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Global conservation genomics of blue whales calls into question subspecies taxonomy and refines knowledge of population structure Attard, C.R.M., et al. Animal Conservation

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 Micheli, Leonardy Vazquez-Vera, Charles Boch, Eugenio Carpizo-Ituarte, Fabioloa Lafarga-De la Cruz, Gabriela Montano-Moctezuma, and Julio Lorda New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research

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., et al. Marine Mammal Science

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

An integrated population model and sensitivity assessment for a data poor population of green sturgeon Dudley, Peter N., Ethan A. Mora, Nick A. Friedenberg, and Phaedra Doukakis Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Accounting for observation noise in equation-free forecasting: The hidden-Markov S-map Esguerra, Dylan, and Stephan B. Munch Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Ecosystem sentinels as early-warning indicators in the Anthropocene Hazen, Elliott L., Matthew S. Savoca, T.J. Clark-Wolf, Max Czapanskiy, Peter M. Rabinowitz, and Briana Abrahms Annual Review of Environment and Resources

The long-beaked common dolphin of the eastern Pacific Ocean: Taxonomic status and redescription of Delphinus bairdii Jefferson, Thomas A., Frederick I. Archer, and Kelly M. Robertson Marine Mammal Science

A two-dimensional, reach-scale implementation of Space Time Image Velocimetry (STIV) and comparison to Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) Legleiter, Carl J., Paul J. Kinzel, Frank L. Engel, Lee R. Harrison, and Gregory Hewitt Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Catch as catch can: markets, availability, and fishery closures drive distinct responses among the U.S. West Coast coastal pelagic species fleet segments Quezada, Felipe J., Desiree Tommasi, Timothy H. Frawley, Barbara Muhling, Isaac Kaplan, and Stephen Stohs Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Empirical dynamic modeling for sustainable benchmarks of short-lived species Tsai, Cheng-Han, Stephan B. Munch, Michelle D. Masi, and Molly H. Stevens ICES Journal of Marine Science

Best practices for collecting and preserving marine mammal biological samples in the 'omics era Van Cise, Amy M., Alexandra D. Switzer, Amy Apprill, Cory D. Champagne, Paul M. Chittaro, Natasha K. Dudek, Mackenzie R. Gavery, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Alaina C. Harmon, Alexander L. Jaffe, Nicholas M. Kellar, Carolyn A. Miller, Phillip A. Morin, Sarah E. Nelms, Kelly M. Robertson, Irvin R. Schultz, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Ebru Unal, and Kim M. Parsons Marine Mammal Science

Trophoscapes of predatory fish reveal biogeographic structuring of spatial dietary overlap and inform fisheries bycatch patterns Wells, Brian K., Jarrod A. Santora, Joseph J. Bizzarro, Alicia Billings, Richard E. Brodeur, Elizabeth A. Daly, John C. Field, Kate E. Richerson, and James T. Thorson Marine Ecology Progress Series

Evaluating robustness of harvest control rules to climate-driven variability in Pacific sardine recruitment Wildermuth, Robert P., Desiree Tommasi, Peter Kuriyama, James Smith, and Isaac Kaplan Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Integrating otolith and genetic tools to reveal intraspecific biodiversity in a highly impacted salmon population Willmes, Malte, Anna M. Sturrock, Flora Cordoleani, Sara Hugentobler, Mariah H. Meek, George Whitman, Kimberly Evans, Eric P. Palkovacs, Natalie Stauffer-Olsen, and Rachel C. Johnson Journal of Fish Biology

Early larvae of the Whitespeckled Rockfish, Sebastes moseri Eitner, Kimbrell and Vetter 1999 and the Dwarf-red Rockfish, S. rufinanus Lea and Fitch 1972 (Pisces: Sebastidae) identified by molecular methods Charter, S.R., W. Watson, and J.R. Hyde In: Jeffrey M. Leis et al. (eds.), Early life history and biology of marine fishes: Research inspired by the work of H. Geoffrey Moser. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS-24.

