Seasonal Movement Patterns, Migratory Behavior and Habitat Utilization of the Bblue Shark (Prionace glauca) in the Western North Atlantic

• Main Author: Howey, Lucy A.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: NSUWorks 2010
• Subjects: elasmobranch; blue shark; migration; satellite; tracking; habitat utilization; Marine Biology; Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology; Nantucket; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/217; https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=occ_stuetd

The blue shark (Prionace glauca) is among the most abundant and widely distributed of all oceanic elasmobranchs. Millions of blue sharks are caught annually worldwide in pelagic long line fisheries, and it accounts for the largest component of auctioned fin weight in the international shark fin trad...