Compilation of Incidents Involving Marine Mammals in Distress Reported to the Réseau québécois d'urgences pour les mammifères marins (RQUMM)

Marine turtles, birds, mammals abundance and distribution

Since 2004, the Réseau québécois d'urgences pour les mammifères marins (RQUMM) has recorded incidents involving marine mammals that died or experienced difficulties in the St. Lawrence River and the Gulf of St. Lawrence region of Quebec. It coordinates field operations and centralizes information on these incidents. The data are of the following nature: incident, carcass, stranding, entanglement.

Data and resources

rqumm_DwC_marine-mammals-incidents.csv

Standardized occurrence file according to the Darwin Core standard about data from various incidents related to marine mammals in the St. Lawrence and the Gulf

CSV Open
Description_champs_RQUMM.xlsx

Data dictionary containing the definition of the various variables in the RQUMM database.

XLSX Open
Base de données_RQUMM.xlsx

Database containing the various incidents related to marine mammals that have been recorded in the St. Lawrence and the Gulf

XLSX Open

Additional information

Temporal extent	2012-01-01 – 2016-12-31
Vertical extent	0.0 – 0.0 m
Date (creation)	2012-01-01
Date (publication)	2017-03-30
Date (revision)	2023-03-23
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	fr
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-07-31
Created	2026-07-31
API	package_show