News and Announcements

Announcements

2009 PFRP Meeting - Revised Agenda (posted Nov. 12, 2009)
TrackIt Workshop Agenda (posted Nov. 3, 2009)
2009 PFRP PI Meeting - Second Announcement (posted Oct. 15, 2009)
TrackIt Workshop, Nov. 18, 2009, Washington Room, Imin Conference Center
PI Meeting Nov. 19-20, 2009, Asia Room, Imin Conference Center

Hotel Information: Ocean Resorts Waikiki Hotel Reservation Form
Rate $69 nt + 12.96% tax. Please book your room by October 30
Located around the corner from Queen Kapiolani Hotel and is #73 on this map of Waikiki hotels
General information about Ocean Resorts Waikiki Hotel
Biomass of Large Pelagic Predators web site (updated August 26, 2009)
FY09 PFRP progress reports are posted on each project web page
Available: Tagging and Tracking of Marine Animals with Electronic Devices, 2009
How can you support the PFRP?
New project on fishery catch data
New tagging project, HTTP 2

Meetings and Workshops

Recent Publications and Meeting Reports

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.
Beverly, Steve, Daniel Curran, Michael Musyl and Brett Molony. 2009. Effects of eliminating shallow hooks from tuna longline sets on target and non-target species in the Hawaii-based pelagic tuna fishery. Fisheries Research 96 (2009) 281-288.
Evans, K., A. Langley, N. Clear, P. Williams, T. Patterson, J. Sibert, J, Hampton, J. Gunn. 2008. Behaviour and habitat preferences of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) and their influence on longline fishery catches in the western Coral Sea. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 65(11): 2427-2443.
Sibert, J., A. Nielsen, M. Musyl, B. Leroy, K. Evans. 2009. Removing Bias in Latitude Estimated from Solar Irradiance Time Series. In J.L. Nielsen et al. (eds.), Tagging and Tracking of Marine Animals with Electronic Devices, Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries 9, Springer.

Web Updates

PFRP Wiki page
Biomass of Large Pelagic Predators web site (updated August 26, 2009)
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)

See Archives or Meeting Documents for previous postings

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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
Interim 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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