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Partial female migration and cool-water migration pathways in an overfished shark
- Source :
- ICES Journal of Marine Science. 76:1083-1093
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2018.
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Abstract
- Knowledge about reproductive movements can be of important conservation value for over-exploited species that are vulnerable when moving between and within key reproductive habitats. Lack of knowledge persists around such movements in the overfished school shark Galeorhinus galeus in Australia. Management assumes all pregnant females migrate between adult aggregations in the Great Australian Bight, South Australia, and nursery areas around Bass Strait and Tasmania. We tracked 14 late-term pregnant females tagged in South Australia using satellite-linked pop-up archival tags to investigate extent, timing, and routes of migrations. We found partial migration, with some females (n = 7) remaining near aggregating areas throughout the pupping season, some migrating to known nursery areas (n = 3), and one migrating ∼3 000 km to New Zealand. We conclude female movements and pupping habitats are less spatially constrained than assumed and propose females use cool-water routes along the shelf break to reduce energy costs of migration. Migrating females using these routes faced greater fishing pressure than sharks in inshore areas and were not protected by inshore shark fishing closures designed to protect them. This study demonstrates the complexity of reproductive movements that can occur in wide-ranging species and highlights the value of explicit movement data.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Ecology
biology
010604 marine biology & hydrobiology
Fishing
Soupfin shark
Galeus
Aquatic Science
Oceanography
biology.organism_classification
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Fishery
Geography
Habitat
Lack of knowledge
Shelf break
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10959289 and 10543139
- Volume :
- 76
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........de8f164d16045157a26964d18bb04728
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsy181