Tracking tag deployments of two species of hammerhead sharks, Australia (2016-2018)

A key information gap in managing Australia’s hammerhead sharks is whether Australian stocks are shared with neighboring countries, especially Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Hammerhead sharks are known to be highly migratory and the extent of connectivity between countries is relevant to management approaches. This NESP Marine Biodiversity Hub Project A5 - "Defining connectivity of Australia’s hammerhead sharks" used a integrated, multi-method approach including satellite tagging, genetics, and parasite analysis. This dataset is limited to the tagging component where fourteen hammerhead sharks were tagged with satellite tags including six S. mokarran and eight S. lewini. This sample included ten males and four females. All tagged individuals were adults, but were small with none greater than 2.8 m total length. Project details and links to this data and others is at https://metadata.imas.utas.edu.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2bc9e6be-ed27-43fa-aa05-1f2332df7125 and https://www.nespmarine.edu.au/project/project-a5-defining-connectivity-australia%E2%80%99s-hammerhead-sharks

Citation: Heupel, M., Simpfendorfer, C., Chin, A., Appleyard, S., Barton, D., Green, M., Johnson, G., McAuley, R, White, W. (2020). Examination of connectivity of hammerhead sharks in northern Australia. Report to the National Environmental Science Program, Marine Biodiversity Hub. Australian Institute of Marine Science

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