Commercial Fishing Footprints, Transit Density Data Now Online

June 13, 2024

Two new commercial fisheries datasets are now available in the Portal’s Commercial Fishing theme.  Both datasets were developed and integrated into the Portal at the request of the commercial fishing industry and fishery managers on the Atlantic coast. Managers and...

New 2023 Vessel Traffic Data, Maps, and Tools

June 6, 2024

2023 All Vessel Transit Counts Launch Interactive Map Vessel traffic and activity data for 2023 are now available on the Northeast Ocean Data Portal. These new vessel traffic datasets and interactive maps were developed in collaboration with our partners from...

Passive Acoustic Data Confirms North Atlantic Right Whale Distributions

May 8, 2024

The North Atlantic right whale models in the Portal’s Marine Life Library were recently featured in a new scientific paper in the journal Marine Ecology Progress Series. The publication documents the first-ever use of acoustic data to evaluate and confirm the model...

Seafloor Mapping Plans for the Gulf of Maine

May 2, 2024

Several entities are conducting and planning to conduct seafloor mapping and characterization activities in the Gulf of Maine within the next year. Several new and updated layers in the Data Explorer, within the Bathymetry & Imagery category, show the footprints...