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Canada’s first shark research NGO and registered charity¹.

NOT-FOR-PROFIT REGISTERED CHARITY
Canada Revenue Agency: 834462913RR0001
Revenu Québec: 834462913RR0001

The St. Lawrence Shark Observatory (ORS) was officially founded as the Greenland Shark & Elasmobranch Education & Research Group (GEERG) in 2003 following three years of unprecedented exploration in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Saguenay Fjord, and the St. Lawrence Estuary. These ground-breaking expeditions resulted in the first cage dives with pelagic sharks in Canada in 2000, and the first dives with free-swimming Greenland sharks under natural conditions² in 2003.

Today, ORS research and conservation activities no longer focus exclusively on the Greenland shark, but also on the many shark, skate and ray species that inhabit the St. Lawrence Gulf and Estuary, the Saguenay Fjord, Atlantic Canada, and the Arctic Ocean.

¹ ORS/GEERG is not a citizen science initiative nor is it an environmental organisation.
² Multi-year (2003-2012) non-invasive shark observation conducted without the use of attractants, capturing, or restraints. All encounters initiated and terminated by the sharks.
First shark observation cage dives in Canada off Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2000. Photo © Jeffrey Gallant | ORS
SHARK FINS BANNED IN CANADA?
NOT REALLY
AILERONS
INTERDITS AU CANADA ?
PAS VRAIMENT
STAMP OF
APPROVAL?
REQUINS
TIMBRÉS
HOOKED ON CONSERVATION
MORDUS DE LA CONSERVATION
THE TRUTH ABOUT
THE GREENLAND SHARK?
LA VÉRITÉ SUR LE
REQUIN DU GROENLAND ?

Fear and apathy bite deeper than any shark…

  — Jeffrey Gallant, ORS

Not just pretty faces, sharks play a critical role in North Atlantic ecosystems, but they are under increasing threat due to their unfair reputation and a lack of public awareness. Please donate to help us study and protect the sharks of the St. Lawrence and Atlantic Canada before it’s too late.

Donations to ORS/GEERG, an all-volunteer charitable not-for-profit organisation, are tax deductible in Canada.
Canada Revenue Agency #834462913RR0001

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