tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30341574479583767392024-03-13T10:37:40.820-07:00GTOPP BlogDr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-9764259394162992732016-10-11T23:08:00.001-07:002016-10-11T23:08:34.601-07:00Weekend Dozen<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Tuna fishing can be one of the most frustrating sports in the World...there are times when you will spend days on the water and never see a fish...and there are other times that you will catch a fish but the hook will pull out or the line will chafe and break.<br />
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This weekend was not that weekend...with only two boats fishing for the tagging team...the F/V Bay Queen IV and F/V Nicole Brandy tagged and released 12 bluefin tuna on 16 hook-ups. To say the bite was hot is an understatement...the fish in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are large by anyone's standards, and the "small" fish are still over 500lbs. It takes almost an hour to fight these fish, so in two days we fought fish for over 12 hours (including the ones we lost). </div>
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We had fish erupt all around the boat on multiple occasions...imagine twenty 800 lb tuna coming 6 feet out of the water only an arm's length away from the boat. Standing at the back of the boat, you actually got splashed by the jumping fish as they chased billfish (saury) from Cape George to Cape Breton.</div>
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Our last bite on Sunday came as the sun was setting...it was our 6th fish of the day...and as I reeled in the Huey bait...WHAM...double header! Double headers happen quite often in fishing, especially tuna fishing and it is quite exciting. However, when both fish are over 700lbs it can be quite difficult to get both fish back to the boat. The captain has to maneuver the boat to make sure the fish don't take all the line off the reel or that the fish cross and cut the lines. Captain Dennis continued to amaze as he flawlessly positioned the boat to ensure both fish were successfully tagged!</div>
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Robbie Schallerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03984580251328749228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-69158831700482917492016-04-16T19:20:00.000-07:002016-04-21T19:21:35.763-07:00Chagos 2016 - Day 12<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">crew worked together to spot and tag 7 Mantas with pop-up</span></span></div>
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James Ganonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06595135500720667888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-30958198076622340082016-04-15T20:11:00.000-07:002016-04-20T09:09:16.839-07:00Chagos 2016 - Day 11<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="lG" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.5px; outline: transparent dashed 1px;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scientists from TRCC and GTOPP are at sea in the Indian Ocean with the Bertarelli Foundation's Chagos Archipelago Science Expedition 2016. The daily reports are compiled by Dr. Heather Koldewey, Chief Scientist of the Expedition, and Dr. Barbara Block and Dr. Rob Dunbar from Stanford.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Value of long term data sets</span></span></span></span><br />
<div style="direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; mso-line-break-override: none; punctuation-wrap: hanging; text-align: left; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;">
<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Today highlights the importance of long term data sets for the Chagos Archipelago<br />• Video data from Bangor Uni goes back to 2006 from Ile Passe (surveyed today) and other sites.<br />• Team members have surveyed these sites since 2012 and have recorded considerable changes.<br />• Due to the lack of local human impacts, the Chagos Archipelago provides a vital global reference site during this global coral bleaching event.<br />• Our discussions here have led to plans to use previous and new data for a collaborative peer reviewed publication from this expedition.</span></span></span></span><br />
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logging instrument that measures temperature, salinity, and depth every
10 minutes was installed at the entrance channel to Salomon Atoll.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: small;">This
will help us understand how Salomon Atoll modifies waters derived from
offshore. Atoll lagoon system properties control water density and also
influence the distribution of life in the marine environment.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Twilight reefs of Ile Passe, Salomon </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;">• Many fish associated with coral colonies<br />• Identified large schools of Thompson Surgeonfish over the reef from 40-50m depth<br />• Deepest reported sea anemones in Chagos Archipelago at 54m</span></span></span><br />
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silvertip shark recapture was tagged yesterday in the same spot and
almost at the same time…. it may not be the brightest shark in the
