LBBG_ZEEBRUGGE - Lesser black-backed gulls (Larus fuscus, Laridae) breeding at the southern North Sea coast (Belgium and the Netherlands) is a bird tracking dataset published by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal tracking data collected by the LifeWatch GPS tracking network for large birds (http://lifewatch.be/en/gps-tracking-network-large-birds) for the project/study LBBG_ZEEBRUGGE, using trackers developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The study has been operational from 2013 until 2023. In total 162 individuals of lesser black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) have been tagged in or near their breeding area at the southern North Sea coast (Zeebrugge and Ostend in Belgium and Vlissingen in the Netherlands), mainly to study their habitat use and migration behaviour. Data are periodically uploaded from the UvA-BiTS database to Movebank and from there archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking). No new data are expected.
This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by VLIZ and INBO funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2024, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12336021), a deposit of Movebank study 985143423.
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This dataset was collected by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Waardenburg Ecology, Buijs Eco Consult and Deltamilieu Projecten. Funding was provided by the Wozep programme of Rijkswaterstaat on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. All datasets from Wozep will be made publicly available, unless stated otherwise.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15696782), a deposit of Movebank study 1258895879.
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Abstract:The project (Quoddy Region Pelagics Telemetry) will support the assessment of the effects of aquaculture on the distribution and abundance of pelagic fishes (salmon, mackerel, herring) and large predators (shark, marine mammals) in Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy, an area of intense finfish culture. An acoustic receivers network is placed yearly (from April to December) across various passageways, locations of project-specific interest, and at aquaculture sites in the region. Tagged pelagic species will be tracked through the network to provide information on migration routes, movement speed, survival rates and suspected predators, and determine interaction and residence at aquaculture sites. The network was utilized for monitoring the passage of: hatchery-reared wild salmon (n=340) released in the Magaguadavic River in 2018, 2019 and 2021, wild alewives (n=30) from the St. Croix River in 2021, and farmed Atlantic salmon released in the wild (n=99) in 2021. The receiver network has more recently supported adjacent projects on the use of the region by white shark and porbeagle as well as the residence of mackerel, herring, and sculpin at farm sites. The receivers additionally support other researchers with detection of striped bass, Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon, sturgeon, and many other species. Placement of the network will continue into 2025 inclusive with the longer-term goal to eventually deploy an array covering the entrance to the Bay of Fundy. ##### Le projet (Quoddy Region Pelagics Telemetry) soutiendra l'évaluation des effets de l'aquaculture sur la distribution et l'abondance des poissons pélagiques (saumon, maquereau, hareng) et des grands prédateurs (requin, mammifères marins) dans l'extérieur de la baie de Passamaquoddy et la baie de Fundy, une zone de pisciculture intense. Un réseau de récepteurs acoustiques est placé chaque année (d'avril à décembre) dans divers passages, emplacements d'intérêt spécifique au projet et sur des sites d'aquaculture de la région. Les espèces pélagiques marquées seront suivies à travers le réseau pour fournir des informations sur les voies de migration, la vitesse de déplacement, les taux de survie et les prédateurs présumés, et déterminer l'interaction et la résidence aux sites d'aquaculture. Le réseau a été utilisé pour déterminer le passage de : saumons d'écloserie (n = 340) relâchés dans la rivière Magaguadavic en 2018, 2019 et 2021, gaspareaux sauvages (n = 30) de la rivière Sainte-Croix en 2021 et saumons atlantiques d'aquaculture relâchés en milieu naturel (n=99) en 2021. Plus récemment, le réseau receveur a soutenu des projets adjacents sur l'utilisation de la région par le requin blanc et la maraîche ainsi que la résidence du maquereau, du hareng et du chabot sur les sites d'élevage. Les récepteurs aident également d'autres chercheurs à détecter le bar rayé, le saumon de l'intérieur de la baie de Fundy, l'esturgeon et de nombreuses autres espèces. Le placement du réseau se poursuivra jusqu'en 2025 inclusivement avec l'objectif à plus long terme de déployer un réseau couvrant l'embouchure de la baie de Fundy.
