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| Dagorn, Laurent; Holland, Kim N.; Hallier, Jean-pierre; Taquet, Marc; Moreno, Gala; Sancho, Gorka; Itano, David; Aumeeruddy, Ryaz; Girard, Charlotte; Million, Julien; Fonteneau, Alain. |
| Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) are known to preferentially occupy the Surface mixed layer above the thermocline and it has been Suggested that they are physiologically restricted to water lerriperatt.11-CS no more than 8 degrees C colder than Surface waters. However, we here report for dive data acquired from a large yellowfin tuna which demonstrate for the first time that this species is indeed capable of making prolonged dives into deep cold waters. A yellowfin tuna (134 cm fork length) caught near ail anchored fish aggregating device (FAD) in the Seychelles (Western Indian Ocean) was equipped with all internally implanted archival tag and released. The fish was recaptured 98 days later. As predicted for this species, this fish spent 85% of its time... |
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Palavras-chave: Indian ocean; Yellowfin tuna; Swimming speed; Diving behavior; Vertical movements; Archival tap. |
| Ano: 2006 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-1402.pdf |
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