Multi-trophic level responses to marine heatwave disturbances in the California Current Ecosystem Chen, T.-Z., M. Kahru, M.R. Landry, M.D. Ohman, A.R. Thompson, and M.R. Stukel Ecology Letters

California steelhead populations were regionally buffered and individually resistant to a severe multi-year drought Ohms, Haley A., Eric P. Palkovacs, and David A. Boughton Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Reintroduction of spring-run Chinook salmon in the San Joaquin River: evaluating genetic and phenotypic effects of captive breeding Pregler, Kasey C., Anthony Clemento, Mike Grill, Paul Adelizi, Stephanie M. Carlson, and John C. Garza Conservation Science and Practice

Mexico must save the vaquita from gillnets [letter to the editor] Rojas-Bracho, L., B.L. Taylor, R.R. Reeves, R. Read, J. Barlow, G. Donovan, P.O. Thomas, F. Gulland, S.L. Mesnick, R.L. Brownell Jr., A. Henry, J. Urban, and T. Gerrodette Science

Using environmental DNA to assess the response of steelhead/Rainbow Trout and Coastrange Sculpin populations to post-fire debris flows in coastal streams of Big Sur, California Rundio, David E., Brian C. Spence, Dorothy M. Chase, and Carl O. Ostberg North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Leveraging ecological indicators to improve short term forecasts of fish recruitment Ward, Eric, Mary Hunsicker, Kristin Marshall, Kiva Oken, Brice Semmens, John Field, Melissa Haltuch, Kelli Johnson, Ian Taylor, Andrew Thompson, and Nick Tolimieri Fish and Fisheries

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.

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.)

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.)

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

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

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.)

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.

Bellwethers of change: population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response Cheeseman, Ted, Jay Barlow, Jo Marie Acebes, Katherina Audley, Lars Bejder, Caitlin Birdsall, Olga Solis Bracamontes, Amanda L. Bradford, Josie Byington, John Calambokidis, Rachel Cartwright, Jen Cedarleaf, Andrea Jacqueline Garcia Chavez, Jens Currie, Rouenne Camille De Castro, Joelle De Weerdt, Nicole Doe, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Karina Dracott, Olga Filatova, Rachel Finn, Kiirsten R. Flynn, John Ford, Astrid Frisch-Jordan, Chris Gabriele, Beth Goodwin, Craig Hayslip, Jackie Hildering, Marie C. Hill, Jeff K. Jacobsen, M. Esther Jimenez-Lopez, Meagan Jones, Nozomi Kobayashi, Marc Lammers, Edward Lyman, Mark Malleson, Evgeny Mamaev, Pamela Martinez Loustalot, Annie Masterman, Craig O. Matkin, Christie McMillan, Jeff Moore, John Moran, Janet L. Neilson, Hayley Newell, Haruna Okabe, Marilia Olio, Christian D. Ortega-Ortiz, Adam A. Pack, Daniel M. Palacios, Heidi Pearson, Ester Quintana-Rizzo, Raul Ramirez Barragan, Nicola Ransome, Hiram Rosales-Nanduca, Fred Sharpe, Tasli Shaw, Ken Southerland, Stephanie Stack, Iain Staniland, Janice Straley, Andrew Szabo, Suzie Teerlink, Olga Titova, Jorge Urban-Ramirez, Martin van Aswegen, Marcel Vinicius, Olga von Ziegesar, Briana Witteveen, Janie Wray, Kymberly Yano, Igor Yegin, Denny Zwiefelhofer, and Phil Clapham Royal Society Open Science 11(2):231462 (19 p.)

Tracked gulls help identify potential zones of interaction between whales and shipping traffic Cimino, Megan A., Heather Welch, Jarrod A. Santora, David Kroodsma, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, and Scott A. Shaffer Marine Ornithology 52(1):61-72

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

Restoring freshwater habitat mosaics to promote resilience of vulnerable salmon populations Cordoleani, Flora, Corey C. Phillis, Anna M. Sturrock, Malte Willmes, George Whitman, Eric Holmes, Peter K. Weber, Carson Jeffres, and Rachel C. Johnson Ecosphere 15(3):e4803 (18 p.)

