Maritime Archaeology in North Carolina

Babits, Lawrence E.

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“…Sand tigers are reported year-round in North and South Carolina coastal waters, often associated with artificial reefs and shipwrecks (Farmer, 2004;Schwartz et al, 2013;Paxton et al, 2019, 2020a, Marens, 2021. Since the 1960s (Claud Hull, personal communication; Supplementary Figure 1), SCUBA divers have documented sand tigers at shipwrecks in the "Graveyard of the Atlantic," as the NC coast is known, due to the over 5000 wrecks in this area (Figure 1; Babits, 2002;Hoyt et al, 2014). SCUBA charter operators offer highly popular trips for divers to observe individual and aggregating sand tigers at shipwrecks off the coast and popular dive magazines feature stories about diving with sand tigers (e.g., https:// www.scubadiving.com/drive-and-dive-sand-tiger-sharks-galore-inmorehead-city-nc; visited 26 Feb 2024).…”

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Community science informs movement and reproductive ecology of sand tigers Carcharias taurus off North Carolina, United States of America

Price,

McClanahan,

Burge

et al. 2024

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Sand tigers are frequently observed at shipwrecks and other artificial reef habitats off North Carolina (USA), but data about occupancy, movement ecology, and site fidelity are lacking. Spot A Shark USA researchers used Wildbook© photoidentification software to spot map sand tigers in images provided by recreational SCUBA divers, or collected from remotely operated vehicles, and an offshore live-streaming camera. We uniquely identified 1837 sand tigers, 101 of which were resighted on more than one date between 2005–2021. Sand tigers of both sexes and various ages were found year-round along the northern, central and southern coast. We identified shipwrecks or artificial reef sites with consistently high numbers of shark encounters reported, sometimes with seasonal occupancy patterns. Resighted sharks were often encountered at the same or nearby locations, confirming high levels of residency and site fidelity to specific locations. Together, the mating scars seen on 121 female sand tigers and 202 females documented with rotund abdomens consistent with pregnancy highlight the importance of NC waters for reproduction. We also quantified other characteristics of the sand tigers visible in the photographs including wounds, parasitic copepods, and attached fishing gear. Our results reflect the importance of habitats off the NC coast to the movement and reproductive ecology of sand tigers at multiple life history stages. Sand tiger populations have declined in the Northwest Atlantic, so information about residence at specific locations, seasonal patterns of occupancy, and sex-dependent behaviors associated with migration and reproduction are important to future management and conservation of the species.

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Community science informs movement and reproductive ecology of sand tigers Carcharias taurus off North Carolina, United States of America

Price,

McClanahan,

Burge

et al. 2024

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Managment of Beached Shipwreck Archaeological Sites: Defining Stability

Jones

2018

Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites

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Coastal Lagoons and Climate Change: Ecological and Social Ramifications in U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ecosystems

Anthony¹,

Atwood²,

August³

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ABSTRACT. Lagoons are highly productive coastal features that provide a range of natural services that society values. Their setting within the coastal landscape leaves them especially vulnerable to profound physical, ecological, and associated societal disturbance from global climate change. Expected shifts in physical and ecological characteristics range from changes in flushing regime, freshwater inputs, and water chemistry to complete inundation and loss and the concomitant loss of natural and human communities. Therefore, managing coastal lagoons in the context of global climate change is critical. Although management approaches will vary depending on local conditions and cultural norms, all management scenarios will need to be nimble and to make full use of the spectrum of values through which society views these unique ecosystems. We propose that this spectrum includes pragmatic, scholarly, aesthetic, and tacit categories of value. Pragmatic values such as fishery or tourism revenue are most easily quantified and are therefore more likely to be considered in management strategies. In contrast, tacit values such as a sense of place are more difficult to quantify and therefore more likely to be left out of explicit management justifications. However, tacit values are the most influential to stakeholder involvement because they both derive from and shape individual experiences and beliefs. Tacit values underpin all categories of social values that we describe and can be expected to have a strong influence over human behavior. The articulation and inclusion of the full spectrum of values, especially tacit values, will facilitate and support nimble adaptive management of coastal lagoon ecosystems in the context of global climate change.

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Maritime Archaeology in North Carolina

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Community science informs movement and reproductive ecology of sand tigers Carcharias taurus off North Carolina, United States of America

Community science informs movement and reproductive ecology of sand tigers Carcharias taurus off North Carolina, United States of America

Managment of Beached Shipwreck Archaeological Sites: Defining Stability

Coastal Lagoons and Climate Change: Ecological and Social Ramifications in U.S. Atlantic and Gulf Coast Ecosystems

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