Contains mark and recapture data for almost every Canadian fish tagging study conducted west of Newfoundland between 1953 and 1999. This dataset is the OBIS version of the fish tagging database records. The dataset contains the release and the recapture locations for the tagged fish.

Citation: Fowler, G.M., and W.T. Stobo, 2014. DFO Maritimes - Groundfish and Small Pelagic Tagging database. Version 2 In OBIS Canada Digital Collections. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada. Published by OBIS, Digital http://www.iobis.org/. Accessed on –INSERT DATE

Published: March 30, 2022 at 14:44

URL: http://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/resource?r=dfo_mar_fishtagging

Wayne Stobo
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Mark Fowler
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

272,300

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	272,300		100.0%
decimalLatitude	838	6	0.3%
decimalLongitude	838	6	0.3%
eventDate	376	9	0.1%
maximumDepthInMeters	272,300		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	272,300		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	272,300	100.0%
ON_LAND	49,064	18.0%
NO_COORD	844	0.3%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE	6	0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE	6	0.0%

DFO Maritimes - Groundfish and Small Pelagic Tagging database. 1953-1999

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data