Maricultural Monitoring in Support of Quebec Shellfish Aquaculture Industry from 2008 to 2015: Temperature Data

From 2008 to 2015, a monitoring program in support of the Quebec mariculture industry was carried out by Merinov with the support of the Quebec Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (French: Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation (MAPAQ)). The main objective was to compile and transmit relevant biological and environmental data to marine producers for the purpose of informed decision making during their commercial operations. Established for the three producing regions of maritime Quebec (Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Gaspésie and Côte-Nord), the mariculture monitoring program has made it possible to document in a synchronized manner some twenty mariculture sites (11 mussel farms, 7 pectin farms and 2 oyster farms). This was made possible through monitoring various biotic and abiotic parameters such as recruitment success (larvae and postlarvae) and collection performance of the cultivated species, proliferation of undesirable species (predators and epibionts) and the quality of the commercial product (meat yield).

This dataset contains a monitoring of water temperatures collected for the three regions: Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Côte-Nord and Gaspésie. For biotic monitoring data in support of the Quebec mariculture industry see [https://catalogue.ogsl.ca/fr/dataset/ca-cioos_8b0b9560-8621-4eeb-9cfd-bae5829b3849].

The reports are divided by year and sector of the mariculture industry.