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The Tuna Conferences were organized to provide a
forum at which representatives of various organizations concerned with
tunas, and later billfishes, would have the opportunity to exchange
information and ideas. Except during the first few years, the conferences
have been held at the University of California at Los Angeles Conference
Center at Lake Arrowhead, California. Nearly all the attendees stay and eat
at the Conference Center, which ensures that people from different
organizations have ample time to talk with one another during breaks in the
meetings. The conferences have always been dominated by biologists and
oceanographers, but economists, fishermen, fish processors, representatives
of sport-fishing interests, and legal experts have also attended, and some
of these have given presentations. The Chairman of the 33rd Tuna
Conference, Samuel F. Herrick, Jr., is an economist. Tunas associated with
dolphins are taken by the purse-seine fishery of the eastern Pacific Ocean,
and some dolphins are accidentally killed during fishing operations. As a
result, several organizations doing research on tunas in the eastern Pacific
Ocean began studies on dolphins, and some of the results of those studies
have been presented at Tuna Conferences. Michael D. Scott, co-chairman of
the 48th Tuna Conference, is a marine mammalogist.
The first Tuna Conference was held in 1950, and
they have been held each year thereafter (Table 1). At first nearly all the
attendees were from California, with a few from Washington, Oregon, Hawaii,
the U.S. east coast, and countries other than the United States (Table 2).
Many of the attendees from far-away places were probably visiting California
for reasons other than attending the Tuna Conference. As time passed, more
people from far-away places (and from northwestern Mexico) attended the Tuna
Conferences. In 1994, for the first time, more than half the attendees at a
conference held in California were from places other than California.
Coincidentally, the caliber of the talks improved. Without doubt, the
better talks lured more people from far-away places, and the inclusion of
talks by people from far-away places resulted in programs which were of
greater interest than would have been the case if nearly all the speakers
had been from California. Unless travel funds are cut, the Tuna Conferences
will probably continue to attract people from all over the world.
No information is available on the first Tuna
Conference, and it is possible that proceedings of that conference were not
prepared. Someone (I’ve forgotten who) told me that Dr. O. E. Sette of the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was probably primarily responsible for
convening the first Tuna Conference.
The following persons participated in the second
Tuna Conference:
American Tuna Boat
Association – Wilbert M. Chapman;
California
Department of Fish and Game – Clarkson E. Blunt, Jr., Frances N. Clark,
Harry C. Godsil, Edward C. Greenhood;
Inter-American
Tropical Tuna Commission – Franklin G. Alverson, Gerald V. Howard, Rolf
Juhl, Milner B. Schaefer;
Oregon Fish Commission –
Edwin K. Holmberg, Donald L. McKernan;
Pacific Marine
Fisheries Commission – John Gharrett;
Scripps
Institution of Oceanography – Carl L. Hubbs, John Isaacs, Roger R.
Revelle, Warren S. Wooster;
U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service – Elbert H. Ahlstrom, Joseph E. King, William F. Royce,
Edward A. Schaeffers, Oscar E. Sette;
University
of Washington – Richard Van Cleve;
Washington
Department of Fisheries – Donald R. Johnson.
The agenda for the second Tuna Conference is
reproduced in Appendix 1. It is rigidly structured, and the full report
appears as if it was written by a rapporteur, rather than assembled by one
or more editors from reports written by the speakers, as is the case now.
The same style prevailed for the next 10 to 15 years, although the reports
on the various subjects became longer and the overall reports appear to have
been assembled by one or more editors from abstracts written by the
speakers. The reports for the various organizations appeared as appendices
in the reports of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Tuna Conferences, rather that at
the beginning of the reports, as had been be case previously. After that
the reports for the various organizations were dropped, although the
Director of the Southwest Fisheries Science Center of the U.S. NMFS still
submits a separately-bound report to the Tuna Conference each year. The
14th, 15th, 17th, 18th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 26th Tuna Conferences included
reviews of the tuna fisheries in various areas. The abstracts of the papers
presented at the 12th Tuna Conference were published in Special Scientific
Report 415 of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The preface to the report
of the 24th Tuna Conference begins with the statement, “The contents of
these abstracts are of an informal nature, and therefore are not to be
quoted or cited without permission of the author(s),” and most of the
subsequent reports contain similar statements. Except during the first few
years, there were usually sessions on various subjects, e.g.,
physiology and behavior, stock structure, etc. A panel discussion
within the subject “Tuna Fisheries and Population Dynamics” was held at the
16th Tuna Conference, and panel discussions on various subjects were held at
subsequent conferences. The 30th Tuna Conference was the first to have an
overall theme, “Unit Stock Management of Highly Migratory Species: Is it an
Imperative?” Previous to the 40th Tuna Conference the abstracts were
submitted to the Chairman at the conference, and he subsequently put them
together and mailed the reports to the attendees. For the 40th Tuna
Conference, however, the Chairman received the abstracts before the
conference and distributed the report at the conference, and this procedure
has been followed for all subsequent conferences. This was a considerable
improvement over the previous system. Posters were first exhibited at the
41st Tuna Conference.
The sexes of the attendees are listed in Table
3. During the early years nearly all the attendees were men. Dr. Frances
N. Clark of the CDFG attended the second through the sixth conferences, and
Ms. Yvonne M. M. Bishop of the IATTC attended the seventh and eighth
conferences.
