Mi'gmaq and Malécite Commercial Fisheries of the Communities of Gesgapegiag, Gespeg and Viger (2010-2015)

Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) compiles information on commercial fisheries (fishing effort and lobster logbooks) in an Excel table. These tables were provided to the AGHAMM for the communities of Gesgapegiag, Gespeg, and Viger for the period 2010-2015. The AGHAMM used these raw data to create maps for the Atlas of Mi'gmaq and Malécite sites and uses of the marine St. Lawrence. The species caught by the communities are snow crab, rock crab, northern shrimp, lobster, Greenland halibut, atlantic halibut, whelk, sea cucumber, and green sea urchin. Three types of maps were produced:

sectors fished by species (whelk, lobster, rock crab, sea urchin, Atlantic halibut, and sea cucumber);
the total quantity fished (kg) by species and by communities by DFO fishing quadrilateral (northern shrimp, snow crab, and Greenland halibut);
the summary of commercial fisheries in number of species caught (polygons) and intensity of use of the territory (raster).

Disclaimer: The presented data should not be used as a substitute for consultation and dialogue with the communities.

Data and resources

Atlas-halieutique_FR.pdf

French version of the Atlas: Atlas des sites et usages Mi'gmaqs et Malécite du Saint-Laurent marin des communautés de Gesgapegiag, Gespeg et Viger

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Atlas-halieutique_EN.pdf

English version of the Atlas: Atlas of Marine St.Lawrence Mi'Gmaq and Malécite Sites and their Uses by the Gesgapegiag, Gespeg and Viger communities

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peches_commerciales.gdb.zip

Database (.gdb format) on the different species collected during commercial fisheries.

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Heatmap.tif

Heatmap (raster in TIFF format) representing the summary of commercial fisheries in terms of intensity.

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DescriptionChamps-PECHES_COMMERCIALES.xlsx

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

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Additional information

Temporal extent	2010-01-01 – 2012-12-31
Vertical extent	0.0 – 0.0 m
Date (creation)	2010-01-01
Date (publication)	2017-03-30
Status	completed
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