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ON MOE - Ontario Sport Fish Contaminant Database

Ontario fishbase
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Overview

Ontario Ministry of Environment's long-term sport fish contaminant database. Initiated 1977. Dataset includes THg, additional pollutants, and morphometrics for whole body and fillet samples from sport fish of edible size. Dataset also contains some data from smaller fish, birds, invertebrates and herptiles.

Source Agency: Ontario Ministry of Environment
Agency/Project Website: http://www.ene.gov.on.ca/en/index.php
Medium: fish
Start Date: 1977

Contact

Satyendra Bhavsar, Research Scientist
satyendra.bhavsar@ontario.ca

Address
Ministry of the Environment, 125 Resources Rd.
Toronto, ON M9P 3V6

Phone: 416-327-5863 Fax: 416-327-6519

Name of datasetOntario Fishbase
Geographic areaOntario and boundary waters of Great Lakes
State/ProvinceON
Activity CategoryMonitoring
Mediumfish
Focal speciessport fish of edible size; some smaller fish collected for case studies
Tissue Typesfillet, whole body
Approximate size of dataset200000
Positional data available?yes
Start Date1977
End Date2010
StatusOngoing
Collection seasonsummer, fall
Current # Of Sampling Locationsvaries
Historic # Of Sampling Locations3400
Size of Sampling AreaProvince of Ontario and boundary waters of Great Lakes
Individual or composite samples?Mostly Individual
Ecosystem Focuswater bodies of Ontario and boundary waters of the Great Lakes
Additional Infoquality assurance remark codes in dataset
Data UseBy permission only
Quality Assuranceyes
Data FormatOracle
Hg MeasurementsTHg
Hg Measurement Weightww
Ancillary Datasex, weight, length, additional pollutants
BRI has data?yes
Data downloadable on external website?no
CommentsDataset must be requested from Satyendra Bhavsar (MOE Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program, 125 Resources Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada  M9P 3V6; Tel: 1-416-327-5863,  Fax: 1-416-327-6519). The data is spread across a dozen linked tables in normal form, but the data can also be provided in Access.  Quality assurance consists of remark codes in dataset.