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Tuna tracking (or I need a CC to take me to the Flemish Cap!)
I got this image from another site but it is truely remarkable. I have read a couple of Dr. Block papers and she is doing some great work. If you google Dr. Block Stanford tuna you will find a bunch of interesting stuff about tracking these great fish. She has lots of great plots of tuna tracking if you look around.
The image below is the path from a single fish. As I understand it, it was tagged off NC and it swam to the flemish and cruised the region then it went to the med, the mid atlantic then to the bahamas, the next year it went back to the flemish cap again. (I gotta go there sometime in my life!) Then it went back to the med, where it was trapped, they get the tag reward and Dr. Block goes to the med dives on the fish and removes the tag and lets it go free. Amazing eh?
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