From July 20-24, 2009, TOPP researchers led the "Great Marlin Race" as part of the 50th Anniversary celebration for the Hawaiian International Billfish Tournament. A total of seven marlin were tagged with 180-day Pop-up Satellite Tags, and the fish whose tag pops off the furthest from Kona wins. After 96 days, one of the marlin tags popped off southeast of the Marquesas Islands -- 2,225 nautical miles from where it was initially tagged! See the details at www.greatmarlinrace.org.

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