T-minus 10 days until our satellite tags on tope sharks are due to pop off! 🦈Any guesses where these large females may have ventured to from the Wicklow Coastline in the last six months? 🤔

NEW RESEARCH

The amount of data from PSATs affects movement reconstruction. For #bluefin #tuna and Wildlife Computers GPE3 & PSATs >30% is required.

This will vary between applications, and we provide a framework for assessing how much data is enough...

-> rdcu.be/dBKzu

The flat-calm sea was perfect for servicing receivers in the Solent as part of the fish-tracking #AnglingforSustainability project. Video by Dr Alice Hall of receivers being redeployed to sink to the seabed until we return next year. Exciting times! Applied Marine Ecosystems Research (aMER) Plymouth

Day 3️⃣ of our acoustic receiver download cruise for #AnglingforSustainability 🐟🦈
Today we serviced receivers in the #Solent / #IoW Lots of #Tope #Smoothound #Bass #BlackBream detections 🐟

University of Plymouth Angling Trust Natural England Southern IFCA Defra UK #FISP Applied Marine Ecosystems Research (aMER) Plymouth

This week the #AnglingforSustainability team have been out acoustically tagging #sharks and #rays off the South Coast! This data will help understand their movemets 🐟🦈🎣

Applied Marine Ecosystems Research (aMER) Plymouth Defra UK University of Plymouth FISH INTEL Angling Trust Natural England Southern IFCA #FISP

Thanks to all the Weymouth skippers and anglers who came down to Weymouth Angling Society tonight to learn about our #FISP black bream tagging project. The race is on to recapture a tagged fish 🎣 Angling Trust University of Plymouth Natural England Southern IFCA Pete Davies Dr Alice Hall

First deployment of a gate of receivers in the Solent with the experts Cowes Harbour to log passage of tagged sharks+rays (and bass/bream/everything else) through this busy marine area. For Defra UK FISP: Angling for Sustainability Dr Alice Hall Emma Sheehan Dr Thomas Stamp

Looking for a PhD on how different species use fish passes? Interested in developing skills in fish telemetry methods? Come & join me & Jonathan Bolland by applying here: bit.ly/3PBiVSp

Black bream tagging with #RecreationalAnglers in #PooleBay for #AnglingforSustainability #FISP Defra UK project! Today we hit our target of 100 acoustic tagged fish! 🎣🐟🐟
Angling Trust Natural England Southern IFCA #PBA University of Plymouth FISH INTEL Emma Sheehan Pete Davies

A little video from our 2022 #Plymouth National Marine Park video survey, exploring biodiversity patterns across habitat types. Beautiful underwater scenes from the Eddystone🐟Thanks to Jean-Luc Solandt & Frith Dunkley from the Marine Conservation Society, our collaborators! youtu.be/mEADmgFJXfA

What a nice happy community !
Devoted to detections!
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Inspiring, exciting and altogether excellent week at #icft2023 - so proud to be a small part of this global fish tracking family. Thanks to the organisers and everyone who took part. Sad to be leaving beautiful Sête, but excited to be #livingthebream over the coming months 🐟🦪

Just two friends going for a swim off Norfolk Island 🦈🐄 Video shown during icft2023 🎥 Dave Harasti

Amazing 2 days in #PooleBay Black bream tagging for our #AnglingforSustainability project. 56 bream acoustic tagged with help from recreational anglers and charter boats!
Angling Trust Natural England Southern IFCA Defra UK University of Plymouth FISH INTEL Emma Sheehan Pete Davies

Brilliant day with Dr Alice Hall, Pete Davies and Masterplan Offshore working on our #FISP project - Angling for Sustainability - to track black bream around #Dorset and the #Solent . 33 fish tagged, 167 to go 🎣
Angling Trust University of Plymouth Southern IFCA Natural England #PBA FISH INTEL

Excellent few days with Masterplan Offshore tagging black bream in Dorset for the #AnglingforSustainability project- 33 fish tagged in total!
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University of Plymouth FISH INTEL Emma Sheehan Pete Davies Hannah Rudd Angling Trust Natural England Southern IFCA #FISP Defra UK

The twaite shad (Alosa fallax) tagging campaign led by INBO - Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek in collaboration with Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ has started!🐟🎉
We expect to tag 150 individuals with acoustic and data storage tags over the next 2 weeks.
European Tracking Network

Happy to have finished the University of Plymouth 2022 Lyme Bay survey BRUV video analysis!

Over 360 hours of BRUV footage analysed, now on to help with the TUV footage!😅