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This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by VLIZ and INBO funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2023, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10054230), a deposit of Movebank study 986040562.
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Abstract:The Shubenacadie-Stewiacke rivers system is an important spawning and wintering area for Bay of Fundy (BoF) Striped Bass. BoF Striped Bass support economically and culturally significant indigenous food fisheries and a large recreational angling fishery. The effects of these fisheries on population status are difficult to assess because of data deficiencies concerning removal rates. This principal objective of this project is to monitor inter-annual total mortality (Z) of striped bass that are > the minimum legal retention size of 68 cm Total Length and to relate the annual rates of annual recruitments as estimated from young-of-the-year abundance surveys and fishery-independent indices of number at age. Acoustic tags with expected operational times exceeding 6 years are used to track individual fish through several spawning and over-wintering cycles. Hydrophones are deployed during April to July in the spawning areas in tidal waters and maintained through the calendar year in the non-tidal section of the Shubenacadie River to monitor annual returns to the spawning and wintering grounds respectively. The acoustic tags and hydrophone array are as well used to support a number of other research and monitoring initiatives including Striped Bass-Atlantic Salmon interactions, and American eel and Atlantic tomcod migration studies.
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Abstract:The NSP Maritime Link Inc. (NSPML) [operating as Emera Newfoundland and Labrador (ENL)], a wholly owned subsidiary of Emera Newfoundland and Labrador Holdings Inc., is constructing a 500 megawatt (MW) [+/- 200 kilo volts (kV)] high voltage direct current (HVdc) and high voltage alternating current (HVac) transmission line, and associated infrastructure, between Granite Canal, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), and Woodbine, Nova Scotia (NS) (the Maritime Link). The Project includes two 170 kilometer long subsea cables spanning the Cabot Strait from Point Aconi (NS) to Cape Ray (NL). As part of the Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Project, the potential environmental effects of the installation and operation of these cables were assessed and, with the implementation of the design and mitigation measures, determined to be not significant. Consistent with commitments and conditions of the EA release NSPML initiated an Environmental Effects Monitoring Program for two resident commercially harvested marine species, snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) and American lobster (Homarus americanus), to confirm that once operational the subsea cables will not have an adverse impact on the movement of benthic species. The current study tracks the movements of snow crabs and American lobster in their natural habitat before and after the installation and energisation the submarine cables. This will allow for the characterization of the animals’ behaviour and the identification of any changes.
","type":"SAMPLING_EVENT","hostingOrganizationKey":"6772852d-ca2e-496f-9bea-dcf86134cb19","hostingOrganizationTitle":"Ocean Tracking Network","hostingCountry":"CA","publishingCountry":"CA","publishingOrganizationKey":"6772852d-ca2e-496f-9bea-dcf86134cb19","publishingOrganizationTitle":"Ocean Tracking Network","endorsingNodeKey":"ba0670b9-4186-41e6-8e70-f9cb3065551a","networkKeys":["ab013f3a-3c00-42cb-9fdb-cb5f4ba20a4b","2b7c7b4f-4d4f-40d3-94de-c28b6fa054a6"],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","recordCount":833677,"category":["Tracking"]},{"key":"cd15902d-3ded-41c2-893d-8840e146cbb3","title":"O_VLIELAND - Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus, Haematopodidae) breeding and wintering on Vlieland (the Netherlands)","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.10053988","description":"O_VLIELAND - Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus, Haematopodidae) breeding and wintering on Vlieland (the Netherlands) is a bird tracking dataset published by the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Sovon, Radboud University, the University of Amsterdam and the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO). It contains animal tracking data collected during CHIRP (Cumulative Human Impact on biRd Populations) for the study O_VLIELAND using trackers developed by the University of Amsterdam Bird Tracking System (UvA-BiTS, http://www.uva-bits.nl). The study was operational from 2016 to 2021. In total 103 individuals of Eurasian oystercatchers (Haematopus ostralegus) have been tagged either as a breeding bird or while overwintering on the Wadden island Vlieland (the Netherlands), mainly to study how they respond to disturbances from aircraft. Data are uploaded from the UvA-BiTS database to Movebank and from there archived on Zenodo (see https://github.com/inbo/bird-tracking). No new data are expected.
