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Florida Atlantic Coast Telemetry (FACT) Array: A Working PartnershipThe Florida Atlantic Coast Telemetry (FACT) Array is a collaborative partnership of researchers from 24 different organizations using passive acoustic telemetry to document site fidelity, habitat preferences, seasonal migration patterns, and reproductive strategies of valuable sportfish, sharks, and marine turtles. FACT partners have found that by bundling resources, they can leverage a smaller investment to track highly mobile animals beyond a study area typically restrained in scale by funds and manpower. FACT is guided by several simple rules: use of the same type of equipment, locate receivers in areas that are beneficial to all researchers when feasible, maintain strong scientific ethics by recognizing that detection data on any receiver belongs to the tag owner, do not use other members detection data without permission and acknowledge FACT in publications. Partners have access to a network of 480 receivers deployed along a continuum of habitats from freshwater rivers to offshore reefs and covers 1100 km of coastline from the Dry Tortugas, Florida to South Carolina and extends to the Bahamas. Presently, 49 species, (25 covered by Fisheries Management Plans and five covered by the Endangered Species Act) have been tagged with 2736 tags in which 1767 tags are still active.
Document ID
20170007525
Acquisition Source
Kennedy Space Center
Document Type
Presentation
Authors
Scheidt, Douglas (InoMedic Health Applications, Inc. Kennedy Space Center, FL, United States)
Ault, Erick (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Saint Petersburg, FL, United States)
Ellis, Robert D. (Florida State Univ. System Saint Petersburg, FL, United States)
Gruber, Samuel (Miami Univ. FL, United States)
Iafrate, Joseph (Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI, United States)
Kalinowsky, Chris (Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources Atlanta, GA, United States)
Kessel, Steven (Windsor Univ. Ontario, Canada)
Reyier, Eric (InoMedic Health Applications, Inc. Kennedy Space Center, FL, United States)
Snyder, David (CSA Ocean Sciences Inc Stuart, FL, United States)
Watwood, Stephanie (Naval Undersea Warfare Center Newport, RI, United States)
Young, Joy (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Saint Petersburg, FL, United States)
Date Acquired
August 10, 2017
Publication Date
August 16, 2015
Subject Category
Life Sciences (General)
Report/Patent Number
KSC-E-DAA-TN39898
Meeting Information
Meeting: Annual Meeting of The American Fisheries Society
Location: Portland, OR
Country: United States
Start Date: August 16, 2015
End Date: August 20, 2015
Sponsors: American Fisheries Society
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNK16OB01C
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.

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