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<span class="lG" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px; outline: transparent dashed 1px;">Scientists</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"> from TRCC and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">GTOPP</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;"> are at sea in the Indian Ocean with the Bertarelli Foundation's Chagos Archipelago Science Expedition </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">2016</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 19.5px;">. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 18.915px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr Heather Koldewey, Chief </span><span class="lG" style="background-color: white; outline: transparent dashed 1px;">Scientist</span><span style="background-color: white;"> of the Expedition, wrote:</span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f497d; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span><br />
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8 highlights – 12</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri"; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri";"> April 2016, </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; text-align: center;">Egmont
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; text-indent: -0.38in;">•</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; text-indent: -0.38in;">In a </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; text-indent: -0.38in;">positive
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seamounts with the sole focus on tagging </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; text-indent: -0.38in;">sharks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">A record total of </span><span style="font-family: "calibri";">32 sharks</span><span style="font-family: "calibri";"> were
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span class="lG" style="font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 19.5px; outline: transparent dashed 1px;">Scientists</span><span style="font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 19.5px;"> from TRCC and </span><span style="font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 19.5px;">GTOPP</span><span style="font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 19.5px;"> are at sea in the Indian Ocean with the Bertarelli Foundation's Chagos Archipelago Science Expedition </span><span style="font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 19.5px;">2016</span><span style="font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 19.5px;">. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12.61px; line-height: 18.915px;"><span style="background-color: white;">Dr Heather Koldewey, Chief <span class="lG" style="outline: transparent dashed 1px;">Scientist</span> of the Expedition, wrote:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1f497d; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span class="s1">• </span>Signs (bottom) that the donkey is alive and well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• A busy day of surveys inside the lagoon (Bernards
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• Past 3 days surveyed north,
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">– Reef seems healthier in
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• But here at critical time
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bleaching
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juvenile corals on reef that
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potential good recovery
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">• Continued twilight reef
exploration (deeper than
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Banhos lagoon:
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large fleshy algae not seen on
shallow reefs
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hanging out under VAVA II
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James Ganonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06595135500720667888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-27804488662787486612015-10-20T06:57:00.002-07:002015-10-20T06:57:53.683-07:00Tag-A-Giant Nova Scotia 2015: First Bite<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We approach the dock in our minivan loaded with crates of scientific gear and snacks for our day on the water. Dr. Steve Wilson and Robbie Schallert of Stanford University and the Tag-A-Giant Foundation lift a heavy silver crate and shuffle towards the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bay Queen IV</i>, greeting the crews of the various vessels staging their gear in the grey light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The crate is full of acoustic and satellite tags that, with luck, will be deployed on some of the largest tunas in the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The TAG team has been coming up to Nova Scotia every fall for the past 8 years and it shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robbie cracks jokes with Melvin, Troy, Carl and more as we make our way down the floating dock. TAG has fostered lifelong relationships within the Port Hood community to create a collaborative environment; we couldn’t tag without their ocean expertise, and our research contributes to the sustainable management of their local bluefin fishery.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Radio calls come in from across the Gulf of St. Lawrence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Congratulations Bill, glad to hear you got your fish.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“We’re marking lots of fish over here boys.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, I take note of the friendly, collaborative nature of the fishery. Canadians really are as nice as people say!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After hours of silence we decide to pick up our lines and try another spot. More silence and no tuna marks on the echo sounder.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is our second day on the water and the fishing has been silent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not to mention the weather has been on the rough side of the spectrum.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Part of me accepts that this is the nature of fishing- the bite is always hotter the week before. It’s fishing, not catching. Am I wearing my lucky tuna belt? I didn’t even bring any bananas on board.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These old catchphrases and superstitions drift through my mind as the hours flow on.</div>
