Inshore Lobster Fishing Landings and Effort Maps for the Maritimes Region (2012-2014)

Annual and composite maps from 2012 to 2014 visualize inshore lobster fishing activity on a statistical grid. Fisheries and Oceans Canada produced these maps for landings, license-days fished, trap hauls, and catch per unit effort (CPUE). The analysis aims to support marine spatial planning by addressing gaps in coordinate-level commercial logbook data.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial differences in fishing pressure based on mapped license-days fished.
• Identify areas of high lobster landings based on grid-level catch weight maps.
• Calculate catch per unit effort (CPUE) based on maps of catch weight per trap haul.
• Support marine spatial planning decisions based on composite maps of fishing distribution and intensity.
• Standardize fishing activity metrics based on maps of landings and effort standardized by grid area.

Strengths

• Maps cover a three-year composite period (2012-2014) for longitudinal analysis.
• Data includes Bay of Fundy Grey Zone coordinates, providing finer spatial detail for a specific area.
• Outputs include multiple standardized metrics (e.g., landings per grid area) for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Maritimes Region and temporal bias from 2012-2014.

Provenance

Source

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Collection Method

Analysis of Maritimes Region inshore lobster logbook data.

Time Range

2012-2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 08:01:01.721522; freshness should be verified.

Geography

DFO Maritimes Region statistical grid, including Bay of Fundy Grey Zone.