IBSS is committed to making a positive environmental impact and also to education. With this in mind, we wanted to share this article from our partner PapahÄnaumokuÄkea Marine Debris Project (PMDP) and note that PMDP staff are contracted through...
On June 17, IBSS Senior Aquaculturist Mark Tagal joined up with Puget Sound Restoration Fund’s (PSRF) Farm Manager, Josh Bouma, to plant triploid Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea Gigas) spat into growout bags at PSRF’s Port Madison...
The Waimanalo Limu Hui has been working on restoration efforts for the Pahonu fishpond on Oahu, Hawaii.
Developing a Portside Application has been a major effort for NOAA Fisheries to standardize portside data entry and evaluation by reducing human error related to manual data entry.
IBSS initially consulted with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Washington Recreation and Conservation Office, Idaho Governor’s Office of Species Conservation, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
IBSS’s support will help PRD plan, budget, and manage species recovery projects, critical habitat designations, and other conservation and management activities that promote healthy and sustainable living marine resource populations endemic to the region.
Our work contributes directly to NOAA’s accountability, transparency, and the workable balance between the right of the public to know and the need of the government to protect certain information.
This tagging project is part of a larger effort with the major research objectives of elucidating shark affiliation, continuous residence times, and vertical migration behavior around anchored FADs as a means of identifying potential spatial bycatch mitigation strategies for commercial fisheries using FADs and to obtain a better understanding of the habitat use, ecology, and areas of biological significance of sharks around Hawaii.
The data IBSS’ debriefers help verify is used by NOAA’s Fisheries Service, the Hawaii Longline Association, the Western Pacific Fisheries Management Council, academia, non-government entities, and global partners to monitor fish stocks, safeguard protected and endangered species, and ensure that the Hawaii commercial longline fleet remains one of the most sustainable fisheries in the nation.