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Deep down I know I’m paying a karmic penance after my last trip up to Port Hood in 2013, when we tagged up to 9 giant bluefin in a day and fished for 5 days straight in sunny, flat calm conditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew I was going to have to pay some dues, and bouncing around in the cabin with my hands shoved deep into my foul weather jacket to keep warm in the Arctic breeze, I accepted my fate with a meditative mantra, “It’s fishing, not tagging.”</div>
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At that moment, I watched the monofilament pull tight and the pink balloon float disappear. SNAP! The rubber band holding the Teflon leader guard broke and it rocketed down the line to protect the mono leader from the glass-sharp teeth of the giant tuna below.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BZZZZZZZZZZZ the line screamed off the reel as Lloyd rocketed across the deck and started cranking away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dennis began maneuvering the vessel, backing down on the fish to gain slack in the 300lb test line like a boxer circling their opponent in the ring.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rod bent with strain as the fish made a run and Lloyd waited patiently for his chance to gain line.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ethan Estesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08211054410452218809noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-32089236424751023032015-08-18T10:06:00.001-07:002015-08-18T10:06:04.324-07:00Bluefin Satellite Tag Hunt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-CA">Place yourself for a moment in the office of a tuna tagging scientist staring at a map with a GPS location of a popped-off mini-PAT satellite tag. The tag had been attached to a Giant Bluefin Tuna for the past 10 months, and it contains a virtual diary of its movements, behaviours and environments encountered. The tag is sending a summary of the tuna’s story to a satellite which relays it to your computer. This summary data is like reading the first and final chapter of a novel and the story line on the back cover. It’s valuable and you get the highlights and main point of it all, but you feel cheated somehow, especially after you spent weeks travelling and fishing to tag the tuna in the first place. If you can get the tag back, you can download the entire "story".<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">A lot of tags pop off far from shore, well beyond reach of an inshore vessel’s range. So what happens when a tag comes to the surface 15 kms from shore? And 25 kms from the nearest port where you know a local fisher who has a boat at the dock? You scramble; you email, call and coordinate a recovery as fast as humanly possible…and then you pray, for good weather, calm seas and good visibility. On Wednesday, this week, such an event happened. Although I wasn’t the scientist staring at the map of the first GPS location, early Thursday morning...I was the scientist along with a Honours student from Acadia University rushing to the dock to jump on board the ‘<i>Mary Heather</i>’ captained by TAG-A-GIANT’s Captain Lloyd MacInnes based out of Little River, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Finding a tag the size of an egg with a thin black antenna sticking out would be an ok Easter-egg-hunt on land. However, throw in waves, a large area, a GPS location that is hours old, and the fact that the tag is floating with only the antenna peaking out, all of a sudden the easter egg hunt isn't quite as easy. That’s where Seth Newall, a Honours student from Acadia University comes in. He brought a "tag locator" with him, which picks up the specific frequency of the tag and allows us to home in on the signal. It’s a lot like playing ‘hot-cold’ as a kid, except you’re still looking for a black, half-submerged tag within 300 to 50 m of the boat. So with Captain Lloyd at the helm spinning circles and squiggles on his chart display, Seth relaying signal strength of the tag, and myself standing on the cabin roof searching the water, we played that very game. It was bit foggy, but relatively calm, no breaking waves or chop. With help texts coming from TAG-A-GIANT’s Robbie Schallert in Texas, we honed our rookie skills using the tag locator. Seth’s signal strength got stronger as the search continued. After 3 hours of playing hide-and-seek, I spotted the black egg with antenna sticking straight up, 20 m off the port bow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Steaming back to port, the sun broke through the fog to illuminate the sea’s surface and rocky cliffs onshore, yet the lush green mountain tops of Cape Breton’s Highlands remained covered. A