Migratory Movements, Depth Preferences, and Thermal Biology of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna

By B. Block, H. Dewar, S. Blackwell, T. Williams, E. Prince, C. Farwell, A. Boustany, S. Teo, A. Seitz, Andreas Walli and 1 more. Science, 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Physiology

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. S. Cooke
2. B. Block
3. S. Hinch
4. D. Patterson
5. B. Gillanders
6. R. Phillips
7. A. Boustany
8. A. Farrell

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. S. Cooke
2. S. Hinch
3. B. Block
4. D. Patterson
5. Ran Nathan
6. A. Farrell
7. G. Hays
8. M. Donaldson

In Physiology

1. S. Cooke
2. S. Hinch
3. J. Fromentin
4. J. Powers
5. B. Block
6. D. Patterson
7. A. Boustany
8. J. Gunn

Citations in the corpus

• Accuracy of geolocation estimates for flying seabirds (2004, background): “This is essential for effective conservation management, particularly for those species in which fisheries-associated mortality has resulted in recent catastrophic population declines (Weimerskirch et al. 1997, 1999, Croxall et al. 1998).”
• MARINE RESERVES AND OCEAN NEIGHBORHOODS: The Spatial Scale of Marine Populations and Their Management (2004, background): “Data on blue fin tuna show consistent seasonal returns to spawning grounds and a distribution among feeding grounds separated by 1000s of km (54, 56, 57, 62).”
• Methods for estimating long-distance dispersal (2003, background): “For example, we now know that Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) exhibit complex migratory behavior and that some travel as far as the central Mediterranean Sea, implying that western and eastern tuna populations are well mixed (Block et al. 2001).”
• Aggregations and offshore movements as indicators of spawning activity of bonefish (Albula vulpes) in The Bahamas (2011, background): “Fish undertake migrations to Wnd food (Choat 1982; Block et al. 2001), avoid predators (Gillian and Fraser 2001), avoid unfavorable environmental conditions (Winemiller and Jepsen 1998; Albanese et al. 2004), and to reach spawning sites (McCormick et al. 1998; Fox et al. 2000; Meyer et al. 2007).”
• Predicting the occurrence of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) larvae in the northern Gulf of Mexico: building a classification model from archival data (2010, background): “…GOM during the spring spawning season regularly exceed 28–29 C (Muller-Karger et al., 1991; Zavala-Hidalgo et al., 2002), and data from electronic tags have shown water temperatures as high as 29.8 C, with bluefin tuna body temperatures as high as 30.7 C, within the GOM (Block et al., 2001, 2005).”
• Tagging and tracking of marine animals with electronic devices (2009, background): “…but after a decade, there are limited examples of application of electronic tagging data to stock assessment, fisheries management, and conservation (see however Block et al., 2001, 2005; Graves et al., 2002; Kerstetter et al., 2003; Luo et al., 2004; Sibert et al., 2006; Seitz et al., 2007).”
• Migration and behavior of juvenile North Pacific albacore ( Thunnus alalunga ) (2011, background): “…and light-level information have been used successfully since the mid-1990s on a number of other tunas to study their movements and habitat preferences (e.g., Gunn et al., 1994; Arnold and Dewar, 2001; Block et al., 2001; Schaefer and Fuller, 2002; Kitagawa et al., 2007; Teo et al., 2007).”
• Movements of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) tagged at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia (2006, background): “nus) (>1,000 m; Block et al. 2001), bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) (>1,000 m; Gunn and Block 2001), swordfish (Xiphias gladius) (900 m; Takahashi et al.”
• Ocean Tracking Network Canada: A Network Approach to Addressing Critical Issues in Fisheries and Resource Management with Implications for Ocean Governance (2011, background): “Data from archival tags can be downloaded if the animal is captured and the tag is returned to the researcher (Block et al. 2001) or data can be transmitted directly to satellites if the animal is at the surface (James et al. 2006) or if the tag is set to disengage from the animal and float to the…”
• Mortality rate of striped marlin (Tetrapturus audax) caught with recreational tackle (2003, background): “The advent of the pop-up archival transmitting (PAT) tag (Lutcavage et al. 2000; Block et al. 2001; Boustany et al. 2002) has provided a new tool to examine the fate of released fish.”
• Annual migrations, diving behavior, and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, on their Gulf of Mexico breeding grounds (2007, methodology): “The use of electronic tags has greatly improved our understanding of bluefin tuna biology on their foraging grounds (e.g., Carey and Lawson 1973; Neill and Stevens 1974; Block et al. 2001, 2005; Gunn and Block 2001; Kitagawa et al. 2004; Stokesbury et al. 2004; Wilson et al. 2005).”
• Biologging technologies: new tools for conservation. Introduction (2010, background): “TAG is a long-term electronic tag study of Atlantic bluefin tuna that has led to new insights into the distribution, movements and population structure of this overexploited species (Block et al. 1998, 2001, Block 2005, Teo et al. 2007, Walli et al. 2009).”
• Identification of high‐use habitat and threats to leatherback sea turtles in northern waters: new directions for conservation (2005, background): “These included nine turtles measured by one of us (MCJ), two previously published records ( Bleakney 1965; Threlfall 1978), corroborated by original field notes, and two of Bleakney’s unpublished records.”
• Oceanographic preferences of Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, on their Gulf of Mexico breeding grounds (2007, background): “Sea surface temperature is a key oceanographic parameter for determining the location and timing of spawning in tunas, Atlantic bluefin tuna are thought to prefer SSTs in excess of 24 C for spawning (Mather et al. 1995; Block et al. 2001; Schaefer 2001; Garcia et al. 2005).”