Dataset
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This is the OBIS extraction of the Ocean Tracking Network and Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Inner Bay of Fundy Striped Bass, consisting of the release tagging metadata, i.e. the location and date when the tagged animal was released, and summarized detection events of tagged individuals. If readers are interested in the source dataset they may also inquire with the project PIs as listed here or on the OTN web site (https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=IBFS). Abstract:The Shubenacadie-Stewiacke rivers system is an important spawning and wintering area for Bay of Fundy (BoF) Striped Bass. BoF Striped Bass support economically and culturally significant indigenous food fisheries and a large recreational angling fishery. The effects of these fisheries on population status are difficult to assess because of data deficiencies concerning removal rates. This principal objective of this project is to monitor inter-annual total mortality (Z) of striped bass that are > the minimum legal retention size of 68 cm Total Length and to relate the annual rates of annual recruitments as estimated from young-of-the-year abundance surveys and fishery-independent indices of number at age. Acoustic tags with expected operational times exceeding 6 years are used to track individual fish through several spawning and over-wintering cycles. Hydrophones are deployed during April to July in the spawning areas in tidal waters and maintained through the calendar year in the non-tidal section of the Shubenacadie River to monitor annual returns to the spawning and wintering grounds respectively. The acoustic tags and hydrophone array are as well used to support a number of other research and monitoring initiatives including Striped Bass-Atlantic Salmon interactions, and American eel and Atlantic tomcod migration studies.
Citation: Bradford, R., LeBlanc, P. 2012. Innner Bay of Fundy Atlantic Salmon Acoustic Telemetry Tag Releases.. Accessed via the Ocean Tracking Network OBIS IPT on INSERT DATE
Published: August 27, 2025 at 11:28
URL: https://members.oceantrack.org/ipt/resource?r=otndfo-bioinnerbayoffundy
Ocean Tracking Network Data Centre
Ocean Tracking Network
Jonathan Pye
Ocean Tracking Network
Rod Bradford
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Paul LeBlanc
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Eddie Halfyard
Ocean Tracking Network
Mike McMahon
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Sean Smith
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
David Hardie
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Annick Drouin
Ministère des Forêts, de la Faune et des Parcs du Québec
Jeremy Broome
Acadia University
Heather Bowlby
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
John Brattey
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Asha Ajmani
Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Tribal Council
Joseph Beland
Mi'kmaw Conservation Group
Mike Dadswell
Acadia University
Graham Goulette
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Allen Curry
University of New Brunswick - Fredericton
Dave Hebert
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
John Kocik
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Matt Litvak
Mount Allison University
Leah Lewis-McCrea
Centre for Marine Applied Research
Anna Redden
Acadia University
Shawn Robinson
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Michael Stokesbury
Acadia University
Fred Whoriskey
Dalhousie University
Erica Stuart
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Marc Trudel
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Chris McKindsey
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Dan Hasselman
Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy
Charles Bangley
Dalhousie University
Gregor Reid
Centre for Marine Applied Research
Levi Cliche
Clean Annapolis River Project
Allison Collard
Clean Annapolis River Project
Harri Pettitt-Wade
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Kaleb Zelman
Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada
A. Peter Klimley
University of California, Davis
Andrew Rypel
University of California, Davis
Nann Fangue
University of California, Davis
Arnold Ammann
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
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| coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | 332 |
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| decimalLatitude | 28 |
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| decimalLongitude | 28 |
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| eventDate | 28 |
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| maximumDepthInMeters | 1,114,934 |
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| minimumDepthInMeters | 1,114,934 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO_DEPTH | 1,114,934 |
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| ON_LAND | 9,300 |
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| NO_COORD | 28 |
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