Updated July 2, 2015

On 11 January 2015, the link with Ocean Networks Canada’s Barkley Canyon node was lost, halting all data delivery from this site in the Northeast Pacific. Further investigation revealed that a fishing trawling gear had damaged the node and cut off communications to all sensors connected to the Barkley Canyon node.

Fig.1 –Barkley node (orange square) is the power and communications hub for ONC’s Barkley Canyon observatory site.

For locations like Barkley Canyon where active fishing occurs,...