Rapid environmental change is causing shifts in marine populations
Need
Combine animal tagging, biodiversity and environmental data and information to help document, understand and predict these shifts
Approach
Emulate restoration and recovery efforts implemented e.g. in the Pacific and Atlantic during the International Year of the Salmon (2019) that are scalable to other species (e.g. mullet, marine mammals)
Possible Outcomes
Integrated data to identify hotspots, visualize shifts and forecast change
Ecosystem indicators for top predators as ‘sentinels’ of change
Basin-wide platform for information sharing
Main contacts: Gabrielle Canonico (NOAA, USA) and Fred Whoriskey (Dalhousie University, Canada)
