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GSCRAMBLE: Simulation of admixed individuals without reuse of genetic material Anderson, Eric C., Rachael M. Giglio, Matthew G. DeSaix, and Timothy J. Smyser Molecular Ecology Resources

Mysteries surrounding the Hector's Dolphin holotype Electra hectori P.-J. Van Beneden, 1881 Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Koen Van Waerebeek, and Robert Ewan Fordyce New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Worldwide appraisal of knowledge gaps in the space usage of small pelagic fish: Highlights across stock uncertainties and research priorities Catalan, Ignacio, et al. Reviews in Fisheries Science and Aquaculture

Incorporating local information to predict thermal stress for diverse species FitzGerald, Alyssa Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Composition and functional diversity of juvenile groundfish assemblages in the California Current Gasbarro, Ryan, Jarrod A. Santora, Megan Cimino, Adena Schonfeld, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Brian K. Wells, and John C. Field Journal of Biogeography

Is AI your fishy friend? Hazen, Elliott L. Fisheries

Thomas James (Mac) McIntyre (1940-2024) [obituary] Heaney, Lawrence R., Robert L. Brownell Jr., Robert P. McIntyre, Charles W. Potter, Duane A. Schlitter, and Robert M. Timm Journal of Mammalogy

Assessing total mortality following seabird wrecks given variable data quantity and quality: the Cassin's auklet die-off Jones, Timothy, Julia K. Parrish, Parker MacCready, Lisa T. Ballance, David W. Bradley, Hillary K. Burgess, Jane E. Dolliver, James T. Harvey, Trevor Joyce, Kirsten Lindquist, Jacqueline Lindsey, Hannarose M. Nevins, Jan Roletto, Laurie Wilson, and Charlie Wright Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Eco-evolutionary consequences of selective exploitation on metapopulations illustrated with Atlantic salmon Lamarins, Amaia, Stephanie M. Carlson, Etienne Prevost, William H. Satterthwaite, and Mathieu Buoro Fish and Fisheries

Development of a microhaplotype panel for steelhead/rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and application for phylogenetic analysis in California Le Gall, Ronan, Moe Barthelemy, Anthony J. Clemento, Cassondra D. Columbus, Ellen Campbell, Elena C.A. Correa, Jeff A. Rodzen, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Conservation Genetics Resources

Capture-recapture estimates of Antarctiv blue whale abundance and population growth rate Olson, Paula A., Douglas Kinzey, Michael C. Double, Koji Matsuoka, and Ken Findlay Marine Mammal Science

Population genetic structure of the bottlenose dolphin in the Turkish waters based on mtDNA sequences with implications for the Black Sea subspecies Tursiops truncatus ponticus Tonay, Arda M., et al. Mitochondrial DNA Part A

Temporal dynamics and distributions of sardine and anchovy in the southern California Current Ecosystem Tran, Bryant, Andrew D. Barton, Barbara Muhling, Brice X. Semmens, Brad Erisman, Matthew T. Craig, Sylvia Patricia Adelhid Jimenez-Rosenberg, Gerardo Aceves-Medina, and Andrew Thompson Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Processes that influence bottom temperatures in the California Current System Alexander, M.A., J.D. Scott, M.G. Jacox, D.J. Amaya, and L.M. Wilczynski Journal of Geophysical Research - Oceans

Evaluating the robustness of generalized additive models as a tool for threshold detection in variable environments Detmer, A. Raine, et al. Ecosphere

Comparing fishery-independent and fishery-dependent data to characterize West Coast groundfish populations Dodgen, Rose, Melissa Monk, Grant Waltz, and Dean Wendt Marine and Coastal Fisheries

Reconstructing salmon growth trajectories through biochronologies across a highly variable growthscape Evans, Kimberly, George Whitman, Malte Willmes, Eric Holmes, Flora Cordoleani, Carson Jeffres, and Rachel C. Johnson Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Evaluating the potential to quantify salmon habitat via UAS-based particle image velecimetry Harrison, Lee, Carl Legleiter, Brandon Overstreet, and James White Water Resources Research

