A responsibility of NOAA Fisheries is to consider the effects of fisheries management on fishing communities. This report assess community participation for select Hawaiʻi commercial fisheries 2000-2018.
We examined opakapaka microstructure and age to provide information for a stock assessment, with the resulting criterion becoming a reference for future evaluation of main Hawaiian Islands sex-specific growth of opakapaka
This document was generated in light of MOUSS to support the fisheries optical stereo-video data community with protocols for camera deployment and recovery, data processing, and annotation of in situ stereo-video data.
Seven popular species of bottomfish remain abundant in Hawaiian waters and can continue to be sustainably harvested, according to a new stock assessment from NOAA's Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center.