pod of white-sided dolphins broke the surface and a puffin dove under upon the <i>Mary Heather</i>’s approach. Some gifts in view while others remained out of sight, a fitting summary to our search’s conclusion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Robbie Schallerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03984580251328749228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-40660339061887580982015-03-31T08:53:00.000-07:002015-04-02T08:22:52.885-07:00Chagos 3.0 - Day 10: Last-Minute MantasAfter 10 busy days we are reluctantly leaving Chagos, heading to Blenheim Reef and Speaker’s Bank in the north-west on our way out of the archipelago. It’s an early start for our last day. At 4:30am I’m filling tanks, and we already have one of our final round of receiver deployments out of the way before the sun rises. Chagos treats us to one last spectacular sunrise: an orange ball floats above Ile de Passe at Salomon Atoll as we drift at the lagoon entrance while our dive team deploy the temperature and dissolved oxygen loggers used to monitor water conditions around our acoustic receiver network.<br />
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Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-36091183236266877512015-03-28T08:47:00.000-07:002015-03-31T08:47:38.592-07:00Chagos 3.0 - Day 9: Chagos Goes GlobalDeploying the latest technology in the field can be fraught with difficulties, and our Vemco VR4 Global receivers are certainly high tech. Not only do they detect and record shark movements, but they are equipped with an Iridium satellite antenna, mounted on a surface buoy, that sends information about detections straight back to us in real time, allowing us to monitor our sharks from anywhere in the world.<br />
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Ensuring that each step in the chain, from detection to sending the signal to the surface unit to transmitting the signal to the satellite, is working perfectly requires patience and a lot of testing – after all it will be twelve months before we have a chance to service this equipment again.<br />
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Dr Taylor Chapple is our team’s expert on working with the ‘Globals’, and he has had a busy couple of days. Despite having no apparent issues with replacing batteries, cleaning, and reinstalling both our units earlier in the expedition, we had been getting no data sent through, despite everything apparently working perfectly. Taylor, supported remotely by the Vemco team, worked to eliminate all the possible causes by testing each link in the chain. He concluded that it might be the hydrophone – the listening tip of the system – or its connection that was causing the problems.<br />
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With spare hydrophones carefully swaddled in bubble-wrap we set out to our the first of our Global receivers again, this time with a battery of additional testing equipment. Two divers detached the hydrophone from the mooring cable and passed it up to Taylor, who carefully changed the hydrophone and checked the connections, before placing it back in the water with some test transmitters. Connecting wirelessly to the surface part of the system, he is able to see what the system sees, and he was quickly able to confirm that it was now detecting the tags. Hot on the heels of this a radio call from Robbie Schallert, back on board the ship, confirmed that the system was also sending the data back to Vemco. We were back on line! Carefully reattaching the hydrophone back to its anchor, the system was ready to go for another year of work in Chagos.<br />
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Dealing with problems like this in the field requires patience and resourcefulness, and the support of a good team at home as well!Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-34925049090074095092015-03-25T15:49:00.000-07:002015-03-27T08:54:23.877-07:00Chagos 3.0 - Day 7: Chasing Giants<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Today finds us at the Egmont Islands, off the south west corner of the Great Chagos Bank. We've come here looking for manta rays, which we know from previous visits to be a common sight around the reefs and within the lagoon. The purpose of our visit here is to acoustically tag some of the manta population and deploy some of our acoustic receivers to track their movements over the coming year. The aim is to understand how resident the mantas of Egmont are, and the influence of the tides and other natural cycles on their daily movements around this small atoll.<br />
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Firstly, however, you need to find a manta, and this year we have a new tool at our disposal – a Phantom camera drone. Able to relay live images from a bird eye view to the pilot on the deck of the boat, we can locate groups of mantas and direct the tagging team to the area.<br />
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Tagging mantas is a somewhat different exercise to the work with sharks – rather than fishing for them (it is too hard to get plankton on a hook) we have to search for mantas feeding near the surface and then apply the tags directly, either from the boat or by free-diving alongside them. A calm approach is needed, both to avoid spooking the animals and sending them to deeper water.<br />
