Statistics

The Ocean Tracking Network's Data Centre is leveraging the efforts of hundreds of individual researchers worldwide to expand their reach to a global scale. Our collaborators track hundreds of species of economic and ecological concern. Below are some summary statistics about the studies that comprise the Ocean Tracking Network, the growth in global receiver coverage over the lifetime of the Network, and the currently active set of OTN-affiliated receivers.

Number of Animals Tagged

The Ocean Tracking Network manages data for 410 different species of ecological and economic importance. Telemetry technology allows researchers to track a broad range of taxa and describe their interspecies interactions, define their habitat usage, and evaluate any potential migration pathways and timings. The colour coding used by this chart denotes the species' threat level as reported by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™.