Editing Albacore (section)

==Migration==
A highly migratory species, schools of albacore travel great distances, though Atlantic and Pacific populations do not appear to mix.<ref name=fao/> North Pacific albacore migrate to two regions of the Northeast Pacific: one off the northern part of [[Baja California]], Mexico, and the other off the coasts of [[Washington (state)|Washington]] and [[Oregon]].<ref name=childers/> Every summer, North Atlantic albacore head to the [[Bay of Biscay]] off of [[France]] and [[Spain]], but now arrive about 8 days earlier than they did 40 years ago.<ref name=dufour>{{cite journal|last=Dufour|first=Florence|author2=Haritz Arrizabalaga |author3=Xabier Irigoien |author4=Josu Santiago|title=Climate impacts on albacore and bluefin tunas migrations phenology and spatial distribution.|journal=Progress in Oceanography|date=July 2010|volume=86|issue=1/2|pages=283–290|doi=10.1016/j.pocean.2010.04.007|bibcode=2010PrOce..86..283D}}</ref>

Since the 1970s the [[NOAA]] Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC) has collaborated with [[American Fishermen's Research Foundation]] (AFRF) in tagging studies of albacore in the North Pacific. Through these studies we have learned that juvenile albacore (to 2 years of age) make trans-Pacific migrations in their younger years between Japan and the West coast of North America. To date over 24,000 albacore have been tagged with conventional dart tags and 1,245 of these have been recovered. In Spring of 2001 AFRF and the SWFSC began a pilot project to learn more about the migration habits of North Pacific albacore, ''Thunnus alalunga'' in an effort to allow the incorporation of detailed migration movements into stock assessment models. Archival tags are a recent technical innovation that are being used to collect daily locations (through light level data recorded by the tag), internal temperature of the fish's abdomen, ambient water temperature, and depth.<ref>{{cite web|author=Southwest Fisheries Science Center|title=Albacore Archival Tagging|url=https://swfsc.noaa.gov/textblock.aspx?Division=FRD&id=1194|website=swfsc.noaa.gov|publisher=National Oceanic and Atmospheric Atministration|access-date=March 15, 2015}}</ref> Genetic research using [[Restriction site associated DNA markers|ddRAD]] sequencing indicates that albacore migrate between the North and South Pacific oceans across the equator.<ref name="Vaux-2021">{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/eva.13202 |title=Adaptive markers distinguish North and South Pacific Albacore amid low population differentiation |journal=Evolutionary Applications |volume=14 |issue=5 |pages=1343–1364 |year=2021 |last1=Vaux|first1=Felix |last2=Bohn|first2=Sandra |last3=Hyde|first3=John R. |last4=O'Malley |first4=Kathleen G. |pmid=34025772 |pmc=8127716 |doi-access=free|bibcode=2021EvApp..14.1343V }}</ref>