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This report presents detailed results from the tagging, biopsy sampling, and photo-ID efforts conducted in Hawaii in 2018, as well as results from previous OSU studies of humpback whales in Hawaii from 1995 to 2015. Whale use of Navy training and testing areas as well as their use of NMFS-identified Biologically Important Areas (BIAs) in Hawaii and Alaska is also examined.