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In an effort to advance our research and tagging program in the era of AI, in this newsletter we report our first AI-assisted summary of year-to-date results. We used an intelligent assistant built by BundleIQ, ALANI AI, that utilizes artificial intelligence to source and deliver relevant information from data, making it easier to connect the dots and gain insights. To conduct this pilot, we simply uploaded all of our 2025 newsletters (in .pdf format) to the platform and requested the following: "Summarize dolphinfish research and tagging results by month for 2025." Below are the "Key Insights" taken from the 3-page summary provided by ALANI AI. To see the complete un-edited report click here. Within moments, this powerful tool reduced 36-pages of newsletters by 92% to a comprehensive and relevant year-to-date summary.
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Key insights (through July 2025, based on provided documents)- Local residency off PR documented: February satellite-tagged fish (including a bull) showed short-range, return movements; one female remained local before being recaptured in March after 30.2 days with measurable growth—patterns not previously observed for the site in DRP satellite-tag work (20).
- Program momentum: Cumulative tagging totals advanced from 38,181 (May) to 38,765 (late June) to 39,250 (July), with 21 new movements confirmed by late June and the first “beached” satellite tag observation in the W. Central Atlantic, offering rare drift insights (16,18,14,13).
- Management action: New size and bag limits for U.S. Caribbean federal waters take effect July 25, 2025, affecting both dolphinfish and wahoo in PR and the USVI districts (18).
- Population concern signals: A new April study indicates a decline in large dolphinfish off NC, aligning with other recent analyses of declining attributes and with DRP’s observed difficulty finding large satellite-tag candidates in some locales (19).
- Movement corridors: Summer newsletters highlight long-distance connections from Florida to the Mid-Atlantic (e.g., Baltimore Canyon and the Outer Banks), consistent with seasonal northward connectivity patterns highlighted in DRP materials 15,13.
provided by ALANI AI
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Based on these results, our program intends to use ALANI AI to amplify our work and one of the key products is clearly to summarize our research and tag participant results to provide more timely and succinct updates.
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Reported releases from January 1, 2025, to August, 28, 2025, continue to have our program headed for a strong year of data collection throughout the Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Tropical Pacific Oceans. In total, 93 named vessels have tagged and released dolphinfish in 2025! From these tag deployments, 31 new movements have been generated. These movements can be viewed at dolphintagging.com/map.
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August Gulf of America Recapture
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August Rhode Island Recaptures
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August FL to NC Recaptures
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August FL to MAB Recapture
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Support Our Research in 2025
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For the past seven years, we have built a 501(c)(3) known as the Beyond Our Shores Foundation to manage and expand an international tagging program on dolphinfish and focus on other key fisheries research topics throughout the Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Tropical Pacific Oceans. With the support of hundreds of private donors and several key corporate sponsors, the Dolphinfish Research Program continues to compile new movement records and data on dolphinfish in the Western Central Atlantic and Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean. As of today, 39,365 dolphinfish have been tagged for the DRP and 893 recaptures have been recorded. In addition, 132 satellite tags have been deployed on dolphinfish and 11 on wahoo. Collectively, these data have been used to publish 17 scientific articles, and the data is publicly available at dolphintagging.com/map. With two key scientific papers in preparation on detailed regional movement dynamics and catch and effort as well as our ambitious distribution goals this year (400 kits and 5,000 tags), we need your support to achieve these key outcomes. As of today, we have distributed 224
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