See van der Kolk et al. (2022, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1123.90623) for a more detailed description of this dataset.
These data were collected by the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), in collaboration with Sovon, Radboud University and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for the CHIRP (Cumulative Human Impact on biRd Populations) project. Funding was provided by the Applied and Engineering Sciences domain of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO-TTW 14638) and co-funding via NWO-TTW by Royal Netherlands Air Force, Birdlife Netherlands, NAM gas exploration and Deltares. The dataset was published with funding from Stichting NLBIF - Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in van der Kolk et al. (2023, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10053988), a deposit of Movebank study 1605802367.
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This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by the ERC and Ghent University.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Allaert et al. (2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16960867), a deposit of Movebank study 2217728245.
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Abstract:Atlantic Sturgeon and Lake Sturgeon were tagged between 2013 and 2020 for a long term, fine scale monitoring project. The largescale movements of juvenile Atlantic sturgeon remain relatively unknown throughout the St. Lawrence River system and Gulf of St. Lawrence. The acoustic tracking of these previously tagged sturgeon over a large scale and temporal frame aims to (1) study their migratory behaviors and routes and (2) identify important habitats that will contribute to the knowledge base of the species.
","type":"SAMPLING_EVENT","hostingOrganizationKey":"6772852d-ca2e-496f-9bea-dcf86134cb19","hostingOrganizationTitle":"Ocean Tracking Network","hostingCountry":"CA","publishingCountry":"CA","publishingOrganizationKey":"6772852d-ca2e-496f-9bea-dcf86134cb19","publishingOrganizationTitle":"Ocean Tracking Network","endorsingNodeKey":"ba0670b9-4186-41e6-8e70-f9cb3065551a","networkKeys":["ab013f3a-3c00-42cb-9fdb-cb5f4ba20a4b","2b7c7b4f-4d4f-40d3-94de-c28b6fa054a6"],"license":"http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode","recordCount":520151,"category":["Tracking"]},{"key":"c2ce2269-bd11-4c9a-8c90-68aee4543e9a","title":"OTN Loan - Salmonids in Trondheimsfjorden","doi":"10.15468/m9uhs8","description":"This is the OBIS extraction of the Ocean Tracking Network and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) OTN Loan - Salmonids in Trondheimsfjorden, 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=V2LTROD).
Abstract:The aim of the Trondheimfjord project is to get better knowledge of marine migrations of anadrome species (Atlantic salmon, Brown trout) from rivers draining to the Trondheim Fjord. The fjord is a national salmon fjord (a kind of MPA), which means that salmon aquaculture is prohibited. But outside the fjord, one of the most intensive areas for open net pen salmon aquaculture in Norway is located.The two overall hypotheses to test are that a) Atlantic salmon only spent few days in the protected fjord system before heading out to the open sea and b) that brown trout stay within the protected fjord system during the whole marine feeding season. Additionally, we will explore in more details the individual migratory behaviour of the tagged fish and related that to physiological status, previous growth rates, sex and body size. The outcome will be crucial knowledge for regional coastal zone planning and will be of high value as background information when the Norwegian traffic light system, which regulate the aquaculture production, will be evaluated in the years to come.
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Abstract:To investigate late riverine, estuarine and early marine migration and survival of wild Atlantic salmon smolts/post-smolts, we tagged 35 wild salmon smolts in each of 4 Nova Scotia Southern Upland rivers (Total of 140 smolts). The rivers where fish were tagged (and 64 receivers deployed) were; The LaHave River, The Gold River (Chester), The West River (Sheet Harbour) and The St. Mary's River. 2010 was the first year for all river tagging projects, with the exception of the West River, upon which it was year #3.
