The Role of Wind on the Simulated Dispersal and Recruitment of a Commercially Important Hawaiʻi Bottomfish
February 28, 2025
Results providing evidence of larval dispersal patterns to local wind forcing.
Variability in larval transport has long been thought to drive recruitment fluctuations in fish, yet evidence was often lacking. To assess drivers of larval transport in a tropical archipelago, we simulated the dispersal of a culturally and commercially important bottomfish, uku, from Penguin Bank, its most prominent spawning location in the main Hawaiian islands.
Suca, J, Wren J, Mukai G, Kobayashi D, Tanaka K, Schmidt A, Whitney J, Rykaczewski R 2025. The Role of Wind on the Simulated Dispersal and Recruitment of a Commercially Important Hawai'i Bottomfish Fisheries Oceanography e12725.
https://doi.org/10.1111/fog.12725