Fisheries and Oceans Canada has a requirement for the provision of a ship and crew, as well as handling of permits, certifications and providing logistics support for readying the ship for work in Canadian Arctic waters, transit through US waters, mobilization to/from the study area, fueling, and crew changes.
This ship and crew charter is in support of survey work to establish regional baselines for diversity, habitat uses, and relative abundances of fishes and invertebrates in the sampled region.
The sampling region will span east-west from the Northwest Territories-Nunavut border north of Victoria Island to the Yukon-Alaskan border; north-south from Canadian coast to M’Clure Strait north of Banks Island (to a maximum sampling depth of 2000 m).
The period of work is for one year, with an additional one-year option period.
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