Database of the Distributions of Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada

James Reist1, Brian Coad2, Noel Alfonso2, Chantelle Sawatzky1, Hólmgrímur Helgason3, Hólmgrímur Helgason4

1 Fisheries and Oceans Canada, ; 2 Canadian Museum of Nature, ; 3 Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), Borgir, Nordurslod, 603, Akureyri, Iceland; 4 

Corresponding author(s): James ReistBrian CoadNoel AlfonsoChantelle Sawatzky, Hólmgrímur Helgason (hoddi@caff.is)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Data published by Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Canadian Museum of
Nature in 2019.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Arctic Canada, Northern Canada, Oceans

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: http://geo.abds.is/ipt/resource?r=dfo_amfd

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Canadian Arctic marine waters:
SW: -141.32 51.06
NE: -57.91 85.8
Location Keywords: Arctic Canada, Northern Canada, Oceans
Coordinates: 51°3'36''N and 85°47'60''N Latitude; 141°19'12''W and 57°54'36''W Longitude 

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Database of the Distributions of Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://geo.abds.is/ipt/archive.do?r=dfo_amfd
Publication date of data: 2019-08-29
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-08-26
Hierarchy level: Dataset