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. 2014 Jan 8;9(1):e83249. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083249

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.