Waldron, K.D. 1962. Synopsis of biological data on 

 skipjack Katsuwonus pelamis (Linnaeas) 1758 (Pa- 

 cific Ocean) . In H . Rosa, Jr. (editor). Proceed- 

 ings of the world scientific meeting on the biol- 

 ogy of tunas and related species, La Jolla, Cali- 

 fornia, U.S.A., p. 695-748. FAO Fish. Rep. 6. 



A generalized review of skipjack habitat. 



KEY WORDS: tuna, skipjack, distribution, 

 currents, temperature. El Nino. 



Walsh, J.J. 1978. The biological consequences of 

 interaction of the climatic. El Nino, and event 

 scales of variability in the eastern tropical Pa- 

 cific. Rapp. P.-V. Reun. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer 

 173:182-192. 



An analysis of biological response to climat- 

 ic. El Nino, and event scales of variability 

 for the eastern tropical Pacific. Suggested 

 that marine communities respond to global 

 oscillations at climatic time scales by geo- 

 graphic relocation of their centers of abun- 

 dance. Man's impact is superimposed upon 

 natural stresses. 



KEY WORDS: oceanography, meteorology, wind, 

 temperature, atmospheric pressure, enrich- 

 ment , feed . 



Williams, F. 1970. Sea surface temperature and the 

 distribution and apparent abundance of skipjack 

 ( Katsuwonus pelamis ) in the eastern Pacific Ocean, 

 1951-1968. [In Engl, and Span.] Inter-Am. Trop. 

 Tuna Comm. Bull. 15:231-281. 



The paper contains a 20-year continuous plot 

 of selected isotherms and skipjack 

 occurrences along the Pacific coast of the 

 Americas. Author reviewed the coastal 

 oceanographic annual regime, and anomalies 

 from 1949-68, plus usual seasonal trends and 

 outstanding/noteworthy events in that period. 



KEY WORDS: tunas, skipjack, temperature, 

 distribution, abundance, catch, season, 

 oceanography. 



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