Migramar Staff
  Mauricio Hoyos |
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What started as a single project studying white sharks around Guadalupe Island has now expanded beyond this area and beyond this species to research in the Revillagigedo Archipelago and of hammerheads and manta rays.
A great deal of the work we do is in conjunction with MigraMar partners, as explained below.
About the Great White Project
Although the white shark inhabits all of the oceans, we need to add additional information to existing data about basic aspects of its biology.
In Mexico, available information is mostly anecdotal in nature or based on dead specimens, providing little insight into the biology of living sharks.
Recently, Guadalupe Island was considered an important great white shark aggregation site in the eastern Pacific, representing a key population monitoring site for this species in our country.
We have initiated a collaborative research program between the University of California-Davis, and Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR) since 2004, focusing on the behavior, feeding, and genetics of white sharks at Guadalupe Island.
Juvenile hammerhead tagging
The goal of this research project is to determine where the juvenile hammerheads, born in and around the Sea of Cortez, live as adults.
Revillagigedo Archipelago
Many shark species appear to display a high degree of fidelity to very specific sites. Also a certain degree of connectivity between shark populations has been found by MigraMar between Cocos, Malpelo and Galapagos.
The aim of this project is to investigate the residency patterns of the shark populations in Revillagigedo Islands and the degree of connectivity between this islands and other locations of the Pacific with the use of acoustic telemetry and genetic analysis.
