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Thursday
Mar052015

Tagging tuna in the deep ocean

Filmed April 2010 at Mission Blue Voyage.

Tuna are ocean athletes — fast, far-ranging predators whose habits we're just beginning to understand. Marine biologist Barbara Block fits tuna with tracking tags (complete with transponders) that record unprecedented amounts of data about these gorgeous, threatened fish and the ocean habitats they move through.

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