Official Kick-off of BELAS!
News — April 22, 2024 Kick-off of the BELAS project! This week at the Instituto de Investigacións Mariñas – CSIC we had the pleasure of doing the Kick-off of BELAS: Conservation behaviour of marine resources at the spatial-social interface: the case of coastal elasmobranchs. The meeting was online, but we still managed to present all […]
A new species tagged in the Ría!
News — March 28, 2024 We had the chance to add one more species to our acoustic telemetry study array (Ría de Vigo) The European conger: Conger conger is a species with a very particular life history and lots of unsolved mysteries regarding its spatial ecology. It will take time, but by using long-term transmitters […]
Successful download of our high precision array, despite the rough conditions!
News — Jan 28, 2024 Today we managed to recover, download and put back in place 26 Thelma Biotet Acoustic Receivers from our high precision array located in the Cíes Island (Spain). This will allow us to expend our detection timeline and see which tagged species was present in the study array during the last […]
Thelma Biotel highlights our study of spatial ecology of catshark!
News — Novembre 23, 2023 Thelma Biotel highlights our study of spatial ecology of catshark! Thelma Biotel highlighted our study of the behaviour and spatial ecology of the small spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula) using acoustic telemetry. We would like to thank Hilde Johannesen for the article and for helping us to disseminate our research. Check out the complete […]
End of the 2023 DESCARCEL campaign, with 20 cat sharks and 18 thornback skates tagged.
News — Sep 18, 2023 The research cruise #descarsel0923, which took place from September 4th to September 14th, 2023, aboard the research vessel Miguel Oliver, marked a significant step forward in our understanding of coastal elasmobranchs. As part of the scientific crew, our primary objective was to electronically tag individuals of various elasmobranch species and […]
Beautiful day back in the field! Reunited with the small spotted catshark.
News — Jun 27, 2023 After 1 dry year, I am finally getting back into the water to go tagging more S. canicula. Every year we are increasing our sample size with 40 Undulate skate and some small spotted catsharks. This is important if we want to have an idea of what is happening at […]
Come and see my poster at the International Conference On Fish Telemetry in France.
News — Aug 19, 2023 Come see my poster at @icft2023! It’s about small spotted catshark ecology! And if I am not in front of it you can ask me questions at any moment of the day 🙂 Shark populations have suffered dramatic declines across the world as a result of overfishing. Marine protected areas (MPAs) […]
New paper! The drivers of the spatial behaviour of the thornback skate.
News — Jul 25, 2023 Fish movements are fundamental to their ecology and survival. Understanding the causes and consequences of the spatial behaviour of fish is of high relevance as it provides critical knowledge for conservation purposes. Skate (Rajidae) populations face an unprecedented global decline due to overfishing. In this study, we used acoustic telemetry […]
Another successful data download! Perfect weather & 18 Thelma Biotel station downloaded.
News — Jul 10, 2023 End of a beautiful field week, spoiled with crabs, dolphins and good visibility. We are slowly removing all our Innovasea Acoustic Receivers from the high precision array and transitioning to a full Thelma Receiver array type that will allow us to be in sync with the mindset of the European […]
New Paper! The drivers of the spatial behaviour of the small spotted catsharks.
News –Apt 21, 2023 Shark populations have suffered dramatic declines across the world as a result of overfishing. Marine protected areas (MPAs) can help restore overfished populations; however, their effectiveness largely relies on understanding the ecology of the targeted species. This study investigated the spatial ecology of the intensely harvested but understudied small spotted catshark […]
