Category: NOAA Fisheries
IBSS Awarded Task to Provide Shark Tagging Services to NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

IBSS Awarded Task to Provide Shark Tagging Services to NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center

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.