Gallery - Central Pacific #6

Sixth Central Pacific cruise in October 2011 in Tonga, Kiribati and Wallis & Futuna waters.

Collecting stomachs
Collecting stom...
Crew and scientist collecting stomach, muscle and liver s...
Tagging blocks
Tagging blocks
Scientist and crew filling tagging blocks (100 tags in ea...
Juvenile BET
Juvenile BET
Crew and tagger handling a juvenile bigeye tuna caught us...
Dart tag
Dart tag
Conventional tagging: the dart tag is insert behind the s...
Release
Release
Juvenile bigeye tuna tagged and released from the stern o...
Around a TAO
Around a TAO
Circling around a TAO buoy which acts as a fish aggregati...
Juvenile YFT
Juvenile YFT
A tagged juvenile yellowfin tuna about to be released.
Mid-ship tagging
Mid-ship taggin...
Fore ground: Cruise leader standing in front of the archi...
Echo sounder
Echo sounder
Echo sounder showing a large bigeye tuna aggregation unde...
 
 
 

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