This is the OBIS extraction of the Ocean Tracking Network and Englobe Corp (Englobe) Large Scale Movements of Sturgeon in the St. Lawrence River System, consisting of the release tagging metadata, i.e. the location and date when the tagged animal was released, and summarized detection events of tagged individuals.\n If readers are interested in the source dataset they may also inquire with the project PIs as listed here or on the OTN web site (https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=SSLRS).
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