Fisheries Management Zone Coordinate system: 4269 - "NAD83" Abstract: Fisheries Management Zone(s) have replaced the former Fishing Divisions and are the geographic basis for managing, monitoring, assessing and regulating recreational fisheries for a majority of lakes and streams in a zone. Each zone is based on angler usage and ecological/geographic patterns such as climate zones, watersheds and road networks. Supplementary tables can be used and are available for download from the additional documentation section.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2013-06-06

  Other Maintenance Requirements:

  699f4d85-c806-4966-b1c2-c5cbc578c049

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  Contact Instructions:

  gis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  North American Profile of ISO19115:2003 - Geographic Information

• Citation Information

  
  
  
  

  Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Peterborough Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: environment

  Keywords:

  FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ZONE, FISH, REGULATION, MANAGEMENT, FISHING

  COMMUNITIES

  Fish farming, Pisciculture, Fish, Poisson, Fisheries, Pêcheries, Fisheries management, Gestion des pêches

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada > Ontario

  Purpose:

  To identify the extent of the 20 Fish Management Zones throughout the province. To define accurate boundaries of recreational and sport fishing zones.

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: asNeeded

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Extent

  West Longitude: -95.153671

  East Longitude: -74.319649

  North Latitude: 56.859364

  South Latitude: 41.676556

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

  Additional Time Period Information: Even though the data has been collected as of June 13, 2006, it was regulated on January 1, 2008.

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

  Object Count: 20

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4269

  Code Space: http://www.epsg-registry.org/

• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange, Ministry of Natural Resource (OMNR) Peterborough Ontario, Canada