PI: Laurent Dagorn and Kim Holland
Project status: Project funds expended, tag deployment and collaboration to be continued, FY 2010 progress report posted.

Scaling Up:Linking FAD-associated Local Behavior of Tuna to Regional Scale Movements and Distribution

PI: Kim Holland and Laurent Dagorn
Project status: Project funds expended, tagging and data analysis to be continued, FY 2010 progress report posted.

Synchronous Assessment of Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) and Micronekton Biomass, Distribution, and Movement Patterns at Cross Seamount, and the Effects of the Seamount Environment

PI: Reka Domokos, Kim Holland, and Jeffrey Polovina
Project status: Project funds expended, manuscript in preparation, FY 2010 progress report posted.

Modeling the Eco-physiology of Pelagic Fishes and Sharks with Archival and Pop-up Satellite Archival Tags (PSATs)

PI: Michael Musyl, Hans Malte and Richard Brill
Project status: Project funds expended, manuscripts in preparation, FY 2010 progress report posted.

Long-Term Deployment of Satellite Tags using the California Harpoon Fleet

PI: Heidi Dewar and Jeffrey Polovina
Project status: Project completed, FY 2009 progress report posted.

Investigation of Aggregation Behavior of FAD-associated Small Yellowfin Tuna and Size Dependant Vertical Stratification

PI: Kim Holland, Laurent Dagorn, David Itano and Dean Grubbs
Project status: Project completed, FY 2006 progress report posted.

Fishery Dynamics in the Samoan Archipelago

PI: Keith Bigelow, Adam Langley and John Hampton
Project status: Project completed, manuscripts in preparation, FY 2010 progress report posted.

Instrumented Buoys as Autonomous Observatories of Pelagic Ecosystems

PI: Kim Holland and Laurent Dagorn
Project status: Project completed? FY 2009 progress report posted.

Describing the Vertical Habitat of Bigeye and Albacore Tunas and Post-Release Survival for Marlins in the Central Pacific Longline Fisheries with Pop-Up Archival Transmitting Tags

PI: Jeffrey Polovina and Michael Seki
Project status: Project completed, FY 2010 progress report posted.

Workshop on How to Improve Studies on the Collective Behavior of Pelagic Fish

PI: Laurent Dagorn and Kim Holland
Project status: Workshop completed Oct. 2002.

Ecological Characterization of American Samoa's Small-Scale Alia Albacore Longline Fishery

PI: John Kaneko, Paul Bartram and Elvin Mokoma
Project status: Project completed, SOEST-JIMAR report published, FY 2004 progress report posted.

Evaluating Biochemical and Physiological Predictors of Long Term Survival in Released Pacific Blue Marlin Tagged with Pop-Up Satellite Archival Transmitters (PSATs)

PI: Michael Musyl, Chris Moyes and Richard Brill
Project status: Project completed, FY 2004 progress report posted.

Investigating the Life History and Ecology of Opah and Monchong

PI: Michael Seki
Project status: Project completed, FY 2004 progress report posted.

Survivorship, Migrations, and Diving Patterns of Sea Turtles Released from Commercial Longline Fishing Gear, Determined with Pop-Up Satellite Archival Transmitters

PI: Richard Brill, Yonat Swimmer, George Antonelis, George Balazs and Jeffrey Polovina
Project status: Project completed, FY 2008 progress report posted.

Trophic Ecology and Structure-Associated Aggregation Behavior in Bigeye and Yellowfin Tuna in Hawaiian Waters

PI: Kim Holland, Richard Young, Richard Brill, and Laurent Dagorn
Project status: Project extended, FY 2009 progress report posted. See also Investigation of Aggregation Behavior of FAD-associated Small Yellowfin Tuna and Size Dependant Vertical Stratification

Distributions, Histories, and Recent Catch Trends with Six Fish Taxa Taken as Incidental Catch by the Hawai'i-Based Commercial Longline Fishery

PI: William A. Walsh
Project status: Project completed, FY 2005 progress report posted.

Pop-Off Satellite Archival Tags to Chronicle the Survival and Movements of Blue Shark Following Release from Longline Gear

PI: Michael Musyl and Richard Brill
Project status: Project completed, FY 2004 progress report posted.

Developing Biochemical and Physiological Predictors of Long Term Survival in Released Blue Shark

PI: Christopher Moyes, Richard Brill and Michael Musyl
Project status: Project completed, FY 2003 progress report posted.

Population Biology of Pacific Oceanic Sharks

PI: Chris Boggs
Project status: Project completed, FY 2001 progress report posted.

Developing Tools to Assess Sex and Maturational Stage of Bigeye Tuna (Thunnus obesus) and Swordfish (Xiphias gladius)

PI: Malia Chow and E. Gordon Grau
Project status: Project completed?, FY 2003 progress report posted.

Hawaii Regional Tuna Tagging Project

PI: Kim Holland and David Itano
Project status: Project completed, FY 2002 progress report posted.

Aspects of the Ecology of the Red Squid (Ommastrephes bartramii), a Potential Target for a Major Hawaiian Fishery

PI: Richard Young
Project status: Project completed, FY 2002 progress report posted.

Design of Tag-Recapture Experiments for Estimating Yellowfin Tuna Stock Dynamics, Movements and Fishery Interactions

PI: John Sibert and Peter Bills
Project status: Project completed, SOEST-JIMAR report published.

Automated Monitoring of Yellowfin Tuna at Hawaiian FADs and Relationship to Water Mass Dynamics based upon Satellite Imagery

PI: Peter Klimley and Charles Holloway
Project status: Project completed, article published in Marine Biology.

Reproductive Biology of Yellowfin Tuna, Thunnus albacares, in Hawaiian Waters and the Western Tropical Pacific Ocean

PI: David Itano and Richard Shomura
Project status: Project completed, FY 1997 progress report posted, SOEST-JIMAR report published. Color slide images of yellowfin occytes and a pdf file of this report are posted on this project page.

Laboratory and Field Research to Enhance Understanding of Tuna Movements and Distribution, and to Improve Stock Assessment Model

PI: Richard Brill
Project status: Project completed, FY 2000 progress report posted.

A Tag and Release Program for the Hawaii Seamount Yellowfin and Bigeye Tuna

PI: Kim Holland
Project status: Project completed, FY 1997 progress report posted.
Slide Presentation, "Tuna Fishing at Cross Seamount", John Sibert, UH Ocean 780 Seminar, December 4, 1997

Feasibility of Airborne Laser Devices for Pelagic Fish Surveys

PI: John Sibert and Chris Schoen
Project status: Project completed, SOEST-JIMAR technical report published.

Three-Dimensional Laser Confocal Microscopy as a Tool to Age Fish Otoliths by Optical Sections: Validation of Daily Microincrements by both Injected Dyes and Theoretical Otolith Growth Models

PI: Robert Gauldie
Project status: Project completed?

Investigation of Pacific Broadbill Swordfish Migration Patterns and Habitat Characteristics using Electronic Archival Tag Technology

PI: Chris Boggs and John Gunn
Project status: Project completed, FY 2000 progress report posted.

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