Tracking bowfin with acoustic telemetry: Insight into the ecology of a living fossil

Abstract Little is known about the spatial ecology and behaviour of bowfin ( Amia calva ), despite the fact that it is an important freshwater carnivore, the last living member of the Amiiformes and effectively a living fossil. In the summer of 2013, acoustic telemetry transmitters were surgically implanted in ten bowfin captured in Toronto Harbour on Lake Ontario. Using a stationary acoustic telemetry array that covered most of the 18‐km 2 …