RESEARCH ARTICLE
telemetry tag. Two sharks were each tagged with a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) on 27 August 2004. Two of the sharks remained in or close to the bay, one for 47 days and the other for at least 66 days. The third shark left the bay immediately after tagging on 27 Au-gust 2004. This shark enter...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.629.9438 http://www.geerg.ca/stokesbury_marine_biology.pdf |
| Summary: | telemetry tag. Two sharks were each tagged with a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) on 27 August 2004. Two of the sharks remained in or close to the bay, one for 47 days and the other for at least 66 days. The third shark left the bay immediately after tagging on 27 Au-gust 2004. This shark entered the main channel of the St. Lawrence Estuary, and had moved 114.9 km upstream by 1 November 2004 when the tag reported to ARGOS satellites. The tags provided a total of 179 days of data on the movement and environmental preferences of Greenland sharks in the St. Lawrence Estuary. Sharks that reported depth and ambient water temperature data from the bay showed significant diel differences in depth preferences and corresponding ambient temperatures. The sharks remained near the bottom of the water col-umn during the day and displayed increased vertical movements at night. The shark that resided in the main channel did not show this pattern, but generally re-mained at depths between 325 and 352 m. Sharks in the bay experienced water temperatures that ranged from 1.1 to 8.6C at depths from 0 to 67 m. In the main channel the shark experienced temperatures that ranged from 1.0 to 5.4C at depths from 132 to 352 m. This is the first report of numerous Greenland sharks inhabiting shallow near shore bays during summer and autumn. |
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