Maritimes Summer Research Vessel Surveys ...

• Main Author: Regnier-McKellar, Catriona
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Fisheries and Oceans Canada 2022
• Subjects: Samplingevent; Biological Classification; Oceans; Scotian Shelf; Agricultural; Fisheries; Gulf of Maine and Bay of Fundy; North Atlantic Ocean; Earth Science; Ecological Dynamics; Animals/Vertebrates; Species/Population Interactions; Biosphere; Fish; Agriculture; North Atlantic; Aquatic Sciences
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/93x7ec; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/ec186b76-898c-435b-9aea-ebbd5785a25f

“Summer” missions occur in June, July and August and these focus on the Scotian Shelf and Bay of Fundy (i.e. 4VWX 5Yb, expanding recently to include the Laurentian Channel and Georges Bank (5Zc). Collected data includes total catch in numbers and weights by species. Length frequency data is available for most species, as are the age, sex, maturity and weight information for a subset of the individual animals. Other data such as ageing material, genetic material, and stomach contents are often also collected, but are stored elsewhere. ...