🐟 Cod: The Northern Cod Acoustic Tracking (NCAT) pProject studies migration between offshore wintering & inshore feeding areas. Genetics + acoustic tagging reveal stock structure & connectivity. 📸: Renee Blundon

🐟 Halibut: A 5-year collaboration with partners tracks halibut across the Scotian Shelf & Grand Banks. Year-round acoustic monitoring shows habitat use & movement between hotspots. 📸: Elizabeth Bateman

🐟 Mackerel: Year 2 of tagging tracks movements, stock structure & population patterns. These insights will help address gaps highlighted by recent fishery closures.

💡 Workshop: Integrating Animal Movement into the Essential Biodiversity Variable Framework | Learn more: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess... Don’t miss this chance to share your research and connect with an international network studying species movement for biodiversity conservation!

📌 Session: Harnessing Animal Movement for Biodiversity Monitoring: From Movement Trait Data to Biodiversity Indicators and Decision-Making | Abstracts due Nov 18, 2025 (€50) | More info & submit: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/WBF2026/sess... (2/3)

The array will help researchers track a wide range of species: cod, halibut, herring, salmon, tuna, swordfish, white sharks & sea turtles. Data from this array will advance understanding of one of Atlantic Canada’s most ecologically significant regions. 🙌

This work is in the Fundian Channel–Browns Bank AOI, a potential future marine protected area and biodiversity hotspot. It hosts the densest known concentration of large gorgonian corals (a type of soft coral) in Atlantic Canada and forms the Gulf of Maine’s largest entrance.

The 18-station array is spaced ~10 km apart in a grid and took ~12 hours to deploy, starting at 5:30 a.m., hence the early-morning photos in the dark! This infrastructure will track species movements across the Scotian Shelf bioregion.