Tagging tuna in the deep ocean
Thursday, March 5, 2015 at 12:00AM
El Guapo in Film and Video, Science, Species, bluefin tuna, fish science, ted talks

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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