Satellite tracking the world's largest jelly predator, the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, in the Western Pacific
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a National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8604 La Jolla Shores Dr., La Jolla, California 92037-1022, USA b Ocean Sunfish Tagging and Research Program, 25517 Hacienda Place Suite C, Carmel California, 93923, USA c Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA d Monterey Bay Aquarium, 866 Cannery Row, Monterey, California 93940, USA e International Marine Biological Research Institute, Kamogawa Sea World, 1464-18 Higashi-cho, Kamogawa, Chiba 296-0041, Japan f Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), 2-15Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 237-0061, Japan g Institute of Environmental Sustainability, Swansea University, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK h GeoVille GmbH, Museumstr. 9-11, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria i Pelagic Fisheries Research Program, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Hawai'i 96822 USA j School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA k Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i, Manoa, P.O. Box 1346, Kāne`ohe, HI, 96744, USA
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Long-Term GPS Tracking of Ocean Sunfish Mola mola Offers a New Direction in Fish Monitoring
Satellite tracking of large pelagic fish provides insights on free-ranging behaviour, distributions and population structuring. Up to now, such fish have been tracked remotely using two principal methods: direct positioning of transmitters by Argos polar-orbiting satellites, and satellite relay of tag-derived light-level data for post hoc track reconstruction. Error fields associated with posit...
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