Early evidence for establishment of a Chinook salmon population in a restored watershed Hitt, Lauren G., Malte Willmes, George Whitman, Mackenzie C. Miner, Carson Jeffres, Rachel C. Johnson, Dennis E Cocherell, Nann A. Fangue, and Andrew L. Rypel Ecosphere

Applications of species distribution modeling and future needs to support marine resource management Karp, Melissa A., Megan Cimino, J. Kevin Craig, Daniel P. Crear, Christopher Haak, Elliott L. Hazen, Isaac Kaplan, Donald Kobayashi, Hassan Moustahfid, Barbara Muhling, Malin Pinsky, Laurel A. Smith, James T. Thorson, and Phoebe A. Woodworth-Jefcoats ICES Journal of Marine Science

The role of kinship in shaping cetacean societies Parsons, K.M., M. Krutzen, L. Gerber, E. Jourdain, C.M. Konrad Clarke, K.K. Martien, and A.D. Foote In: D. Croft et al. (eds.), The evolution of cetacean societies. University of Chicago Press.

Springtime upwelling conditions influence microbial communities and dissolved thiamin compounds in the California Current Ecosystem Shannon, Kelly C., Gillian St. John, Robin Gould, Christopher Hartzell, Hailey Matthews, Elizabeth J. Brennan, Luis M. Bolanos, Steven T. Lindley, John C. Field, Nate Mantua, Rachel Johnson, Carson Jeffres, Frederick S. Colwell, and Christopher P. Suffridge Limnology and Oceanography

What's in a name? Consumer preferences and premiums for distinct sustainability aspects of tuna Wallmo, Kristy, and Rosemary Kosaka Coastal Management

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Watters, Diana (ed.), Joe Bizzarro, E.J. Dick, John Field, Tom Laidig, Melissa Monk, Nick Wegner, and William Watson In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: Annual meeting of the TSC (2024). Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Long-distance winter migrations of chinstrap penguins and elephant seals to a persistent bloom at the edge of the Ross Gyre Wilson, C., J.T. Hinke, and M. Mazloff Scientific Reports

Multiple pathways of visual adaptations for water column usages in an Antarctic adaptive radiation Yoder, E., E. Parker, B. Frederich, A. Tew, C.D. Jones, and A. Dornburg Ecology and Evolution

Linking projected changes in seasonal climate predictability and ENSO amplitude Amaya, Dillon J., Nicola Maher, Clara Deser, Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Matthew Newman, Juliana Dias, and Jiale Lou Journal of Climate 38(3):675-688

Mesopelagic fish traits: Functions and trade-offs Andresen, Henrike, Leandro Nole Eduardo, M. Pilar Olivar, P. Daniel van Denderen, Jerome Spitz, Aurore A. Maureaud, Anik Brind'Amour, Noelle M. Bowlin, Eva Garcia-Seoane, Tom J. Langbehn, Tracy T. Sutton, Heino O. Fock, Anne Gro V. Salvanes, and Martin Lindegren Fish and Fisheries 26(1):83-103

Growth of juvenile red abalone (Haliotis rufescens) co-cultivated with two densities of warty sea cucumber (Apostichopus parvimensis) Bauer, Jeremie, Rodrigo Beas-Luna, Ricardo Searcy-Bernal, Fiorenza Michell, Leonardo Vazquez-Vera, Charles Boch, Eugenio Carpizo-Ituarte, Fabiola Lafarga-De la Cruz, Gabriela Montano-Moctezuma, and Julio Lorda New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 59(1):183-197

Elephant seals as ecosystem sentinels for the northeast Pacific Ocean twilight zone Beltran, Roxanne S., Allison R. Payne, A. Marm Kilpatrick, Conner M. Hale, Madison Reed, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Joffrey Jouma'a, Patrick W. Robinson, Emma Houle, Wade Matern, Alea Sabah, Kathryn Lewis, Samantha Sebandal, Allison, Coughlin, Natalia Valdes Heredia, Francesca Penny, Sophie Rose Dalrymple, Heather Penny, Meghan Sherrier, Ben Peterson, Joanne Reiter, Burney J. Le Boeuf, Daniel P. Costa Science 387(6735):764-769

Multi-decade northward shift of loggerhead sea turtle pelagic habitat as the eastern North Pacific Transition Zone becomes more oligotrophic Briscoe, Dana K., Larry B. Crowder, George H. Balazs, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Alberto Abreu, Catherine A. Lee Hing, Masanori Kurita, Masanori Mori, Denise M. Parker, Marc R. Rice, Tomomi Saito, Bianca S. Santos, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Noah Yamaguchi, and Jeffrey J. Polina Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1513162 (13 p.)

