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sharks_vliz: Acoustic and archival tag insights into starry smooth-hound (Mustelus asterias) and lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) ecology in the Belgian part of the North Sea
Citation
Reubens, J.,  Casals, D., Conings, C.,Pohl, L. (2025):  Acoustic and archival tag insights into starry smooth-hound (Mustelus asterias) and lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula) ecology in the Belgian part of the North Sea. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8890
Contact: Reubens, Jan

Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2029-12-30

Description

Tracking starry smooth-hound (Mustelus asterias) and lesser spotted dogfish (Scyliorhinus canicula)  in the Belgian part of the North Sea, using acoustic telemetry and archival tags in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS) in the frame of NorTrack and DTO-Track projects.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Fish, Biology > Nekton, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings, Physical > Underwater acoustics
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic tags · Acoustic Tags · Acoustic telemetry · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Animal movement · Animal Project · Archival Data · Biotelemetry · Data storage tags · Fish movement · Live fish movement · Marine animal ecology · Marine biotelemetry · Movement ecology · Sharks · Species distribution · Telemetry · Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone · Carcharhiniformes · Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821 · Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2024 - 2027

Taxonomic coverage
Carcharhiniformes [WoRMS]
Target species
Mustelus asterias Cloquet, 1821 [WoRMS]
Scyliorhinus canicula (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Parameter
Fish detections Methodology
Fish detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creatorprincipal investigator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more

Project
DTOTrack: Digital Twin of the Ocean - Animal Tracking, more
Funding BELSPO
Grant agreement ID IM/RT/24/DTO-TRACK
NorTrack: Northeast Atlantic Marine Tracking Network, more
Funding Horizon Europe

Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2025-08-04
Information last updated: 2026-07-30
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