NovaScotia TunaCharters

Beautiful day on the water nice big tuna

Nova Scotia lobster is booming, but it may get too hot to handle | The Star The Atlantic Ocean warming that helped create a lobster haven may soon push them out – or even cause mass deaths of the crustacean.

Tagging sheds light on Atlantic bluefin tuna’s time in Gulf of St. Lawrence | The Chronicle Herald A 10-year study into where Atlantic bluefin tuna are moving in the ocean is providing information on the movements of the fish, and has shown the effectiveness of using underwater receivers to track them and other species. A team of researchers,

Rough Rider heading for another season 2019.

Dr. Tim Lam is back from the Madrid ICCAT meeting to plan a workshop on bluefin reproduction and early life history science. In 2015, LPRC scientists lowered the age of sexual maturity of "western" bluefin tuna with Dr. Gilad Heinisch's PhD work. Jessie Knapp's PhD work showed similar fecundity & habits of W. spawners with Med spawners. Earlier, we predicted the existence and likely importance of Atlantic spawning grounds based on our ecology and tagging results. Finally, NEFSC collaborators confirmed Atlantic spawning grounds by finding those larvae. It took 20+ years to get that independent ("controversial!" ) science done. We hope that US HMS and ICCAT support progressive thinking as well as next steps necessary to obtain full understanding. LPRC thanks ICCAT leadership for inviting us to participate in this important meeting. We look forward to progress and exploration for this "last frontier" for Atlantic bluefin science. We will need your support for that campaign!