News

Workshop with Policy-makers and stakeholders

A National workshop with Scientists, Policy-makers and Stakeholders was held in Toronto on January 5 and 6, 2011. More details

FARO Project

A new CSA-funded programme, FARO (Fisheries Applications in Remotely sensed Ocean colour), was launched in Spring 2010. To go to the FARO website, click here…

SAFARI International Symposium, Feb. 2010

Links to proceedings and MarineBizTV video clips from the SAFARI International Symposium on Remote Sensing and Fisheries (February 15-17, 2010, Kochi, India) can be found here…

IOCCG Monograph

IOCCG Report 8, entitled "Remote Sensing in Fisheries and Aquaculture", has been published and is now available for distribution. A digital copy can be found here…

Science Articles

A series of Spring 2009 articles in Science takes a look at shrimp populations, algal blooms and climate change. More…

Publications

• SAFARI Symposium: video link
  Watch the SAFARI Symposium video coverage from MarineBizTV.


• Dr. Kenneth Sherman Interview: video link
  Watch the video of the MarineBizTV interview of Dr. Kenneth Sherman during his attendance at the SAFARI International Symposium in Kochi, India from February 15-17, 2010.


• Societal Applications in Fisheries and Aquaculture using Remotely-Sensed Imagery - the SAFARI Project
  SAFARI's OceanObs'09 Community White Paper.


• Applications of Remote Sensing in Fisheries and Aquaculture.
  IOCCG Monograph number 8.


• Climate Change Poses Threat to Synchrony of Shrimp and Its Food.
  An article in the New York Times' Science Observatory section reviews the delicate balance of shrimp reproduction and climate. Article by Henry Fountain, New York Times, 18 May 2009.


• Impeccable Timing.
  Shrimp time reproductive cycles to correspond with algal blooms. Olive Heffernan. Science 324, 791–793, 14 May 2009: 10.1038/climate.2009.43


• Some Like It Cold.
  Northern shrimp stocks thrive when climatic conditions lead to cold bottom waters. Charles H. Greene, Bruce C. Monger and Louise P. McGarry. Science, Vol 324, 8 May 2009: 10.1126/science.1173951.


• Climate Change and Shrimp Populations.
  Basin-Scale Coherence in Phenology of Shrimps and Phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean. Peter Koeller et al. Science, Vol 324, 8 May 2009: 10.1126/science.1170987.


• Shrimp tuned to ocean temperature.
  Dr. Peter Koeller discusses the fate of shrimp stocks. Article by By Victoria Gill (Science reporter for BBC News), 7 May, 2009.


• Using satellites to find fish – The SAFARI Project.
  The Maritime Aboriginal Aquatic Resource Secretariate: Netawek Ikjikum Vol. 4 - Issue 4 March 2009, by MAARS CDIL Brett Bancroft.


• Satellite images faster, cheaper and better.
  BIO project finds new way to monitor health of our oceans. The Chronicle Herald, 26 January, 2008.


• Teledetección e industria pesquera (Remote Sensing and Fisheries).
  Radio Canda International, Canadá en las Américas 26/11/2007. Entrevista: Magdalena Ferreiro y César Fuentes-Yaco, del Instituto Bedford de Oceanografía de Nueva Escocia.


• Applications of remote sensing in fisheries and aquaculture.
  The Full Picture: Trevor Platt, Shubha Sathyendranath and Venetia Stuart. GEO publication, Geneva, Switzerland, 253-555, 2007.