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Abstract:An extensive network comprising approximately 30 arrays of acoustic receivers (Vemco VR2/VR2W) has been deployed in nearshore waters off the NE coast of Newfoundland; the receivers are in the water throughout the year to provide continuous monitoring and data are uploaded once/twice per year depending on accessibility. Several hundred cod equipped with coded V16 and V13 pingers (including some with depth/temperature sensor tags) have been released inshore and offshore over the past 5 yrs along with >35,000 conventionally (Floy) tagged cod. The primary purpose of the research is to investigate cod stock structure and movement patterns and estimate exploitation rates in support of assessments of the status of the cod stock in NAFO Divs 2J3KL. This is a SPERA project dataset.
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This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17292786), a deposit of Movebank study 2298738353.
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This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16933166), a deposit of Movebank study 1259686571.
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This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch. Additional funding was provided by Agentschap voor Natuur en Bos (ANB).
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the <a href="https://inbo.github.io/movepub/">movepub</a> R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Spanoghe et al. (2024, <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12567894">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12567894</a>), a deposit of Movebank study <a href="https://www.movebank.org/cms/webapp?gwt_fragment=page=studies,path=study1278021460">1278021460</a>.
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Abstract:The Arctic charr is a partial migratory species, where some individuals migrate to sea every summer for feeding, while others remain in freshwater their entire life. Since migration is an adaptive response to particular conditions, environmental changes will potentially alter the selective pressures on movement behavior. The changes may also interfere with, or disrupt, a species’ ability to migrate. In either case, environmental changes could lead to the reduction or total loss of a migration with harmful impacts on fish populations. Yet we have little understanding of when to expect these outcomes to occur. Climatic changes are most pronounced in Arctic and subarctic areas, where increases in temperature and precipitation exceed global averages, resulting in changes to the annual growth period . The changes increase favorable temperatures for growth, but stratification in marine fjords may reduce productivity and limit food and hence prolong the marine feeding migration. Hence, it can be expected that changes in migratory phenologies and behavior may be among the first observed response to climate change. Especially, retreating glaciers will initially increase inflow of freshwaters to fjords due to increased melting, but later then the glacier is gone, freshwater run off will be reduced. Consequently, climate change may significantly have an impact on the marine ecosystem used by Arctic during their feeding migration. A recent study from three watercourses in South-western Greenland suggested that the local populations of Arctic charr consisted of a mixture of trophic groups; one group of marine specialists, an estuarine group that may have short and local marine migrations, and two resident morphs from the freshwater habitats. Hence there is a clear potential for a rapid adaptation by the species to changed climatic conditions although the mix of trophic groups may change. To reveal if changed climate may affect migratory behavior and trophic niche use, we will combine acoustic telemetry, physiological sampling techniques, sampling for stable isotopes (SIA) and genomics to examine charr populations in two neighboring fjord systems in Southwestern Greenland. One of the sites receives influx from glacial runoff whereas the other does not. The aim is to quantify variation in migratory tactics and the extent of marine habitat use of anadromous Arctic charr between the two ecologically very different fjord systems, and link distributions to important environmental variables like temperature, salinity and marine productivity. The current lack of knowledge regarding migratory tendencies makes it impossible for resource managers to ensure that different migratory behaviour types are protected, thus ensuring a portfolio of migration strategies are present within a given river system to deal with impending climate change. Knowledge from sites with limited other anthropogenic impacts will be crucial in providing this understanding.
