This report provides a summary of monitoring activities and data analyses completed by FORCE during the second quarter of 2024. In addition, it also highlights findings from international research efforts, previous data collection periods at the FORCE site, and additional research work that is being conducted by FORCE and its partners. This includes supporting fish tagging efforts with Acadia University and the Ocean Tracking Network, radar research projects, and subsea instrumentation platform deployments through the Fundy Advanced Sensor Technology (FAST) Program. Finally, the report presents details regarding future research and monitoring efforts at the FORCE test site. This includes work in support of the adaptive nature of the EEMP and the RAP program.

Key updates in this report include:

• As part of its ongoing monitoring program, FORCE collaborated with the Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) to re-deploy a line of 24 acoustic receiver stations across Minas Passage to detect the movement of acoustically tagged fish. FORCE also partnered with Acadia University and OTN to tag American shad from the Kennetcook River and Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic Salmon kelts that were released in the Stewiacke River.