Discovery Metadata
Common Name | Local Image | Scientific Name | Marine Species Registries | Google Images | Detected |
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greenland shark | Somniosus microcephalus | y |
Total Number of Receivers*: 4 Total Number of Tags released*: 8 Total Number of Tags detected*: 8 Total Number of Detection records*: 96,661 Total Number of Taxa*: 1 | Tagids released in 2004: 32, 166, 581 |
Citation | Stokesbury M., C. Harvey-Clark, J. Gallant, R. Branton, St. Lawrence Estuary Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) Detailed Acoustic Telemetry Metadata and Data, In Northwest Atlantic Ocean Tracking Network Metadata and Data Series, 2009, Halifax NS Canada, Dalhousie University, using www.oceantrackingnetwork.org. |
Status | completed |
Taxonomic coverage* | FISH>SHARKS/RAYS/CHIMAERAS |
Geographic Coverage | GeoMapApp Base Map (click image to enlarge / click here for Google Earth Image Overlay): Spatial Coverage*: Latitude: 49.50 to 49.00 ; Longitude: -68.00 to -68.25 Latitude Resolution : 500 m Longitude Resolution : 500 m Horizontal Resolution Range : 50 meters OCEAN>ATLANTIC OCEAN>NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN>GULF OF ST LAWRENCE CONTINENT>NORTH AMERICA>CANADA>QUEBEC Depth of Deployment= 70 m |
Temporal coverage* | 2005 to 2005 |
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Data Summary | |
Abstract | Three Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) were tagged with electronic tags, in Baie St. Pancrace, St. Lawrence Estuary, Quebec, Canada. One shark was tagged on 23 July 2004, with an acoustic telemetry tag. Two sharks were each tagged with a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) on 27 August 2004. (not included with these data). Two of the sharks remained in or close to the bay, one for 47 days and the other for at least 66 days. The third shark left the bay immediately after tagging on 27 August 2004. This shark entered the main channel of the St. Lawrence Estuary, and had moved 114.9 km upstream by 1 November 2004 when the tag reported to ARGOS satellites. The tags provided a total of 179 days of data on the movement and environmental preferences of Greenland sharks in the St. Lawrence Estuary. |
Ancillary Keywords | acoustic telemetry, greenland shark |
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Data Center(s) | Primary - Ocean Tracking Network Data Centre - Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada |
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Related URL(s) | GET DATA : Data and Metadata |
GET PROGRAM : R Program to explore data | |
VIEW PROJECT HOME PAGE : Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group - http://geerg.ca/ | |
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