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In the fall of 2016, researchers tagged an 8.5-foot juvenile male smalltooth sawfish in northern Everglades National Park with a GPS-equipped satellite tag and 10-year acoustic tag. Only a month’s worth of data was collected from the satellite tag before it stopped reporting and showed that the sawfish remained in the general area in which it was tagged. More than a year went by without any data or detection of the sawfish, leaving researchers to wonder where the sawfish had gone.
With the help of the collaborative acoustic network iTAG (http://myfwc.com/research/saltwater/telemetry/itag/) the missing sawfish was detected in south Florida. He had traveled approximately 162 miles from northern Everglades National Park to the Florida Keys! Similarly, a 7-foot female sawfish, tagged near her male companion in 2016, displayed similar movements traveling an approximate 260 miles to the Florida Keys. These data are some of the first to show that larger juvenile smalltooth sawfish are capable of making long migrations.
These data are crucial to understanding habitats that are used by larger juvenile smalltooth sawfish and can ultimately help lead to the conservation and recovery of this species.
Photo credit: NOAA Fisheries.
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“Two Countries one Community “ I’ve been working on a project focusing on bringing some of my prints out of the digital world and into the physical one. Here is an example, the print is a 3.5”x5” in a 5”x7” Matte. #visitelpaso #itag #citymagazine #elpaso #eptx #dtep #wearetheborder #itsallgoodeptx #landscapes#igerselpaso #sanjancitoplaza #sjp#lightning #igtexas #yourshot #picksup #minerstrong #utep #915 #igersusa #inspiredbyelpaso #sunset #sunsets #sunrise #sunrises #epforward #itsallgoodep
The @biminisharklab currently has three Principle Investigators (PI) working on their doctoral research. PI @mattsmukall is studying the tiger shark populations around Bimini - from tadpole lookalike newborns (total length; 0.9m) to massive adult females (total length; 4m)! Why are these ocean wanderers in Bimini? To drop their pups? To feed on turtles and other sharks? Further, are they just passing by, or are they staying for a few months and enjoying the abundant marine life Bimini has to offer? Matt hopes to answer some of these questions through tracking tiger sharks of different size classes and sex, and taking various tissue samples (e.g. blood, muscle or skin) to examine their diets (using stable isotope analysis). Here our team is implanting a 10-year Vemco acoustic tag in a juvenile tiger shark. This tag will talk to receivers placed in different habitats around Bimini giving us important local habitat use information. If the shark decides to leave Bimini, our team are part of a collaborative network that shares data (#ITAG and #FACT). Receivers are along the east coast of Florida, as well as the Gulf of Mexico....Where will she go? Please follow @biminisharklab for updates and opportunities to participate in our research or by visiting our website - www.biminisharklab.com ———
Photo: @eugenekitsios
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