This report provides a summary of monitoring activities and data analyses completed by FORCE during the third quarter of 2023. In addition, it also highlights fidings 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) Porgram. Finally, the report presents details regarding future research and monitoring efforts at the FORCE test site. This includes work in support of the 2023 EEMP and the RAP program.

Key updates in this report include:

• FORCE worked with staff from Ocean Energy Systems-Environmental (OES-E) and collaborated with a suite of international experts to publish a new peer-reviewed 'open-access' paper in Science of the Total Environment to understand how the environmental effects of marine renewable energy development might 'scale up' from single devices to large-scale commercial array.
• FORCE is collaborating with Innovasea to test the capabilities of innovative new acoustic receiver technologies in high flow environments. Five difference acoustic receivers were mounted on a subsea platform and deployed at the FORCE test site. A series of passive drifts were then conducted over the platform using acoustic tags of various frequencies deployed at differing depths.
• FORCE has partnered with Innovasea and a series of other collaborators on an Ocean Supercluster funded project to advance the application of artificial intelligence for monitoring fish around hydroelectric and tidal stream energy projects.