In memoriam: Dmitry Tormosov 1937-2024 Clapham, Phillip J., Vladimir N. Burkanov, Yulia V. Ivashchenko, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Marine Mammal Science 41(1):e13205 (3 p.)

The subpopulation problem in Pacific sardine, revisited Craig, Matthew T., Brad E. Erisman, Ella S. Adams-Herrmann, Kelsey C. James, and Andrew R. Thompson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-713. 65 p.

Spectacled porpoise Phocoena dioptrica Lahille, 1912 Dellabianca, Natalia A., Paula A. Olson, and Robert L. Brownell, Jr. In: Thomas A. Jefferson (ed.), Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1: Coastal dolphins and porpoises, p. 519-535. Academic Press.

Consumer- and seaweed-specific impacts of invasion-mediated changes to detrital subsidies on rocky shores DeSantiago, Ricardo, Wendi K. White, John R. Hyde, Katherine M. Swiney, and Jeremy D. Long Ecosphere 16(2):e70165 (12 p.)

Systematic review of somatic growth patterns in relation to population structure for Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) along the Pacific Coast of North America Erisman, Brad, Matthew Craig, Kelsey James, Brittany Schwartzkopf, and Emmanis Dorval U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-708. 67 p.

A collaborative climate vulnerability assessment of California marine fishery species Frawley, Timothy, Mikaela Provost, Lyall Bellquist, Noah Ben-Aderet, Hannah Blondin, Stephanie Brodie, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Michael Jacox, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Huff McGonigal, and Kirsten Ramey PLOS Climate 4(2):e0000574 (32 p.)

Integrating landscapes of fear and energy reveals the behavioural strategies that shape predator-prey interactions Gil, Michael A., Cyril J. Michel, Simone Olivetti, Vamsi Sridharan, and Andrew M. Hein Ecology Letters 28(2):e70068 (12 p.)

Status, trends and conservation of global sea turtle populations Hays, Graeme C., Jacques-Olivier Laloe, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Nature Reviews Biodiversity 1(2):119-133

Long-term population trend of northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) in the California Current system Hinchliffe, Charles, Peter T. Kuriyama, Andre E. Punt, John C. Field, Andrew R. Thompson, Jarrod A. Santora, Barbara A. Muhling, Stefan Koenigstein, Pierre-Yves Hernvann, and Desiree Tommasi ICES Journal of Marine Science 82(1):fsae177 (17 p.)

Identifying the influence of hydroclimatic factors on streamflow: A multi-model data driven approach Islam, Khandaker Iftekharul, and James Matthew Gilbert Journal of Hydrology 652:132684 (22 p.)

Environment-driven trends in larval abundance predict fishery recruitment in two saltwater basses Jarvis Mason, Erica T., William Watson, Eric J. Ward, Andrew R. Thompson, and Brice X. Semmens ICES Journal of Marine Science 82(2):fsae196 (16 p.)

A review of natural mortality (M) values relevant to coastal pelagic species (CPS) finfish managed under the Pacific Fishery Management Council CPS Fishery Management Plan Jensen, Alexander J., Peter T. Kuriyama, Caitlin Allen Aksulrud, and Kevin T. Hill U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-714. 31 p.

Climate change could amplify weak synchrony in large marine ecosystems Karatayev, Vadim A., Stephan B. Munch, Tanya L. Rogers, and Daniel C. Reuman Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122(1):e2404155121 (7 p.)

