This document provides detailed procedures for collecting and processing imagery using Structure-from-Motion techniques designed to efficiently generate coral demographic and benthic community metrics across a broad spatial scale.
Report on the corals, algae, other invertebrates, fishes, and microbes in the context of their benthic habitats and varying oceanographic and water-quality environments across the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument (PRIMNM) from 2000 to 2017.
This file contains high resolution maps of the U.S. West Coast, illustrating the three categories of changes that Amendment 28 makes, effective January 1, 2020.
This 2018 document update is intended as a reference and provides guidelines for training, sampling, and data entry for the monitoring of coral populations and benthic communities as part of Pacific RAMP led by ESD of the NOAA PIFSC.
This report examines the results of a study to obtain a more complete picture of the economic contribution of recreational fishing in Hawaii by surveying pelagic fishing tournaments across the state of Hawaii in 2018.
Economic health and trends of the American Samoa pelagic longline fishery 2016 fleet operation were examined and compared to studies done in 2001 and 2009. Findings revealed improvement in the fleet in 2016 over 2009, but was still poor compared to 2001.
This study examines the economic performance of the offshore handline fishery and the Hawaii small boat commercial fishery in terms of annual net revenues and annual net returns.
The ways that anchialine pools, also known locally as wai ‘ōpae or loko ‘ōpae ‘ula, are threatened despite being unique coastal ecosystems that support West Hawai‘i biodiversity, fisheries, cultural activities, and tourism.
Noting that islands and atolls of the Hawaiian Archipelago are particularly prone to marine debris accumulation because of their central location within the North Pacific Gyre.
A discussion on the critical importance of coral reefs to the communities and environment of West Hawaii featuring one of the state’s longest contiguous coral reefs.