Identifying pelagic habitat hotspots of neon flying squid in the temperate waters of the central North Pacific

• Main Authors: Alabia, Irene D., Saitoh, Sei Ichi, Mugo, Robinson, Igarashi, Hiromichi, Ishikawa, Yoichi, Usui, Norihisa, Kamachi, Masafumi, Awaji, Toshiyuki, Seito, Masaki
• Other Authors: 淡路, 敏之, アワジ, トシユキ
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: Oyashio; Pacific; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2433/210354

We identified the pelagic habitat hotspots of the neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii) in the central North Pacific from May to July and characterized the spatial patterns of squid aggregations in relation to oceanographic features such as mesoscale oceanic eddies and the Transition Zone Chlor...