Climate change influences via species distribution shifts and century-scale warming in an end-to-end California Current Ecosystem model Liu, Owen R., Isaac C. Kaplan, Pierre-Yves Hernvann, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Melissa A. Haltuch, Chris J. Harvey, Kristin N. Marshall, Barbara Muhling, Karma Norman, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Alberto Rovellini, and Jameal F. Samhouri Global Change Biology 31(1):e70021 (15 p.)

Update on the presence of Japanese Sardine (Sardinops melanosticta) in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem 2024 Longo, Gary, Kelsey James, Kristen Hinton, Jennifer Topping, and Matthew Craig U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-717. 10 p.

A seascape genomics perspective on restrictive genetic connectivity overcoming signals of local adaptations in the green abalone (Haliotis fulgens) of the California Current System Mares-Mayagoitia, Jorge Alberto, Paulina Mejia-Ruiz, Fabiola Larfarga-De la Cruz, Fiorenza Micheli, Pedro Cruz-Hernandez, Juan A. De-Anda-Montanez, John Hyde, Norma Y. Hernandez-Saavedra, Vladimir S. De Jesus-Bonilla, Carmen E. Vargas-Peralta, Ana L. Flores-Morales, Alejandro F. Pares-Sierra, Fausto Valenzuela-Quinonez Ecology and Evolution 15(2):e70913 (14 p.)

The Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM): A perspective on the first 10 years Maunder, Mark N., Paul R. Crone, Brice X. Semmens, Juan L. Valero, Lynn Waterhouse, Richard D. Methot, and Andre E. Punt Fisheries Research 281:107162 (8 p.)

Improving ocean management using insights from space McCauley, Douglas J., Samantha Andrzejaczek, Barbara A. Block, Kyle C. Cavanaugh, Hannah C. Cubaynes, Elliott L. Hazen, Chuanmin Hu, David Kroodsma, Jiwei Li, and Hillary S. Young Annual Review of Marine Science 17:381-408

Capacity sharing to protect and restore ecosystems and biodiversity Muller-Karger, Frank E., Aileen Shau Hwai Tan, A. Louise Allcock, Ward Appeltans, Claudia Baron Aguilar, Andreu Blanco, Steven J. Bograd, Mark John Costello, Audrey M. Darnaude, Britt Dupuis, Lucie M. Evaux, Kelly Goodwin, Sean Jungbluth, Margaret Leinen, Lisa A. Levin, Pooja Mahapatra, Rebecca Martone, Lina Mtwana Nordlund, Anthony B. Ndah, Eric Pante, Ken Paul, Jay Pearlman, Dominique Pelletier, Veronica Relano, Alex David Rogers, Sophie Seeyave, Joana Soares, Simon Taylor, and Linwood Pendelton ICES Journal of Marine Science 82(1):fsae187 (4 p.)

Review of 2024 ocean salmon fisheries: Stock assessment and fishery evaluation document for the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 350 p.

Using eDNA to supplement population genetic analyses for cryptic marine species: Identifying population boundaries for Alaska harbour porpoises Parsons, Kim M., Samuel A. May, Zachary Gold, Marilyn Dahlheim, Christine Gabriele, Janice M. Straley, John R. Moran, Kimberly Goetz, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Linda Park, and Phillip A. Morin Molecular Ecology 34(5):e17563 (17 p.)

Science advice for genetic effects from shellfish aquaculture in Southern California and the Gulf of America Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-709. 184 p.

Science advice for genetic effects from macroalgae aquaculture in Southern California and the Gulf of America Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-711. 184 p.

Using OMEGA to model risks of escaped fish associated with offshore finfish culture in Southern California: an evaluation of proposed Pacific Ocean AquaFarms operations Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-712. 173 p.

Science advice for genetic effects from marine finfish aquaculture in Southern California and the Gulf of America Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-710. 344 p.

Burmeister's porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 Reyes, Julio C., and Robert L. Brownell Jr. In: Thomas A. Jefferson (ed.), Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1: Coastal dolphins and porpoises, p. 537-556. Academic Press.