Eastern Pacific Ocean Council (EPOC) meetings
were held in conjunction with the 8th through 10th and 12th through 26th
Tuna Conferences. The Tuna Conferences extended from Monday morning until
noon on Wednesday, and the EPOC meetings began after lunch on Wednesday and
lasted until Friday afternoon. Many people attended all or parts of both
meetings. Tuna Conference presentations most likely to be of interest to
oceanographers were given on Wednesday morning, and EPOC presentations
mostly likely to be of interest to biologists were given on Wednesday
afternoon. No information on the EPOC meetings subsequent to that for 1975
is available, but these meetings probably ceased to be held in conjunction
with the Tuna Conferences at about the time that the dates of the latter
were switched from October to May.
Four scholarships, the Tuna Conference
scholarship, the Manuel Caboz Memorial scholarship, the Wildlife Computers
scholarship, and the Automatic Differentiation Model Builder scholarship
have been established to help defray the costs of attending the Tuna
Conferences for students. The Tuna Conference scholarships are funded by
registration fees, which were first collected at the 35th Tuna Conference,
and the first scholarship was awarded at the 36th Tuna Conference. The
Manuel Caboz Memorial scholarship was first awarded at the 41st Tuna
Conference, the Wildlife Computers scholarship was first awarded at the 59th
Tuna Conference, and the Automatic Differentiation Model Builder scholarship
was first awarded at the 60th Tuna Conference. In addition, the Southern
California chapter of the American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists
gave an award for the best paper presented at the 48th Tuna Conference.
Additional information on the scholarships is given on page 5 of the report
for the 45th Tuna Conference.
Some information on Captain Manuel Caboz, which
will be of interest to many of the people attending the Tuna Conferences,
appears in Appendix 2.
The Tuna Conference has a web
page,
www.tunaconference.org, with up-to-date information on recent
conferences.
TABLE 1.
Locations, dates, chairpersons, and numbers of attendees for Tuna
Conferences. The abbreviations are as follows: BCF, U.S. Bureau of
Commercial Fisheries; CAS, California Academy of Sciences; CDFG, California
Department of Fish and Game; FWS, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; IATTC,
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission; n.a., not available; NMFS, U.S.
National Marine Fisheries Service; SIO, Scripps Institution of Oceanography;
STOR Scripps Tuna Oceanography Research. n.a. = not available
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No. |
Location |
Dates |
Chairperson(s) |
Attendees |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
Del Mar |
Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1951 |
Oscar E. Sette, FWS |
23 |
|
3 |
CAS, San Francisco |
Nov. 6-8, 1952 |
Milner B. Schaefer, IATTC |
27 |
|
4 |
CDFG, San Pedro |
Nov. 8-9, 1953 |
Robert C. Wilson, CDFG |
31 |
|
5 |
SIO, La Jolla |
Nov. 3-5, 1954 |
Bell M. Shimada, IATTC |
38 |
|
6 |
CAS, San Francisco |
Nov. 15-17, 1955 |
Garth I. Murphy, FWS |
32 |
|
7 |
SIO, La Jolla |
Oct. 22-24, 1956 |
Leo Pinkas, CDFG |
43 |
|
8 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 21-24, 1957 |
Gerald V. Howard, IATTC |
42 |
|
9 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 27-29, 1958 |
Maurice Blackburn, STOR |
49 |
|
10 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Dec. 7-9, 1959 |
Harold B. Clemens, CDFG |
43 |
|
11 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 30-Oct. 2, 1960 |
James H. Johnson, BCF |
50 |
|
12 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 25-27, 1961 |
Clifford L. Peterson, IATTC |
48 |
|
13 |
Lake Wilderness, Wash. |
Oct. 2-3, 1962 |
Robert W. Holmes, STOR |
35 |
|
14 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 30-Oct. 2, 1963 |
Robert R. Bell, CDFG |
n.a. |
|
15 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 28-30, 1964 |
Richard R. Whitney, BCF |
n.a. |
|
16 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 27-29, 1965 |
James Joseph, IATTC |
n.a. |
|
17 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 17-19, 1966 |
Alan R. Longhurst, STOR |
n.a. |
|
18 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Nov. 6-8, 1967 |
William L. Craig, CDFG |
n.a. |
|
19 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 14-16, 1968 |
Frank J. Hester, BCF |
n.a. |
|
20 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 13-15, 1969 |
Craig J. Orange, IATTC |
87 |
|
21 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 12-14, 1970 |
Albert C. Jones, NMFS |
77 |
|
22 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 11-13, 1971 |
Francis Williams, STOR |
84 |
|
23 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 16-18, 1972 |
Robson A. Collins, CDFG |
n.a. |
|
24 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 1-3, 1973 |
R. Michael Laurs, NMFS |
82 |
|
25 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 30-Oct. 2, 1974 |
Robert C. Francis, IATTC |
61 |
|
