Ocean data in Canada has long been treated as a public good. Three separate pressures are beginning to complicate that assumption, and together they signal that the next decade of Canadian marine technology will need to navigate questions the sector has not previously had to address directly.
Industry Profiles
Canada has the longest coastline in the world and some of the sparsest ocean monitoring coverage per kilometre of any comparable coastal nation. That gap is the defining structural feature of Canada's marine technology landscape.
Industry Profiles
CARIS began as a small hydrographic software firm in Fredericton and became the global standard used by navies and charting agencies worldwide. It is the exception rather than the rule in Canadian marine technology commercialisation.
