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Engineering a solution to track critically endangered angelsharks 

Engineering a solution to track critically endangered angelsharks 

by Ocean Tracking Network | Dec 20, 2018 | News

The Canary Islands have long been a hot spot for Angelsharks with regular sightings by divers and fishers. Once abundant in European coastal waters, Angelsharks are now listed as a critically endangered species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. It’s...
Collaboration in the Florida Keys takes species from mystery to science 

Collaboration in the Florida Keys takes species from mystery to science 

by Ocean Tracking Network | Dec 20, 2018 | News

Known as the silver king of the ocean due to its mirror-like scales, size, and prehistoric nature, the Atlantic tarpon (Megalops Atlanticus) can be found in warm parts of the Atlantic (the U.S. to Africa), the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. The silvery-gray...
OTN, Mi’kmaw and local community partners embark on collaborative resource management

OTN, Mi’kmaw and local community partners embark on collaborative resource management

by Ocean Tracking Network | Nov 20, 2018 | News

Natural science research has long been led by academics, but a community-level approach is seeing Indigenous peoples and resource stakeholders who rely on their local aquatic species take increasingly more ownership over research design and results. Community-based...
OTN scientific director elected to the Royal Society of Canada

OTN scientific director elected to the Royal Society of Canada

by Ocean Tracking Network | Sep 11, 2018 | News

OTN Scientific Director elected to the Royal Society of Canada The country’s National Academy of distinguished scholars, artists and scientists today announced the election of 89 new Fellows. Six Dalhousie professors and researchers were elected to the Royal...
Shockingly good Nova Scotia conservation brew strikes again

Shockingly good Nova Scotia conservation brew strikes again

by Anja Samardzic | Aug 14, 2018 | News

Shockingly good Nova Scotia conservation brew strikes again. Last year, Cape Breton craft brewer Big Spruce Brewing and Dalhousie-based Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) launched a seasonal IPA “with bite,” that united ocean enthusiasts and beer aficionados alike—and...
Nova Scotian blue shark tracking and shockingly good colla‘beer’ations

Nova Scotian blue shark tracking and shockingly good colla‘beer’ations

by Anja Samardzic | Aug 7, 2018 | News

Since 2013, OTN has led a special study using long-life acoustic tags to track a population of juvenile blue sharks, a common bycatch species and a key component of the marine food web in the Northwest Atlantic. The program has since blossomed into a unique scientific...
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