The effects of the Affordable Care Act's insurance subsidies on a commercial fishing fleet Crosson, Scott, Cameron Speir, and Christina Wiegand Marine Resource Economics 39(1):61-71

Sea-ice and macrozooplankton distribution as determinants of top predator community structure in Antarctic winter Czapanskiy, Max F., Jarrod A. Santora, Kimberly S. Dietrich, Megan A. Cimino, Elliott L. Hazen, Christian S. Reiss, and Richard R. Veit Marine Ecology Progress Series 738:57-73

Economic information for Aquaculture Opportunity Areas off Southern California Dealy, Donna D., James R. Hilger, and Stephen M. Stohs U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-697. 205 p.

Population assignment from genotype likelihoods for low-coverage whole-genome sequencing data DeSaix, Matthew G., Marina D. Rodriguez, Kristen C. Ruegg, and Eric C. Anderson Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(3):493-510

Future changes in the intensity and duration of marine heat and cold waves: insights from coupled model initial-condition large ensembles Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, Michael A. Alexander, Dillon J. Amaya, Antonietta Capotondi, Michael G. Jacox, and James D. Scott Journal of Climate 37(6):1877-1902

Long-distance communication can enable collective migration in a dynamic seascape Dodson, Stephanie, William K. Oestreich, Matthew S. Savoca, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, John P. Ryan, Jerome Fiechter, and Briana Abrahms Scientific Reports 14:14857 (12 p.)

An update of egg escapement, fishing mortality, and spawning stock biomass for the California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) fishery from 1999 to 2022 Dorval, Emmanis, Dianna Porzio, and Katie Grady U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-701. 33 p.

Computing bias and variance for Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) biomass estimated from aerial surveys in California nearshore waters Dorval, Emmanis, Kirk Lynn, Dianna Porzio, Trung Nguyen, and Katie Grady Fisheries Research 274:106999 (16 p.)

Ethnobiological methods enhance our capacity to document potential climate sentinels: a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) case study Early-Capistran, Michelle Maria, Nicole L. Crane, Larry B. Crowder, Gerardo Garibay-Melo, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and David Johnston Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1407575 (8 p.)

Abundance of eastern North Pacific gray whales 2023/2024 Eguchi, Tomo, Aimee Lang, and David Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-695. 10 p.

Thermal optima in the hypoxia tolerance of marine ectotherms: Physiological causes and biogeographic consequences Endress, Martin-Georg A., Justin L. Penn, Thomas H. Boag, Benjamin P. Burford, Erik A. Sperling, and Curtis A. Deutsch PLoS Biology 22(1):e3002443 (17 p.)

Submesoscale coupling of krill and whales revealed by aggregative Lagrangian coherent structures Fahlbusch, James A., David E. Cade, Elliott L. Hazen, Meredity L. Elliott, Benjamin T. Saenz, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, and Jaime Jahncke Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291(2017):20232461 (12 p.)

Marine heatwaves redistribute pelagic fishing fleets Farchadi, Nima, Heather Welch, Camrin D. Braun, Andrew J. Allyn, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie Brodie, Elliott L. Hazen, Alex Kerney, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Katherine E. Mills, Dylan Pugh, Riley Young-Morse, and Rebecca L. Lewison Fish and Fisheries 25(4):602-618

Momma's larvae: Maternal oceanographic experience and larval size influence early survival of rockfishes Fennie, H. William, Noah Ben-Aderet, Steven J. Bograd, Garfield T. Kwan, Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, and Andrew R. Thompson Fisheries Oceanography 33(2):e12658 (18 p.)

Green and hawksbill sea turtles of the Eastern Atlantic: New insights into a globally important rookery in the Gulf Guinea Ferreira-Airaud, Betania, Sara Vieira, Maria Branco, Antunes Pina, Venceslau Soares, Manjula Tiwari, Matthew Witt, Rita Castilho, Alexandra Teodosio, and Lucy A. Hawkes Ecology and Evolution 14(3):e11133

Critical swimming speed of juvenile rockfishes (Sebastes) following long- and short-term exposures to acidification and deoxygenation Flannery, Corianna, and Eric P. Bjorkstedt Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 573:151993 (14 p.)

The influence of biopsy site and pregnancy on stable isotope ratios in humpback whale skin Fraleigh, Devin C., Logan J. Pallin, Ari S. Friedlaender, Jay Barlow, Annette E. Henry, Danielle M. Waples, Teris Oglesby, and Alyson H. Fleming Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 38(11):e9746 (10 p.)

