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The Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) is part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The Center administers scientific research and monitoring programs that support the domestic and international conservation and management of living marine resources. More ....

News and Highlights

• December 12, 2011
  

  PIFSC releases October 2011 issue of Quarterly Research Bulletin

  The Quarterly Research Bulletin highlights recent research activities and accomplishments of the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center.
• October 7, 2011
  

  JIMAR is named NOAA's Pacific Islands Region Cooperative Institute

  The University of Hawai'i at Mānoa was selected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to host the Cooperative Institute (CI) in the Pacific Islands Region as part of a five-year award with funding up to $95 million. The Pacific Islands Region CI, one of 18 NOAA CI's across the country, will be known as the Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR).
• September 15, 2011
  

  PIFSC Sea Turtle Research and Monitoring Reviewed by Expert Panel

  A panel of independent experts reviews and evaluates the Center's approaches to research on sea turtle population modeling, population monitoring and by-catch mitigation.

Research Cruises

Recent Cruises

• October 20, 2011

  Oscar Elton Sette Cruise SE 11-08

  Cetacean survey at Palmyra Atoll

Recent Staff Publications

PIFSC Reports

• December 27, 2011

  Fishery statistics of the western Pacific, Volume 26

  Hamm DC, Quach MMC, Brousseau KR, Tomita AS
  [2011] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report H-11-09, var. pag.

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• December 14, 2011

  The Hawaii-based Longline Logbook Summary Report, July-September 2011

  Fisheries Monitoring Branch, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
  [2011] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, PIFSC Data Report, DR-11-012, 23 p

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• December 05, 2011

  Coral Reef Ecosystem Division standard operating procedures: data collection for Rapid Ecological Assessment fish surveys

  Ayotte P, McCoy K, Williams I, Zamzow J
  [2011] Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Administrative Report H-11-08, 24 p

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Journal Articles

• October 18, 2011

  Growth of captive leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, with inferences on growth in the wild: Implications for population decline and recovery

  Jones TT, Hastings MD, Bostrom BL, Pauly D, Jones DR
  [2011] Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 399: 84-92
• October 18, 2011

  Effects of volcanic ash deposits on four functional groups of a coral reef

  Vroom PS, Zgliczynski BJ
  [2011] Coral Reefs. DOI: 10.1007/s00338-011-0793-8

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• October 18, 2011

  A simulation-based method to determine model misspecification: Examples using natural mortality and population dynamics models

  Piner KR, Lee HH, Maunder MN, Methot RD
  [2011] Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science 3: 336-343. DOI: 10.1080/19425120.2011.611005

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