Audible changes in marine trophic ecology: Baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the eastern North Pacific Ryan, John P., William K. Oestreich, Kelly J. Benoit-Bird, Chad M. Waluk, Carlos A. Rueda, Danelle E. Cline, Yanwu Zhang, Ted, Cheeseman, John Calambokidis, James A. Fahlbusch, Jack Barkowski, Alyson H. Fleming, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Jarrod A. Santora, Tetyana Margolina, John E. Joseph, Ari S. Friedlaender, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen PLoS ONE 20(2):e0318624 (32 p.)

The global turtle crisis: A wildlife trafficking challenge like no other Seminoff, Jeffrey A. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 23(2):135-136

Green sea turtle photo-identification catalog: Southern California, 2023-2024 Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Jason Askri, and David W. Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-715. 53 p.

Spatio-temporal changes in the macrozooplankton community in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summers: A comparison between 1996 and 2018-2019 Urabe, Ippei, Kohei Matsuno, Rikuto Sugioka, Ryan Driscoll, Sara Driscoll, Fokje L. Schaafsma, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Matsukura, Hiroko Sasaki, and Hiroto Murase Progress in Oceanography 231:103414 (14 p.)

Vaquita Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland, 1958 Vidal, Omar, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Lloyd T. Findley, Jorge Torre, and Richard C. Brusca In: Thomas A. Jefferson (ed.), Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1: Coastal dolphins and porpoises, p. 487-518. Academic Press.

Direct measurement of the mutation rate and its evolutionary consequences in a critically endangered mollusk Wooldridge, T. Brock, Sarah M. Ford, Holland C. Conwell, John Hyde, Kelley Harris, and Beth Shapiro Molecular Biology and Evolution 42(1):msae266 (13 p.)

Habitat use and trophic ecology of the world's rarest whale population on a rapidly warming subarctic foraging ground Wright, Dana L., Geraldine Busquets-Vass, Andrew J. Read, Alaina Harmon, and Seth D. Newsome Marine Ecology Progress Series 754:121-136

Patterns of interpopulation variation and physiological trade-offs of the acute thermal tolerance of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Zillig, Kenneth W., Heather N. Bell, Alyssa M. FitzGerald, and Nann A. Fangue Frontiers in Fish Science 2:1508746 (18 p.)

Phylogeography of the Pacific sardine, Sardinops sagax, across its northeastern Pacific range Adams, Ella S., and Matthew T. Craig Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 123(1): 10-24

Expanded, compressed, or equal? Interactions between spawning window and stream thermal regime generate three responses in modeled juvenile emergence for Pacific salmon Adelfio, Luca A., Steven M. Wondzell, Nathan J. Mantua, and Gordon H. Reeves Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(5):573-588

Estimating the scope, scale, and contribution of direct seafood marketing to the United States seafood sector Advani, Sahir, Jeffrey K. O'Hara, Sarah M. Shoffler, Patricia Pinto da Silva, Juan Agar, JuliAnna Arnett, Lilian Brislen, Matthew Cutler, Abigail Harley, Justin Hospital, Karma Norman, Edward Ragland, Dale Squires, Brent Stoffle, Marysia Szymkowiak, Americo J. Vega-Labiosa, and Josua S. Stoll Marine Policy 165:106188 (10 p.)

Stomach contents analysis of Tursiops aduncus and Sousa plumbea stranded along the United Arab Emirates coastline Alkhamis, Razan, Malcolm J. Smale, Mark J. Beech, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Henrik Stahl, and Ada Natoli Marine Mammal Science 40(2):e13086 (12 p.)

Random forest regression models in ecology: Accounting for messy biological data and producing predictions with uncertainty Allen Akselrud, Caitlin I. Fisheries Research 280:107161 (12 p.)

Sex ratios of olive ridley sea turtles in the North Pacific high seas: implications for climate change research Allen, Camryn D., Lindsey E. Peavey Reeves, Tomoharu Eguchi, Sydney J. Sawyer, Lisa T. Ballance, Robert L. Pitman, Summer L. Martin, T. Todd Jones, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Ecology Progress Series 748:149-162

Seasonal upwelling forecasts in the California Current System Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Steven J. Bograd, and Liwei Jia Geophysical Research Letters 51(22):e2024GL111083 (11 p.)

