To
address this issue, the present study developed and examined the effects of an alternative technology (the
“Sharksafe” barrier) composed of two stimuli: (1) visual-artificial-kelp and (2) electrosensory-magnets, on
C. carcharias behavior. Generalized linear mixed effect models were used to test hypotheses pertaining to the effects
of treatment type, exposure quantity (i.e. habituation), conspecific density, andwater visibility on shark behavior.
Analyses based on forty-nine, one-hour trials illustrate that the swim patterns of all sixty-three individual
C. carcharias was altered in the presence of the artificial kelp-the procedural control region, and the magnetic
kelp-the magnetic region of the barrier (i.e. procedural control and magnetic regions reduced entrance frequency
and increased avoidance and pass around frequency)