Background: The Tagging of Pacific Pelagics (TOPP) research program is a collaboration among scientists from around the world, aimed at understanding the migration patterns of large, open-ocean animals in the North Pacific Ocean.

A poster profiling the latest data from the TOPP program was needed for display at the Census of Marine Life's 'Ocean Life: The Known, Unknown, and Unknowable' press conference held in Washington, D.C. in October, 2003.