Ocean Tracking Network Canada: A Network Approach to-Addressing Critical issues in Fisheries and Resource Management with Implications for Ocean Governance

摘要

The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) Canada is an integrative seven-year research program initiated in 2010 with academic, government, and industry partners. The team makes use of novel biotelemetry (primarily acoustic telemetry curtains), biolog-ging, and oceanographic technologies to better understand changing ocean dynamics and their impact on ocean ecosystems, animal movements, and ecology and the dynamics of marine animal populations, many of which are commercially important. The network is organized around three ocean arenas (i.e., the Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific) where specific research projects will occur. However, all projects will contribute toward addressing a single unifying national-scale question—what are the movements of continental shelf marine animals, how do these movements affect species interactions, and what are the consequences of environmental variability I change and human activities on these species' distributions and abundance? Tarn that will be tracked include diadromous (e.g., salmon, eels, sturgeon) and marine (e.g., sharks, capelin, cod) fishes and a variety of marine mammals (e.g., grey seals, killer whaks). Some of the reformulation of governance practices and legal standards.