330 NOAA First U.S. Commissioner National Marine Fishery Bulletin established 1881 of Fisheries and founder Fisheries Service of Fishery Bulletin Abstract—Fishing locations for Pa- cific saury (Cololabis saira) obtained Predicting potential fishing zones for Pacific from images of the Operational saury (Cololabis saira) with maximum entropy Linescan System (OLS) of the U.S. Defense Meteorological Satellite models and remotely sensed data Program, together with maximum entropy models and satellite-based 1,2 oceanographic data of chlorophyll- Achmad F. Syah (contact author) a concentration (chl-a), sea-surface Sei-Ichi Saitoh1,3 temperature (SST), eddy kinetic en- Irene D. Alabia3 ergy (EKE), and sea-surface height 1 anomaly (SSHA), were used to evalu- Toru Hirawake ate the effects of oceanographic con- ditions on the formation of potential Email address for contact author:
[email protected] fishing zones (PFZ) for Pacific saury and to explore the spatial variabil- 1 Laboratory of Marine Environment and Resource Sensing ity of these features in the western Faculty of Fisheries Sciences North Pacific. Actual fishing regions Hokkaido University were identified as the bright areas 3-1-1 Minato-cho created by a 2-level slicing method Hakodate 041-8611, Japan for OLS images collected August–De- 2 Department of Marine Science cember during 2005–2013. The re- University of Trunojoyo Madura sults from a Maxent model revealed Jalan Raya Telang its potential for predicting the spa- P.O. Box 2 Kamal tial distribution of Pacific saury and Bangkalan-Madura, Indonesia highlight the use of multispectral 3 Arctic Research Center satellite images for describing PFZs.