Ecosystem monitoring in the Northwest Atlantic: Canada's Atlantic Zonal Monitoring Program (AZMP) ...

• Main Authors: Harrison, Glen, Petrie, Brian, Frank, Ken
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: ASC 2002 - W - Theme session 2024
• Subjects: Fisheries and aquaculture; Ecosystem observation, processes and dynamics; Pressures, impacts, conservation, and management; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25443523; https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Ecosystem_monitoring_in_the_Northwest_Atlantic_Canada_s_Atlantic_Zonal_Monitoring_Program_AZMP_/25443523

No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) has the mandate to provide the environmental datasets that are necessary to track and predict changes in ocean state and productivity, to respond to questions posed by end-users, to alert them to short and long-term environmental/ecosystem changes, and to provide adequate historical databases to address future issues. In that context, DFO designed and implemented an ecosystem observing program for the Northwest Atlantic in 1998 that builds upon existing monitoring activities in the region. The Atlantic Zonal Monitoring Program (AZMP) represents a minimum effort to detect and follow climate change and variability in the Northwest Atlantic while increasing Canada’s capacity to understand, describe, and forecast the state of the marine ecosystem and to quantify the changes in ocean physical, chemical and biological properties and the predator-prey relationships of marine resources. The AZMP ...