Characterizing Antarctic air-breathing predator dive patterns on a common prey base from stationary echosounders Annasawmy, Pavanee, John K. Horne, Christian S. Reiss, and Gavin J. Macaulay Polar Science 39:100974 (18 p.)

Field comparison of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) backscatter and aggregation types using NORTEK and SIMRAD echosounders Annasawmy, Pavanee, John K. Horne, Christian S. Reiss, George R. Cutter, and Gavin J. Macaulay ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(7):1433-1448

Global conservation genomics of blue whales calls into question subspecies taxonomy and refines knowledge of population structure Attard, C.R.M., J. Sandoval-Castillo, A.R. Lang, B.G. Vernazzani, L.G. Torres, R. Baldwin, K.C.S. Jenner, P.C. Gill, C.L.K. Burton, A. Barcelo, M. Sironi, M.-N.M. Jenner, M.G. Morrice, L.B. Beheregaray, and L.M. Moller Animal Conservation 27(5):626-638

Long-term strategies for studying rare species: results and lessons from a multi-species study of odontocetes around the main Hawaiian Islands Baird, Robin W., Sabre D. Mahaffy, Brittany Hancock-Hanser, Tori Cullins, Kristi L. West, Michaela A. Kratofil, Daniel M. Barrios, Annette E. Harnish, and Paul C. Johnson Pacific Conservation Biology 30:PC23027

Estimating spawning green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris Ayres, 1854) abundance in the Sacramento River using side-scan sonar and N-mixture models Battaile, Brian C., Ethan A. Mora, Brendan M. Lehman, and Peter N. Dudley Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(7):935-951

Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) mitochondrial genomes from Senegal reveal geographic structure across the North Atlantic but provide no support for global long-beaked clade Becker, Madeleine A., Katherine R. Murphy, Frederick I. Archer, Thomas A. Jefferson, Lucy W. Keith-Diagne, Charles W. Potter, M. Fernanda Urrutia-Osorio, Ibrahima Ndong, and Michael R. McGowen Marine Mammal Science 40(4):e13144 (21 p.)

Shifting ocean conditions influence temporal variation in the fecundity of California Current rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) Beyer, Sabrina G., Susan M. Sogard, David M. Stafford, Neosha S. Kashef, Abel Rodriguez, Suzanne H. Alonzo, and John C. Field Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(6):781-795

Advancing the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Bograd, Steven J., Laura C. Anderson, Gabrielle Canonico, Sanae Chiba, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Claire Enterline, Edward Gorecki, Roger Griffis, Kristin M. Kleisner, Hannah Lachance, Margaret Leinen, Katherine E. Mills, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Grace Roskar, Jorn Schmidt, Rachel Seary, Sophie Seeyave, Tan Shau Hwai, Joana Soares, and Michelle Tigchelaar ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(9):1705-1711

Genetic insights into the giant keyhole limpet (Megathura crenulata), and eastern Pacific coastal endemic: Complete mitogenome, phylogenetics, phylogeography, and historical demography Bonett-Calzada, Brenda, Fausto Valenzuela-Quinonez, Miguel A. Del Rio-Portilla, Natalia J. Bayona-Vasquez, Carmen E. Vargas-Peralta, John R. Hyde, and Fabiola Lafarga-De la Cruz Genes 15(10):1303 (17 p.)

Ontogenetic vertical distribution and abundance of early life history stages of mesopelagic fishes off central California Bowlin, Noelle M., Andrew R. Thompson, Juan P. Zwolinski, William Watson, and Philip A. Hastings In: Jeffrey M. Leis, William Watson, Bruce C. Mundy, and Peter Konstantinidis (eds.), Early life history and biology of marine fishes: research inspired by the work of H. Geoffrey Moser, p. 185-201. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS 24.

Building a coordinated framework for research and monitoring in large-scale international marine protected areas: The Ross Sea region as a model system Brooks, Cassandra, Sharon Stammerjohn, Grant Ballard, Alice K. DuVivier, Eileen Hofmann, Michelle LaRue, Cara Nissen, Alexander J. Orona, B. Jack Pan, Annie E. Schmidt, Nathan Walker, George M. Watters, and John Weller Conservation Letters 17(6):e13053 (9 p.)

