Pelagic fish Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea. The term highly migratory species (HMS) is a legal term which has its origins in Article 64 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). The highly migratory species include: tuna and tuna-like species (albacore, Atlantic bluefin, bigeye tuna, skipjack, yellowfin, blackfin, little tunny, Pacific bluefin, southern bluefin and bullet), pomfret, marlin, sailfish, swordfish, saury and oceangoing sharks, dolphins and other cetaceans. Essentially, highly migratory species coincide with the larger of the "large pelagic fish", discussed in the previous section, if cetaceans are added and some
HMS Skipjack (1808) after having lost her master, Birt Dynely, her mate, and four seamen killed, and two men wounded. "Confiance" took "Duke of Montrose" into Guadeloupe. On 23 August 1808 captured the French privateer schooner "Confiance", of seven guns (though pierced for 16) and 70 men. She was three days out from Cayenne. The Royal Navy took "Confiance" into service as "Skipjack". Lieutenant Thompson commissioned "Skipjack" later that year. In January -February 1810, "Skipjack" participated in the capture of Guadeloupe, which earned for her crew the clasp "Guadaloupe" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all