26 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 29-Oct. 1, 1975 |
Charles W. Hooker, CDFG |
71 |
|
27 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Sep. 26-29, 1976 |
William W. Fox, Jr., NMFS |
47 |
|
28 |
Lake Arrowhead |
Oct. 3-4, 1977 |
Robin L. Allen, IATTC |
39 |
|
29 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 22-24, 1978 |
Fred Hagerman, CDFG |
42 |
|
30 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 13-16, 1979 |
Gary T. Sakagawa, NMFS |
59 |
|
31 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 11-14, 1980 |
Alex Wild, IATTC |
49 |
|
32 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 17-20, 1981 |
Doyle A. Hanan, CDFG |
32 |
|
33 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 16-19, 1982 |
Samuel F. Herrick, Jr., NMFS |
69 |
|
34 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 15-18, 1983 |
Robert J. Olson, IATTC |
64 |
|
35 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 20-23, 1984 |
Andrew E. Dizon, NMFS |
69 |
|
36 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 21-24, 1985 |
Kurt M. Schaefer, IATTC |
74 |
|
37 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 18-21, 1986 |
Richard W. Brill, NMFS |
65 |
|
38 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 17-20, 1987 |
Witold L. Klawe, IATTC |
85 |
|
39 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 15-18, 1988 |
Norman W. Bartoo, NMFS |
71 |
|
40 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 22-25, 1989 |
Michael G. Hinton, IATTC |
72 |
|
41 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 21-24, 1990 |
Christopher H. Boggs, NMFS |
93 |
|
42 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 20-23, 1991 |
Daniel Margulies and Jeanne B. Wexler,
IATTC |
77 |
|
43 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 8-21, 1992 |
Atilio L. Coan, Jr., and Alan R. Jackson,
NMFS |
69 |
|
44 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 17-20, 1993 |
Edward H. Everett and Richard G. Punsly,
IATTC |
84 |
|
45 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 23-26, 1994 |
Pierre Kleiber and Randall Rasmussen, NMFS |
99 |
|
46 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 14-17, 1995 |
Ashley J. Mullen and Jenny M. Suter, IATTC |
89 |
|
47 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 20-23, 1996 |
Norman W. Bartoo, Alan R. Jackson, and
Randall Rasmussen, NMFS |
92 |
|
48 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 19-22, 1997 |
Robert J. Olson and Michael D. Scott, IATTC |
120 |
|
49 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 18-21, 1998 |
Christofer H. Boggs, NMFS |
105 |
|
50 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 24-27, 1999 |
George M. Watters and JoyDeLee Marrow,
IATTC |
92 |
|
51 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 22-25, 2000 |
David Holts and Michelle DeLaFuente, NMFS |
78 |
|
52 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 21-24, 2001 |
Mark Maunder and Sharon Hunt, IATTC |
79 |
|
53 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 20-23, 2002 |
Keith Bigelow and Randy Chang, NMFS |
59 |
|
54 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 13-16, 2003 |
Shelton Harley, IATTC |
78 |
|
55 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 24-27, 2004 |
Paul Crone and Kevin Hill, NMFS |
102 |
|
56 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 23-26, 2005 |
Simon Hoyle and Michael Hinton, IATTC |
98 |
|
57 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 22-25, 2006 |
Russ Vetter and Suzy Kohin, NMFS |
97 |
|
58 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 21-24, 2007 |
Jeanne Wexler and Daniel Margulies IATTC |
95 |
|
59 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 19-22, 2008 |
Heidi Dewar and John Hyde, NMFS |
85 |
|
60 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 18-21, 2009 |
Alexandre Aires-da-Silva and JoyDeLee C.
Marrow, IATTC |
94 |
|
61 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 17-20, 2010 |
Suzanne Kohin and Sarah
Shoffler, NMFS |
106 |
|
62 |
Lake Arrowhead |
May 16-19, 2011 |
Cleridy Lennert-Cody and
JoyDeLee C. Marrow, IATTC |
91 |
TABLE 2. Numbers of attendees from organizations located in various
areas. The data for 2009 are preliminary. The codes for the headings are
given on the next page. n.a. = not available.
|
No. |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
Total |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
16 |
4 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
23 |
|
3 |
18 |
5 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
27 |
|
4 |
21 |
8 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
31 |
|
5 |
22 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
38 |
|
6 |
20 |
7 |
3 |
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
32 |
|
7 |
32 |
4 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
43 |
|
8 |
31 |
4 |
3 |
|
|
|
3 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
42 |
|
9 |
33 |
7 |
4 |
1 |
|
|
2 |
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
49 |
|
10 |
33 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
43 |
|
11 |
38 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
50 |
|
12 |
38 |
