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Monthly Archives: July 2016
Building capacity in the U.S. Territories
by Dr. Edward DeMartini “Wow! That looks like great abstract art,” said John Gourley, one of the participants in a workshop/tutorial that I conducted. “The colors are amazing.” As part of the Fish Life History Program at PIFSC, I had … Continue reading
Posted in Fisheries Research and Monitoring, Scientific Operations
Tagged capacity building, CNMI, Guam, life history, Saipan
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Black, white, and rare: Cetacean Program finds killer whales in the main Hawaiian Islands
This month the Cetacean Research Program at PIFSC has been surveying the waters around the main Hawaiian Islands to better understand the population structure and abundance of a variety of whale and dolphin species. We’ve brought along a number of … Continue reading
Posted in Protected Species
Tagged Cetacean Research Program, cetaceans, dolphins, hexacopter, main Hawaiian islands, NOAA, Oscar Elton Sette, PIFSC, Protected Species, satellite tag, UAS, whales
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How Much Does it Cost a Fishery to Save a Single Sea Turtle?
by Minling Pan If you ever wondered how much it costs a fishery to save a sea turtle, check out this new study conducted by Dr. Minling Pan of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) Socioeconomic program and Dr. … Continue reading
Posted in Socioeconomics
Tagged bycatch, economics, ESD, fisheries, Hawaii, hawaii longline, Minling Pan, PIFSC, sea turtles, Socioeconomics, Socioeconomics Program
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Assessing impacts of coral bleaching: NOAA scientists embark on a three-month survey of coral reef ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago
by Drs. Bernardo Vargas-Ángel and Rusty Brainard Today, scientists from the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center’s Coral Reef Ecosystem Program boarded the NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai to begin a 75-day Hawaiian Archipelago Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (HARAMP) research mission. … Continue reading
Posted in coral reef ecosystem, Uncategorized
Tagged ARMS, autonomous reef monitoring structures, Bernardo Vargas-Ángel, bioerosion monitoring units, Brett Schumacher, calcification assessment units, Coral Reef Conservation Program, Coral Reef Ecosystem Program, CRCP, CREP, Hawai`i Institute of Marine Biology, main Hawaiian islands, National Coral Reef Monitoring Program, NCRMP, NOAA, NOAA Ship Hi‘ialakai, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Pacific RAMP, Pacific Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program, PIFSC, San Diego State University, State of Hawai‘i Division of Aquatic Resources, The Nature Conservancy
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Lancetfish on the (Long) Line
You’ve probably heard of fish such as bigeye tuna and mahi mahi, but what about lancetfish? Hawaii’s longline fishery catches lancetfish at about the same rate at tuna, but lancetfish aren’t very tasty so they don’t make it back to … Continue reading
Posted in Ecosystems and Oceanography, Uncategorized
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