ArticleMovement ecology2025
Use of accelerometry to measure the dynamics of activity patterns of Atlantic bluefin tuna after tagging and release.
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- Methods to estimate marine functional connectivity: A primer.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Review
- Six decades of animal accelerometry: trends, applications, and future directions.Movement ecology · 2026Review
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Research on the direct effects of capture and tagging on post-release behaviour is typically limited to short-term deployments. To investigate the initial and longer-term behavioural responses to capture and tagging, we deployed eight Cefas G7 tags (1Hz depth and temperature, and 20 Hz triaxial acceleration) for 21-94 hours and 12 Wildlife Computers MiniPATs (depth, temperature, light and triaxial acceleration, each at 0.2 Hz) for 110-366 days on Atlantic bluefin tuna (ABT) in the English Channel. Post-release, ABT exhibited a strong, highly active initial swimming response, consistent with patterns reported in previous bluefin tuna, billfish and elasmobranch tracking studies. Accelerometry tags revealed that activity (VeDBA g), tailbeat amplitude (g) and dominant stroke frequency (Hz) were greater (2.4, 3.2 and 1.4 times respectively) within the first hour post-release than the subsequent 24 hours, stabilising at lower levels within 5-9 hours. However, lower resolution accelerometry data (0.2 Hz), obtained from longer periods from MiniPATs, revealed that fish then maintained this reduced activity for 11 ± 7.9 days (mean ± 1 SD; range: 2-26 days), during which they displayed disrupted diel patterns of activity and allocated on average 5 minutes of each day to burst energy events, compared to 14 minutes (max 74 minutes) during "recovered" periods. Subsequently, their activity levels increased again and were characterised by higher magnitude acceleration events (which may constitute feeding events) and became more active during the day than at night. Year-long deployments revealed that consistent diel vertical migration, diurnal patterns of activity, and increased time allocation to fast starts are normal for ABT off the British Isles in summer months, and their absence at the start of data collection may be related to the effect of capture and tagging, which may be longer lasting, and more complex than previously appreciated.
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