Slide 1: Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans): Off the coast of Costa Rica
Photo by Guy Harvey
Slide 2: White marlin (Kajikia albida): With a pop-up satellite tag off Venezuela
Photo by Guy Harvey
Slide 3: White marlin (Kajikia albida): With a pop-up satellite tag off Venezuela.
Photo by Guy Harvey
Slide 4: White marlin (Kajikia albida): With a pop-up satellite tag off Virginia.
Photo by Ken Neill
Slide 5: Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus): Feeding on small sardines off Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
Photo by John Graves
Slide 6: Sailfish (Istiophorus platypterus): Off Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
Photo by Guy Harvey
Slide 7: Blue Marlin (Makaira nigricans): John Graves administering satellite tag off of Venezuela
Photo by Bill Watts
Slide 8: Blue Marlin (Makaira nigricans): With a pop-up satellite tag off Venezuela.
Photo by Bill Watts
Slide 9: White marlin (Kajikia albida): Graduate student Emily Loose off Virginia.
Photo by Ken Neill
Slide 10: Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans): Off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
Photo by Guy Harvey
Slide 11: White marlin (Kajikia albida): Graduate student Ben Marcek catching a white marlin off Virginia.
Photo by Ken Neill
Slide 12: White marlin (Kajikia albida): Graduate student Ben Marcek off Virginia.
Photo by Ken Neill
Slide 13: Red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus): Angler Tricia Neill holding a red drum tagged with a pop-up satellite tag in Chesapeake Bay.
Photo by Ken Neill
Slide 14: Striped bass (Morone saxatilis): John Graves holding a striped bass with a pop-up satellite tag off the coast of Virginia.
Photo by Ken Neill
Slide 15: Striped bass (Morone saxatilis): With a pop-up satellite tag off the coast of Virginia.
Photo by Ken Neill
Slide 16: Baby Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus): Off the coast of Virginia
Photo by Ken Neill
Pelagic Fishes
- PDF: Slide 1: Graves et al. 2002
- PDF: Slide 2: Horodysky et al. 2007
- PDF: Slide 3: Horodysky and Graves 2005
- PDF: Slide 4: Graves and Horodysky 2008
- PDF: Slides 5 & 6: Kerstetter and Graves 2008
- PDF: Slides 7 & 8: Graves and Horodysky 2010
- PDF: Slide 10: Graves et al. 2002
- PDF: Slide 15: Graves et al. 2009
- PDF: Slide 16: Dickhut et al. 2009
Pelagic fishes support important commercial and recreational fisheries throughout the world’s oceans. Effective management of these international resources requires solid scientific advice. For the past several years we have undertaken a variety of investigations that address specific management issues of pelagic species, and we have been proactive in providing the results of our studies to management agencies at the national and international levels. A major focus of our research has been to quantify post-release mortality for a variety of pelagic fishes caught on pelagic longline and recreational fishing gears, with a goal developing means to reduce bycatch mortality.
Current Studies
- Use of organochlorine tracer analysis to determine the magnitude and temporal variation of mixing rates of eastern and western school size bluefin tuna in the western Atlantic recreation fishery for school bluefin tuna. (with Dr. Rebecca Dickhut, Department of Physical Sciences, VIMS). Funded by National Marine Fisheries Service.
- Post-release mortality of juvenile bluefin tuna caught in the western North Atlantic recreational fishery: estimating the impact of the troll fishery for school size fish. Funded by Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation
- Habitat utilization of white marlin and roundscale spearfish in the western North Atlantic. Funded by Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation.
Previous Studies
Post-release survival
- Blue marlin
- Pelagic longline fishery
- Recreational
fishery
- Bermuda troll fishery
- Circle hooks and J hooks with natural baits
- White marlin
- Pelagic longline fishery
- Recreational
fishery
- Circle hooks and J hooks with natural baits
- Three models of circle hooks with natural baits
- Sailfish
- Pelagic longline fishery
Catch rates of circle hooks and J hooks in the pelagic longline fishery
- U.S. Atlantic fishery
- Brazilian equatorial fishery
- Venezuelan live bait fishery
