The Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program (AZMP) was implemented in year 1998 by the four Atlantic regions of Fisheries and Oceans Canada to collect and analyze the biological, chemical, and physical oceanographic field data to characterize and understand the causes of oceanic variability at various time scales, provide multidisciplinary datasets to establish relationships among variables, and provide adequate data to support the development of ocean activities. Ocean gliders were first acquired by Fisheries and Oceans Canada in year 2017 and 2018 for both the West and East coasts. On the East coast, they have been used to monitor hydrographic sections associated with the AZMP. Here, the AZMP Bonavista Bay transect is occupied from outside the mouth of Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland Canada at (48.733N, 52.967W) in the off-shelf direction approximately 150 nautical miles to the continental slope at (49.85N, 49.5W).
