"Operations conducted off the Kona coast included daytime surface net tows targeting billfish eggs and larvae 2-14 nmi off the Kona coast of the Island of Hawaii using a 1.8-m wide Isaacs-Kidd (IK) trawl and morning safeboat operations to dip-net and observe billfish larvae in surface slicks. Night operations consisted of performing conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) casts at predetermined transect positions and conducting acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) transects along and off the Kona coast. A cooperative agreement between Syd Kraul and Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC) was again arranged in an attempt to raise IK-collected billfish eggs to hatching and first feeding at Kraul's rearing facility on the Island of Hawaii"--Type of operation.

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)