by Bethany Smith | Sep 9, 2022
For years, researchers tagged fish with acoustic pingers, but could these pings signal to marine mammals that food is nearby? With the help of SeaWorld, we discovered what marine mammals could hear. Read more
by Bethany Smith | Sep 9, 2022
The opening of our white seabass hatchery in Carlsbad, CA, greatly expanded our replenishment program. Since our first tagged and released white seabass in 1986, we have tagged and released over 2,700,000 juvenile white seabass as part of our ocean replenishment...
by Bethany Smith | Sep 9, 2022
For the first time, we used satellite-linked radio telemetry to document the geographic and vertical movements of whale sharks, tracking their migration from the Gulf of California to the north Pacific Ocean. Read more
by Bethany Smith | Sep 8, 2022
In the first research project ever conducted by the Institute, we worked with the California Department of Fish & Game to tag albacore and bluefin tuna along the California coast. This 10-year research was the first time these fish had been tagged for tracking in...
by Bethany Smith | Sep 8, 2022
Through tagging and tracking in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, we discovered migration patterns of dolphins. This migratory data was later used to inform dolphin-free tuna standards created in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Read...