3 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
48 |
|
13 |
15 |
11 |
3 |
2 |
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
35 |
|
14 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
15 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
16 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
17 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
18 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
19 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
20 |
56 |
8 |
2 |
14 |
1 |
|
2 |
2 |
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
|
87 |
|
21 |
54 |
6 |
3 |
11 |
|
2 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
77 |
|
22 |
54 |
2 |
4 |
11 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
84 |
|
23 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
24 |
59 |
8 |
2 |
4 |
|
3 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
82 |
|
25 |
47 |
|
3 |
2 |
|
1 |
1 |
2 |
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
2 |
|
61 |
|
26 |
55 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
71 |
|
27 |
32 |
1 |
3 |
7 |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
47 |
|
28 |
32 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
39 |
|
29 |
34 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
42 |
|
30 |
40 |
4 |
2 |
11 |
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
59 |
|
31 |
38 |
4 |
3 |
|
|
|
3 |
|
|
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
49 |
|
32 |
58 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
|
3 |
1 |
|
1 |
|
4 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
76 |
|
33 |
47 |
4 |
3 |
5 |
|
5 |
|
|
1 |
|
2 |
|
2 |
|
|
69 |
|
34 |
46 |
2 |
6 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
|
|
1 |
|
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
1 |
64 |
|
35 |
50 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
|
|
|
|
2 |
|
|
|
2 |
1 |
|
69 |
|
36 |
50 |
4 |
8 |
3 |
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
|
3 |
1 |
|
|
1 |
74 |
|
37 |
37 |
1 |
8 |
4 |
|
5 |
4 |
|
2 |
|
2 |
|
1 |
1 |
|
65 |
|
38 |
48 |
3 |
5 |
6 |
|
8 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
|
3 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
85 |
|
39 |
42 |
3 |
4 |
2 |
|
10 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
|
1 |
2 |
|
1 |
1 |
71 |
|
40 |
38 |
4 |
8 |
5 |
|
4 |
2 |
1 |
|
3 |
3 |
|
1 |
2 |
1 |
72 |
|
41 |
48 |
4 |
8 |
9 |
|
5 |
3 |
|
3 |
1 |
5 |
5 |
|
1 |
1 |
93 |
|
42 |
40 |
2 |
2 |
10 |
|
7 |
2 |
1 |
5 |
|
3 |
2 |
2 |
1 |
|
77 |
|
43 |
35 |
4 |
4 |
8 |
|
7 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
|
2 |
1 |
1 |
|
2 |
69 |
|
44 |
47 |
1 |
3 |
6 |
|
14 |
1 |
|
3 |
1 |
3 |
|
1 |
2 |
2 |
84 |
|
45 |
35 |
10 |
11 |
9 |
|
14 |
1 |
|
5 |
|
7 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
|
99 |
|
46 |
41 |
3 |
19 |
5 |
2 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
|
3 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
89 |
|
47 |
40 |
6 |
15 |
11 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
|
6 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
|
92 |
|
48 |
50 |
8 |
18 |
16 |
1 |
7 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
1 |
5 |
4 |
|
4 |
|
120 |
|
49 |
40 |
2 |
16 |
21 |
1 |
7 |
3 |
1 |
5 |
|
2 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
|
105 |
|
50 |
44 |
6 |
10 |
12 |
- |
3 |
- |
2 |
4 |
- |
4 |
3 |
2 |
- |
2 |
92 |
|
51 |
31 |
6 |
11 |
11 |
0 |
1 |
- |
1 |
5 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
- |
3 |
- |
78 |
|
52 |
38 |
2 |
15 |
5 |
2 |
3 |
2 |
- |
3 |
- |
5 |
3 |
- |
1 |
- |
79 |
|
53 |
21 |
3 |
17 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
2 |
1 |
2 |
- |
1 |
4 |
- |
1 |
1 |
59 |
|
54 |
27 |
3 |
12 |
13 |
- |
4 |
2 |
- |
6 |
- |
4 |
4 |
2 |
- |
1 |
78 |
|
55 |
50 |
6 |
16 |
6 |
1 |
5 |
3 |
1 |
2 |
- |
5 |
5 |
2 |
- |
- |
102 |
|
56 |
42 |
4 |
13 |
11 |
2 |
3 |
5 |
1 |
8 |
- |
2 |
5 |
- |
2 |
- |
98 |
|
57 |
54 |
4 |
16 |
9 |
- |
6 |
3 |
- |
1 |
- |
- |
2 |
1 |
1 |
- |
97 |
|
58 |
41 |
8 |
18 |
9 |
- |
3 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
- |
4 |
4 |
2 |
- |
1 |
95 |
|
59 |
37 |
7 |
16 |
16 |
1 |
3 |
3 |
- |
- |
- |
1 |
2 |
- |
- |
- |
85 |
|
60 |
44 |
8 |
12 |
17- |
- |
- |
1 |
- |
3 |
- |
5 |
4 |
- |
- |
- |
94 |
|
61 |
54 |
6 |
12 |
14 |
- |
3 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
- |
3 |
3 |
- |
1 |
1 |
106 |
|
62 |
49 |
4 |
13 |
14 |
- |
1 |
2 |
- |
1 |
- |
2 |
5 |
- |
- |
- |
91 |
|
1 California
2 Oregon, Washington, and Alaska
3 Hawaii
4 U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts (excluding Puerto Rico)
5 other U.S. |
6 Mexico
7 Canada
8 Other western hemisphere (including Puerto Rico)
9 Europe (including USSR and former USSR)
10 Africa |
11 Asia
(excluding Pakistan and Sri Lanka)
12 Australia and New Zealand
13 New Caledonia
14 Pacific islands (excluding Hawaii and New Caledonia)
15 Indian Ocean (including Pakistan and Sri Lanka) |
TABLE 3. Numbers of male and female attendees. The data for 2009
are preliminary. It was not always possible to determine a person’s sex
from his or her name, particularly when only initials were used for the
first and second names.
