exposed to sewage outfall from a nearby sewage treatment plant, it appears that fish communities were not different from the other Sturgeon Bank area (Steveston). The fish communities were found to be different between the two banks with Roberts Bank having greater overall abundance and diversity. Interestingly, of the seven fish species used for condition factor analyses, five were found to have lower Relative Condition Factors in the Roberts Bank sampling area.

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Date ( RI_366 )
2024-08-21
Date ( RI_367 )
2024-09-09
RI_415
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Ecosystems and Ocean Science/Pacific Science/Ecosystem Science Division - Cher LaCoste ( Nearshore Ecosystems Section Head )
DFO Pacific Science Enterprise Centre, 4160 Marine Dr. , West Vancouver , British Columbia , V7V 1N6 , Canada
604-666-6286
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
Keywords ( RI_525 )
  • British Columbia
  • Sturgeon bank
  • Roberts bank
  • Fraser River estuary
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • abundance
  • diversity
  • water quality
  • nearshore fish catch
  • weight - length
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Aquatic ecosystems
  • Surveys
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
textTable; texteTable RI_637
Metadata language
eng
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Topic category
  • Biota
Begin date
1980-03-21
End date
1981-07-02
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Reference system identifier
https://epsg.io / EPSG:4326 / 1
Distribution format
  • CSV ( unknown )

RI_412
  Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada; Science/Ecosystems Science - Cher LaCoste ( Nearshore Ecosystems Section Head )
DFO Pacific Science Enterprise Centre, 4160 Marine Dr. , West Vancouver , British Columbia , V7V 1N6 , Canada
604-666-6286
OnLine resource
Weight - Lenght Data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
Nearshore Fish Catch Data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
Water Quality Data ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

OnLine resource
Canadian Data Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 3626 ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;PDF;eng

OnLine resource
Data Dictionary ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;CSV;eng,fra

OnLine resource
Recovered Historic Catch and Weight – Length Data of Nearshore Fish Populations ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;eng

OnLine resource
Recovered Historic Catch and Weight – Length Data of Nearshore Fish Populations ( ESRI REST: Map Service )

Web Service;ESRI REST;fra

File identifier
c288ed39-69f4-4042-8433-65af5c58f141 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2024-09-09T20:49:22.591Z
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; Ecosystems and Ocean Science/Pacific Science/Ecosystem Science Division - Cher LaCoste ( Nearshore Ecosystems Section Head )
DFO Pacific Science Enterprise Centre, 4160 Marine Dr. , West Vancouver , British Columbia , V7V 1N6 , Canada
604-666-6286
Dataset URI
urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:242598
 
 

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Historic Fish Data

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