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Do You Know the Stingray Shuffle? Urban Mariner USC Sea Grant’s Urban Ocean Report March 2010, Volume 2, Number 1 Ship to Shore: Linking Science to Policy Do you know the stingray shuffle? Southern California is known for its world-class surf and Round beaches, but few people know that it is also one of the stingray world’s most renowned locations for stingray related (Photo Credit: injuries. In fact, one beach in particular, Seal Beach, Phyllis just south of Long Beach, has earned the name “Ray Grifman) Bay.” Seal Beach lifeguards report between 200 and 300 stingray injuries per year, significantly more than neighboring beaches just half a mile in either direction. Professor Chris Lowe and his graduate students from California State University, Long Beach study Urobatis halleri, or the “round stingray,” which lives as well as wave exposure, causing fine sediments de- in shallow, sandy or muddy bays and shorelines posited by the river to accumulate along shore. In es- ranging from Northern California to Panama, South sence, Seal Beach has become an urban alternative America. The round stingray, like other stingrays, to natural estuarine habitat, much of which has been uses its spine as a defense mechanism against lost or severely impacted by coastal development in predation. On popular, crowded beaches like Seal southern California over the last century. Through Beach, this defense mechanism is often used against his research, Dr. Lowe has found not only that these human feet, which inadvertently step on the rays. warm water conditions may serve as a reproduction cue for male stingrays, but also that warmer tempera- So why do the stingrays love Seal Beach? Dr. tures may benefit females during times of gestation. Lowe has found that the round stingray has ben- efited from a unique situation at Seal Beach at the Unfortunately, these same conditions – warm wa- mouth of the San Gabriel River. Two electric-gen- ter, gentle waves, and soft sediment –are loved by erating stations located two km up the river from stingrays and people alike. This is why one quarter Seal Beach use seawater as a generator coolant to one third of all ray-related injuries in the coastal and discharge the warmed seawater into the river, United States occurs along this stretch of beach. The resulting in noticeably higher temperatures at the problem is so extreme that USC Sea Grant has sup- mouth of the river along Seal Beach. Additionally, ported the concerted efforts of Dr. Lowe and his team the beach is bordered to the east and west by jet- of graduate students to improve the overall under- ties, which have reduced the warm water dissipation standing of the habitat preferences, migratory pat- terns and physiological adaptations of the stingray. In the past, local officials have attempted to reduce human injuries at the beach by culling and ray-fishing competitions, but both ecologically unsound tactics were unsuccessful in reducing injuries. Surfer at Seal Beach Looking at Dr. Lowe conducted a study to measure the natural the Stingray Educational spine replacement rates, population size, and site fi- Signage delity of the Seal Beach rays, to determine if season- (Photo al spine clipping would be an efficient management Credit: Phyl- lis Grifman) measure to reduce injuries. (continued on page 3) At the Helm: From USC Sea Grant Scientist’s Quarters: Welcome to the third edition of the Urban Mariner: About the Researcher USC Sea Grant’s Urban Ocean Report. Dr. Chris Lowe Professor Chris Lowe’s research If you were ever strand- encapsulates one of the main goals ed on a tropical island, it of USC Sea Grant: to fund research would be great to have which explores issues unique to the Dr. Lowe along. Dr. Lowe urban ocean environment that can both teaches and runs the bridge the gap between science and CSULB Shark Lab, estab- policy, allowing science to be applied lished in 1969 under the di- to real world ocean management. rection of Dr. Donald R. Nel- Not only has Dr. Lowe’s research son. The CSULB Shark Lab shed light on the often-misunder- is dedicated to the study of Phyllis Grifman, stood stingray, but it has led to an the physiological and be- Associate Direc- effective management strategy and havioral ecology of sharks, tor, USC Sea education program used by Seal Grant rays, and other economi- Beach lifeguards (and other coastal Dr. Chris Lowe cally important gamefishes. managers around the world) to reduce human inju- (Photo Credit: Phyllis Grif- Its mission is to advance our man) ries. understanding of the ecol- ogy of marine fishes, train future marine scientists at Dr. Lowe’s research has now moved on to the larg- the undergraduate and graduate levels, and dissem- er issues of habitat use and loss for the Southern inate information to resource managers and the gen- California round stingray. Research has shown that