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Handling Editor:
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Acknowledgements:

The authors thank Captain Christopher Krojs from Avenger Fishing Charters and Captain Robert Smith from Smithy’s Fishing Charters for providing staff and vessels. We thank staff from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for their operational and logistical support. Data was sourced from the Acoustic Animal Tracking Database (https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au) from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS, www.imos.org.au)—IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure (NCRIS). The database is a centralised acoustic telemetry data repository maintained by the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility and the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN, https://portal.aodn.org.au/). We thank Staff from the Department of Primary Industries for detection data sourced from the NSW FAD program. Department of Agriculture and Fisheries provided funding for 40 non-sensor Innovasea transmitters. Innovasea / IMOS Animal Tracking Facility Tag ’Top-Up’ Student Award provided 20 non-sensor Innovasea transmitters. The Queensland IMOS Acoustic Telemetry Array Project, funded by the Department of Environment and Science Queensland to IMOS and facilitated by the Australian Institute of Marine Science, funded and managed 19 VR2W receivers on FADs plus nearby SEQ coastal sites. IMOS-ATF Acoustic Receiver Loan provided 5 Innovasea VR2W receivers. The University of the Sunshine Coast provided funding for research. Tagging in QLD waters was done under General Fisheries Permit No. 207545 issued by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries. Ethics clearance: James Cook University Animal Ethics approval A2661 and University of the Sunshine Coast Animal Ethics approval ANA20178.