Jane Stevens, in Berkeley, CA - Check out "Tagging of Pacific Predators" on KQED-TV's QUEST!

George Shillinger, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA -- A couple of weeks ago, Flat Ava and Flat Joe arrived at the Hopkins Marine Station safe and sound after their long journey from the 4th grade class at Catherine Cook School in Chicago.

Jane Stevens, at Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA - Two stories appeared recently about the plight of bluefin tuna, one in the Christian Science Monitor and on 60 Minutes, and on one of the stories on the radio series, Islaearth, Barb Block's Atlantic bluefin tagging program was featured.

It's not a pretty picture that 60 Minutes and the Christian Science Monitor painted. Here's the rundown; they're worth a read, a look and a listen.

Jane Stevens in Monterey Bay. This just in, from a quick phone call from George Shillinger, who's on his way back from New Zealand. In the last posting he sent, he was getting ready to jump on a small sport fishing boat and head out 70 nautical miles from Greymouth to shadow the hoki trawlers for bluefin. The short story is that he tagged a dozen giant bluefin tuna, including a thousand-pound fish, the largest that the skipper, a veteran of 20 years' fishing in those waters, had ever seen.

George Shillinger, from New Zealand. Great news --- We are heading out tonight!

George Shillinger, from New Zealand. Well, it's sunny today -- a miracle in very grey Greymouth!

George Shillinger, from New Zealand. I arrived in Greymouth on the 9th and am organizing gear right now. At the moment we are dealing with some bad weather.

Barbara Block, at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station. The disappearing populations of bluefin tuna were once so plentiful in the North Sea that their carcasses filled f