|
Conference |
Men |
Women |
Unknown |
Total |
|
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
2 |
22 |
1 |
|
23 |
|
3 |
26 |
1 |
|
27 |
|
4 |
30 |
1 |
|
31 |
|
5 |
37 |
1 |
|
38 |
|
6 |
31 |
1 |
|
32 |
|
7 |
42 |
1 |
|
43 |
|
8 |
41 |
1 |
|
42 |
|
9 |
49 |
0 |
|
49 |
|
10 |
43 |
0 |
|
43 |
|
11 |
50 |
0 |
|
50 |
|
12 |
47 |
1 |
|
48 |
|
13 |
34 |
1 |
|
35 |
|
14 |
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
15 |
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
16 |
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
17 |
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
18 |
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
19 |
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
20 |
86 |
1 |
|
87 |
|
21 |
75 |
2 |
|
77 |
|
22 |
83 |
1 |
|
84 |
|
23 |
|
|
|
n.a. |
|
24 |
78 |
4 |
|
82 |
|
25 |
58 |
3 |
|
61 |
|
26 |
66 |
5 |
|
71 |
|
27 |
43 |
4 |
|
47 |
|
28 |
37 |
2 |
|
39 |
|
29 |
39 |
3 |
|
42 |
|
30 |
54 |
4 |
1 |
59 |
|
31 |
48 |
1 |
|
49 |
|
32 |
62 |
2 |
12 |
76 |
|
33 |
51 |
2 |
16 |
69 |
|
34 |
61 |
3 |
|
64 |
|
35 |
61 |
7 |
1 |
69 |
|
36 |
66 |
8 |
|
74 |
|
37 |
56 |
8 |
1 |
65 |
|
38 |
73 |
11 |
1 |
85 |
|
39 |
61 |
9 |
1 |
71 |
|
40 |
62 |
9 |
1 |
72 |
|
41 |
84 |
9 |
|
93 |
|
42 |
65 |
12 |
|
77 |
|
43 |
59 |
9 |
1 |
69 |
|
44 |
75 |
8 |
1 |
84 |
|
45 |
90 |
9 |
|
99 |
|
46 |
78 |
11 |
|
89 |
|
47 |
73 |
18 |
1 |
92 |
|
48 |
94 |
23 |
3 |
120 |
|
49 |
86 |
18 |
1 |
105 |
|
50 |
67 |
20 |
5 |
92 |
|
51 |
59 |
15 |
4 |
78 |
|
52 |
63 |
12 |
4 |
79 |
|
53 |
44 |
11 |
4 |
59 |
|
54 |
56 |
17 |
5 |
78 |
|
55 |
78 |
20 |
4 |
102 |
|
56 |
70 |
24 |
4 |
98 |
|
57 |
65 |
27 |
5 |
97 |
|
58 |
62 |
28 |
5 |
95 |
|
59 |
56 |
26 |
3 |
85 |
|
60 |
63 |
31 |
|
94 |
|
61 |
77 |
27 |
2 |
106 |
|
62 |
56 |
35 |
|
91 |
TABLE 4. Recipients of Tuna Conference scholarships. The
abbreviations are as follows: CICIMAR,
Centro
Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas; IFREMER,
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation
de la Mer; VIMS, Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
|
Conference |
Name(s) |
Affiliation(s) |
Presentation(s) |
|
36 |
José Goulart |
Univ. of California at Davis |
none |
|
37 |
Barbara A. Block |
Duke Univ. |
Strategies for elevating brain and eye
temperatures in tunas, sharks, and billfishes |
|
37 |
Cheryl Watson |
Astoria, Oregon |
none |
|
38 |
Miguel Ross |
CICIMAR |
none |
|
38 |
Chi-Lu Sun |
Univ. of Miami |
none |
|
39 |
Kae Lynne
Nakamura |
Univ. of British Columbia |
Estimates of age, growth and spawning of
yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares, in the Philippines, as
determined from the examination of increments on sagittal
otoliths |
|
40 |
Nancy Chartier |
VIMS |
Catch-handling trends of Virginia’s
recreational tuna fishery: the effects of killing and storage
methods on the quality of northern bluefin tuna, Thunnus
thynnus |
|
40 |
James N. Ianelli |
Univ. of
Washington |
Preliminary results of microconstituent
variability in yellowfin otoliths |
|
41 |
Charles Barr |
VIMS |
Evaluation of food and feeding of northern
bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus
albacares) off the coast of Virginia |
|
42 |
Troy Buckley |
Dept. Mar. Wild. Res., American Samoa |
Feeding habits of yellowfin tuna at fish
aggregation devices in American Samoa |
|
42 |
James Masuoka |
Univ. of California at San Diego |
A novel zinc-binding serum protein from
albacore (Thunnus alalunga): is it species specific? |
|
42 |
Gabriel Nuńez Marquez |
CICIMAR |
Length-frequency distribution of yellowfin
tuna caught in Mexican waters, 1989 |
|
43 |
Agustin Her-nandez-Herrera |
CICIMAR |
Some aspects of reproduction in sailfish (Istiophorus
platypterus) from La Paz and Cabo San Lucas, B.C.S., Mexico |
|
44 |
Paul R. Wade |
U.S. NMFS |
A Bayesian approach to the population
dynamics and management of the eastern spinner dolphin,
Stenella longirostris orientalis |
|
45 |
Daniel R. Scoles |
VIMS |
Global phylogeny of mackerels of the genus
Scomber |
|
46 |
Yu-Min Yeh |
National Taiwan Univ. |
The relationship between CPUE and abundance
of albacore in the South Pacific |
|
47 |
Vincent P. Buonaccorsi |
VIMS |
A comparative approach to genetic stock
identification in the blue marlin, Makaira nigricans |
|
47 |
Jan Cordes |
VIMS |
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of white marlin,
Tetrapturus albidus, population structure |
|
48 |
Robert J. Allman |
Florida State Univ. |
Growth and mortality of little tunny (Euthynnus
alletteratus) larvae off the Mississippi River plume and
Panama City, Florida |
|
48 |
Marta C. Gomez-Buckley |
Univ. of
Washington |
Use of statistical bootstrapping for
sample-size determination to estimate length-frequency
distributions for Pacific albacore tuna, (Thunnus alalunga) |
|
49 |
M. Shiham Adam |
