Tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvieri)
Essential Fish Habitat for Tiger Shark:
- Neonate/early juveniles (120cm TL): From shallow coastal
areas to the 200 m isobath from Cape Canaveral, FL north to offshore Montauk,
Long Island, NY (south of Rhode Island); and from offshore southwest of Cedar
Key, FL north to the Florida/Alabama border from shallow coastal areas to the
50 m isobath.
- Late juveniles/subadults (121 to 289cm TL): Shallow
coastal areas from Mississippi Sound (just west of Mississippi/Alabama border)
to the 100 m isobath south to the Florida Keys; around the peninsula of
Florida to the 100 m isobath to the Florida/Georgia border; north to Cape
Lookout, NC from the 25 to100 m isobath; from Cape Lookout north to just south
of the Chesapeake Bay, MD from inshore to the 100 m isobath; north of the
mouth of Chesapeake Bay to offshore Montauk, Long Island, NY (to south of
Rhode Island between the 25 and 100 m isobaths; south and southwest coasts of
Puerto Rico from inshore to the 2,000 m isobath.
- Adults (290 cm TL): Offshore from Chesapeake Bay, MD
south to Ft. Lauderdale, FL to the western edge of the Gulf Stream; from Cape
San Blas, FL to Mississippi Sound between the 25 and 200 m isobaths; off the
south and southwest coasts of Puerto Rico from inshore to the 2,000 m isobath.