We provide the scientific foundation for the protection and conservation of Hawaiian monk seals, whales, dolphins, and sea turtles in the Pacific Islands.
The Fisheries Research and Monitoring Division coordinates fisheries monitoring, fisheries data management, fisheries interactions, fish life history studies, and stock assessment.
During dedicated surveys for the Critically Endangered eastern stock of North Pacific right whales (Eubalaena japonica) in the Bering Sea, focal follows (FFs) were combined with passive acoustic monitoring to correlate vocal activity with dive behavior.
A new method for obtaining abundance estimates of Hawaiian monk seals that relies upon the proportion of the non-pup population observed in standardized counts at other sites with known abundance.