Juvenile Salmon: Migration Routes and Survival Results from the Demonstration Phase of the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST)

摘要

The Census of Marine Life and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation are helping to develop the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST), a permanent continental-scale tracking array for the west coast of North America. This new tool for marine research can help provide an improved understanding of marine animal behavior and thereby facilitate better fisheries management. It can make available more precise data on such things as timing, rate and route of migration; differences in stock and species behavior, and the location of freshwater and marine mortality. The development of long-life modem-equipped ("wireless") receivers means that it is possible to put in place a permanent year-round tracking array, which could potentially also include other sensors to supplement the tracking data with direct observation of changes in oceanic properties.