This report provides a summary of monitoring activities and data analyses completed by FORCE during the second quarter of 2023. Specifically, this report highlights results of environmental monitoring activities conducted by FORCE and other research and development activities conducted at the FORCE siite. 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 and its collaborators published three new peer-reviewed manuscripts on the use of acoutstic telemetry for estimating the probability of fish encountering a tidal turbine installed at the FORCE tidal demonstration site in Minas Passage. These three 'companion' manuscripts were published as 'open-access' articles in a special issue of the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering entitled 'Interface between offshore renewable energy and the environment.'