Can We Run a Tight Ship? – Using AIS Data to Help with Ocean Monitoring and Coastal Management

In Canada, many Indigenous governments are striving for self-governance and management of their territories. Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), a world-leading not-for-profit ocean observing organization established in 2007, aims to support Indigenous groups and community partners’ marine stewardship and management goals through a variety of means. ONC archives and manages all the Canadian Coast Guard’s AIS data from 2012, and facilitates data access and permissions required to use the data. This has evolved into specific vessel monitoring projects with our community partnerships to provide useful data products and summaries, to be discussed in this paper.