## 3 Results  
Thirty-six White Sharks, comprising 19 females (mean \(\pm\) SD of 265 \(\pm\) 52 cm TL, 172-367 cm TL) and 17 males (256 \(\pm\) 39 cm TL, 213-306 cm TL), were caught on SMART drumlines, tagged, and released. Sharks were released 34-121 min (mean 56.7 \(\pm\) 15.0 min) post-hooking, with an elapsed time (mean and range) from when each shark was secured at the boat to release of 31.8 \(\pm\) 8.2 min (range of 19-40 min, Table 1). All sharks were detected post-release. SLRT tags reported positions for an average of 348 \(\pm\) 47 days (range 4-1061), while acoustic tags were detected for an average of 591 \(\pm\) 59 days (range 45-1075 days, Table 1). \begin{table}
\begin{tabular}{c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c c} \hline \hline  & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & & \\ \multirow{3}{*}{**Shark ID**} & \multirow{3}{*}{**Date**} & \multirow{3}{*}{**Location Released**} & \multirow{3}{*}{**Sex**} & \multirow{3}{*}{**Length**} & \multirow{3}  
Thirty-one sharks had satellite detections within ten days of release (including all location classes); however, only 22 sharks had locations with classes 1 to 3 (Table 1). The average time until first detection for all 22 sharks was 61 h after tagging, 34.3 km (range of 6.8 to 107.9 km) from their tagging location, and 12.4 km (range of 2.6 to 36.2 km) offshore (Table 1; Figure 1). Twenty-seven percent of sharks were first detected within 10 h post-release, while 59% were detected within 50 h (Figure 2a,b). For the first three days post-release, sharks moved and mostly remained offshore (>3.5 km from the coast). Thereafter, there was considerable variability in the distribution of their offshore distance. However, while the SLRT tags showed that most sharks remained further than 1.9 km from the coast during the first 10 days (Figures 3 and 4), the SLRT tag of one shark indicated it was within 500 m of shore and 5 km from the release site 20 h after tagging. Four sharks were first detected by the tagged shark listening stations in nearshore waters via their acoustic tags. These comprised two sharks detected after 4 days (25 and 45 km away) and two sharks detected after 6 days (0 and 86 km away) (Table 1). The average (\(\pm\) SD) distance from the release site for these four acoustically detected sharks was 27.4 \(\pm\) 25.7 km. Only five of the 36 acoustically tagged sharks were not detected on any of the 21 tagged shark listening stations across the 1324 to 1461-day post-release period (Table 1). For the remaining 31 sharks, the average time to first detection on one of the 21 tagged shark listening stations was 127.4 \(\pm\) 31.6 days (range of 4 to 605). All animals were on average 124.6 \(\pm\) 22.3 km away from the release site at their first detection on a tagged shark listening station (range of 0 to 413 km). Figure 2: Time until first detection (satellite-linked radio transmitters and acoustic tags) for White-Sharks (_Carchaordon carcharias_) caught on SMART drumlines in the first (**a**) 50 h and (**b**) 250 h post-release. Four sharks were detected relatively shortly after release at the same location as their release (Table 1). Three of these were at Sharpes Beach, Ballina, with one detected six days after release and two sharks detected 28 days after release. The latter two sharks were tagged together and then detected on the same day back at the beach where they were tagged. Another shark was caught and first detected at the same release location at Forster 56 days after the initial release. Model selection for a GLMM produced eight candidate models with an AICc of \(<\)10 (Table 2). Relative importance was low for all the explanatory variables, with each variable only included in half of the top models. None of the explanatory variables were essential predictors for the distance from the coast where sharks were located within the first 10 days post-tagging, with sex (0.31), total length (0.30), and time since tagging (0.29) being the most important variables.