We monitor commercially harvested albacore on the U.S. West Coast through a landing-receipt census program for tracking total catch, a port sampling program for evaluating biological characteristics, and a fishermen logbook sampling program.
The Billfish Newsletter is an annual publication produced by the Southwest Fisheries Science Center as a service to the international angling community.
We conduct research across multiple focal areas and species through genetic and physiological tools to provide improved data products for managers and industry.
We research the reproductive biology, growth, foraging ecology, and distribution of highly migratory and coastal pelagic species in the northeast Pacific Ocean.