Imperial College |
Estimates of skipjack tuna growth
parameters from the Maldivian pole and line fishery using tag
recapture data |
|
49 |
Vincent Buonaccorsi |
VIMS |
Microsatellite evolution within and among
species of the Istiophoridae |
|
50 |
none |
|
|
|
51 |
Ralph Mana |
Kagoshima Univ. |
Structural features of the olfactory system
of bigeye tuna, Thunnus obesus, and striped marlin,
Tetrapturus audax, in connection with pelagic mode of life |
|
51 |
Robyn Wingrove |
Univ. of Charleston |
Population structure of dolphin,
Coryphaena hippurus, in the western central Atlantic,
Caribbean Sea, and Gulf of Mexico, inferred from mitochondrial
DNA variation |
|
52 |
Nathaniel Newlands |
Univ. of British Columbia |
Aerial surveying of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus
thynnus), Gulf of Maine: relative abundance estimates under
alternative spatial sampling strategies |
|
53 |
Chugey Sepulveda |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
The swimming energetics of the eastern
Pacific bonito (Sarda chiliensis): one step closer to
understanding the tuna-bonito relationship |
|
54 |
none |
|
|
|
55 |
Juan Pedro Arias Aréchiga |
CICIMAR |
Fishing oceanography of the Gulf of
Tehuantepec: the case of the yellowfin tuna, Thunnus
albacares |
|
55 |
Francois Royer |
IFREMER |
A modeling framework for studying bluefin
tuna behavior in its environment |
|
55 |
Chugey A. Sepulveda |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
The thermal biology of the slender tuna,
Allothunnus fallai |
|
55 |
Rebecca Shuford |
Univ. of South Carolina |
Otolith microchemical analysis of juvenile
yellowfin tuna from nursery areas in the Atlantic Ocean |
|
56 |
Walter Golet |
Univ. of New Hampshire |
Analysis of shape and fat content in the
Gulf of Maine bluefin tunas (Thunnus thynnus) |
|
56 |
John Logan |
Univ. of New Hampshire |
Analysis of forage preferences and movement
patterns of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) using
carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes |
|
56 |
Ramzi Mirshak |
Dalhousie Univ. |
Towards mapping thermocline depth in the
equatorial Pacific with satellite altimetry |
|
56 |
John E. Richert |
Univ. of California at Davis |
Spatio-temporal variability in the trophic
ecology of large pelagic fishes of the southern Gulf of
California |
|
57 |
Daniel Cartamil |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Acoustic telemetry studies of common
thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) movement patterns in
the Southern California Bight |
|
57 |
Dámaris López Medina |
CICIMAR |
Spatio-temporal variability of yellowfin
tuna catches in adjacent waters to the Isla Marias, Mexico |
|
57 |
John E.Richert |
Univ. of California at Davis |
Spatio-temporal variability in the trophic
ecology of large pelagic fishes of the southern Gulf of
California |
|
57 |
Luis Antonio Valdovinos-Jacobo |
CICIMAR |
Conceptual migratory model of Monterey
Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus concolor) in the Gulf of
California |
|
58 |
Fernando Arias Olaiz |
CICIMAR |
Spatial-temporal distributions of the
relative abundance of the sailfish (Istiophorus platypturus)
in the Mexican Pacific Ocean |
|
58 |
Juleen Dickson |
California State Univ. at Fullerton |
Medial red muscle development in the
yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares |
|
58 |
Yoshiki Kato |
Univ. of Tokyo |
Effect of ocean turbulence on survival and
ingestion of tuna, Thunnus, larvae |
|
58 |
Catherine Purcell |
Univ. of Southern California |
Connectivity of striped marlin populations
in the Pacific |
|
58 |
Arturo Tripp Valdez |
CICIMAR |
Trophic ecology of the dolphinfish
Coryphaena hippurus (Linnaeus, 1758) in two areas of the
south of the Gulf of California |
|
58 |
Nicholas C. Wegner |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Specialization for gill rigidity in
ram-ventilating teleosts |
|
59 |
Bridgett Ferris |
Univ. of Washington |
Factors affecting the accumulation of
mercury in four tuna species: diet vs. life history |
|
59 |
Amber Michaud |
Univ. of San Diego |
Population structure of shortfin mako (Isurus
oxyrinchus) in the Pacific Ocean as inferred through
mitochondrial DNA |
|
59 |
Tara Scott |
VIMS |
Adjusting economic productivity to account
for undesirable harvest: application to the California/Oregon
drift gillnet fishery |
|
60 |
A. Jason Phillips |
Oregon State Univ. |
Linking
U.S. Pacific albacore CPUE to fine scale satellite environmental
data |
|
61 |
Melanie Hutchinson |
Univ. of Hawaii |
Effects of Nd/PR alloy on
catch rates of pelagic and coastal shark species |
|
62 |
Mitchell Zischke |
Univ. of Queensland |
Out with the old and in with
the new: estimating recreational catch and effort for the
specialized pelagic sportfish fishery off eastern Australia |
TABLE 5.
