New fisheries research ship will help monitor state of P.E.I. stocks
CBC
A new Coast Guard research ship has been assigned to help monitor fish stocks around Prince Edward Island, continuing a five-decade tradition of fisheries surveys.
The Capt. Jacques Cartier took part in the 51st annual September survey in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence last month, along with the ship that it will eventually replace, the CCGS Teleost.
The work follows an 18-month delay in getting the new ship operational because of malfunctions, delays receiving parts, and COVID-19-related travel restrictions in Nova Scotia.
"Really the government is the sole organization that would be running these long-term surveys; there's no real equivalent in universities or industry," said Daniel Ricard, a Moncton-based biologist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
"It's very much a monitoring program. Most of our scientific understanding is based on these surveys. It gives us a baseline of what's in the ocean ecosystem, and how things are changing."
The research vessel will collect fish using a bottom trawl, then sort all the species, measuring and counting every creature drawn up.
"For P.E.I. that would include lobster, mackerel, halibut. Essentially, all the oceanic species that are exploited in P.E.I."
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