Journal article
A float-release package for recovering data-loggers from wild sharks
Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Vol.475, pp.49-53
2016
Abstract
The rapidly expanding use of high-resolution data-loggers to study marine vertebrates presents a wealth of new opportunities for understanding the behavior, physiology, and ecology of these animals in situ. It also presents a number of new logistical challenges, one of the biggest of which is the need to physically recover the tag in order to acquire data, thus, a novel data-logger release and recovery package was designed and tested. This package consisted of a microsphere-resin float, very high frequency (VHF) transmitter, and galvanic timed release (GTR) device which allowed acceleration data logger (ADL) tags to remain on free-living sharks for several days before detaching from the fin. Upon release, tags floated to the surface and were located using a VHF receiver and yagi antenna. This method has been used successfully on blacktip, bull, nurse, and white sharks to produce an overall recovery rate of 95.7% on 47 deployments over periods of 1–111 h and shark displacement distances up to 35 km. This represents a cost-effective method for recovering data-loggers from sharks and large teleosts.
Details
- Title
- A float-release package for recovering data-loggers from wild sharks
- Authors/Creators
- B.M. Whitmore (Author/Creator) - Mote Marine LaboratoryC.F. White (Author/Creator) - Mote Marine LaboratoryA.C. Gleiss (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityN.M. Whitney (Author/Creator) - Mote Marine Laboratory
- Publication Details
- Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Vol.475, pp.49-53
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005542355207891
- Copyright
- © 2015 Elsevier B.V.
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Fish and Fisheries Research; School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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