Recipients of Manuel Caboz Memorial scholarships. The abbreviations are as
follows: CICESE, Centro de Investigación
Cientifica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada; CICIMAR,
Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas;
IFREMER, Institut Français de Recherche pour
l'Exploitation de la Mer; IRD, Institut de Recherche pour le
Développement; ORSTOM, Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique
d'Outre-Mer; UABC,
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California; VIMS, Virginia Institute of
Marine Science.
|
Conference |
Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation |
|
41 |
Simon R. Thorold |
Australian Inst. Mar. Sci. |
A novel method for collection of larval and
juvenile scombrids |
|
42 |
Daniel Scoles |
VIMS |
Mitochondrial DNA restriction fragment
analysis of Pacific yellowfin tuna |
|
43 |
Lee Morgan |
VIMS |
Allozyme analysis of striped marlin
population structure |
|
44 |
José Manuel Grijalva-Chon |
CICESE |
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of north Pacific
swordfish (Xiphias gladius) |
|
45 |
Laurent Dagorn |
ORSTOM |
Studying tuna school movements, using an
artificial neural network applied to remote-sensing data from
SEAS station and concurrent data from fishing fleets |
|
46 |
Margarita Margolles Sierra |
CICESE |
Age determination of north Pacific albacore,
Thunnus alalunga, based on osseous structures |
|
47 |
Anthony C. Chatwin |
Inst. Ocean., Univ. Săo Paulo |
Estimates of abundance of the little
Atlantic tunny, Euthynnus alletteratus, and the
frigate mackerels, Auxis spp., in southeastern Brazilian
waters |
|
48 |
Gisela Heckel |
UABC |
Evasive behavior of spotted and spinner
dolphins (Stenella attenuata and Stenella
longirostris) during fishing of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus
albacares) in the eastern Pacific Ocean |
|
49 |
Brian Hanrahan |
Univ. of Massachusetts |
Estimating bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus
thynnus) school size from limited observational data |
|
50 |
Brett Falterman |
VIMS |
Population structure of the black marlin,
Makaira indica, inferred from analysis of nuclear and
mitochondrial molecular markers |
|
51 |
Arnaud Bertrand |
IRD |
Influence of prey distribution on tuna
catchability with a longline: a question of scale |
|
52 |
Christelle Ravier |
IFREMER |
Retrospective analysis of historical data
to investigate eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna population dynamics |
|
53 |
Charlotte Girard |
Université de Strasbourg |
FADS: fish aggregating devices or fish
attracting devices? |
|
54 |
Terrence Dammannagoda |
Queensland Univ. of Technology |
Genetic stock structure and inferred
migratory patterns of skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
and yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) stocks around Sri
Lanka |
|
55 |
Andrij. J. Horodysky |
VIMS |
Survival and habitat preferences of white
marlin (Tetrapturus albidus) released from the
western North Atlantic recreational fishery |
|
56 |
Mathieu Doray |
IFREMER |
The distribution and the dynamics of large
pelagic fish aggregations around moored FADS in Martinique
(Lesser Antilles) and their contribution to local fisheries |
|
57 |
Sarah Glaser |
Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
Predation by juvenile albacore in the
California Current System and impacts on growth |
|
58 |
Andreas Walli |
Stanford Univ. |
Estimating feeding from visceral warming in
Pacific bluefin tuna: lab and field measurements |
|
59 |
Ryan W. Schloesser |
Texas A. and M. Univ. |
Natal origin of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus
thynnus) from the Gulf of St. Lawrence based on δ13C
and δ18O in otoliths |
|
60 |
George L. Shillinger |
Stanford Univ. |
Pop-up satellite tags reveal movements and
behaviors of Pacific bluefin tuna in the southern Pacific Ocean |
|
61 |
Brad Smith |
Texas A. and M. Univ. |
Use of nuclear genetic markers and Bayesian genetic clustering
to infer population admixture and neighboring stock bycatch in
Atlantic swordfish (Xiphias gladius) |
|
62 |
C. Anela Choy |
Univ. of Hawaii |
FAT-scinating pelagic fishes: comparing fatty acid biomarker
profiles in Hawaiian surface and deep-dwelling predators |
TABLE 6. Recipient of the American Institute of Fishery Research
Biologists (Southern California chapter) award for the best paper presented
at that conference.
|
Conference |
Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation |
|
48 |
Richard W. Brill |
U.S. NMFS |
How water temperature limits the vertical
movements of pelagic fishes |
TABLE 7. Recipients of the Wildlife Computers, Inc., student
scholarship award.
|
Conference |
Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation |
|
59 |
Chi H. Lam |
Univ. of Southern California |
Using time series analysis techniques to
analyze animal movement data from archival and pop-up archival
tags |
|
60 |
Daniel Dutton |
VIMS |
Habitat
utilization of blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) inferred
from pop-up satellite archival tags and niche partitioning with
other istiophorids |
|
61 |
Daniel Madigan |
Stanford Univ. |
Habitat utilization and trophic ecology of three co-occurring
tuna species in the eastern Pacific Ocean |
|
62 |
Heather Marshall |
Univ. of Massachusetts at Dartmouth |
Habitat utilization and movement patterns of juvenile porbeagle
sharks (Lamna nasus) in the northwest Atlantic |
TABLE 8. Recipient of the Automatic Differentiation Model Builder
student scholarship award.
