Description

Spiny dogfish (Squlaus acanthias), is a species found in Atlantic Canadian waters which is encountered mostly in commercial fisheries. Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags (PSAT) from Wildlife Computers were applied to spiny dogfish from 2008 to 2009 to collect data on depth (pressure), temperature and ambient light level (for position estimation). Deployments were conducted in Canada on commercial fishing vessels from August to October. Wildlife Computers PSAT Mk10 (N=6) were used and 3 of 6 tags reported. One tag was found washed up on shore and was returned. The spiny dogfish tagged ranged in size from 80 cm to 96 cm Fork Length (curved); all 6 were female. Time at liberty ranged from 75 – 234 days and the 43 tags that reported remained on the sharks for the programmed duration. Raw data transmitted from the PSAT’s after release was processed through Wildlife Computers software (GPE3) to get summary files, assuming a maximum swimming speed of 2m/s, NOAA OI SST V2 High Resolution data set for SST reference and ETOPO1-Bedrock dataset for bathymetry reference. The maximum likelihood position estimates are available in .csv and .kmz format and depth and temperature profiles are also in .csv format. Other tag outputs as well as metadata from the deployments can be obtained upon request from: warren.joyce@dfo-mpo.gc.ca or heather.bowlby@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

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Name	Format	Description	Link
GPE3 location estimates - Spiny Dogfish	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/9522f09f-f104-427b-bc87-1ad05969776c/attachments/CSVMappingBilingual.zip
GPE3 location estimates - Spiny Dogfish	Unknown		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/9522f09f-f104-427b-bc87-1ad05969776c/attachments/DogFishDL.gdb.zip
GPE3 location estimates - Spiny Dogfish	Unknown		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/9522f09f-f104-427b-bc87-1ad05969776c/attachments/DogfishKMZ.zip
Data Dictionary	CSV		https://api-proxy.edh-cde.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/catalogue/records/9522f09f-f104-427b-bc87-1ad05969776c/attachments/SpinyDogfish_DD.csv
Pelagic Shark Satellite Tag data - Spiny Dogfish	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/pelagic_shark_satellite_tag_data_spiny_dogfish/MapServer
Pelagic Shark Satellite Tag data - Spiny Dogfish	Ersi REST		https://egisp.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/arcgis/rest/services/open_data_donnees_ouvertes/pelagic_shark_satellite_tag_data_spiny_dogfish/MapServer

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