Canada's Oceans Now: Pacific Ecosystems, 2021 - Monitoring Canada's Pacific Ocean

An infographic showing facts about monitoring Canada's Pacific Ocean. Various illustrations of each topic are shown on a simplified coastal scene including a research vessel, a lighthouse, seals and and technology as well as a divers amongst kelp and herring spawn.

Monitoring Canada's Pacific Ocean

42 individual science reports contributed to the 2021 State of the Pacific Ocean report

6 Canadian Coast Guard research vessels

• Survey days at sea 497
• >9,000 km of acoustic data collected
• 565 CTD casts
• 464 zooplankton samples
• >676 shrimp/fish surveys net tows, traps or longline sets

Daily lighthouse observations

• 107 years at Pacific Biological Station
• 100 years at Race Rocks lighthouse

Glider ocean surveys 2019-2020

• 250 days at sea
• 6,200 km traveled
• 4,800 CTD profiles

Passive acoustic recorder deployments

• 10 passive acoustic recorder deployments 2020

Herring spawn surveys

• 482 km of spawn surveyed by SCUBA divers
• 1,036 transects

Marine mammal surveys

• >85 hours aerial survey of seals and sea lions