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The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Center administers scientific research and monitoring programs that support the domestic and international conservation and management of living marine resources. More....

News and Highlights

• February 5, 2013
  

  Barbless Circle Hook News Goes Online

  Long a centerpiece of the Center's conservation outreach efforts, the Barbless Circle Hook News is now available online. The new digital format provides ready access to the latest information about the use of barbless circle hooks in Hawaii's shoreline recreational fishery, including photos and catch news reported by anglers. Read the BCH News.
• February 1, 2013
  

  Young Scientist Opportunity Program Accepting Applications Through February

  The PIFSC Young Scientist Opportunity (PYSO) program is accepting applications from aspiring scientists for paid, professional scientific research experience, formal training and mentoring during summer 2013. Application deadline is February 28, 2013. More...
• January 30, 2013
  

  NOAA Fisheries Launches Science Program Reviews

  To help ensure the quality, integrity, credibility and transparency of our science, NOAA Fisheries has established a program to conduct systematic, public peer reviews of scientific programs across the agency. More...
• January 22, 2013
  

  Striped Marlin Stock Assessment Peer-reviewed and Released

  The Billfish Working Group of the International Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC) has issued a new stock assessment for striped marlin in the North Pacific. More....

Research Cruises

Completed Cruises

• September 22, 2012

  Research Aims to Advance Bottomfish Stock Assessment in Main Hawaiian Islands

  Oscar Elton Sette Cruise SE 12-08
  Area of Operation: Main Hawaiian Islands
  Period: September 22, 2012 - October 3, 2012
  

Recent Staff Publications

PIFSC Reports

• January 22, 2013

  Economic and social characteristics of Guam's small boat fisheries

  Hospital J, Beavers C
  [2012] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report H-12-06, 59 p. + Appendices

  Download ( 2.8 MB PDF )
• January 18, 2013

  Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands as a fishing community

  Allen SD, Amesbury JR
  [2012] U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOAA-TM-NMFS-PIFSC-36, 90 p

  Download ( 3.8 MB PDF )
• January 10, 2013

  Stock assessment of striped marlin in the western and central North Pacific Ocean. Billfish Working Group, International Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean

  Lee H-H, Piner KR, Humphreys R, Brodziak J
  [2012] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Internal Report, IR-12-035, 116 p

  Download ( 4.7 MB PDF )

Journal Articles

• January 28, 2013

  Demographic patterns in the peacock grouper (Cephalopholis argus), an introduced Hawaiian reef fish

  Donovan MK, Friedlander AM, DeMartini EE, Donahue MJ, Williams ID
  [2012] Environmental Biology of Fishes. DOI: 10.1007/s10641-012-0095-1

  View Abstract
• January 22, 2013

  Variability in growth rates of long-lived black coral Leiopathes sp. from the Azores

  Carreiro-Silva M, Andrews AH, Braga-Henriques A, de Matos V, Porteiro FM, Santos RS
  [2013] Marine Ecology Progress Series 473: 189-199. DOI: 10.3354/meps10052

  View Abstract Download ( 1.1 MB PDF )
• January 15, 2013

  Ecosystem size structure response to 21st century climate projection: large fish abundance decreases in the central North Pacific and increases in the California Current

  Woodworth-Jefcoats PA, Polovina JJ, Dunne JP, Blanchard JL
  [2012] Global Change Biology. DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12076

  View Abstract