Dynamic human, oceanographic, and ecological factors mediate transboundary fishery overlap across the Pacific high seas Frawley, Timothy H., Barbara Muhling, Stephanie Brodie, Hannah Blondin, Heather Welch, Martin C. Arostegui, Steven J. Bograd, Camrin D. Braun, Megan A. Cimino, Nima Farchadi, Elliott L. Hazen, Desiree Tommasi, and Michael Jacox Fish and Fisheries 25(1):60-81

Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response Frawley, Timothy H., Blanca Gonzalez-Mon, Mateja Nenadovic, Fiona Gladstone, Keiko Nomura, Jose Alberto Zepeda-Dominguez, Salvador Rodriguez-Van Dyck, Erica M. Ferrer, Jorge Torre, Fiorenza Micheli, Heather M. Leslie, and Xavier Basurto Global Environmental Change 84:102805 (17 p.)

Collecting age and length data from recovered carcasses of filleted rockfish: a new data source for examination of life history characteristics Fritch, Kaila, Grant Waltz, Melissa Monk, Ellie Brauer, Zachary Kucinski, Chandler Skinner-Horne, and Dean Wendt Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 122(3):119-128

Diet composition of juvenile green turtles in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: long-term insights from a beach stranding program Gama, Luciana R., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Garrett E. Lemons, Mariana M.P.B. Fuentes, Franciane Pellizzari, Mario R.C. Meira-Filho, Liana Rosa, Gabriela M. Velez-Rubio, Estevan Luis da Silveira, and Camila Domit Marine Ecology Progress Series 727:159-179

Eastern North Pacific gray whales migrating north off the central California coast: A photo-identification catalog of mother-calf pairs 2012-2019 Gilpatrick, James W. Jr., Chelsea Parrish, Alexa K. Kownacki, Morgan S. Lynn, Wayne L. Perryman, and David W. Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-693. 201 p.

Trait-based indicators of resource selection by albacore tuna in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Gleiber, Miram R., Natasha A. Hardy, Caitlin J. Morganson, Catherine F. Nickels, Barbara A. Muhling, Elan J. Portner, Brian K. Wells, Richard D. Brodeur, Toby D. Auth, Jarrod A. Santora, Sarah M. Glaser, Daniel J. Madigan, Elliott L. Hazen, Larry B. Crowder, and Stephanie J. Green Ecological Indicators 158:111473 (16 p.)

Genetic parentage reveals the (un)natural history of Central Valley hatchery steelhead Goetz, Laura C., Hayley Nuetzel, David L.J. Vendrami, Anne K. Beulke, Eric C. Anderson, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Evolutionary Applications 17(3):e13681 (15 p.)

Archived DNA reveals marine heatwave-associated shifts in fish assemblages Gold, Zachary, Ryan P. Kelly, Andrew Olaf Shelton, Andrew R. Thompson, Kelly D. Goodwin, Ramon Gallego, Kim M. Parsons, Luke R. Thompson, Dovi Kacev, Paul H. Barber Environmental DNA 6(1):e400 (14 p.)

An updated end-to-end ecosystem model of the Northern California Current reflecting ecosystem changes due to recent marine heatwaves Gomes, Dylan G.E., James J. Ruzicka, Lisa G. Crozier, David D. Huff, Elizabeth M Phillips, Pierre-Yves Hernvann, Cheryl A. Morgan, Richard D. Brodeur, Jen E. Zamon, Elizabeth A. Daly, Joseph J. Bizzarro, Jennifer L. Fisher, and Toby D. Auth PLoS ONE 19(1):e0280366 (42 p.)

Spatio-temporal distributions, abundance, and overlap between sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) and commander squid (Berryteuthis magister) in the Eastern Bering Sea Slope Gonzalez, Martin A., Caitlin I. Allen Akselrud, and Cecilia A. O'Leary U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-699. 24 p.

Characterization and distribution of a 14-Mb chromosomal inversion in native populations of rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Hale, Matthew C., Devon E. Pearse, and Matthew A. Campbell G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics 14(7):jkae100 (11 p.)