Avian influenza H5N1 threatens imperiled krill-dependent predators in Antarctica Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Douglas J. Krause, Alastair M.M. Baylis, Carolina A. Bonin, Larissa R. Oliveira, Marcela M. Uhart, Mauricio Ulloa, and George M. Watters Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1453737 (4 p.)

Michael F. Tillman 1943-2023 [obituary] Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Linda L. Jones, Douglas P. DeMaster, Greg P. Donovan, Stephen B. Reilly, Rolland A. Schmitten, Jeffrey M. Breiwick, Robert Suydam, Daryl J. Boness, and William W. Fox Jr. Marine Mammal Science 40(1):326-331

Evaluating the time to detect biological effects of ocean acidification and warming: an example using simulations of purple sea urchin settlement Buchheister, Andre, Paul McElhany, and Eric P. Bjorkstedt Marine Ecology Progress Series 738:133-149

A high-quality blue whale genome, segmental duplications, and historical demography Bukhman, Yury V., Phillip A. Morin, Susanne Meyer, Li-Fang Chu, Jeff K. Jacobsen, Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget, Daniel Mamott, Maylie Gonzales, Cara Argus, Jennifer Bolin, Mark E. Berres, Olivier Fedrigo, John Steill, Scott A. Swanson, Peng Jiang, Arang Rhie, Giulio Formenti, Adam M. Phillippy, Robert S. Harris, Jonathan M.D. Wood, Kerstin Howe, Bogdan M. Kirilenko, Chetan Munegowda, Michael Hiller, Aashish Jain, Daisuke Kihara, J. Spencer Johnston, Alexander Ionkov, Kalpana Raja, Huishi Toh, Aimee Lang, Magnus Wolf, Erich D. Jarvis, James A. Thomson, Mark J.P. Chaisson, and Ron Stewart Molecular Biology and Evolution 41(3):msae036 (22 p.)

You shall not pass: The Pacific oxygen minimum zone creates a boundary to shortfin mako shark distribution in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean Byrne, Michael E., Heidi Dewar, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood S. Shivji Diversity and Distributions 30(12):e13924 (14 p.)

Biologically Important Areas II for cetaceans within U.S. and adjacent waters - West Coast Region Calambokidis, John, Michaela A. Kratofil, Daniel M. Palacios, Barbara A. Lagerquist, Gregory S. Schorr, M. Bradley Hanson, Robin W. Baird, Karin A. Forney, Elizabeth A. Becker, R. Cotton Rockwood, and Elliott L. Hazen Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1283231 (31 p.)

Estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in the California large-mesh drift gillnet fishery: 1990-2023 Carretta, James V. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-700. 66 p.

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2023 Carretta, James V., Erin M. Oleson, Karin A. Forney, Amanda L. Bradford, Kym Yano, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Jason Baker, Anthony J. Orr, Brad Hanson, Jeffrey E. Moore, Megan Wallen, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-704. 414 p.

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific West Coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2018-2022 Carretta, James V., Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Lauren Saez, Dan Lawson, and Justin Viezbicke U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-705 (241 p.).

Early larvae of the whitespotted rockfish (Sebastes moseri Eitner, 1999) and the dwarf-red rockfish (S. rufinanus Lea and Fitch, 1972) (Pisces: Sebastidae) identified by molecular methods Charter, Sharon R., William Watson, and John R. Hyde In: Jeffrey M. Leis, William Watson, Bruce C. Mundy, and Peter Konstantinidis (eds.), Early life history and biology of marine fishes: research inspired by the work of H. Geoffrey Moser, p. 143-154. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS 24.

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The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure Clark-Wolf, T.J., Katie A. Holt, Erik Johansson, Anna C. Nisi, Kasim Rafiq, Leigh West, P. Dee Boersma, Elliott L. Hazen, Sue E. Moore, and Briana Abrahms Journal of Applied Ecology 61(7):1638-1648

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