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North Atlantic right whales are monitored 24 hours a day using hydrophones developed by the Institut Maurice Lamontagne (Fisheries and Oceans Canada) acoustics team and its partners and installed on Viking oceanographic surveillance buoys deployed in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Whale vocalizations are transmitted in near real time to a team of marine mammal acoustics experts for validation. Detections are posted on the Viking buoy detection portal of the St. Lawrence Global Observatory and on this interactive map.

This system was recently improved with the addition of another buoy and the development of an artificial intelligence algorithm to improve the detection of vocalizations. Read more: https://bit.ly/3pP7V4K