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 ...

The team specifically targeted tunas, billfishes and sharks — large predatory fishes that have influential roles in their open ocean ecosystems. Red List Index assessments occur every four to 10 ...

Object Details Author Schulze-Haugen, Margo Corey, Tony Kohler, Nancy E Rhode Island Sea Grant United States National Marine Fisheries Service Highly Migratory Species Division Notes "A joint ...

Environment Animals Wildlife Sharks Where food is scarce, ocean predators find snacks in swirling eddies New research shows how billfishes, tunas, and sharks survive in ocean 'food deserts.' ...

High Value and Long Life—Double Jeopardy for Tunas and Billfishes. Science, 2011; DOI: 10.1126/science.1208730 ...

Object Details Author Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Date 2005 Call number SH351.T8 T797 2005 Type Books Online resources Electronic texts Physical description 119 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm ...

Sleek, powerful tunas and billfishes that ply the open ocean garner some of the highest prices of any fish. In January, a single bluefin tuna fetched a record $396,000 at a Tokyo auction.

Both tunas and billfishes are among a handful of fish that are partially warm-blooded. They can heat specific body parts, such as eyes and swimming muscles, to continuously swim after their prey ...

A new study finds that marine predators, such as tunas, billfishes and sharks, aggregate in anticyclonic, clockwise-rotating ocean eddies (mobile, coherent bodies of water). As these anticyclonic ...

Rigoberto Rosas-Luis ¹², Joan Navarro ³, Peggy Loor-Andrade ¹, Manuela G. Forero ³, Feeding ecology and trophic relationships of pelagic sharks and billfishes coexisting in the central eastern Pacific ...

Challenges associated with species identification, live collection and laboratory maintenance of billfish larvae have hindered research on their physiology and behavior. In the present study, ...