SailDrone Deploys More Vehicles in the Great Lakes

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has deployed two more Saildrone autonomous surface vehicles (USV) in the Great Lakes from late-July through September to improve fishery surveys across the lakes.

One Saildrone Explorer was deployed from Charlevoix, Michigan, to survey in lakes Michigan and Huron, and a second vehicle was deployed to Lake Erie from Erie, Pennsylvania.

“Technologies like Saildrone are helping us to more accurately monitor fish abundances, which gives the states and tribes better information to help manage the Great Lakes fishery,” says Dr. Peter Esselman, USGS fishery biologist.

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