Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping (2010–2014)

DFO’s Oceans and Coastal Management Division (OCMD) in the Maritimes Region has updated its fisheries landings maps for 2010–2014. These maps will be used for decision making in coastal and oceans management, including mitigating human use conflicts, informing environmental emergency response operations and protocols, informing Marine Stewardship Council certification processes, planning marine protected area networks, assessing ecological risks, and monitoring compliance and threats in coral and sponge closures and Marine Protected Areas. Fisheries maps were created to identify important fishing areas using aggregate landed weight (kg) per 2 x 2-minute grid cell for selected species/gear types.

This dataset has been filtered to comply with the Government of Canada's privacy policy. Privacy assessments were conducted to identify NAFO unit areas containing data with less than five vessel IDs, license IDs and fisher IDs. If this threshold was not met, catch weight locations were withheld from these unit areas to protect the identity or activity of individual vessels or companies.

Maps were created for the following species/gear types:

1. Atlantic Halibut
2. Bluefin Tuna
3. Bottom Longline Groundfish
4. Bottom Trawl Groundfish
5. Cod
6. Cod, Haddock, Pollock
7. Cusk
8. Dogfish
9. Flatfish
10. Gillnet Groundfish
11. Greenland Halibut
12. Groundfish
13. Groundfish (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)
14. Hagfish
15. Herring
16. Large Pelagics
17. Mackerel
18. Monkfish
19. Offshore Clam
20. Offshore Lobster
21. Grey Zone Lobster
22. Other Crab
23. Other Tuna
24. Pollock
25. Porbeagle, Mako and Blue Shark
26. Red Hake
27. Redfish
28. Scallop
29. Scallop (quarterly composites Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4)
30. Sculpin
31. Sea Urchin
32. Shrimp
33. Silver Hake
34. Skate
35. Snow Crab
36. Squid
37. Swordfish
38. White Hake
39. Wolffish