144th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society

August 17 - 21, 2014

Telemetry studies including acoustic, radio, and satellite are used to study fish, sea turtles, and marine mammals along the eastern seaboard of North America.  Study animals are as small as Atlantic Salmon smolts and as large as Great White Sharks or baleen whales. Many of these studies are focused on relatively local issues. However, with the proliferation of telemetry monitoring at-sea, animals are often observed at very distant points from their release by researchers outside a tagger’s local network. When these distant detections are noted and shared, new insights into marine animal ecology and habitat use are possible.  The purpose of this symposium is to share such findings across a broad array of species to encourage collaboration and expand knowledge. Through presentations by a diverse group of marine telemetry researchers from Florida to Arctic Canada, we will share both local findings and insights gained from distant observations. Because we often work with only a limited number of species in a narrow region, we anticipate that sharing methods, analysis, and interpretation of telemetry data will result in a productive discussion and cross-fertilization of ideas. We also encourage presenters to provide insights into their results that transcend species - what did you find that is likely to be important across taxa?  By taking a larger view of these data and forming new collaborations across species, we hope to refine our knowledge of seascapes and essential ocean habitats.