Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) vertical movements in the Azores Islands determined with pop-up satellite archival tags

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 74-83

  Arrizabalaga, H ^a   Pereira, J G ^b   Royer, F ^c   Galuardi, B ^c   Goni N ^a   Artetxe, I ^a   Arregi, I ^a   Lutcavage, M ^c  

^a MARINE RESEARCH DIVISION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Bigeye tuna; Environment; Pop up satellite tag; Thunnus obesus

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HISTOGRAM; MIGRATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TAGGING; TUNA FISHERY; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS OBESUS;

EID: 41149149297     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2008.00464.x     Document Type: Article

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