Sentence examples for offshore movements from inspiring English sources

The whales make seasonal inshore and offshore movements in response to the dispersal of their prey.

A number of recent studies, however, have revealed the importance of offshore movements for sub-adult and adult sharks of this species.

A prime example is the ability to track offshore movements of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) reported in a number of studies.

This study provides a novel and more complete characterization of the offshore movements of white sharks in this area relative to environmental factors.

And while some scientists say they view the fault zone as the major earthquake risk in the area, there remains debate over what risk it poses relative to the other earthquake-generating features, like the offshore movement of the Juan de Fuca plate beneath the continental plate.

In these cases, genetic differences occur closer to Cape Mendocino itself and may be driven by offshore movement at Cape Mendocino of the south-flowing California Current.

Three tracks (tags 18M, 30M and 40M) showed offshore movement to the SOFA and the fourth track (41F) demonstrated a migration that moved through the SOFA and to the vicinity of Hawaii (Fig. 1).

Black sea bass undertake both ontogenetic and seasonal inshore-offshore movements induced by temperature (Musick and Mercer, 1977; Mercer, 1979).

Tautog range from Nova Scotia to South Carolina and undertake both ontogenetic and seasonal inshore-offshore movements induced by temperature (Olla et al., 1974; Auster, 1989; Arendt et al., 2001).

Acoustically-tagged spiny dogfish were only detected near the Hatteras Bight between mid-December and early April, with the majority of detections occurring in February and March, and appeared to make inshore-offshore movements in search of cooler temperatures (Rulifson et al., 2012).

The data consist of two types; one is site displacement data obtained at continuous GPS stations and the other is offshore vertical movement data acquired with PG.