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The day proved to be rich in mantas, with 12 tags going out and then a reef dive in the afternoon encountering at least eight more feeding at depth along the entrance to the lagoon. The shark work continued in between manta sorties, and we acoustically tagged a further 11 animals, including our largest reef shark of the trip so far – an impressive male silvertip measuring almost two metres. With three days left here we are making good progress.<br />
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Aside from the science workload, our most senior scientist and the trip’s doctor have been moonlighting in the galley, producing excellent desserts to complement the already abundant meals aboard. Hopefully all the hard work on deck will keep waistlines in check!<br />
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<i>-Dave Tickler</i>Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-5192971281145184872015-03-24T09:02:00.000-07:002015-03-27T09:03:37.255-07:00Chagos 3.0 - Day 6: Corals Spawn and Constellations<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Doing fieldwork in remote areas has its challenges but also its many rewards, and one of these is being in the right place at the right time for some of nature’s most amazing shows.<br />
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We’re anchored on the northern bank of the Great Chagos Bank, catching and tagging sharks as part of an ongoing collaboration between Stanford University, the University of Western Australia and the Bertarelli Foundation. The tagging going on into the night as sharks are active after dark when planktonic food rises to the surface and a multitude of fishes feed. While tending the line we have had a real treat today as endless drifts of coral spawn, released to coincide with the total darkness of a new moon, swirl past the boat. Corals synchronise their spawning to overcome the armies of predators for which these events are a feeding bonanza, so the water is filled with millions of floating eggs that mirror the Milky Way in the sky above as they pass the underwater lights. It’s a rare treat to be in just the right place to see this happen, particularly in the midst of flat calm seas and clear skies, and for most of us it is the first time we have witnessed this spectacle. We scoop a sample of the planktonic soup into a container for inspection under a magnifying lense, which reveals a mass of spherical eggs, together with myriad small crustaceans and other free floating ocean dwellers.<br />
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Every day in the field has these moments, whether it is rescuing a Wilson’s Storm Petrel that has become stranded on deck, or seeing one of the sky filling sunsets that have been a regular feature of this trip, and it helps remind us of the unique opportunity we have in being able to study places like Chagos.<br />
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<br />Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-11382456197893658662015-03-21T15:04:00.000-07:002015-03-25T15:11:45.448-07:00Chagos 3,0 - Day 5Day 5 finds us exploring the northern edge of the great Chagos Bank, <i>terra</i> (or rather aqua) <i>incognita</i> for us. With the important servicing work all but completed, we are focussing our efforts on getting almost 100 electronic tags out on sharks and manta rays, the focal species for this study.<br />
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We carry three types of tag on this trip. Our workhorses are the acoustic transmitter tags that communicate with our receiver network. We have acoustically tagged 92 sharks so far in this programme and will be adding another 75 animals to our group on this trip.<br />
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Whilst the acoustic tags can tell us about the fine scale movements of shark around our monitored reefs, satellite archival tags collect information on position, depth and temperature wherever the shark goes, and then detatch from the shark, float to the surface, and transmit the data back to the lab via a satellite. This allows us to see, amongst other things, the large scale movements and the diving behaviour of sharks which is vital to understanding how they use a large area like the Chagos Reserve.<br />
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Lastly, Dr Taylor Chapple has brought his camera tags with him again this year, and with three deployments already we are building up our shark’s eye view of Chagos.<br />
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But before we can deploy any of this technology, we must first catch a shark. This involves early starts and late finishes to take advantage of the fact that predators are often more active at dawn and dusk, and so our chances of an encounter are improved. We use barbless circle hooks that minimise the chance of the shark swallowing the hook, and make for simple removal of the hook after tagging. Baited with fish, the hooks are streamed off the back of the boat and tended by one of the team at all times so that as soon as a shark takes the bait we can bring it on board and tag. It’s all about ensuring the welfare of the animal, so before we lift a shark out of the water we make certain that everything is ready to making the tagging as quick a process as possible, and that the padded tagging mat and the saltwater hose to pump water over the shark’s gills are ready.<br />
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Handling even a small shark has to be approached with care as they very strong for their size –both the head and tail are controlled while they are lifted, and once on the mat at least two of the team control the shark while the others operate. The Stanford team have years of tagging experience between them, and their guidance makes sure we stay safe on the swim step.<br />
