Conventional and electronic tagging approaches have provided
useful information regarding the movements and habitat utilization
of individual wahoo in certain regions. As these studies are
often expensive and labour-intensive to conduct, it is challenging
to tag a large enough sample size to draw conclusions about the
regional or global stock structure of wahoo. If conventional tagging
studies are undertaken regularly over a long time frame, they
may be particularly useful for determining natural mortality of a
species (Maunder et al., 2010). Therefore, with careful consideration
of research design, long-term tagging studies may be useful for
wahoo stock assessments. However, due to their expense, they are
likely to be outside the scope of most research programs.