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Abstract:Apoqnmatulti'k (Mi'kmaw for we help each other) is a multi-year collaborative research initiative that looks at the health and resilience of fish and other aquatic species in Mi'kma'ki. Guided by Etuaptmumk, or Two-Eyed Seeing, Apoqnmatulti'k pairs Mi'kmaw and local ways of knowing with western scientific methods to co-design and execute tracking programs to document the movements and habitat use of valued species in Pitu'pa'q (Bras d'Or Lake). Project partners include Mi'kmaw rights holders and technical advisors, local knowledge holders, commercial fishers, academia, and government. The project promotes the access, transfer and ownership of knowledge to these communities in support of their decision-making processes. The Bras d'Or Lake is one of two study sites covered under the project. The other is situated in Pekwitapa'qek (Bay of Fundy).
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This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by INBO and funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2025, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15685037), a deposit of Movebank study 1609400843.
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Abstract:The Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) project was designed to develop and promote the application of acoustic tagging technology to study the life history of Pacific salmon and other species migrating along the continental shelf of western North America. POST envisioned the eventual creation of a permanent continental-scale telemetry system, however, during its existence more limited pilot-scale arrays were deployed, primarily concentrated in the Pacific Northwest. These included several acoustic receiver curtains between Vancouver Island and the mainland, creating an excellent means by which to monitor coastal marine animal migrations, especially by juvenile salmonids (smolts) migrating to sea (see projects QCS, JDF and NSOG). In addition to arrays on the continental shelf, POST equipment was deployed upstream and in the estuaries of several major salmon-producing rivers. POST arrays, and POST data, were incorporated into the OTN in 2012. The integration of these arrays, their equipment and the associated animal tagging projects into OTN's global network allowed for international, widespread monitoring of important species within the Northeast Pacific Ocean. Tracking data generated from the POST arrays can be applied to the development of fishery management policies aimed at the sustainable harvest of resources, and to the understanding and conservation of other marine and diadromous species. The goal for this project was to track White sturgeon in the Lower Fraser River to answer a variety of management-related questions.
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Abstract:Conflicts between nature conservation and anthropogenic interactions like urbanization, aquaculture, fisheries and recreation in coastal marine ecosystems are common and divisive for communities. In Europe, the increasing use of near-coastal areas for sea cage aquaculture may negatively influence anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta; a.k.a. sea trout) and Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar). Salmonids provide important social and ecosystem services in many countries, including Norway. However, during the last 10-20 years, the abundance of both Atlantic salmon and sea trout have declined markedly in many regions. Knowledge about the biology, ecology and habitat use of salmonids is limited and insufficient for successfully planning sustainable coastal developments. “The secret life of sea trout” research program is using acoustic telemetry linked with physiology, stable isotopes and genomics to document marine migrations and habitat use of anadromous brown trout, Atlantic salmon and Arctic charr from several Norwegian fjords. The findings show that sea trout exhibits diverse marine behavior in time and space depending on nutritional state, sex and morphology of the home watercourse. Thus, potential negative impacts from coastal developments may vary among individuals and watercourses. Acoustic telemetry has been used in several estuaries and fjord systems in Norway to document potential conflicts with human influences such as different infrastructure and fish farming. At the same time, habitat use of sea trout has been studied in undisturbed and pristine estuaries at Kerguelen Island to serve as a reference. Results show that estuaries are important transition zones, especially for younger individuals, between the nursery areas in freshwater and feeding grounds at sea. Additionally, during certain times of the year, estuaries may act as an important longer-term habitat, with fish residing there for weeks to months, and sometimes for the whole duration of the summer feeding migration. A consequence of longer-term residency in estuaries is an increased risk of disturbance from boat traffic, industrial development, harbours, local pollution, gravel extraction, and other physical developments that are often located in estuaries.The findings from the projects are used by stakeholders when decisions are made regarding locations of new fish farms and development of infrastructure in coastal areas. The participation of the public in the research project through community consultations has provided educational opportunities for the local communities, especially their youth, and has allowed for exchange of local and scientific knowledge, enriching both communities. The aim of the Beiarfjord project is to further investigate the migratory behaviour of brown trout and Atlantic salmon in a northern fjord system, where the inner part is a marine protected area, while open sea cage fish farming is located in the outer part of the fjord complex.
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