Salmon Tracking
Pacific Ocean Salmon Tracking (POST) Project

POST is testing acoustic receivers to "hear" tagged
salmon as they pass by. Photo courtesy David Welch.
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Little is known about the movements of salmon once they migrate
out into the ocean.
A new research initiative called the Pacific Ocean Salmon Tracking
project (POST) offers the opportunity to make major breakthroughs
in our understanding of how salmon use the ocean.
The project strives to answer the questions about where they go,
how they use the structure of the ocean environment to accomplish
these migrations and what they experience when they reach their
marine feeding grounds.

POST is one of seven field projects, initiated by the Census
of Marine Life and assisted by the Vancouver Aquarium Marine
Science Centre.
Visit POST
to learn more!
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