California Current Ecosystem Component: Highly Migratory Species

Highly migratory species (HMS) managed on the west coast by NOAA include the central-western Pacific fisheries for yellowfin, skipjack and bigeye tuna, south Pacific albacore, and north Pacific albacore, bluefin tuna, sharks and billfish. Indicator selection and status assessment for this focal component of the California current ecosystem remains to be completed, although several studies have begun to investigate management scenarios under changing climate (see below).