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Acoustic tagging involves a quick incision in the abdominal wall through which the tag is inserted, then a suture to close it. While this is happening another scientist takes blood and biopsy samples for genetic and other tests. Lastly, a marker tag is placed just below the shark’s dorsal fin, identifying the shark as having been tagged internally so that we will know if we capture it again next year. Both the satellite and camera tags are attached externally, one with a titanium dart just below the dorsal fin and the other to the fin itself. Both are used in combination with the acoustic tags, so that multiple types of data can be collected from the movements of a single animal. This increases the amount we can learn from our sample of sharks and rays.<br />
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So far this trip we have tagged 20 sharks – with 5 days left in Chagos the pressure is high to keep up the work rate!<br />
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<i>-Dave Tickler</i>Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-35333869929208222482015-03-20T14:59:00.000-07:002015-03-25T15:08:34.688-07:00Chagos 3.0 - Day 4Day four, and we’re racing through our servicing work with 44 of 48 sites visited already, thanks to the support of a great crew on Vava and some of the calmest weather we’ve seen in Chagos. With flat seas and hardly a breath of wind, finding our monitoring equipment is proving easy, and the boat and diving work is a true pleasure!<br />
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Most of our monitoring array here is made up of submerged VR2W type acoustic receivers, which require diving on, but with new units ready to go in the water it take a two person team only minutes to remove the cable ties and hose clamp fastening the receiver to the mooring line, and fix the replacement in its place. We would probably all rather the dives took longer as there is always something to distract us down there, whether it is schools of fusileers circling you on a reef wall, or a carpet of garden eels stretching away across the sandy bottom of one of the channels.<br />
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The other two types of receivers used in the Chagos array require very different approaches. The latest addition to the array in 2014, the four VR4-UWM (standing for UnderWater Modem) can be ‘talked’ to directly from the boat using a portable acoustic modem that instructs the unit on the seabed to transmit its data up to the surface. By holding station over or near the receiver, we can retrieve our data without even getting our feet wet!<br />
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The last type of equipment used out here are our two VR4-Globals. These, as the name suggests, give us access to our data from anywhere in the world through an Iridium uplink build into a surface unit, connected to a hydrophone hanging below. The whole thing is fitted into a buoy that can be anchored in strategic positions to give us live data on shark detections. These are by far the most complicated to service, requiring a team tackling the surface components to coordinate closely with divers working on the hydrophone and cable. Add a ripping current and it makes for a challenging job, but it’s worth the effort to get real time feedback from our tagged sharks when we are back at our desks.<br />
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The team from Stanford University and The University of Western Australia are back for a return trip to the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) to service (rebattery, download data, replace moorings and add new receivers) the acoustic array, as well as tag sharks with various electronic tags, including CATS camera tags, Wildlife Computer MiniPATs and SPOT tags, Lotek pop-ups, and Vemco acoustic tags.<br />
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Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-25450451115811108252014-10-24T09:23:00.001-07:002014-10-24T09:23:21.868-07:00TAG Canada 2014<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dqcI6LVMYEdZ1vivJMvRjjl602jgfxTk-XjTP8HcUNl_wobOGQfQYMSmAczdUsF_21ykASo2FFUzdtuJXBfFhQ-hlBqY0Hw9t1p7eMBF2DEQtUzn3ILrt3EY7D1PKdqIdlLC_5plkdU/s1600/IMGP0404_ac.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0dqcI6LVMYEdZ1vivJMvRjjl602jgfxTk-XjTP8HcUNl_wobOGQfQYMSmAczdUsF_21ykASo2FFUzdtuJXBfFhQ-hlBqY0Hw9t1p7eMBF2DEQtUzn3ILrt3EY7D1PKdqIdlLC_5plkdU/s1600/IMGP0404_ac.JPG" height="180" width="320" /></a>TAG Canada is underway. A team from Stanford, Monterey Bay Aquarium and Acadia University led by Dr. Steve Wilson, Robbie Schallert and Dr. Mike Stokebury are tagging giants in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada. Tuna are being tagged with sophisticated miniPAT tags and long-term acoustic tags, with a goal of understanding how these bluefin utilize the Gulf of Mexico spawning area closures. This is the 7th year the TAG, MBA, Stanford team has been in Canada- and the 145th tuna in Canadian waters to receive these high tech tags. Some new accelerometry tags are also being tested in an effort supported by ONR, to determine how fast a giant bluefin goes.<br />
