At the NHM, Miguel Montalvo (PhD student), whose research is focused on the evolution of fossil and living billfishes (swordfish and marlins), will examine specimens of the fossil family ...

2003, Petry et al. 2007). Cephalopods are also known as the main prey item for several pelagic predators such as tunas, billfishes, oceanic sharks and cetaceans, which reflect the abundance of ...

He looks forward to applying to grad school and continuing to study migratory species like tuna and billfishes. Undergraduate students at The Evergreen State College have access to high quality ...

Deep-sea squids make up a large part of the diets of commercially important fishes like tunas, swordfish, and billfishes. Despite their ecological and economic importance, we still know very ...

Tunas and other large pelagic species, such as billfishes, sharks, and rays, hold immense economic significance, with tunas alone contributing an estimated annual value of trade of US$41 billion (in ...

In the North Atlantic, such changes will affect the behavior and spatiotemporal distributions of large pelagic fish species (i.e., tunas, billfishes, and sharks). Generally, studies on these species ...

That contrasts with the continued decline of shark species, which are more lightly regulated. “While target species such as tunas and billfishes are increasingly managed at sustainable levels, shark ...

But in recent years, conservation measures to reduce fishing mortality allowed for the recovery of tunas and billfishes. On the one hand, fisheries management programs were found to have the potential ...

Although some tunas and billfishes are recovering after decades of decline from overfishing, due in large part to successful fisheries management and conservation actions, shark biodiversity continues ...

The apex predators of the oceans are the main bycatch at the heart of tuna and billfish management. "While target species such as tunas and billfishes are increasingly managed at sustainable levels, ...