Pop-up satellite archival tags and an individual-based model provide new insights on behavioural thermoregulation in migrating ovigerous American lobster Hanley, Patricia H., Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Bryan L. Morse, and Remy Rochette Ecological Modelling 489:110607 (12 p.)

Trait-based analyses reveal global patterns in diverse diets of albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) Hardy, Natasha A., Cindy Matuch, Zachary Roote, Iris George, Barbara A. Muhling, Michael G. Jacox, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Larry B. Crowder, and Stephanie J. Green Fish and Fisheries 25(2):268-282

Life cycle modeling framework for Chinook salmon spawning in the Sacramento River Hendrix, Noble, Ann-Marie K. Osterback, Sara John, Miles Daniels, Eva Dusek Jennings, Eric Danner, and Steve Lindley U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-696. 42 p.

A method to estimate prey density from single-camera images: A case study with chinstrap penguins and Antarctic krill Hermanson, Victoria R., George R. Cutter, Jefferson T. Hinke, Matthew Dawkins, and George M. Watters PLoS ONE 19(7):e0303633 (23 p.)

Observing change in pelagic animals as sampling methods shift: the case of Antarctic krill Hill, Simeon L., Angus Atkinson, Javier A. Arata, Anna Belcher, Susan Bengtson Nash, Kim S. Bernard, Alison Cleary, John A. Conroy, Ryan Driscoll, Sophie Fielding, Hauke Flores, Jaume Forcada, Svenja Halfter, Jefferson T. Hinke, Luis Huckstadt, Nadine M. Johnston, Mary Kane, So Kawaguchi, Bjorn A. Krafft, Lucas Kruger, Hyoung Sul La, Cecilia M. Liszka, Bettina Meyer, Eugene J. Murphy, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Frances Perry, Andrea Pinones, Michael J. Polito, Keith Reid, Christian Reiss, Emilce Rombola, Ryan A. Saunders, Katrin Schmidt, Zephyr T. Sylvester, Akinori Takahashi, Geraint A. Tarling, Phil N. Trathan, Devi Veytia, George M. Watters, Jose C. Xavier, and Guang Yang Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1307402 (20 p.)

Seventy years of diminishing biocomplexity of California Central Valley hatchery steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss Huber, Eric R., Rachael E. Ryan, Rachel C. Johnson, Anna M. Sturrock, Robert A. Lusardi, and Stephanie M. Carlson Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(4):355-367

Remnant salmon life history diversity rediscovered in a highly compressed habitat Hugentobler, Sara A., Anna M. Sturrock, Malte Willmes, Tasha Q. Thompson, Rachel C. Johnson, Flora Cordoleani, Natalie J. Stauffer-Olsen, George Whitman, and Mariah H. Meek Evolutionary Applications 17(7):e13741 (10 p.)

Genetic characteristics of loggerhead turtles in the coastal corridor of the North West Pacific, around the Cape Muroto, Japan Ishihara, Takashi, Naoki Kamezaki, Saya Hirai, Yoshimasa Matsuzawa, Tomoko Hamabata, Asuka Ishizaki, and Peter H. Dutton Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1303553 (9 p.)

Linking upwelling dynamics and subsurface nutrients to projected productivity changes in the California Current System Jacox, Michael G., Steven J. Bograd, Jerome Fiechter, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Michael Alexander, Dillon Amaya, Nathali Cordero Quiros, Hui Ding, and Ryan R. Rykaczewski Geophysical Research Letters 51(10):e2023GL108096 (9 p.)

Validation of periodicity of growth band formation in Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) from a captive growth experiment James, Kelsey C., Emmanis Dorval, and Brad E. Erisman Marine Biology 171(5):105 (13 p.)

Participation in collaborative fisheries research improves the perceptions of recreational anglers towards marine protected areas Johnston, Erin M., Grant T. Waltz, Rosamaria Kosaka, Ellie M. Brauer, Shelby L. Ziegler, Erica T. Jarvis Mason, Hunter S. Glanz, Lauren Zaragoza, Allison N. Kellum, Rachel O. Brooks, Brice X. Semmens, Christopher J. Honeyman, Jennifer E. Caselle, Lyall F. Bellquist, Sadie L. Small, Steven G. Morgan, Timothy J. Mulligan, Connor L. Coscino, Jay M. Staton, Richard M. Starr, Scott L. Hamilton, Benjamin I Ruttenberg, and Dean E. Wendt Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1330498 (12 p.)

