Scientific Data and Products

The Sea Lamprey Control Centre is based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Working as the Canadian agent of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission to carry out the 1955 Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries agreement, the staff at the Sea Lamprey Control Centre are responsible for keeping sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes basin at a minimum.

Features monthly report on the oceanographic data that Integrated Science Data Management (ISDM) of DFO receives via its links to the Global Telecommunications System (GTS), and information regarding the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Project.

The Ship of Opportunity Programme (SOOP) is an international and operational program directed primarily towards the continued operational maintenance and co-ordination of the ship of opportunity network. Observations made are primarily temperature from XBTs but temperature and other data types from instruments such as thermosalinographs, XCTD, CTD, ADCP, pCO2 and phytoplankton counters are also measured.

Water temperature and salinity data recorded onboard commercial ships and a Canadian Coast Guard ship which sail in the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary.

The St. Lawrence Global Observatory is an initiative to provide quick and transparent integrated access to the data and information from a network of federal, provincial, academic and other organizations for the sustainable management of the St. Lawrence global ecosystem

• The Gulf of St. Lawrence,
• The Labrador Shelf,
• The Newfoundland Shelf,
• The Scotian Shelf / Gulf of Maine

The climatologies consist of tables, contour maps and seasonal cycle plots of monthly temperature and salinity statistics for 150 sub-areas for: the Scotian Shelf / Gulf of Maine, the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the Newfoundland Shelf and the Labrador Shelf.