(Summary of Friday's class)
Two methods: tagging and sensors.
Sensors:
We would create a system of buoys and bottom-dwelling robots to use sonar pulses (or something like that) to find the location of fish. The sensors would only need to be effective (but quite effective) until about 150 meters, since most fish are on the continental shelf and the average shelf depth is only 150m. The idea is that the information from stationary buoys and mobile robots could be combined to create a map of where the fish are and where they go.
(see the articles about SONAR on the Articles to Read page)
Tagging:
NOAA uses tags to track stripped bass. They catch the fish (using bottom trawler nets) and then hold the fish in tanks with circulating water. The fish are tagged, then released into the wild. When fishermen land a tagged fish they report the location, size, age, etc so that NOAA can understand how the fish grow and move.
(see http://www.moc.noaa.gov/ot/stripedbass.htm)
Also, assignments:
Amy, Adam: capture tracking methods. Adam will find out about getting more GIS data.
Vrajesh, Cydne: non-capture tracking methods
Julie can look at either.