| Title | Bay-scale habitat mapping of American lobster (Homarus americanus) |
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| Licence | Please note the adoption of the Open Government Licence - Canada
supersedes any previous licences. |
| Author | McKee, A; Grant, J |
| Source | Program and abstracts: 2017 GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada; by Todd, B J ; Brown, C J; Lacharité, M; Gazzola, V; McCormack, E; Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 8295, 2017 p. 83, https://doi.org/10.4095/305891  Open Access |
| Links | GeoHab 2017
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| Year | 2017 |
| Publisher | Natural Resources Canada |
| Meeting | 2017 GeoHab: Marine Geological and Biological Habitat Mapping; Dartmouth, NS; CA; May 1-4, 2017 |
| Document | open file |
| Lang. | English |
| Media | on-line; digital |
| Related | This publication is contained in Program and abstracts: 2017
GeoHab Conference, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| File format | pdf |
| Subjects | marine geology; surficial geology/geomorphology; environmental geology; geophysics; mapping techniques; oceanography; marine environments; coastal studies; conservation; marine organisms; marine
ecology; resource management; biological communities; environmental studies; ecosystems; benthos; planning; geophysical interpretations; acoustic surveys, marine; sonar surveys; photography; Biology; Geographic information systems; Fisheries;
Fisheries management; Aquaculture |
| Program | Offshore Geoscience |
| Released | 2017 09 26 |
| Abstract | Bay-scale habitat maps for benthic organisms, especially those of economically important species, are important for the comprehensive development of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) initiatives. However,
few such maps of that scale exist for the American lobster (Homarus americanus) in Canada's Maritime provinces. There are several coastal activities considered by MSP which occur at scales of less than 1 km (e.g. aquaculture, etc.), but which have
limited spatial placement options because of the broadly binned or patchy lobster habitat data available.
Therefore, the objective of this project is to develop a standard method of bay-scale lobster habitat mapping specifically for the purposes
of adding scientific GIS layers to the MSP process of finfish aquaculture lease placement. Two bays in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick have been surveyed and mapped using acoustic data (backscatter from a single-beam echosounding system), ground-truth
video, and various forms of lobster presence data. Through different procedures, the acoustic data have been split into substrate category bins and interpolated between tracks, then compared to the ground-truth video to create error matrices and
provide estimates of accuracy. The accuracy of the maps created through these differing procedures has been evaluated and the early results of this work will discussed. |
| Summary | (Plain Language Summary, not published)
The sixteenth annual GeoHab Conference was held this year (2017) at the Waterfront Campus of the Nova Scotia Community College in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia,
Canada. |
| GEOSCAN ID | 305891 |
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