This inaugural report details the findings of the 2023 Pacific Islands Region Ichthyoplankton Survey, the most geographically expansive survey of its kind in the Hawaiian Archipelago to date. The study was conducted in collaboration with the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center's (PIFSC) Pelagic Research Program, PIFSC's Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS), and members of the Papahānaumokuākea Native Hawaiian Cultural Working Group (CWG). The goal of this report is to characterize larval distributions for managed coastal and pelagic fish species.
Schmidt et al. (Fri,) studied this question.