South American fur #seals tagged in the Falkland Islands 🦭 Females, males and pups showing extensive use of the Patagonian Shelf and providing valuable insights into their movements throughout the year 📊 🧪 🌎

#MovementEcology #SAERI

🚨 New research! 🚨 Seal-fishery interactions in the #Falklands Islands have surged since 2017 🦭 Using 5 years of observer data 👀, we found fur #seals interact with 1/3 of trawls, mostly in high-yield & productive areas 🦑

📊 Graphical abstract & @icesmarine.bsky.social link: tinyurl.com/5fcrkju7
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And they’re off! Marine predator chaos over the Patagonian Shelf...and some fur seal pups going rogue and doing their own thing - venturing out towards South Georgia 🦭🐧

Such an amazing dataset to be working with! 📊👏

#FalklandIslands #animalmovement #penguin #seal #seabird

Hi folks! 👋 I’m Javed Riaz, a marine ecologist at the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute. My research focuses on using different kinds of animal tracking data to learn more about foraging behaviours, habitat use, and how wild populations interact with their environment 🐧