Anglers and Stanford scientists track marlins' unusual migration routes
Monday, September 20, 2010 - 07:56
in Biology & Nature
An annual collaboration of Stanford researchers and sport anglers in Hawaii is revealing the long migration paths of the Pacific blue marlin, a large, spectacular fish with a snout shaped like a spear. Electronic tags placed on marlins reveal surprising behavior, including three fish that swam from Hawaii to the Marquesas Islands, a 3,000-kilometer journey south across the equator. Such trans-equatorial migrations are unusual, say researchers, who are eagerly awaiting the data from this summer's tagging.