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Monthly Archives: March 2015
Explore Honolulu retail seafood pricing trends
By Justin Hospital A new PIFSC report provides a summary of retail (consumer-level) fish price data collected from Honolulu seafood markets during 2007–2011. This represents one of the first efforts to explore consumer price trends in the State of Hawaii. … Continue reading
Posted in Socioeconomics
Tagged AHI, bottomfish, consumer markets, consumer prices, consumers, economics, fish, Hawaii, Justin Hospital, Markets, monitoring, NMFS, NOAA, Pelagics, PIFSC, Prices, reef fish, retail markets, retail prices, seafood, seafood markets, Socioeconomics, Socioeconomics Program, SPG, tuna
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Humpback Whales in the Marianas
by Marie Hill, Allan Ligon, Adam Ü, and Amanda Bradford The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s Cetacean Research Program returned to Saipan in the Marianas during February-March 2015 to look for humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). We have known that they occur … Continue reading
Posted in Protected Species
Tagged humpback whale, Marianas, NMFS, NOAA, PIFSC, Saipan, whale, whale shark
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Visualizing the market for ahi tuna in Hawaii: tracking supply and demand characteristics over time
By Kolter Kalberg and Dawn Kotowicz The majority of commercial landings for domestically caught ahi (bigeye and yellowfin tuna) sold in Hawaii go through the United Fishing Agency (UFA) auction. An auction setting, such as UFA, is often an effective … Continue reading
Posted in Socioeconomics
Tagged AHI, animated graph, bigeye tuna, Dawn Kotowicz, Fishery Management, fishing, Hawaii, hawaii longline, hawaii longline fishery, JIMAR, Kolter Kalberg, Markets, NOAA, Pier 38, PIFSC, Socioeconomics, Socioeconomics, Socioeconomics Program, SPG, supply and demand, tuna, video graph
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Science and technology innovations to promote sustainable fisheries in Southeast Asia and the Coral Triangle
By Kelvin Gorospe Back in November 2013, Drs. Rusty Brainard and Kelvin Gorospe of PIFSC’s Coral Reef Ecosystem Division (CRED) along with colleagues from NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program and Office of Law Enforcement met with officials from USAID-Regional Development … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem
Tagged and Information Service, Christopher D. Elvidge, Coral Reef Ecosystem Division, Coral Triangle, CRED, Data, DOI, fisheries, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Keith Chanon, Kelvin Gorospe, National Environmental Satellite, National Geophysical Data Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, NESDIS, NMFS, Office of Science and Technology, Patrick Lynch, RDMA, Regional Development Mission for Asia, Rusty Brainard, S&T, science and technology, SEAFDEC, seafood supply chain, Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia Fisheries Development Center, Supin Wongbusarakum, survey, sustainable management, U.S. Department of the Interior, University of Hawai`i at Mānoa, USAID, William L. Michaels
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