Multi-year acoustic tracking reveals transient movements, recurring hotspots, and apparent seasonality in the coastal-offshore presence of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus)

• Published in: Frontiers in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Edwards, Jena E., Hedges, Kevin J., Kessel, Steven T., Hussey, Nigel E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2022
• Subjects: Arctic; Baffin Bay; Cumberland Sound; Greenland; Grise Fiord; Nunavut; Baffin; Somniosus microcephalus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.902854; https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.902854/full

Variable movement strategies can complicate the conservation and management of mobile species. Given its extreme life history traits as a long-lived, deep-water species, the Greenland shark ( Somniosus microcephalus ) is vulnerable to fisheries bycatch, but little is known over its long-term movemen...