Maritimes 4VSW Research Vessel Survey
“4VSW” missions focus on the eastern half of the Scotian Shelf, and occur primarily in March, but sets in both February, and April are also present in the data. These missions use a unique stratification scheme intended to optimize the abundance estimates of cod. 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.
Cite this data as: Clark, D., Emberley, J. Data of Maritimes 4VSW Research Vessel Survey. Published January 2021. Population Ecology Division, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Dartmouth, N.S. https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/a851ce30-e216-4d7d-a29c-05631eef140e
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Date Created
1970
Date Published
2020-08-31
Temporal Coverage
1970 - Present
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3
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Government of Canada; Fisheries and Oceans Canada. (2020-08-31). Maritimes 4VSW Research Vessel Survey.
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agricultural aquatic sciences, agriculture, animals/vertebrates, aquatic sciences, biological classification, biosphere, earth science, ecological dynamics, fish, fisheries, oceans, species/population interactions, gulf of maine and bay of fundy, north atlantic ocean, north atlantic, scotian shelf, oceans
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