Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Fisheries

Decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated?

  • Brief Communications Arising
  • Published:

From Nature

View current issue Submit your manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Figure 1: Tuna catch per unit effort (CPUE) in the Pacific Ocean.

References

  1. Myers, R. A. & Worm, B. Nature 423, 280–283 (2003).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

  2. Brill, R. W. & Lutcavage, M. E. Am. Fish. Soc. Symp. 25, 179–198 (2001).

    Google Scholar 

  3. Sakagawa, G. T., Coan, A. L. & Bartoo, N. W. Mar. Fish. Rev. 49, 57–66 (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Bigelow, K. A., Hampton, J. & Miyabe, N. Fish. Oceanogr. 11, 143–155 (2002).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Hampton, J. & Fournier, D. Mar. Freshwat. Res. 52, 937–963 (2001).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Maunder, M. N. & Watters, G. Inter-Am. Trop. Tuna Comm. Bull. 23, 433–582 (2003).

    Google Scholar 

  7. Hampton, J. & Kleiber, P. Stock Assessment of Yellowfin Tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (16th Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, 2003). http://www.spc.int/OceanFish/Html/SCTB/SCTB16/yft1.pdf

    Google Scholar 

  8. Hampton, J., Kleiber, P., Takeuchi, Y., Kurota, H. & Maunder, M. N. Stock Assessment of Bigeye Tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, with Comparisons to the Entire Pacific Ocean (16th Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, 2003). http://www.spc.int/OceanFish/Html/SCTB/SCTB16/bet1.pdf

    Google Scholar 

  9. Kleiber, P., Hinton, M. & Uozumi, Y. Mar. Freshwat. Res. 54, 349–360 (2003).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Labelle, M. & Hampton, J. Stock Assessment of Albacore Tuna in the South Pacific Ocean (16th Meeting of the Standing Committee on Tuna and Billfish, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Noumea, New Caledonia, 2003). http://www.spc.int/OceanFish/Html/SCTB/SCTB16/alb1.pdf

    Google Scholar 

  11. Maunder, M. N. & Harley, S. J. Inter-Am. Trop. Tuna Comm., Stock Assessment Report 4, 5–119 (2004). http://www.iattc.org/StockAssessmentReportsENG.htm

    Google Scholar 

  12. Harley, S. J. & Maunder, M. N. Inter-Am. Trop. Tuna Comm. Stock Assessment Report 4, 120–286 (2004). http://www.iattc.org/StockAssessmentReportsENG.htm

    Google Scholar 

  13. Lehodey, P., Chai, F. & Hampton, J. Fish. Oceanogr. 12, 483–494 (2003).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. Ravier, C. & Fromentin, J.-M. Fish. Oceanogr. 13, 145–160 (2004).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Chavez, F. P., Ryan, J., Lluch-Cota, S. E. & Ñiquen, C. Science 299, 217–221 (2003).

    Article  ADS  CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Oceanic Fisheries Programme, Secretariat of the Pacific Community, BP D5, Noumea, 98848, New Caledonia

    John Hampton

  2. Pelagic Fisheries Research Program, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 96822, Hawaii, USA

    John R. Sibert

  3. National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Honolulu, 96822-2396, Hawaii, USA

    Pierre Kleiber

  4. Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, La Jolla, 92037-1508, California, USA

    Mark N. Maunder & Shelton J. Harley

Authors
  1. John Hampton
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. John R. Sibert
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Pierre Kleiber
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Mark N. Maunder
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Shelton J. Harley
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to John Hampton.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Hampton, J., Sibert, J., Kleiber, P. et al. Decline of Pacific tuna populations exaggerated?. Nature 434, E1–E2 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03581

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03581

  • Springer Nature Limited

This article is cited by

Search

Navigation