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Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-8474592524086663922014-07-28T15:27:00.001-07:002014-07-29T11:46:44.780-07:00IGFA Great Marlin Race Gets Off to a Roaring StartToday marks the opening day of the 55th Annual Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. It is also the sixth year for the Great Marlin Race, which was launched here in celebration of the HIBT's 50th Anniversary.<div><br></div><div>As the teams started arriving at the "Shouting Room" (a giant open-air tent where the angling teams assemble before and after fishing), the IGFA's Eric Combast and I knew that we had our work cut out for us. We had lined up sponsors for 4-1/2 of the 10 tags we had with us, and being optimists, we brought 6 down.</div><div><br></div><div>Within minutes, Whangaroa Billfish Club's Keith Allan stepped forward and offered to sponsor a tag to send out with his lovely wife Janice. I was happy to oblige, and glad to have their continued support in this year's race.</div><div><br></div><div>I set up tags for Rocky Franich from the Pajaro Valley Game Fish Club, Ralph Czabayski of the Game Fishing Club of South Australia, and last year's winning team of Mitchell and Marty Firestein, who are fishing this year as part of the Laguna Niguel Billfish Club.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_pbpNG3D5KepCMc4aiRpbyBFF7dxmEaT3SDi4OtwCTEobbNRN6pd6HQ_wnQamY1PK2ku1mjwwPMHpgbG85wWq7Gk48-ieJc0Lx4hRlKvkjBa5KNYRYeJh7WbUHSE7Qlnz4zyve9j8Y1z/s640/blogger-image-1200924492.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN_pbpNG3D5KepCMc4aiRpbyBFF7dxmEaT3SDi4OtwCTEobbNRN6pd6HQ_wnQamY1PK2ku1mjwwPMHpgbG85wWq7Gk48-ieJc0Lx4hRlKvkjBa5KNYRYeJh7WbUHSE7Qlnz4zyve9j8Y1z/s640/blogger-image-1200924492.jpg"></a></div><i>Marty Firestein shows off his new IGMR lure while Mitch looks on.</i></div><div><br></div><div>I had the pleasure of getting on <i>Humdinger</i> with co-founders of the Great Marlin Race, Bob and Sally Kurz, also with Laguna Niguel. It was just coming up on 10 AM when a nice 250 lb. blue came up on the short rigger. Sally was in the chair and watched this great fish grayhound across the surface about 50 yards off the stern. Once she dove, though, the fight was on. Sally settled in for a tough battle, gaining only six inches of line at a time. </div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_ApQgADlsLGFG1C1IvosW_ng31kCmHq41fZ7kQJEvnYhT0UeGnFiBv4XAkRs-SwNK14yjSGywlUDalcqdeEbTdQopQ8dX-Rm4stujX4zbYl1X9VJvjeOvMNJ3LElg2FzFS6pG5-3CC10/s640/blogger-image-311002722.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK_ApQgADlsLGFG1C1IvosW_ng31kCmHq41fZ7kQJEvnYhT0UeGnFiBv4XAkRs-SwNK14yjSGywlUDalcqdeEbTdQopQ8dX-Rm4stujX4zbYl1X9VJvjeOvMNJ3LElg2FzFS6pG5-3CC10/s640/blogger-image-311002722.jpg"></a></div><i>Sally Kurz battles a nice blue while husband Bob (left) and deckhand Brett Fay (right) provide support. </i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>After more than an hour, deckhand Brett Fay leadered the marlin alongside the boat, setting up Bob Kurz for a perfect shot with the tag. Moments later she was away, swimmimng strong.</div><div><br></div><div>As it turned out, this was actually the second satellite deployed so far today - the first being the one Keith Allan sponsored this morning, which was placed on a marlin while Sally was battling hers.</div><div><br></div><div>This is a fantastic start to the event, and hopefully marks the beginning of a great week. Keep checking back! <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div></div>Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-29240299367398433312014-03-29T16:31:00.000-07:002014-03-31T16:41:09.489-07:00Success in Chagos!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Team Chagos, composed of scientists from our very own TRCC, Australia and the UK have completed their deployments of new Vemco receivers and Wildlife Computers satellite tags.<br />
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Today we have completed the installation of a network of underwater receivers that will provide both real time updates and the capacity to monitor this - the largest Marine Protected Coral Reef Atoll in the world. Our "Wired Ocean" concept is now allowing the international team to follow the reef ecosystem in real time, and over the next decade. The first ocean observation devices have also been installed providing oxygen and temperature measurements that should enable initiation of long term climate data.<br />
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Thanks to our the crew and the scientists, along with the Bertarelli Foundation and Rolex, for helping to make this transfer of technology happen!<br />
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The team is deploying and testing a series of buoys capable of detecting tagged sharks and uplinking to orbiting Iridium satellites. These buoys are large and challenging to install in this remote location.<br />
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With back up assistance from Amirix and back and forth with our California team, Dr. Taylor Chapple, Robbie Schallert and the multi-national expedition have succeeded in deploying and testing these biological ocean observation tools. Now as sharks swim by, we will be able to monitor their movements at two points - moving in and out of the largest atoll in the world, Peros Banhos. <br />
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At other locations we have placed four underwater VR4 UM monitors that will provide the capacity to monitor and uplink shark movements to a surface modem.<br />
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Aaron Carlisle, Dave Tickler, John Dale, and the crew have worked together to place 44 underwater monitors that are “marine animal detectors” at key locations between two atolls (Peros Banhos and Salamon Islands) providing extensive coverage of the region.<br />
