Tunas are the focus of significant fisheries in the Pacific Ocean, where landings of four
species–skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis), yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), bigeye …

Growth shapes the life history of fishes. Establishing appropriate aging procedures and
selecting representative growth models are important steps in developing stock …

Spatial protection measures have become ubiquitous in fisheries management and marine
conservation. Implemented for diverse objectives from stock rebuilding to biodiversity …

Climate change and fishing are two of the greatest anthropogenic stressors on marine
ecosystems. We investigate the effects of these stressors on Hawaii's deep-set longline …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) can contribute to protecting biodiversity and managing
ocean activities, including fishing. There is, however, limited evidence of ecological …

Stock assessments may be spatially structured, with regions that contain separate but linked
subpopulations. In such multi-region models we must determine the relative abundances …

Bigeye tuna are targeted by longliners and caught incidentally by purse seiners in the
tropical Pacific. The spawning biomass has been reduced significantly from unexploited …

Information on age and growth is essential to modern stock assessment and the
development of management plans for fish resources. To provide quality otolith-based …

Delineating the stock structure of highly-mobile, wide-ranging fishes subject to exploitation is
a challenging task, yet one that is fundamental to optimal fisheries management. A case in …

The western and central Pacific Ocean supports the world's largest tuna fisheries. Since the
1990s, the purse‐seine fishery has increasingly fished in association with fish aggregating …