Fish, Birds, and Mammals of the Open Ocean

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Voyagers of the Pacific encounter animal life at sea. Some of these are strictly pelagic, roaming the open ocean; some of the fish and mammals return to near shore waters to breed and nurse their youngs; some birds breed and raise their young on land, but spend most of their adult lives at sea; some birds fish at sea during the day, but return to land at night to sleep.

Pelagic: living in open seas or oceans rather than near-shore waters; from the Greek word pelagikos, "ocean."

Fish	Birds	Mammals
'Ahi (Yellow-fin Tuna)	'A (Booby)	Nai'a (Dolphin)
Aku (Blue-fin Tuna)	'Iwa (Frigate Bird)	Whale
A'u (Billfish)	Ko'ae (Tropic Bird)
Mahimahi (Dolphin Fish)	Manu Ka'upu (Albatross)
Malolo (Flying Fish)	Manu-o-Ku (White Tern)
Mano (Shark)	Noio (Noddy Tern)
Ono (Wahoo)	Shearwater
	Storm-Petrel

Sources of Information

Carwardine, Mark, et al. Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises. Nature Company and Time-Life Books 1998.

Harrison, Craig S. Seabirds of Hawaii: Natural History and Conservation. Cornell University Press 1990.

Pratt, Douglas, Phillip L. Bruner, and Delwyn G. Berret. A Field Guide to The Birds of Hawaii and the Tropical Pacific. Princeton University Press 1987.

Rizzuto, Jim. Fishing Hawaii Style, Vol. 2. Honolulu: Fishing Hawaii Style, Ltd. 1987.

Titcomb, Margaret. Native Use of Fish in Hawaii. Honolulu: UH Press, 1972.