In 2012 and 2013, Fisheries and Oceans Canada conducted benthic imagery surveys in the Davis Strait and Baffin Basin in two areas then closed to bottom fishing, the Hatton Basin Voluntary Closure (now the Hatton Basin Conservation Area) and the Narwhal Closure (now partially in the Disko Fan Conservation Area). The photo transects were established as long-term biodiversity monitoring sites to monitor the impact of human activity, including climate change, on the region’s benthic marine biota in accordance with the protocols of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program established by the Council of Arctic Flora and Fauna. These images were analyzed in a techncial report that summarises the epibenthic megafauna found in seven image transects from the Disko Fan Conservation Area. A total of 480 taxa were found, 280 of which were identified as belonging to one of the following phyla: Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chordata, Cnidaria, Echinodermata, Mollusca, Nemertea, and Porifera. The remaining 200 taxa could not be assigned to a phylum and were categorised as Unidentified. Each taxon was identified to the lowest possible taxonomic level, typically class, order, or family. The summaries for each of the taxa include their identification numbers in the World Register of Marine Species and Integrated Taxonomic Information System’s databases, taxonomic hierarchies, images, and written descriptions. The report is intended to provide baseline documentation of the epibenthic megafauna in the Disko Fan Conservation Area, and serve as a taxonomic resource for future image analyses in the Arctic. Baker, E., Beazley, L., McMillan, A., Rowsell, J. and Kenchington, E. 2018. Epibenthic Megafauna of the Disko Fan Conservation Area in the Davis Strait (Eastern Arctic) Identified from In Situ Benthic Image Transects. Can. Tech. Rep. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 3272: vi + 388 p. 9,594 occurrences

This datasets has 10688 records representing 83 terminal taxa collected from the Kara Sea between 1997 and 2001. In the zooplankton, for which most data were available, four regional aggregations were separated: (1) the rivers and estuaries of the Southern Kara Sea, (2) the south-western and (3) the central Kara Sea, and (4) the northern troughs and slope. 10,687 occurrences

Data of zooplankton collected in the Chukchi Sea, summers 1953-1954. 1,910 occurrences

To assess species composition, abundance, distribution and biomass of zooplankton across locations of the Canadian Beaufort Sea Shelf. 8,058 occurrences

Dataset comprising 1681 observations of Microbenthic algae species located near Point Barrow Alaska. Presence or absence of these species are noted. 1,680 occurrences

Macrobenthos in the southeastern Chukchi Sea collected in 1985 - 1987. 2,451 occurrences

Arctic Benthos 7,439 occurrences

This dataset contains point distribution occurrences for fish species found in marine waters of Arctic Canada. It was used to create the distribution maps in the book Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada, edited by B.W. Coad and J.D. Reist (2018) and the DFO Data Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences Distributional Records for Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada (Alfonso et al. 2018). The database includes literature (Coad and Reist 2016) and museum records, anecdotal reports, personal communications and data from fisheries surveys and exploratory cruises. Development of the database began in 1998 and data entry ceased in 2016, although the database will be updated periodically. Consult the book (Coad and Reist 2018) and the Data Report (Alfonso et al. 2018) for further details in regards to the specific sources for each data point by species especially those from sources other than published literature. References: Alfonso, N.R., Coad, B.W., Sawatzky, C.D., and Reist, J.D. 2018. Distributional records for marine fishes of Arctic Canada. Canadian Data Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 1287: xxii + 295 p. Coad, B.W., and Reist, J.D. 2016. Bibliography on the marine fishes of Arctic Canada. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 3101: v + 509 p. Coad, B.W., and Reist, J.D. (Editors). 2018. Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. Canadian Museum of Nature and University of Toronto Press, Toronto, ON. xiii + 618 p. 65,535 occurrences

Dataset of the benthos of Chukchi Sea. 1,809 occurrences

Dataset result of the research on the species composition of Amphipoda of the Greenland shelf. In total 154 species were identified. 4,872 occurrences