Cruise report, NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, Cruise SE-09-03 (SE-71), April 19-30, 2009, Main Hawaiian Islands, Kohala-Kona Coast of Big Island NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette, Cruise SE-09-03 (SE-71), April 19-30, 2009, Main Hawaiian Islands, Kohala-Kona Coast of Big Island

"National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), NOAA conducted trawling and handline fishing operations for juvenile bottomfish and larval billfish in the waters along portions of the Kohala, Kona and Kau Coasts off the Island of Hawaii (Fig. 1). Daytime operations included surface net tows using a 1.8-m Isaacs-Kidd (IK) trawl and small boat operations including handline bottomfishing and dip netting in surface slicks. Night operations consisted of Cobb midwater trawl for epipelagic and pelagic juvenile reef and bottomfish species and conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) casts at predetermined locations"--Type of operation. U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center. "Issued 28 September 2009." System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. 2009 NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) PIFSC (Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center) Library Public Domain 1861