Table 2. Tiger sharks monitored at New Caledonia (Southern Province, Northern Province), the Chesterfields in the Coral Sea and Cairns (GBR) with satellite tags.
TigerShark | TaggingLocation | Sex | TL(cm) | Satellitetag typeand id | MK10Pop-off date,SPOT 5 lasttransmission | Duration ofdeployment(days) | Max distancefrom releasepoint (km) | Max depthduringdeployment(m) | Modaldepth(m) | Meandepth(m) | Maxtemp(°C) | Mintemp(°C) | Modaltemp(°C) | Meantemp(°C) |
3 | SP | F | 192 | SPOT 5 | 11/03/2010 | 38 | 240 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
6 | SP | F | 300 | MK10 | 2/02/2009 | 4 | 208 | 80 | 64.0 | 48.5 | 26.2 | 25.1 | 26.1 | 25.7 |
8 | SP | M* | 340 | MK10 | 1/08/2009 | 19 | 150 | 368 | 40.0 | 53.0 | 24.4 | 14.4 | 23.8 | 23.2 |
9 | SP | F | 370 | MK10 | 22/02/2011 | 181 | 1141 | 1136 | 16.0 | 11.2 | 26.2 | 5.6 | 22.0 | – |
11 | SP | M* | 390 | MK10 | 11/02/2010 | 210 | 154 | 640 | 40.0 | 61.0 | 28.8 | 8.2 | 23.7 | 23.5 |
13 | NP | F | 290 | SPOT 5 | 17/03/2010 | 13 | 60 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
14 | NP | M# | 294 | SPOT 5 | 17/03/2010 | 7 | 23 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
16 | CI | F | 260 | miniMK10 | 27/08/2010 | 15 | 124 | 312 | 62.5 | 55.0 | 24.4 | 17.8 | 23.6 | 23.0 |
17 | CI | F | 270 | Fast-locMK10 | 17/08/2010 | 4 | – | 19 | 12.0 | 13.9 | 27.8 | 22.8 | 23.6 | 23.7 |
18 | CI | F | 310 | miniMK10 | 13/12/2010 | 93 | 207 | 536 | 39.5 | 91.0 | 27.4 | 9.4 | 24.0 | 20.7 |
25 | CI | F | 332 | Fast-locMK10 | 22/08/2010 | 7 | 101 | 66 | 40.5 | 28.0 | 32.2 | 23.4 | 23.6 | 23.8 |
29 | C GBR | M* | 346 | MK10 | 31/10/2012 | 78 | 240 | |||||||
30 | C GBR | F | 367 | Fast-locMK10 | 30/10/2012 | DNR | ||||||||
31 | C GBR | F | 370 | Fast-locMK10 | 31/10/2012 | DNR |
Tiger shark numbers correspond to sharks with acoustic tags in Table 1.
refers to mature males.
# refers to male sharks with semi-calcified claspers. TL refers to total length. DNR refers to did not report.