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How can POST be useful to you?
Many acoustic tracking projects are limited to a small geographic scale because of cost considerations. POST provides access to an existing, extensive infrastructure of acoustic receivers, for free, creating a breadth of research possibilities.
POST's lines of acoustic receivers are marked in red on the map below.
Researchers tagging green sturgeon in the Sacramento River were surprised to discover that the sturgeon regularly swim to central British Columbia and sometimes as far as Alaska. Salmon smolts have been tracked down the Columbia River and along the continental shelf all the way to Southeast Alaska. POST gives you the ability to make similar observations without the cost of creating and maintaining your own continental-scale array.
POST provides an efficient and cost-effective means to study the movement and behaviour of any migratory marine animal as big or bigger than a salmon smolt. To date, researchers using POST have tagged and tracked the species listed below. Click on a scientific name to find further biological information on that species in the Encyclopedia Of Life.
| Species Name | Common Name |
| Acipenser medirostris | green sturgeon |
| Acipenser transmontanus | white sturgeon |
| Dosidicus gigas | jumbo squid |
| Hexanchus griseus | six-gill shark |
| Hydrolagus colliei | spotted ratfish |
| Lamna ditropis | salmon shark |
| Loligo opalescens | market squid |
| Notorynchus cepedianus | seven-gill shark |
| Ophiodon elongatus | lingcod |
| Oncorhynchus clarki clarki | cutthroat trout |
| Oncorhynchus keta | chum salmon |
| Oncorhynchus kisutch | coho salmon |
| Oncorhynchus mykiss | steelhead trout |
| Oncorhynchus nerka | sockeye salmon |
| Oncorhynchus tshawytscha | chinook salmon |
| Salvelinus malma | dolly varden |
| Sebastes melanops | black rockfish |
| Squalus acanthias | spiny dogfish |