Inventory of Federal, Provincial and Territorial Environmental and Occupational Health Data
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Inventory of Data Sources

Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program Database (FISHBASE) (Ontario)

Contacts
Al Hayton
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
125 Resources Road
Etobicoke, ON
M9P 3V6
Tel: (416) 327-7470
E-mail: haytonal@ene.gov.on.ca

Jan Proboszcz
Database Administrator
[Address same as above]
Tel: (416)-235-6020
E-mail: jan.proboszcz@ene.gov.on.ca

Organization Maintaining the Database
Biomonitoring Section

Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program

Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Branch

Ontario Ministry of the Environment

Purpose of Database
To store data used to develop sport fish consumption advisories, which are published in the Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish.

Content
Data on environmental contaminants in Ontario sport fish. Data types: contaminant levels in media (water); bio-monitoring data; toxicological; chemical; and geographic. Geolocators: longitudinal / latitudinal coordinates. Data elements: location description, date sampled, fish species, size, sex, length, contaminant type and concentration, field sampler, fish portion type. There are approximately 1,260,194 records in the database.

Year Database Established
1994

Coverage Period
1967 to 2002

Data Updates
Daily

Data Provider
Sport Fish Contaminant Monitoring Program
Environmental Monitoring and Reporting Branch
Ontario Ministry of the Environment

Data Availability
The main users of the information in the database are: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Natural Resources, Health Canada, consultants, and conservation authorities. Direct access by others is not available, but data can be provided on request.

Reports
Guide to Eating Ontario Sport Fish; biennial; available in printed and electronic formats, and disseminated to sport fish anglers and their families.

Additional Comments
Data are collected under the authority of Cabinet Committee minute dated April 27, 1977 (Cabinet Minute 11-19-77).

FISHBASE is linked with information in the Environmental Data Store (EDS) and the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).

Data can be exported via spreadsheet, data dump, or formatted text.

Data are provided to First Nations through a Health Canada/Assembly of First Nations joint program.

Keywords for searches: Species, location, contaminant, sample date.

Documentation on the database is available in printed format.