History of the Tuna Conference

HISTORY OF THE TUNA CONFERENCES

William H. Bayliff

Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission

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, http://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

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

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

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

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 Nuñez 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

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. São 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

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

TABLE 8. Recipient of the Automatic Differentiation Model Builder student scholarship award.

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