A feature of the central equatorial Pacific is a strong divergent equatorial upwelling called
the cold tongue, which is favorable to the development of a large zonal band with high levels …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the advances made in the acoustic, archival,
and satellite tagging of tunas. The ultrasonic frequencies are generated by driving an …

Climate-driven redistribution of tuna threatens to disrupt the economies of Pacific Small
Island Develo** States (SIDS) and sustainable management of the world's largest tuna …

In spite of its pivotal role in future implementations of the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
Management, current knowledge about tuna habitat preferences remains fragmented and …

An enhanced version of the spatial ecosystem and population dynamics model SEAPODYM
is presented to describe spatial dynamics of tuna and tuna-like species in the Pacific Ocean …

Understanding and predicting the distribution of organisms in heterogeneous environments
lies at the heart of ecology. The spatial distribution of fish populations observed in the wild …

Scientists recently have recognized the persistence of multiyear climate-ocean regimes and
shifts from one regime to another. Changes in recruitment patterns of fish populations and …

Skipjack tuna habitat in the western North Pacific was studied from satellite remotely sensed
environment and catch data, using generalized additive models and geographic information …

In the last five decades for which tuna fishing data are available, the interannual ENSO
signal (SOI) and the related Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) suggest two different regimes …

Southern bluefin tuna (SBT), Thunnus maccoyii (Castelnau), is a quota‐managed species
that makes annual winter migrations to the Tasman Sea off south‐eastern Australia. During …