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Monthly Archives: February 2016
Why do coral reef ecosystems thrive in remote areas of the Pacific Ocean?
by Jamison Gove and Amanda Dillon The thousands of coral reef islands and atolls found across the Pacific Ocean are predominately surrounded by a biologically barren oceanic landscape. Paradoxically, the nearshore marine ecosystems around these islands and atolls are teeming … Continue reading
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Tagged Amanda Dillon, atoll, Charles Darwin, cholorphyll, climate, coral reef ecosystems, CREP, dolphins, Ecosystems and Oceanography Program, IME, island, Island Mass Effect, Jamison Gove, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, marine ecosystems, Maxwell S. Doty, National Geographic Society, Nature Communications, NOAA, Pacific Ocean, paradox, phytoplankton, PIFSC, reef fish, satellite imagery, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Bangor University, sea-floor slope, ship-based surveys, tuna, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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Researchers assess economic productivity for Hawaii longline fishery
PIFSC Socioeconomics Program researcher Dr. Minling Pan, in collaboration with Northeast Fisheries Science Center economist Dr. John Walden, recently published a study measuring productivity changes in the Hawaii longline fishery in the journal Marine Policy. Fisheries productivity is the result of … Continue reading
Posted in Socioeconomics
Tagged bigeye tuna, biomass, economics, Hawaii, hawaii longline, John Walden, longline fishing, Marine Policy, Minling Pan, NEFSC, NMFS, NOAA, PIFSC, productivity, Socioeconomics Program, swordfish
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