Community-Based Monitoring in Saint John Harbour

Organization

Atlantic Coastal Action Program

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ACAP Saint John was founded as part of the Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP), a unique community-based program initiated by Environment Canada in 1991 to help Atlantic Canadians restore and sustain local watersheds and adjacent coastal areas.

ACAP Saint John has conducted successful in-school environmental education programs, summer camps, ecological inventories, water quality monitoring programs, habitat restorations, watercourse restorations, wetland enhancements, contaminated site remediation and engaged thousands of area residents in community cleanup initiatives. We continue to expand our role as the preeminent source of environmental knowledge and research in Greater Saint John.

ACAP Saint John has an excellent reputation in the community for acting as a third-party mediator on contentious environmental issues, and continues to expand their role as a public source of knowledge and information dissemination. Through their management of the Saint John Harbour Environmental Monitoring Partnership, ACAP is working with industry and government to initiate cumulative effects monitoring -- the first for any harbour in Canada.

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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

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Community-Based Monitoring in Saint John Harbour

These data were generated as part of ACAP Saint John's Harbour Baseline Monitoring Program, collected from Port Saint John, New Brunswick. The dataset includes physico-chemical data, including various water quality and sediment polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAHs) parameters, collected from 2018 to 2022.

The dataset also includes fish community data produced from seine and fyke net fishing from 2018 to 2022 in Port Saint John. It contains data on the different species caught, abundances, and length measurements.

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

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Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Data and Resources

data_dictionnary_2018-2022_acap-sj.odsODS

Data dictionnary, headers descriptions

fish_eventcore_2018-2022_acap-sj.csvCSV

Location and date of the Events of fishing.

fish_occurrence_2018-2022_acap-sj.csvCSV

Occurrence of fish species collected during seine and fyke fishing

fish_length_2018-2022_acap-sj.csvCSV

Length measurements carried out on the species caught

water-quality_2018-2022_acap-sj.csvCSV

Measurements of various physicochemical parameters of water samples,...

sediments_pah_2018-2022_acap-sj.csvCSV

Measurements of various chemical parameters on sediment samples collected...

logger-water-quality_2018-2022_acap-sj.csvCSV

Data logger measurements of physicochemical parameters in water samples...

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Dates

Metadata Reference Date(s)	December 20, 2022 (Publication) August 17, 2023 (Revision)
Data Reference Date(s)	September 01, 2018 (Creation) February 12, 2021 (Publication) December 20, 2022 (Revision)
Frequency of Update	As Needed

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Contacts

Responsible Party 1

Affiliation

ACAP Saint John - Atlantic Coastal Action Program

Email

office@acapsj.org

Role

Custodian
Distributor
Owner
Point of Contact

Responsible Party 2

Name

Reinhart, Bethany

Affiliation

ACAP Saint John - Atlantic Coastal Action Program

Email

bethany@acapsj.org

Role

Custodian
Point of Contact
Resource Provider

Additional Info

Field	Value
Ocean Variables	Oxygen Sea Surface Salinity Sea Surface Temperature Fish abundance and distribution Other
Scope	Dataset
Status	On Going
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North Bounding Latitude	45.0
South Bounding Latitude	45.282676
East Bounding Longitude	-65.954639
West Bounding Longitude	-66.229004
Temporal Extent	Begin 2018-09-01
Vertical Extent	Min 0.0 Max 0.0
Default Locale	English