It’s been one year since OTN was awarded the NSERC-Strategic Partnership Grant that became known as Apoqnmatulti’k (ah-boggin-ah-muh-tul-teeg). Apoqnmatulti’k is enabling co-operative stewardship by creating a partnership that includes voices from local stakeholders and harvesters, academic researchers, Mi'kmaq, and government to document the movements of American lobster, American eel and Atlantic tomcod.
An Atlantic tomcod’s length is measured to determine if it is the appropriate size for tagging.
Field Technician, Erica Porter, collects American eels for tagging.
Planning took up much of late 2018/early 2019, but what have we accomplished since?
Bay of Fundy
72 acoustic receivers from a long-standing array in the Minas Basin were deployed to track katew/American eel and punamu/Atlantic tomcod
Partners in the Bay of Fundy and surrounding watersheds have provided increased receiver coverage and additional tags, resulting in more than 54 American eel (katew) and 129 Atlantic tomcod (punamu) tagged.
Bras d’Or Lake
44 acoustic receivers are tracking American Eel (katew) and American lobster (jakej)
18 eel and 33 lobster have been tagged to date
OTN field technicians deploy receivers in the Bras d’Or Lake.