News and Announcements

Announcements

PFRP Accomplishments 1994 - 2011 (PDF 18 MB)
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2011 PFRP newsletter (PDF, 4 MB)
New PFRP projects funded in 2009 and 2010
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Meetings and Workshops

2011 PFRP PI Meeting Presentations

Recent Publications and Meeting Reports

Li, Shichao, and Minling Pan, 2011. Fishing Opportunities under the Sea Turtle Interaction Caps - A Spatial Bi-economic Model for the Hawaii-Based Longline Swordfish. SOEST Publication 11-02, JIMAR Contribution 11-378. 46 pp. (PDF 1.4 MB).
Musyl, Michael K., Richard W. Brill, Daniel S. Curran, Nuno M. Fragoso, Lianne M. McNaughton, Anders Nielsen, Bert S. Kikkawa, and Christopher D. Moyes, 2011. Postrelease survival, vertical and horizontal movements, and thermal habitats of five species of pelagic sharks in the central Pacific Ocean. Fish. Bull. 109(4):341–368 (2011). (PDF, 2.1 MB).
Dewar, Heidi, Eric D. Prince, Michael K. Musyl, Richard W. Brill, Chugey Supelveda, Jiangang Luo, David Foley, Eric S. Orbesen, Michael L. Domeier, Nicole Nasby-Lucas, Derke Snodgrass, R. Michael Laurs, John P. Hoolihan, Barbara A. Block, and Lianne M. McNaughton, 2011. Movements and behaviors of swordfish in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans examined using pop-up satellite archival tags. Fish. Oceanogr. 20:3, 219–241, 2011. (PDF 1.45 MB).
Hoolihan, John P., Jiangang Luo, Francisco J. Abascal, Steven E. Campana, Gregorio De Metrio, Heidi Dewar, Michael L. Domeier, Lucy A. Howey, Molly E. Lutcavage, Michael K. Musyl, John D. Neilson, Eric S.Orbesen, Eric D. Prince, and Jay R. Rooker, 2011. Evaluating post-release behaviour modification in large pelagic fish deployed with pop-up satellite archival tags. ICES Journal of Marine Science (2011), 68(5), 880–889. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsr024. (PDF 549 KB).
Musyl, M.K., M.L. Domeier, N. Nasby-Lucas, R.W. Brill, L.M. McNaughton, J.Y. Swimmer, M.S. Lutcavage, S.G. Wilson, B. Galuardi, and J.B. Liddle, 2011. Performance of pop-up satellite archival tags. Mar Ecol Prog Ser 433: 1–28, doi: 10.3354/meps09202, 2011. (PDF 2.8 MB)
Chiang, Wei-Chuan, Michael K. Musyl, Chi-Lu Sun, Shu-Ying Chen, Wen-Yie Chen, Don-Chung Liu, Wei-Cheng Su, Su-Zan Yeh, Shin-Chin Fu, and Tzu-Lun Huang, 2011. Vertical and horizontal movements of sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus) near Taiwan determined using pop-up satellite tags. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 397 (2011) 129-135.
FY 2011 progress reports posted for active PFRP projects. See individual project pages
Sippel, T., J. Holdsworth, T. Dennis, and J. Montgomery, 2011. Investigating Behaviour and Population Dynamics of Striped Marlin (Kajikia audax) from the Southwest Pacific Ocean with Satellite Tags. PLoS ONE 6(6): e21087. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021087.
Arita, Shawn, Minling Pan, Justin Hospital, and PingSun Leung, 2011. Contribution, Linkages and Impacts of the Fisheries Sector to Hawaii's Economy: A Social Accounting Matrix Analysis. SOEST Publication 11-01, JIMAR Contribution 11-373. 54 pp. (PDF 1.2 MB)

All JIMAR-PFRP technical reports now available in PDF
Lam, Chi H., Anders Nielsen, and John R. Sibert. Incorporating sea-surface temperature to the light-based geolocation model TrackIt. Marine Ecology Progress Series MEPS 419:71-84 (2010).
Hyder, Patrick, Keith Bigelow, Russell Brainard, Michael Seki, June Firing, and Pierre Flament. Migration and Abundance of Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus), and Other Pelagic Species, Inferred from Catch Rates and Their Relation to Variations in the Ocean Environment. SOEST Publication 09-02, JIMAR Contribution 09-371 60 pp. (PDF, 3.1 MB)
Choy, C. Anela, Brian N. Popp, J. John Kaneko, and Jeffrey C. Drazen, 2009. The influence of depth on mercury levels in pelagic fishes and their prey. PNAS, vol. 106, no. 33, August 18, 2009, 13865-13869..

Web Updates

PFRP Wiki page
Biomass of Large Pelagic Predators web site (updated March 29, 2010)
Electronic Tagging Data Repository (ETDR) and KFtrack/Kfsst (site updated Oct. 4, 2006)

News Archives

List of projects funded by Hawaii Fisheries Disaster Relief Program (FDRP)

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Contact Us

For more information, please contact us at:

Pelagic Fisheries Research Program
Joint Institute for Marine & Atmospheric Research (JIMAR)
School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST)
University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
1000 Pope Road, MSB 312
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 USA
tel: (808) 956-4109/7895
fax: (808) 956-4104
Program Manager: Dr. Kevin Weng
email: kweng@hawaii.edu

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Captions: (In circle, top left) Painting of tagged yellow-fin tuna (Thunnus albacares) by Nancy Hulbirt, UH, SOEST Publications
(Background and above, photo of yellowfin tuna) “See Ya” by William Boyce at boyceimage.com.

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