Runcie et al. publish on Bluefin tuna habitat preference derived from three different fisheries in Fisheries Oceanography

Not all fisheries dependent data tell the same story. Runcie et al. 2018 in Fisheries Oceanography shows how different fisheries and different gears show different preferences when fit with habitat models. It highlights an inherent difficulty in understanding the underlying habitat of a highly migratory predator from spatially restricted datasets.

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