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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
Volume 475, Issue -, Pages 49-53Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2015.11.002
Keywords
Accelerometer; Radio telemetry; Tag recovery
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- NSF REU program [1004181]
- NSF EAGER grant [1010567]
- NGS CRE grant [8769-10]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1010567] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Ocean Sciences
- Directorate For Geosciences [1004181] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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