OTN will provide leading-edge “made-in-Canada” technology developed specifically to observe the state of the world’s oceans.

AMIRIX (Vemco), Lotek and Satlantic Inc are OTN’s main private sector partners.  Together, they will develop long-lasting tags with codes unique to the OTN, thereby avoiding any coding confusion, keeping the data pure and reliable.  The tags range in size from an almond to an AA battery and can be surgically implanted or fastened to a fin.  The ease of this application means that tagged fish just need to swim over the receiver and the data is recorded, similar to the way we pay for food at a supermarket checkout using a UPS scanner.

This information-gathering method is much more cost-effective and reliable than the traditional means of sending people to sea in ships.  With OTN, the tagged animals are reporting on their own travel activities.