Effects of capture and transmitter attachments on the swimming speed of large juvenile lemon sharks in the wild |
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| Authors: | L. F. Sundströ m,&Dagger ,S. H. Gruber,&dagger |
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| Affiliation: | Göteborg University, Department of Zoology, Animal Ecology, Box 463, SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden;Bimini Biological Field Station and University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Miami, FL 33149-1098, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | The swimming speed of seven large juvenile lemon sharks Negaprion brevirostris following attachment of an external speed-sensing ultrasonic transmitter was significantly higher during the first 18 h after release compared to the average swimming speed obtained >48 h after release. The external speed-sensing transmitter can be used to monitor the voluntary swimming speed of large fishes in the field, but data during the first 24 h period should be excluded from analysis of natural speeds, at least from species similar in behaviour to N. brevirostris . |
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| Keywords: | speed-sensing ultrasonic telemetry elasmobranch |
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