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Acoustic tracking and population assessment of White Sharks (NESP MBH A3)

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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White sharks are listed as vulnerable under the Commonwealth Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and actions to assist their recovery and long-term viability are prescribed in a national recovery plan for the species. A priority action is to develop an effective means of estimating the size of white shark populations and monitor their status (population trend). This would provide a scientific basis for assessing recovery actions, and for local policies governing human-shark interactions: an issue of significant public concern. NESP Project A3 provides a national assessment of the southern-western adult white shark population abundance and an update of the total eastern Australasian white shark population abundance and status in order to establish the efficacy of existing recovery actions and provide a scientifically sound and rational basis from which to inform policies that aim to balance conservation objectives and public safety. This record describes white shark distribution and movement through the use of acoustic and electronic tags fitted to approx. 70 animals. Tag detection data are continually uploaded to the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility (ATF) database. This data collection has been granted Protected Species Status and access to the data is currently restricted. Refer to the Point of Contact listed in this record for further information regarding access to data.

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Title Acoustic tracking and population assessment of White Sharks (NESP MBH A3)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/0c7aff31-1cf2-459c-8b8e-737555ad1126
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
Russ.Bradford@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/08/2007 - 31/12/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Acoustic tracking and population assessment of White Sharks (NESP MBH A3)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/acoustic-tracking-and-population-assessment-of-white-sharks-nesp-mbh-a3