Science Advisory Report  2015/025

Anguniaqvia Niqiqyuam Area of Interest: monitoring indicators, protocols and strategies

Summary

• Criteria should be followed for selecting appropriate indicators for monitoring the Cape Parry conservation objective (CO) and for establishing an effective monitoring program.
• The Cape Parry CO was broken down into its key components and two types of indicators were identified based on these elements.
• Thirteen ecological indicators were selected to directly evaluate the Cape Parry CO and five ecological indicators were selected to provide fundamental background environmental context for the Cape Parry ecosystem.
• Information on data availability, associated costs, and potential for community monitoring, monitoring methods, relevance to the CO, sensitivity and informativeness was provided for each indicator, to give additional context.
• The selected indicators are directly linked to the identified CO and are appropriate for monitoring the ANAOI ecosystem.
• The selected indicators already represent a prioritized short list of all possible indicators appropriate for monitoring the Cape Parry CO; if further prioritization and reduction in the number of indicators is required, additional scientific input is essential.

This Science Advisory Report is from the regional peer review of the Anguniaqvia Niqiqyuam Area of Interest: monitoring indicators, protocols and strategies, held on February 19-21, 2014. Additional publications from this meeting will be posted on the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Science Advisory Schedule as they become available.

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