Coastal Environmental Baseline Data from Six Canadian Sites

Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Coastal Environmental Baseline Program collected ecological information on the current state of key coastal ecosystems. The data includes physical, chemical, and biological baseline measurements from projects undertaken from 2018 to 2022 at six coastal sites across Canada. It supports evidence-based assessments and management decisions for preserving marine ecosystems.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in physical, chemical, and biological measurements from six coastal sites to assess ecosystem changes.
• Characterize key coastal areas by integrating baseline data on marine ecosystem variables to inform management decisions.
• Support evidence-based assessments for fisheries management using site-specific environmental monitoring data collected from 2018-2022.

Strengths

• Data collected under a national program by the authoritative government agency Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
• Covers a defined five-year time range from 2018 to 2022.
• Geographic coverage includes six distinct coastal sites across Canada, providing regional context.

Limitations

• Specific data volume, row count, and column structure are unknown, limiting precise analytical planning.
• Data is accessible via HTML pages, which may require extraction and parsing to obtain structured tabular data for analysis.
• The temporal coverage ends in 2022, which may not reflect the most recent conditions in the monitored ecosystems.

Provenance

Source

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO)

Collection Method

Collection of ecological information (physical, chemical, biological data) under the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program.

Time Range

2018 to 2022

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data collection period ended in 2022.

Geography

Six coastal sites across Canada