|
Conference |
Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation |
|
60 |
Eunjung Kim |
Univ. of Hawaii |
Simulating the
effect of FAD density on large scalemovements |
|
61 |
Jordan Watson |
Univ. of Washington |
Trade-offs in the design of fishery closures: silky shark
bycatch management in the eastern Pacific Ocean tuna purse seine
fishery |
TABLE
9. Recipients of the GeoEye student scholarship award.
|
Conference |
Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation |
|
61 |
Megan Bailey |
Univ. of British Columbia |
The cost of
juvenile fishing: by-catch in the western and central Pacific
Ocean tuna purse seine fishery |
|
62 |
Marrianne Robert |
Université Libre de Bruselles |
Tuna in
free-swimming schools are in better condition than those
associated with natural floating objects: why do they associate
with floating objects? |
TABLE
10. Recipient of the Desert Star Systems scholarship award.
|
Conference |
Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation |
|
62 |
Jenny Fenton |
Nova Southeastern University |
Post-release
survival and habitat utilization of juvenile swordfish in the
Florida Straits recreational fishery |
APPENDIX 1
AGENDA FOR SECOND TUNA CONFERENCE
I. Consideration of agenda
II. Review of 1951 program and brief account of fishery of the region
1. Oregon Fish Commission
2. Washington Department of Fisheries
3. Hawaii Division of Fish and Game
4. South Pacific Fishery Investigations (U.S. FWS, Stanford?)
5. Scripps Institution of Oceanography
6. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
7. California Department of Fish and Game
9. Tuna Boat Owners’ Association
III. Methods and results of racial population studies
1. California Department of Fish and Game
2. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (U.S. FWS, Hawaii)
3. Oregon Fish Commission
IV. Methods and results of marking studies
1. U.S. FWS (Seattle)
2. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
V. Methods and results of studies of the distribution in relation to the environment
1. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
VI. Methods and results of spawning studies
1. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
VII. Methods and results of age and growth studies
1. Oregon Fish Commission
2. Hawaii Division of Fish and Game
3. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
4. California Department of Fish and Game
VIII. Methods and results of catch analysis studies
1. Oregon Fish Commission
2. California Department of Fish and Game
3. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
4. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Japanese mothership expedition)
IX. Report of scouting trips
1. South Pacific Fishery Investigations
2. U.S. FWS (Seattle)
3. California Department of Fish and Game
4. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
X. Tuna reaction studies
1. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
XI. Forecast of 1952 program, with recommendations for future research and outlining possible cooperative studies
1. Washington Department of Fisheries
2. Oregon Fish Commission
3. South Pacific Fishery Investigations
4. California Department of Fish and Game
5. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
6. U.S. FWS (Seattle)
7. Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
8. Tuna Boat Owners’ Association
9. Scripps Institution of Oceanography
XII. Standardization and exchange of albacore length-frequency data
XIII. Problems in sampling the commercial catch: how often? how to get random sample?
XIV. Consideration of block number assignment for use in recording areas of tuna catches
XV. Consideration of inviting Latin American representation at future Tuna Conferences
XVI. Consideration of inviting industry representatives to audit future meetings
XVII. Discussion of future Tuna Conference: when, where, chairman?
APPENDIX 2
Manuel Correia Caboz, 1929-1988
The information in this appendix comes from an
obituary published in the San Diego Union on July 10, 1988, notes made by
Dr. Michael G. Hinton when he spoke with Mrs. Názare Caboz in 1990, and data
in the IATTC catch-and-effort statistics files.
Manuel Caboz was born in Madeira, Portugal, on
May 14, 1929. His father moved his family to Venezuela after Manuel
finished high school. Manuel then migrated from Venezuela to the United
States in 1947 or 1948, married Názare Rodrigues, daughter of the captain of
the Sun Victoria, a baitboat with a fish-carrying capacity of 335
metric tons (mt) built in 1937, and then went to work as a crew member on
that vessel. He became a captain for the first time in 1956 aboard the
St. Matthews, a 235-mt baitboat built in 1945. He subsequently became
owner or part-owner of the American Queen, a 445-mt baitboat built in
1949 (converted to a 405-mt purse seiner in 1960); the Jeanette C.,
an 820-mt purse seiner built in 1967; another American Queen, a
1020-mt purse seiner built in 1972; the Nazare Mary, a 950-mt purse
seiner built in 1974; and the Carol Virginia, a 905-mt purse seiner
built in 1980. He died of cancer on July 6, 1988. He was managing owner of
the Carol Virginia at that time.
In spite of his busy schedule, Captain Caboz was
very active in community affairs. He was a member of the Board of Directors
of the American Tunaboat Association, holding various offices in that
organization since 1974. He was one of the founding directors of the U.S.
Tuna Foundation, organized in 1977, which represents the interests of
American canneries and of owners of American tuna vessels. He was also one
of the founders of the Southern California Bank, which was established in
1979, and he was an active member of the St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in
San Diego.
He was survived by his wife, Názare R. Caboz,
and four daughters, three of whom married captains of tuna boats.
Captain Caboz had often expressed his belief in
the importance of a good education, so, in recognition of this, the Caboz
family established the Caboz Memorial Scholarship Fund shortly after his
death. Tuna biologists from all over the world have benefited from this
generous gift. The first scholarship was awarded in 1990.
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