Check out my new article on African coelacanths Latimeria chalumnae: http://www.eoearth.o...nth?topic=49540 in www.eoearth.org.
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Edited by Jloos1988, 11 March 2013 - 09:59 PM.
African coelacanth article
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Posted 12 March 2013 - 12:26 PM
Good article. Has anyone tried satelite tagging them to track them like blue fin tuna or sharks?
Hey exasperatus,
I did not come across any information on the tagging of coelacanths throughout my research on them.The only assessment of population size or migratory patterns has been done through observations in submersibles or deep water diving expeditions. I assume that it would be really difficult to tag a fish that lives a such depths.
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Posted 03 August 2013 - 07:01 AM
Jeff-
Nice article. Seems in late 90s there was an article in Conservation Biology that involved acoustic tagging. I recall they have several dozen tagged and tracked them with a hydrophone on a submersible. Neat study that found that certain caves were highly utilized by coelacanths during the day. They discovered a handful of the tagged fish were piled into one small cave.
-Scott
Nice article. Seems in late 90s there was an article in Conservation Biology that involved acoustic tagging. I recall they have several dozen tagged and tracked them with a hydrophone on a submersible. Neat study that found that certain caves were highly utilized by coelacanths during the day. They discovered a handful of the tagged fish were piled into one small cave.
-Scott
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