Table 1. Tiger sharks monitored at New Caledonia (Southern Province, Northern Province), the east coast of Australia (Southern Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef) and the Chesterfields in the Coral Sea with acoustic tags.
TigerShark | TaggingLocation | Date ofCapture | Sex | TL(cm) | days bwtagging andfirst detection | No. ofdaysmonitored | No ofdaysdetected | No. ofdetections | Av minutesat eachstation | Max lineardistance bwdetections (km) |
1 | SP | 30/01/2009 | F | 154 | 192 | 1273 | 14 | 39 | 4.5 | 5.5 |
2 | SP | 7/07/2009 | F | 164 | 10 | 1141 | 6 | 55 | 5.7 | 3.5 |
3 | SP | 1/02/2010 | F | 192 | na | 906 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
4 | SP | 9/07/2009 | F | 270 | 21 | 1143 | 9 | 35 | 6.75 | 6.75 |
5+ | SP | 1/10/2008 | F | 300 | 495 | – | – | – | – | 1442 |
6 | SP | 26/01/2009 | F | 300 | 0 | 1277 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.9 |
7 | SP | 13/07/2009 | M# | 312 | 0 | 1139 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0.9 |
8 | SP | 13/07/2009 | M* | 340 | 0 | 1139 | 3 | 8 | 2.5 | 2 |
9 | SP | 24/08/2010 | F | 370 | 225 | 702 | 31 | 91 | 3.14 | 5.5 |
10 | SP | 28/01/2009 | M* | 380 | 62 | 1275 | 30 | 103 | 4.35 | 10.9 |
11 | SP | 15/07/2009 | M* | 390 | 405 | 875 | 2 | 20 | 1.3 | 4.7 |
12 | NP | 4/03/2010 | F | 286 | 200 | 875 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
13 | NP | 4/03/2010 | F | 290 | 110 | 875 | 5 | 31 | 4 | 1 |
14 | NP | 11/03/2010 | M# | 294 | 267 | 868 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 244 |
15 | NP | 3/03/2010 | F | 338 | 28 | 876 | 7 | 11 | 2.85 | 1 |
16 | CI | 12/08/2010 | F | 260 | 6 | 432 | 155 | 872 | 4.13 | 22 |
17 | CI | 13/08/2010 | F | 270 | 2 | 432 | 36 | 438 | 12.2 | 0 |
18 | CI | 12/08/2010 | F | 310 | 4 | 595 | 255(4) | 2948(68) | 5.5 | 22(742) |
19 | CI | 16/08/2010 | M* | 310 | 8 | 432 | 183 | 1292 | 3.93 | 22 |
20 | CI | 18/11/2011 | M* | 323 | YBR | |||||
21 | CI | 25/11/2011 | M* | 323 | YBR | |||||
22 | CI | 20/11/2011 | M* | 328 | YBR | |||||
23 | CI | 22/11/2011 | F | 329 | YBR | |||||
24 | CI | 12/08/2010 | F | 330 | 13 | 432 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 14.4 |
25 | CI | 15/08/2010 | F | 332 | 14 | 858 | 3(1) | 9(9) | 2.5 | 9.5(761) |
26 | C GBR | 20/04/2011 | F | 232 | YBR | |||||
27 | C GBR | 20/04/2011 | F | 260 | YBR | |||||
28 | C GBR | 20/04/2011 | F | 276 | YBR | |||||
29 | C GBR | 31/10/2012 | M* | 346 | YBR | |||||
30 | C GBR | 30/10/2012 | F | 367 | YBR | |||||
31 | C GBR | 31/10/2012 | F | 370 | YBR | |||||
32 | SQ | 1/03/2011 | F | 210 | YBR | |||||
33 | SQ | 21/09/2011 | F | 270 | YBR | |||||
34 | SQ | 19/09/2011 | F | 300 | 98 | 98 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 117 |
Individual sharks bolded and underlined were also tagged with various satellite tags (see Table 2).
+refers to shark identified with photo-ID.
refers to mature males.
# refers to male sharks with semi-calcified claspers. TL refers to total length. Tagging locations include, SP (Southern Province, New Caledonia), NP (Northern Province, New Caledonia), CI (Chesterfields), SQ (Southern Queensland, Australia), C GBR (Cairns, Great Barrier Reef).
–indicates no data available. na refers to not applicable. YBR refers to yet to be recorded. Brackets for TS18, TS 25 refer to detections on the GBR.