Live Maps and Data

Live Maps and Data

Live Maps and Data

Featured databases and maps are available at three scales:
  • Global: resources serve information for more than one country or for broad-scale aquatic systems
  • National: resources are focused on one country, typically the United States 
  • Regional: resources span multiple U.S. states

Are you interested
in data sharing?

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Do you want to share data with other researchers or resource managers? We are interested in working with new partners to share data of all types, formats, and geographic extents.

Maybe you have a web-based fisheries application that you would like to highlight in another location. We will work with you to integrate links to your application into this site.

Or, perhaps you have metadata or need help developing metadata that meets federal standards. We have trained metadata specialists who can help you create standard metadata for your fisheries data and add that to the NBII Metadata Clearinghouse.

Learn more about how to get involved, and how to contact us.

Find Fisheries Data with the Data Access Wizard

The Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (FAR) Data Access Wizard helps you discover and access fisheries-related data. Data can be searched using keywords, themes, geographic extent and data providers. Most of the available data is in a spatial, or GIS, format and can be accessed in a variety of ways:

disc Data can be directly downloaded as-is to your desktop computer.

cart Multiple datasets can be added to a 'data cart' to be downloaded simultaneously. Data in your data cart can also be clipped to a specific geographic area and re-projected on-the-fly prior to download.

bolt Many datasets can also be viewed online via Web mapping applications or accessed dynamically by a desktop GIS client using ArcIMS or WMS MapServices.


All data in the FAR Data Access Wizard are fully documented with FGDC-compliant metadata and are free to the public.

AquaMaps

AquaMap for Sea Lamprey
AquaMap for Petromyzon marinus, the Sea Lamprey

AquaMapsAquaMaps offers standardized distribution maps for fishes, marine mammals, and invertebrates. Maps are generated by using a modeling approach. There are predicted distribution maps of individual species, thematic maps, checklists, and tools. AquaMaps relies on partnerships with FishBase, OBIS, and GBIF.