The Australian Acoustic Tagging and Monitoring System in practice – Deployments, projects and data management

Charlie Huveneers and Rob Harcourt

Sydney Institute of Marine Science Macquarie University Mooring design

Float Surface

VR2W receiver Float Acoustic release VR2W receiver Tether rolled Acoustic in cannister release Tether rolled Release in cannister

Rope/wireRope/wire RRope/wireope/wire

Mooring base Mooring base Alistair Hobday’s mooring design (CSIRO) Float

Stainless steel shackles VR2 receiver

Canister & tether rope Burn-wire unit Release arm (anode) Galvanized steel Release shackle (anod shackle Galvanised steel mooring wire Anchor (125 kg) Chain (swivel, shealth, shackle) AATAMS curtain locations

East Coast deployments Coffs Harbour 47 receivers

Sydney 46 receivers 10 receivers

Coffs Harbour

37 receivers ambucca Heads Heupe l e t a l. 2006 MFR 57 10 receivers

Coffs Harbour

37 receivers ambucca Heads 10 receivers

Sydney

36 rece ivers East coast deployments

• Two curtains to the 200 m isobath; • Sub-curtains close to shore and at 200 m (expected highest detection frequecny); • Use trawling exclusion zones and protected areas; • targeted: white sharks (Bruce), grey nurse sharks (Otway), mulloway (Suthers), black cod (Booth), bull sharks (Suthers, Harcourt, Gray) , Australian salmon (Semmens) AATAMS curtain locations Ningaloo Ecosystem Tracking Array (NRETA) 59 receivers

14 receivers

41 receivers 7 receivers

52 rece ivers 14 receivers 5 receivers

32 + 6 receivers Ningaloo Reef Ecosystem Tracki ng A rray (NRETA)

• In-kin d suppor t from AIMS/WAMSI • Two curtains to 100 m isobath, one curtain to 200 m ibth3isobath, 3 arrays (Nthd(North and South) • Investigators: Mark Meekan, John Stevens, Russ Babcock, CdSdFliConrad Speed, Florencia Cerutti • Organisms targeted: sharks, mantas, reef AATAMS curtain locations

South Australian deployment Adelaide

10 receivers

Glenelg South Australian deppyloyments

• In-kind support from SARDI • 10 receivers off Glenelg • Investigg,ators: Tim Ward, Simon Goldsworthy, Paul Rogers (SARDI) • White sharks, whaler sharks, salmons AATAMS curtain locations

Southwest Western 20 receivers

20 rece ivers

20 receivers SW Western Australian dldeploymen ts • Deployed for 5 year • 60 receivers in 3 lines of 20 receivers each • Investigators: Alistair Hobday (CSIRO) • Tuna, white sharks (Bruce) AATAMS curtain locations

Ocean Tracking Network lines Rottnest Island

31 rece ivers 23 receivers

Perth OTN West line

• In-kind support from WA • Two lines off Perth/Rottnest Island • Dusky and sandbar sharks (McAuley) 33 receivers

31 receivers Bass Strait Gates Portland

31 receivers Mallacoota

33 receivers OTN East lines: Bass Strait Gate • In-kind support from Fisheries Victoria • One line off Portland, one line off Mallacoota • Tuna ((y)()Hobday), white shark (Bruce), Australian salmon (Semmens), gummy sharks (Walker), snapper, tailor, whiting AATAMS curtain locations AATAMS receiver pool

• 25 receivers available every year • 2007 - 35 VR2Ws on loan to Australian users: – 12 in Tasman ia – 14 in Queensland – 6 in – 3 in New South Wales NSW DPI: SEACAMS (NSW coast)

• Investigators: Nick Otway, Megan Storrie (NSW DPI) • Approx. 85 VR2s already deployed all along the NSW coast (from Byron Bay to Eden) • Based on grey nurse shark aggregation sites AATAMS Existing network of acoustic telemetry users • 103 scientists • 52 projects • Over 660 receivers • AATAMS/OTN is deploying a further 330 • Total of 990 acoustic receivers

