Link: Planet Ark : Scientists to Microchip Fish to Track Movements .
"The eventual goal is to create a network of 5,000 sensors in 14 ocean regions tracking up to one million animals. Larger animals such as tuna would be monitored via satellite.
"The plan is to attach small tagging devices with embedded microchips to fish, sharks and other animals, which will send signals to an array of sensors on the sea floor.
"The tags – which vary in size from an almond to a AA battery – will provide data on where the fish are swimming as well as information on water temperature, salinity, light and other marine conditions.
"Ron O'Dor from Dalhousie University said the tags would allow the transfer of information. That way, he said, fish swimming out of the range of the receivers could collect the data from each other.
Once one of the fish moves close enough to a receiver the tag will transmit the information from all the tagged fish it has been in contact with. (((They're blogjects, for heaven's sakes. Canadian fish blogjects.)))
"This is the BlackBerry for fish. Every fish will be able to talk to every other fish and when they get home they will report the data to one of the receivers," O'Dor told reporters on a conference call.
