SCRS/2018/105 - DRAFT VERSION POST-RELEASE MORTALITY OF SHORTFIN MAKO IN THE ATLANTIC USING SATELLITE TELEMETRY: PRELIMINARY RESULTS Andrés Domingo 1,* , Catarina C. Santos 2 , John Carlson 3 , Lisa Natanson 4 , Enric Cortes 3 , Federico Mas 5 , Philip Miller 5 F. Hazin 6 , Paulo Travassos 6 , Rui Coelho 1 SUMMARY This paper provides an update of the study on post-release mortality of the shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrinchus developed within the ICCAT Shark Research and Data Collection Program (SRDCP). Up to date, 34 tags (14 sPATs and 20 miniPATs) have been deployed by observers on Brazilian, Portuguese, Uruguayan, and US vessels in the temperate NE and NW, Equatorial and SW Atlantic. Data from 28 out of 34 tagged specimens could be used to obtain preliminary information regarding post-release mortality, resulting in a total of 7 mortality and 21 survival events. KEYWORDS: Post-release mortality; Satellite tagging; Shortfin mako; Sharks research program 1 : DINARA - Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos, Laboratorio de Recursos Pelágicos. CP 11200 Montevideo, Uruguay. 2 : IPMA - Portuguese Institute for the Ocean and Atmosphere. Av. 5 de Outubro s/n, 8700-305 Olhão, Portugal. 3 : NOAA Fisheries - Southeast Fisheries Science Center. Panama City, FL, US. 4 : NOAA Fisheries - Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Narragansett Laboratory, RI, US. 5 : CICMAR - Centro de Investigación y Conservación Marina, Giannattasio km. 30,5 El Pinar, Canelones, CP 15008, Uruguay. 6 Departamento de Pesca e Aquicultura, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Av. Dom Manoel de Medeiros, s/n., Dois Irmãos, CEP: 52.171-030, Recife, PE, Brasil. brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Sapientia