Behavior of an Escolar Lepidocybium flavobrunneum in the Windward Passage as Determined by Popup Satellite Archival Tagging

Authors

David Kerstetter, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
P. H. Rice, University of Miami
Derke Snodgrass, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Eric Prince, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2008

Publication Title

Gulf and Caribbean Research

ISSN

1528-0470

Volume

20

Issue/No.

1

First Page

97

Last Page

102

Abstract

In June 2003, fisheries research was conducted in the Windward Passage using a chartered commercial pelagic longline vessel (Rice and Snodgrass 2003). This paper describes the habitat use by an escolar in this location tagged with a pop-up satellite archival tag (PSAT) that remained attached to the fish for 14 d. Data recovered from the PSAT were used to directly document diel vertical migration and ambient temperature range for the first time in a mesopelagic teleost.

NSUWorks Citation

David Kerstetter, P. H. Rice, Derke Snodgrass, and Eric Prince. 2008. Behavior of an Escolar Lepidocybium flavobrunneum in the Windward Passage as Determined by Popup Satellite Archival Tagging .Gulf and Caribbean Research , (1) : 97 -102. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_facarticles/1065.

ORCID ID

0000-0002-4440-8767

ResearcherID

I-5396-2012

DOI

10.18785/gcr.2001.14