eral public to improve conservation of marine fishes. the stingrays use the warm, shallow waters of Seal Beach for reproduction. As Bolsa Chica and other He has studied the biology, ecology and movement southern California estuaries are gradually restored patterns of many of the oceans top predators, such to more natural and healthy conditions, Dr. Lowe is as tiger and scalloped hammerhead sharks in Ha- very interested to see whether we will see a shift in waii, black tip reef sharks at Palmyra Atoll in the Pa- round stingray populations from artificial, urban ray cific, and leopard sharks and stingrays in southern habitats like Seal Beach to the more natural and California. In addition, Dr. Lowe is working on critical traditional estuarine habitats. Will this lead to a de- research on physiological and behavioral respons- crease in stingray related injuries in the artificial hab- es of California sheephead to sport and commer- itats like Seal Beach? Perhaps. We look forward to cial catch & release fishing; the fidelity of rockfish Dr. Lowe’s continued research on stingray genetics, to deepwater oil rigs being considered by the State reproduction, growth, habitat use, and movement for decommissioning; the movement patterns and patterns so that we can continue to have good sci- home range sizes of gamefishes in marine reserves; ence inform urban coastal management and plan- and the movement patterns and habitat use of large ning—a critical step to ensuring healthy Southern sharks and other apex predators. California’s coastal ecosystem. Dr. Chris Lowe received his B.A. in Marine Biology Please contact us with your comments and in 1985 from Barrington College in Rhode Island, suggestions: ([email protected]). his M.S. in Biology from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Zo- ology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1998. Beach seining Dr. Lowe became a professor at CSULB in 2004 and for sting rays was recently promoted in 2007 to full professor. (Photo credit: Phylllis Grif- man) For more information on Professor Chris Lowe, his lab, and publications, please visit: http://www.csulb.edu/labs/sharklab/ index.shtml 2 Do you know the stingray shuffle? In Depth: About the Research (cont’d from pg. 1) In order to determine the spatial and temporal distri- Because the spines of stingrays lack nerves (like hu- bution, abundance and density of the round stingray, man nails), they can be clipped without causing pain; Professor Chris Lowe and his students used various this technique is used by public aquaria to reduce techniques such as diver visual surveys, seine-net human injury. However, through a 2.5-year clipping, sampling, tagging and tracking with active acous- tagging, and recapturing study, Dr. Lowe found that tic telemetry, and seafloor temperature monitoring. not only do the rays naturally shed and regrow their They determined that stingray densities at Seal spines every year, but also the Seal Beach stingray Beach are in fact significantly higher than neighbor- population is large and highly mobile. Individual rays ing beaches where water temperatures are not as only remain at the beach for several weeks, mostly high and waves are larger. Out of more than 2,000 in the summer, and then move on. Therefore, due stingrays caught, tagged and whose spines were to the large transient population and quick spine- clipped, only 13 (or < 0.1%) were recaptured over regeneration time, spine-clipping as a management a three-year period. The telemetry tracking showed tool was not effective in reducing the frequency of that the rays aggregate at Seal Beach during the stingray injuries. summer and fall months from May to November; however, individual rays typically remained in the Ultimately, Dr. Lowe’s research proved that the most warm waters near the San Gabriel River outfall for effective, efficient and ecologically-sound method a few weeks at a time, and then they dispersed in to prevent ray-related injuries is to do the “stingray the fall. This demonstrated that the population using shuffle,” a simple shuffling (or sliding) of your feet Seal Beach was very large and mobile. along the bottom as you enter the water that warns the ray of your presence and causes them to swim Additionally, because the aggregations at Seal away. According to Dr. Lowe, “the findings from our Beach of both male and females coincide with the Sea Grant funded stingray research has made Seal stingray mating season, Dr. Lowe has hypothesized Beach a worldwide model on managing the effects that the urban alterations to the Seal Beach envi- of stingrays on beachgoers. Information gained ronment—warm water, reduced waves, fine sedi- has been applied to public education in the form of ments—may serve as cues to round stingrays to beachside posters, public aquaria displays, public locate mating grounds.
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