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The team in the Chagos (scientists from Stanford, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Western Australia</st1:placename></st1:place>, London Zoological
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Currently the team is at Salomon Atoll, where we’re
recovering a VR4 Global, to rebattery and reposition, and then placing VR4 Ums
near the Channel. Our on board team has been very successful tagging grey reef
sharks and silvertips. They report easily placing the acoustic tags into 10
sharks over at Salomon Atoll and 20 over at Peros Banhos. The placement of the tags at the two atolls, separated by over 30 km, will help discern the connectivity between the two
regions. VR4 Globals, which have been in place for over a year, are now getting fresh batteries, new flotation collars and beefed-up moorings. Soon we’ll be hearing from
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The arrival of the tagging gear was a celebrated event</td></tr>
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Dr. Randy Kochevarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02119379463425769151noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3034157447958376739.post-85219555502738245402014-03-14T14:58:00.002-07:002014-03-14T14:58:41.743-07:00VR4 Global Acoustic Receivers Around the Globe<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A VR4 Global buoy floats off the Central California coast to detect white sharks and other tagged predators swimming past</td></tr>
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The ROLEX and Bertarelli Foundation funded VR4 Global acoustic receivers, coupled with our surface buoys, have provided a remarkable capacity to detect white sharks, mantas, and grey reef sharks in the Chagos Archipeligo. The system has proven robust as we've deployed it in a variety of ocean conditions around the globe- in our efforts to improve the capacity to do ocean observations from remote locations.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our VR4 Global buoys arrives in the Maldives, to detect predators around the Chagos Archipelago</td></tr>
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The picture above shows the arrival of the VR4 Global from the white shark network in the Maldives, where our team will deploy the buoys for remote detection in the Chagos Archipelago. The expedition is being led by Taylor Chapple, Aaron Carlisle, Robbie Schallert, Jon Dale and Dave Ticker. This Stanford US/Australia team is also accompanied by BIOT researchers from London. We look forward to hearing from the team as they deploy a network of receivers, and tags in one of the most remote locations on the planet!<br />
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<b>Dr. Steve Wilson and Robbie Schallert tag a giant bluefin <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The TAG team is up in Canada where we’ve had an epic 5 days
of nonstop bluefin tagging. I’m Ethan
Estess from the Monterey Bay Aquarium and Stanford University’s Tuna Research
and Conservation Center, here with TAG scientists Robbie Schallert and Dr.
Steve Wilson of Stanford University. We came to Port Hood, Nova Scotia on
September 27th to work with Mike Stokesbury’s team from Acadia University
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<b>TAG team Dr. Steve Wilson, Robbie Schallert (center), and Cpt. Dennis
Cameron (at head irrigating the gills)</b></div>
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We awoke on the 28<sup>th</sup> to flat calm seas and sunny
skies. The Tag-A-Giant team headed out with Captain Dennis Cameron and Craig of
the <i>Bay Queen IV</i> and Bernie and Steve
of the <i>Carrie Anne</i>. The bait had barely hit the water when we
hooked up on a giant bluefin tuna. An
hour later the 270cm fish was on the tagging mat and a minute later it was back
out the door, outfitted with an acoustic and pop-up archival tag (PAT). These tags will help unlock the mysteries of
bluefin migratory patterns and spawning cycles, providing critical information
for their management and conservation.
To date most of these Canadian giants have been tracked to the Gulf of
Mexico spawning grounds, but a few (less then 2%) make their way to the Mediterranean
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The bluefin were there in force to feed on the large schools
of herring in the region. We double
tagged 6 fish with acoustics and pop-ups, and many of these fish were the
largest I've seen. All of Sunday’s fish
were over 260cm, easily weighing 800 pounds or more. These fish were extremely well fed and very
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Over the next 3 days we deployed 14 more electronic tags in
perfect fishing conditions. Cape Breton
is one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been and we were surrounded by spectacular
wildlife. Hundreds of pilot whales, or
“blackfish” as our captain called them, circled our boat throughout. They were there for the same reason the
bluefin were- to feed on the massive schools of herring spawning along the
island. Gannets dive-bombed and grey
seals bobbed along with curious glances towards our bait. One of the highlights of the trip was placing
a tag in the largest giant bluefin TAG has ever tagged- a 313cm bluefin we
tagged and released. This behemoth
barely fit on the deck of the <i>Day Queen
IV</i>. This fish is surely a spawner,
and hopefully its PAT tag will teach us about bluefin spawning locations and
behaviors in the Gulf of Mexico.<br />
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