Name: DFO Maritimes - Groundfish and Small Pelagic Tagging database. 1953-1999
License: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

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

February 13, 2026 at 18:43

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License

URL

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

Archive

https://ipt.iobis.org/obiscanada/archive.do?r=dfo_mar_fishtagging

Contacts

Wayne Stobo
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Mark Fowler
Fisheries and Oceans Canada

272,300

total submitted occurrences

271,456

accepted occurrences

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