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Table 1 Number of receiver stations and organisations managing the receivers for the existing and new array

From: From little things big things grow: enhancement of an acoustic telemetry network to monitor broad-scale movements of marine species along Australia’s east coast

Existing array collaborator

no. stations

New array collaborator

no. stations

UniSC/UQ/RT/Australia Zoo (Research/Industry/Tourism)

63

QDAF Fish Aggregation Devices (FADs) Program (Government)

18

JCU Fish and Fisheries (Research)

32

QDAF Queensland Shark Control Program (Government)

18

BOF/QDAF (Research/Government)

28

JCU Marine Data Hub (Research)

14

QPWS & P (Government)

24

QPWS & P (Government)

14

JCU/MBD (Research/Tourism)

19

MMP (Government/Research)

12

IMOS ATF (Research)

17

JCU/BOF/QDAF/DBCT (Research/Government/ Industry)

10

IMOS ATF/AIMS LTMP (Research)

15

AIMS (Research)

10

Griffith University (Research)

6

Experience Co. Cairns (Tourism)

9

IMOS ATF/Project Manta (Research)

4

BOF (Research)

7

  

CQU/GPC (Research/Industry)

4

  

Griffith University (Research)

1

  

Yongala Dive (Tourism)

1

  

Seagrass Ecology Group JCU (Research)

1

Subtotal

208

 

119

Total Enhanced Qld Array

  

327

  1. AIMS = Australian Institute of Marine Science; BOF = Biopixel Oceans Foundation; CQU = Central Queensland University; DBCT = Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal; DES = Department of Environment & Science; GPC = Gladstone Ports Corporation; IMOS ATF = Integrated Marine Observing System-Animal Tracking Facility; JCU = James Cook University; AIMS LTMP = AIMS Long Term Monitoring Program; MBD = Mike Ball Dive Expeditions; MMP = Marine Monitoring Program; QDAF = Queensland Department of Agriculture & Fisheries; QPWS & P = Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service; RT = Rio Tinto; UQ = The University of Queensland; UniSC = University of the Sunshine Coast.