Mapping and Ground-Truthing Fishermen’s Knowledge of Surface Currents in the Bay of Fundy Area (1978-2018)

The Fundy North Fishermen's Association Ocean Protection Plan Project dataset includes historical oil spill data with parameters such as date, location, spill quantity, tanker and station identification and weather conditions (eg. air temperature, wind direction and speed, visibility and standard pressure). The dataset also includes knowledge of historical oil spills obtained from local fishermen during interviews as well as beach cleanup data with parameters including location, partner organizations and items found.

This data is part of a 3-year project titled 'Mapping and ground-truthing fishermen’s knowledge of surface currents in the Bay of Fundy area'. Fundy North hopes that that by studying historic oil spills, mapping fishermen’s knowledge of surface currents and conducting a study of currents in the Bay of Fundy area we will help build the knowledge base of oceanographic and hydrographic data for the area.

This project is part of the Coastal Environmental Baseline Program Initiative under the Oceans Protection Plan of Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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Metadata Reference Date(s) March 06, 2023 (Publication)
September 25, 2023 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s) January 01, 1979 (Creation)
August 07, 2020 (Publication)
February 04, 2021 (Revision)
Frequency of Update As Needed

Responsible Party 1
Affiliation
Fundy North Fishermen’s Association
Email
info@fundynorth.org
Role
  • Distributor
  • Owner
Responsible Party 2
Name
Mitchell, Lillian
Affiliation
Fundy North Fishermen’s Association
Email
lillian@fundynorth.org
Role
  • Custodian
  • Point of Contact
  • Collaborator
Responsible Party 3
Name
Oke, C.
Affiliation
Fundy North Fishermen’s Association
Role
  • Originator
  • Collaborator
Responsible Party 4
Name
Cusack, B.
Affiliation
Fundy North Fishermen’s Association
Role
  • Originator
  • Collaborator

Field Value
Ocean Variables
  • Sea Surface Temperature
  • Surface Currents
  • Other
  • Marine debris
Scope Dataset
Status On Going
Maintenance Note Generated from https://cioos-siooc.github.io/metadata-entry-form
Spatial Extent [[[-65.0321, 45.8631745], [-66.969526, 45.8631745], [-66.969526, 44.950829], [-65.0321, 44.950829], [-65.0321, 45.8631745]]]
North Bounding Latitude 44.950829
South Bounding Latitude 45.8631745
East Bounding Longitude -65.0321
West Bounding Longitude -66.969526
Temporal Extent
Begin
1979-01-01
End
2019-01-01
Vertical Extent
Min
0.0
Max
0.0
Default Locale English
Included in Data Catalogue
Included in Data Catalogue 1
Name
OGSL/SLGO
URL
https://catalogue.ogsl.ca