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: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Scholarship at UWindsor 2022
• Subjects: acoustic telemetry; arctic marine ecosystem; distribution; movement ecology; seasonality; Somniosus microcephalus; Integrative Biology; Arctic; Nunavut; Baffin Bay; Greenland; Cumberland Sound; Grise Fiord; Baffin
• Online Access: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/ibiopub/183; https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.902854; https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/context/ibiopub/article/1182/viewcontent/fmars_09_902854.pdf

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 movements...