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Decadal variation in the trans-Pacific migration of northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) coherent with climate-induced change in prey abundance
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Northern bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, apparently spawn only in the western Pacific and a portion of the juveniles migrate to the eastern Pacific. During the past decade, catches of northern bluefin in the eastern Pacific have declined. One possible cause for this decline, proposed by bluefin stock assessment studies, is a decline in the proportion of bluefin that migrate out of the western Pacific. This hypothesis is examined with several indices of the relative abundance of bluefin tuna in the western and eastern Pacific. These indices suggest a decline in the proportion of bluefin migrating to the eastern Pacific since 1977. This period of reduced bluefin migration coincides with a period when a prey of bluefin, Japanese sardine, Sardinops melanosticta, were abundant off Japan. It is hypothesized that in years when sardines are abundant off Japan, a higher proportion of bluefin stay in the western Pacific compared with years when sardines are scarce. Currently, the adun‐dance of sardines off Japan is declining. If this decline continues, this hypothesis predicts an increase in bluefin migrating north of Hawaii and into the eastern Pacific.
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“Decadal-scale environmental variability has been linked to bluefin recruitment and the number of fish that make the West-East trans-Pacific migrations (Polovina, 1996; Sakuramoto, 2016).”
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- Authors
- POLOVINA, J. J.
- Affiliations
- NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (US)
- Corresponding author
- POLOVINA, JEFFREY J.
- Venue
- Fisheries Oceanography
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1996-06
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 114-119
- ISSN
- 1054-6006 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2419
- OpenAlex
- W2112284423
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 1.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- zenodo.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Fisheries Oceanography (publishedVersion)
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (submittedVersion, public-domain)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Aquatic Science › Marine and fisheries research
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Nature and Landscape Conservation › Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Keywords
- Thunnus thynnus, transpacific migration, juvenile migration, eastern Pacific, Sardinops melanostictus, prey abundance, stock assessment, decadal variability
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