Maritimes Fisheries Catch Weight Landings Mapping for 2010–2014

2010–2014 fisheries landings maps from the Maritimes Region of Canada, created by Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Oceans and Coastal Management Division. The maps aggregate landed weight per 2 x 2-minute grid cell for 39 selected species and gear types to identify important fishing areas. Data has been filtered to comply with privacy policies by withholding catch weight locations in areas with fewer than five vessel IDs.

Use Cases

• Mitigate human use conflicts in coastal zones based on mapped fishing activity density.
• Inform environmental emergency response operations based on the location of high-value fisheries.
• Support Marine Stewardship Council certification processes based on spatial data of fishing impacts.
• Plan marine protected area networks based on the distribution of fishing pressure.
• Monitor compliance and threats in coral and sponge closures based on proximity to fishing hotspots.

Strengths

• Covers a five-year time range from 2010 to 2014.
• Includes data for 39 distinct species and gear type categories.
• Data is aggregated to a standardized 2 x 2-minute grid cell resolution.
• Privacy assessments were conducted to protect individual vessel identities.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Collection Method

Created from fisheries landings data by the Oceans and Coastal Management Division.

Time Range

2010–2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 08:01:26.828595; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Maritimes Region of Canada