• All Australian States and Territories Institutions 34 ins titu tions

Arthur Rylah Institute for Environmental Research New South Wales Department of Primary Industries Australian Institute of Marine Science Queensland Department of Primary Industries Australian Rivers Institute South Australian Research and Development Institute Charles Darwin University Syyydney Institute of Marine Science CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Tasmanian and Fisheries Institute Department of Environmnent and Climate Change The Ecology Lab Department of Natural Resources Undersea Explorer Department of Primary Industries Victoria University of Adelaide Department of Sustainability and Environment (Victoria) University of Canberra Department of Territory and Municipal Services University of Melbourne Edith Cowan University University of New South Wales Environment Protection Aggyency University of Newcastle Griffith University University of Queensland James Cook University University of Tasmania Macqu arie Uni versit y Universit y of Technolo y, Sy dney Moreton Bay Research Station University of Western Australia Murdoch University Western Australia Fisheries Species 57 species: 2 , 3 , 27 Osteichthyes, 22 Chondrichthyes, 2 reptiles, 1 other (medusae)

Crustaceans Golden perch Brown-banded bamboo shark Mud crab Macquarie perch Draughtboard shark Southern rock lobster Black cod Port Jackson shark Bluenose cod Banded wobbegong Arrow Coronation cod Leopard shark Giant Australian cuttlefish Australian bass Gulper shark Southern calamari Black jewfish Gummy shark Ostheichthyes Mulloway Sawfishes Short-finned eel Golden trevally Speartooth shark Yellowband parrotfish Silver trevally Dusky whaler Bullethead parrotfish Yellowspotted trevally Blacktip reef shark Common carp Snapper Silvertip shark dhufish Blue groper Grey reef shark Dusky flathead Southern bluefin tuna seven gill shark Tupong Chondrichthyes Hammerhead shark Twinspot wrasse Black-blotched fantail ray Bull shark Black bream Southern eagle ray White shark Yellowfin bream Southern fiddler ray Reptiles SldSpangled emperor SthtiSmooth stingray GttlGreen turtle Yellow-tail emperor Stingarees Saltwater Australian crocodile perch Manta ray Other Cubozoa medusae AATAMS and community receivers The Tracking Network (OTN) • $168 million project funded by the Canadian Funding for Innovation to track thousands of marine around the world while building a record of climate change AATAMS part of OTN

Existing 1st Wave 2nd Wave 3rd Wave OTN and OBIS The example is from the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking (POST) project

The POST project is one of thirteen projects contributing to the Census of Marine Life

The data is accessed through the Ocean Biographic Inf ormati on Sys tem (OBIS). POST ppjroject

The database contains data from 200 receivers in 20 lines over 3 years 2.5 million detections

Unknown tags 1. 1 million detections (44%) Known tags ? 1.4 million detections

• Importance of creating a network of users with a centralised data depository Data management Issues • Tag purchased by researchers • Intellectual Property • Commercialisation of data • Sensitive species (e.g. protected species)

• Talk more about it during the AATAMS session Data management - schema Database upgraded from the POST project Data management - schema • Data will be managed through one of the IMOS facilities: the electronic Information Infrastrucure (eMII) and OTN data management (through OBIS) OBIS www.iobis.org Data management - archiving • Stored, backed -up and archived within: – Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN); – Department of Fisheries and (DFO) (Canada) Data management - advantages • Quality control and quality assurance • Data managed, backed -up, and archived • Search for tag outside own array • Increase in likelihood of your tags being detected • Citation of your data • Data products Data managements - data products

• Visualisation using a web-based mapper and the OBIS schema (Jerry Black, Bedford Institute) • It provides an interpreted view of tracked taking into account:

– Avoidance of travelling across land boundaries; – Minimum path distance. Detection locations connected

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