Description

These datasets show commercial fisheries catch weight landings of directed fisheries and bycatch from the Scotian Shelf, the Bay of Fundy, and Georges Bank from NAFO Divisions 4VWX and the Canadian portions of 5Y and 5Z. Five-year composite maps (2019–2023) that aggregate catches for each map series are publicly available. The maps aggregate catch weight (kg) per 10 km2 hexagon grid cell for selected species, species groupings and gear types to identify important fishing areas. These maps can support decision making in coastal and oceans management, including marine spatial planning, environmental emergency response operations and protocols, Marine Stewardship Council certification processes, marine protected area networks, and ecological risk assessment. Reported catch locations may have rounded coordinates or contain errors. Although some errors have been corrected, it is assumed that additional errors remain in the data. These datasets have been filtered to comply with the Government of Canada's privacy policy. Privacy assessments were conducted to identify DFO unit areas containing data with less than five vessel IDs, licence IDs or 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, species groupings and gear types: 1. Groundfish (all species) 2. Groundfish Bottom Trawl 3. Groundfish Bottom Longline 4. Groundfish Gillnet 5. Groundfish (seasonal composites) 6. Atlantic Cod 7. Atlantic Cod, Haddock and Pollock 8. Flatfish 9. Atlantic Halibut 10. Greenland Halibut (Turbot) 11. Hagfish 12. Cusk 13. Dogfish 14. Redfish 15. Red Hake 16. Silver Hake 17. White Hake 18. Monkfish 19. Sculpin 20. Skate 21. Wolffish 22. Squid 23. Herring 24. Mackerel 25. Herring and Mackerel Gillnet 26. Purse Seine 27. Large Pelagics 28. Bluefin Tuna 29. Other Tuna 30. Swordfish 31. Snow Crab 32. Other Crab 33. Scallop 34. Scallop (seasonal composites) 35. Offshore Clam 36. Shrimp Trawl 37. Shrimp Trap 38. Offshore Lobster 39. Disputed Zone Area 38B Lobster 40. Whelk

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Name	Format	Description	Link
Data Dictionary	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/30e31f61-97a8-4e87-a339-87bf6f138428/attachments/data_dictionary_dictionnaire_de_donnees_2019_2023_New.zip
Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas, 2019-2023 (GDB)	Unknown		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/30e31f61-97a8-4e87-a339-87bf6f138428/attachments/Maritimes_Fisheries_Atlas_2019_2023_GDB.zip
Maritimes Fisheries Atlas, 2019-2023 (SHP)	ESRI Shape		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/30e31f61-97a8-4e87-a339-87bf6f138428/attachments/Maritimes_Fisheries_Atlas_2019_2023_SHP.zip
EN - Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping, 2019–2023 (ESRI REST)	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/marine_fisheries_atlas_2019_2023_en/MapServer
FR - Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping, 2019–2023 (ESRI REST)	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/marine_fisheries_atlas_2019_2023_fr/MapServer
Maritimes Region Fisheries Atlas: Catch Weight Landings Mapping (2019-2023) on a Hexagon Grid	PDF		https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library-bibliotheque/41304263.pdf

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