Deep-water tropical fishes support locally significant commercial fisheries, high value
recreational fisheries, and culturally and economically important artisanal and subsistence …

Aquatic animal germplasm research plays a vital role in biodiversity conservation and
sustainable aquaculture. The traditional view is that diversity of germplasm resources is …

Conservation and management efforts for white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) remain
hampered by a lack of basic demographic information including age and growth rates …

Reef fishes have been utilized as food fish throughout the US Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico
waters for centuries, with increasing fishing effort in recent decades. As a result, many …

Estimates of age and growth of yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) and bigeye (Thunnus obesus)
tuna remain problematic because validation of growth zone deposition (opaque and …

Ensuring the accuracy of age estimation in fisheries science through validation is an
essential step in managing species for long-term sustainable harvest. The current study …

Abstract High‐resolution radiocarbon (14C) analyses on a coral core extracted from Guam,
a western tropical Pacific island, revealed a series of early bomb‐produced 14C spikes. The …

Corals of the Hawaiian Archipelago are well situated in the North Pacific Gyre (NPG) to
record how bomb-produced radiocarbon has been sequestered and transported by the sea …

Little is known about long-term changes in coral reef fish communities. Here we present a
new technique that leverages fish otoliths in reef sediments to reconstruct coral reef fish …

Deepwater fisheries in the Caribbean Sea are poorly studied and mostly unmanaged,
despite their importance to local economies and food security. In the MesoAmerican region …