Figure 1.
Seamounts and surrounding bathymetry across the Coral Sea between New Caledonia and Australia.
Acoustic receiver array locations are shown along the east coast of Queensland, Australia and the southern Great Barrier Reef and inserts. Different shades of blue in the legend indicate different water depths.
Figure 2.
Restraint of 3.8 m tiger shark in harness.
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.
Table 2.
Tiger sharks monitored at New Caledonia (Southern Province, Northern Province), the Chesterfields in the Coral Sea and Cairns (GBR) with satellite tags.
Figure 3.
Temporal occurrence of tiger sharks tagged at New Caledonia (Southern Province, Belep), the southern GBR and the Chesterfield Islands in the Coral Sea with acoustic tags.
Individual sharks are numbered with sex (M = male; F = female) (see Table 1) and arranged by increasing body size from top to bottom within each study location. Numbers are bolded for mature sharks. Note shark 34 F was tagged at Fraser Island (Australia) and 14 M was detected at Bourail (New Caledonia) after being tagged at Yande Pass (Table 1). χ refers to tagging date. Blue dots indicate detections in the respective acoustic arrays. Δ refers to end of available reception period for an acoustic array or tag.
Figure 4.
Residency Index (RI) of tiger sharks tagged at New Caledonia, the southern GBR and the Chesterfield Islands in the Coral Sea with acoustic tags.
Individual sharks are numbered (see Table 1) and arranged by increasing body size from top to bottom for those tagged in the Coral Sea (top section) and those in New Caledonia/GBR (bottom section). Numbers are bolded and sex (M = male; F = female) shown for mature sharks.
Figure 5.
Spatial occurrence of tiger sharks tagged at the Chesterfield Islands in the Coral Sea with acoustic tags.
Individual tiger shark numbers correspond to Table 1. Arrows indicate direction of movement between receivers; double headed arrows indicate repeated movements between receivers. Coloured bubbles indicate the proportion of detections at numbered acoustic receivers. Shades of blue in the legend are labelled to indicate different water depths. Inset bar graphs indicate the number of days detected in each month and localised behaviours; PB (Passer-by), T (Transient), PR (Pseudo-Resident), R (Resident). Blue arrows indicate the month of capture.
Figure 6.
Spatial Occurrence of tiger sharks within the Southern Province (A to H) and Northern Province (I) monitoring arrays in New Caledonia (see Fig. 1).
Individual tiger shark numbers correspond to Table 1. Arrows indicate direction of movement between receivers; double headed arrows indicate repeated movements between receivers. Coloured bubbles indicate the proportion of detections at numbered acoustic receivers. Different shades of blue in the legend indicate different water depths. Inset bar graphs indicate the number of days detected in each month and localised behaviours; PB (Passer-by), T (Transient), PR (Pseudo-Resident), R (Resident). Bar graph arrows indicate the month of capture. Numbers alongside the bubbles correspond to receiver number.
Figure 7.
Spatial patterns of tiger shark movements across the Coral Sea between 2008 and 2013.
Bubble plots show 95% confidence interval envelope for PSAT tracks. (A) Satellite tracks of PSAT tiger sharks tagged in the Southern lagoon of New Caledonia; (B) SPOT satellite tagged tiger sharks in the north of New Caledonia; (C) PSAT tiger sharks in the Chesterfield Islands, and (D) off Cairns in the GBR. (E) Includes the straight distance between the first photo-ID spotting of TS5 in New Caledonia and the second on the east coast of Australia. (F) The movement of a juvenile TS in the south of New Caledonia. Red arrows indicate movements from point of release to detection on spatially separated array for tiger sharks with acoustic tags. Orange arrows indicate generalised patterns/directions of major currents within the region of tiger shark migration. EAC refers to the East Australian Current.
Table 3.
Diel patterns of tiger shark occurrence at acoustic receiver stations.
Figure 8.
Depth-temperature profiles of selected PSAT tagged tiger sharks.
(A) TS25 Chesterfield Islands, (B) TS11 South lagoon of New Caledonia, and (C) TS9 South Lagoon of New Caledonia. Black bars above A refer to periods of acoustic detection in the Chesterfield array. Note differing spatial and temporal scales.
Figure 9.
Resightings of individual tiger shark based on dorsal fins.
Arrows highlight the distinguishing features of the individual sharks fin. Note A1 was identified by Clua et al. [55]. The photo taken in A3 is after a tissue sample was taken from the second notch in the shark’s dorsal fin.
Figure 10.
Individual 3D (95%) activity space of satellite tagged tiger sharks in the Coral Sea.
(A) South New Caledonia: Green TS 6, Orange TS 8, Grey TS 11, (B) Chesterfields: Blue TS 16, Green TS 18, (C) Cairns: Purple TS 29.