Physical and biogeochemical phenology of coastal upwelling in the California Current System Jorgensen, Ellen M., Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Isaac Schroeder, and Steven J. Bograd Geophysical Research Letters 51(7):e2024GL108194 (7 p.)

Otolith microchemistry combined with genetics reveal patterns of straying and population connectivity in anadromous brown trout (Salmo trutta) Kallo, Kristi, Kim Birnie-Gauvin, Henrik Baktoft, Dorte Bekkevold, Charles Lesher, Peter Gronkjaer, Gry H. Barfod, Rachel Johnson, George Whitman, Malte Willmes, Justin Glessner, and Kim Aarestrup Ecology of Freshwater Fish 33(2):e12760 (13 p.)

Photo-identification and satellite telemetry connect southern right whales from South Georgia Island (Islas Georgias del Sur) with multiple feeding and calving grounds in the southwest Atlantic Kennedy, Amy S. Emma L. Carroll, Alexandre N. Zerbini, C. Scott Baker, Manuela Bassoi, Nazarena A. Beretta, Danielle L. Buss, Susannah Calderan, Ted Cheeseman, Martin A. Collins, Paula Costa-Urrutia, Paul Ensor, Karina Groch, Russell Leaper, Paula Olson, Cecilia Passadore, Federico G. Riet-Sapriza, Els Vermeulen, Florencia Vilches, Andrew G. Wood, and Jennifer A. Jackson Marine Mammal Science 40(2):e13089 (19 p.)

Genetic divergence and one-way gene flow influence contemporary evolution and ecology of a partially migratory fish Kobayashi, Katie M., Rosealea M. Bond, Kerry Reid, J. Carlos Garza, Joseph D. Kiernan, and Eric P. Palkovacs Evolutionary Applications 17(6):e13712 (16 p.)

Evaluating threats to South Shetland Antarctic fur seals amidst population collapse Krause, Douglas J., Robert L. Brownell Jr., Carolina A. Bonin, Samuel M. Woodman, Douglas Shaftel, and George M. Watters Mammal Review 54(1):30-46

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource (Sardinops sagax) in 2024 for U.S. management in 2024-2025 Kuriyama, Peter T., Caitlin Allen Akselrud, Juan P. Zwolinski, and Kevin T. Hill U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-698. 165 p.

Ancestry and genetic structure of resident and anadromous rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in Argentina Lazari, Carolina, Carla Riva-Rossi, Javier Ciancio, Miguel Pascual, Anthony J. Clemento, Devon E. Pearse, and John Carlos Garza Journal of Fish Biology 104(6):1972-1989

Good practices for estimating and using length-at-age in integrated stock assessments Lee, HuiHua, Mark N. Maunder, and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 270:106883

Evaluating the potential for efficient, UAS-based reach-scale mapping of river channel bathymetry from multispectral images Legleiter, Carl J., and Lee R. Harrison Frontiers in Remote Sensing 5:1305991 (16 p.)

Globally coordinated acoustic aquatic animal tracking reveals unexpected, ecologically important movements across oceans, lakes and rivers Lennox, Robert J., Frederick G. Whoriskey, Pieterjan Verhelst, Christopher S. Vandergoot, Marc Soria, Jan Reubens, Erin L. Rechisky, Michael Power, Taryn Murray, Ingeborg Mulder, James L. Markham, Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri, Steven T. Lindley, Nathan A. Knott, Steven T. Kessel, Sara Iverson, Charlie Huveneers, Maike Heidemeyer, Robert Harcourt, Lucas P. Griffin, Claudie Friess, Alexander Filous, Lachlan C. Fetterplace, Andy J. Danylchuk, Ryan Daly, Paul Cowley, Steven J. Cooke, Elpis J. Chavez, Antonin Blaison, and Kim Whoriskey Ecography 2024(1):e06801 (16 p.)

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