Shoal Marker Watchers

Thousand Islands Association (TIA) needs your help! 

TIA’s ‘Marker Watchers’ program began several years ago and currently has about 50 TIA member volunteers throughout the Canadian side of the Thousand Islands who keep an eye on the markers in their island group and other markers they pass on their various trips around the river. If they notice a marker is missing on a particular shoal, they send an email to markerwatchers@gmail.com, which is monitored by the River Safety Committee. That information is then relayed to the party who places the markers each spring, who in turn places a new marker on said shoal as soon as possible.

Marker Watchers also report any markers that they see adrift or washed up on shore. Because each marker has a unique sticker number, when that number is reported to us the origin of that adrift marker can be determined using our mapping system that associates these sticker numbers with the GPS coordinates of each of the over 200 shoals marked each year in Canadian waters.

If you would like to become a Marker Watcher volunteer, please introduce yourself with an email to markerwatchers@gmail.com. The more eyes on the markers, the safer we all are.