Revealing pelagic habitat use: the tagging of Pacific pelagics program |
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| Institution: | 1. Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation, Veli Lo?inj, Croatia;2. Department of Zoology, Croatian Natural History Museum, Zagreb, Croatia;1. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA 92093, USA;2. The Manta Trust, Catemwood House, Corscombe, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 0NT, UK;3. Misool Manta Project, Jalan Gunung Umsini No. 51, RT 03/RW 03 Kampung Baru, Sorong, Papua Barat 98413, Indonesia;4. Department of Biology and Environmental Science, Linnaeus University, 39182 Kalmar, Sweden;5. Blue Resources, 86 Barnes Place, Colombo 00700, Sri Lanka;6. Conservation International, Jalan Pejaten Barat No. 16A, Kemang, Jakarta 12550, Indonesia;1. Tuna Research and Conservation Center, Monterey Bay Aquarium, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, CA 93940, USA;2. University of Hawaii, Manoa, 2450 Campus Rd, Dean Hall 2, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA;3. Research Center for Subtropical Fisheries, Seikai National Fisheries Research Institute, 148-446, Fukai-Ohta, Ishigaki, Okinawa 907-0451, Japan;4. School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, 905 Koyukuk Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775-7220, USA;5. Hubbs-Sea World Research Institute, 2595 Ingraham Street, San Diego, CA 92109, USA;6. Biology Department, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA;1. Laboratório de Nectologia, Departamento de Oceanografia e Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Av. Fernando Ferrari, 514, Goiabeiras, Vitória, ES, 29075-910, Brazil;2. Manglare Ambiental, Av. Luiz Manoel Vellozo, 635, Jardim da Penha, Vitória, ES, 29060-040, Brazil;3. ONG Guardiões do Mar, Rua Alfredo Azamor, 739, Boa Vista, São Gonçalo, RJ, 24466-000, Brazil;4. Laboratório de Etnoconservação e Áreas Protegidas, Departamento de Ciências Agrárias e Ambientais, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Rod Jorge Amado Km 16, Salobrindo, Ilhéus, BA, 45662-900, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | Tagging of Pacific pelagics (TOPP) is a pilot program of the Census of marine life (CoML) that will lead to understanding of pelagic habitat use by marine vertebrates and large squid in the North Pacific. Taking a multispecies approach, the TOPP project will use a range of electronic tag technologies to put the distribution and behavior of pelagic organisms in the context of the oceanography of the North Pacific. Tag-bearing animals will be used as autonomous ocean profilers to enhance sparse oceanographic observations for vast ocean regions. These autonomous ocean samplers will provide unprecedented coverage of the water column structure of the North Pacific. The temporal and spatial data generated by this project will provide an “organism-eye” view of several interactive oceanic regimes in the North Pacific. Twenty target species, including tunas, sharks, pinnipeds, cetaceans, seabirds, and marine turtles, will be monitored with electronic tags. Animal-collected oceanic data will be assimilated into global ocean databases, complement traditional methodologies and be used to help validate nearshore, regional, and basin scale ocean models. As more environmental information is gathered and delivered from the tagged animals, new insights will be obtained about their individual behaviors, as well as how diverse species have separately evolved to forage, reproduce, and survive in the vast pelagic environment. This multi-disciplinary approach will allow a novel merger of biological and physical data to provide a new understanding of the relationship between the movements and behaviors of marine organisms and oceanographic processes in the eastern North Pacific. |
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