Arctic SDI catalogue
Fixed gear sentinel fisheries program - northern Gulf of St. Lawrence
In place since 1994 in eastern Canada, the sentinel fisheries program is the result of a collaboration between Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and commercial fishermen. Under this program, contracts are awarded by tender to fishermen to carry out fishing activities according to scientific protocols developed by DFO.
Description of fixed surveys
The fixed gear sentinel fisheries of the northern Gulf of St. Lawrence are conducted in the divisions 4R, 4S and 3Pn of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO).
The gear used is fixed gillnets or longlines. Fishing activities with nets must have a mesh size of 5 ½ inches (140mm) and are limited to a maximum of 12 to 20 nets depending on the region. Longline fishing activities, for its part, must be carried out with traditional J #16 or C #12 hooks and are limited to a maximum of 1000 hooks.
Data
For every fishing activity, the total catch is sorted and weighed by species. Biological data such as length, weight (sampled, per individual, gonad, liver and stomach), sex and maturity are then collected on a sub-sample of cod and Atlantic halibut. Otoliths are only sampled on Atlantic cod.
The catches per tow (presence or absence, count by species, length frequency and catch weight (kg)) are available below.
* The most recent survey is not available
** This record consist of raw data and quality has not been verified
Simple
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2019
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 2019
- Status
- onGoing; enContinue RI_596
- Maintenance and update frequency
- asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
- Keywords ( RI_525 )
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- Gulf of St. Lawrence
- Keywords ( RI_530 )
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- sentinel fisheries
- Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
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- Oceans
- Fish
- Fisheries management
- Marine biology
- Aquatic wildlife
- Aquatic ecosystems
- 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
- Metadata language
- fra
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1994
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- Reference system identifier
- https://epsg.io/ / EPSG:4326
- Distribution format
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CSV
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unknown
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CSV
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unknown
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- OnLine resource
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Sentinel Fisheries - Reports
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HTTP
)
Supporting Document;PDF;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
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Length frequency
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HTTPS
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Dataset;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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Length frequency
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HTTPS
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Dataset;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Catches
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HTTPS
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Dataset;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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Catches
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Metadata
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HTTPS
)
Dataset;CSV;eng
- OnLine resource
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Metadata
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;CSV;fra
- OnLine resource
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Fixed Gear Map data
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- OnLine resource
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Fixed Gear Map data
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
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Data dictionary
(
HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;CSV;eng,fra
- File identifier
- d82e5388-f241-4c27-875a-941a49ab70c8 XML
- Metadata language
- eng; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-04T20:12:21.881Z
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
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