Acoustic telemetry, in which transmitters projecting ultrasonic signals carrying unique identification codes are deployed on marine and aquatic animals and detected and logged by acoustic receivers, is becoming a common tool in fisheries science. Collaboration among researchers using this technology has led to the development of telemetry networks that are capable of detecting transmitters at coastwide and even continental scales through the combined coverage of all members’ receivers. Two grassroots telemetry networks in the northwest Atlantic and Caribbean, the Atlantic Cooperative Telemetry (ACT) Network and the FACT Network, began as small‐scale efforts among neighboring researchers and have expanded to include shared databases of tagged animals along entire coastlines. A third telemetry network, the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN), has brought additional capacity to the ACT and FACT networks and has provided a focus for telemetry activities in Canadian waters. It has also improved the power and efficiency of telemetry research globally through collaborative, standardized methods for storing, sharing, and processing data. When used in combination with other data collected by traditional fishery research methods and emerging technologies, such as remote sensing and autonomous vehicles, data collected through acoustic telemetry networks can address fundamental but previously unanswered questions about key habitat areas and data‐poor species and can yield new insights into the ecology of species that are thought to be well known. Here, we provide an overview of acoustic telemetry networks, including a history of the ACT Network, FACT Network, and OTN and a review of recent and current research that has been made possible through the connections enabled by these networks.

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西北大西洋和加勒比海地区的网络动物遥测

声学遥测技术，将投射带有独特识别码的超声波信号的发射器部署在海洋和水生动物上，并由声学接收器进行检测和记录，已成为渔业科学中的一种常用工具。使用该技术的研究人员之间的协作导致了遥测网络的发展，该网络能够通过覆盖所有成员接收器的覆盖范围来检测沿海甚至大陆规模的发射器。大西洋西北部和加勒比海地区的两个基层遥测网络，即大西洋合作遥测（ACT）网络和FACT网络，是在邻近研究人员的小规模努力下开始的，并已扩展到包括整个海岸线上带有标签动物的共享数据库。第三个遥测网络，海洋跟踪网络（OTN），已经为ACT和FACT网络增加了容量，并为加拿大水域的遥测活动提供了重点。通过协作的标准化方法来存储，共享和处理数据，它还提高了全球遥测研究的能力和效率。与通过传统渔业研究方法和新兴技术（例如遥感和自动驾驶汽车）收集的其他数据结合使用时，通过声学遥测网络收集的数据可以解决有关关键栖息地区域和数据贫乏物种的基本但以前未解决的问题，并且可以产生关于物种生态学的新见解被认为是众所周知的。在此，我们概述了声学遥测网络，包括ACT网络，FACT网络，