NOAA 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

Perturbations in a pelagic food web during the NE Pacific Large Marine Heatwave and persistent harmful diatom blooms Ruiz-Cooley, Rocio I., Clarissa Anderson, Raphael Kudela, Robin Dunkin, and John Field Harmful Algae

Vertical distribution of mesopelagic fishes deepens during marine heatwave in the California Current Iglesias, Ilysa S., Jerome Fiechter, Jarrod A. Santora, and John C. Field ICES Journal of Marine Science

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

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

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.

Patterns of interpopulation variation and physiological trade-offs in 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

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 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

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

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

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

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 81(9):1238-1247

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.)

Accounting for observation noise in equation-free forecasting: The hidden-Markov S-map Esguerra, Dylan, and Stephan B. Munch Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(8):1347-1359

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.)

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.)

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

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.)

Use of telemetry data to quantify life history diversity in migrating juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Goertler, Pascale Ava Lake, Myfanwy Johnston, Cyril Joseph Michel, Tracy Grimes, Gabriel Singer, Jeremy Notch, and Ted Sommer Water 16(17):2529 (18 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.)

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.)

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.)

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.

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.)

Exploring connections between mesopelagic ecosystems, epipelagic predators, and a changing ocean climate the the California Current Iglesias, Ilysa S. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz. 169 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.)

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.)

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.)

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

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.)

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 49(10):3093-3114

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.)

Report of Working Group 41 on Marine Ecosystem Services in the North Pacific Lew, Daniel K., Gisele Magnusson, and Kevin D. Ray (eds.) North Pacific Marine Science Organization, PICES Scientific Report no. 65 (247 p.)

Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish Morales, Mark M., Jerome Fiechter, John C. Field, Neosha S. Kashef, Elliott L. Hazen, and Mark H. Carr Ecological Modelling 488:110575 (17 p.)

Empirical dynamic programming for model-free ecosystem-based management Munch, Stephan B., and Antoine Brias Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(4):769-778

Anthropogenic and environmental risk factors of salmonid predation in a tidal freshwater delta Nelson, T. Reid, Brendan M. Lehman, Nicholas J. Demetras, Lance Takata, Matthew J. Young, Frederick Feyrer, and Cyril J. Michel Freshwater Biology 69(10):1494-1510

Biological status of Oregon Coast and Southern Oregon/Northern California coastal Chinook salmon: Report of the Status Review Team NOAA Fisheries Oregon Coast and Southern Oregon/Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon Status Review Team U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-189. 150 p.

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 81(11):1594-1605

Environmental drivers of biogeography and community structure in a Mid-Atlantic estuary Oleynik, Haley A., Joseph J. Bizzarro, Edward A. Hale, and Aaron B. Carlisle Oecologia 204(3):543-557

Review of 2023 ocean salmon fisheries (amended): 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. 354 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 131 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 73 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 59 p.

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, John Carlos Garza Conservation Science and Practice 6(9):e13176 (13 p.)

Quantifying the fates and retention of larval rockfish through Lagrangian analyses Quigley, Lucinda A., Peter J.S. Franks, Andrew R. Thompson, John C. Field, and Jarrod A. Santora Marine Ecology Progress Series 749:109-125

Aquaculture-related ecosystem services in PICES member countries Ray, Kevin D., Gisele Magnusson, Yuhang Liu, Hiroki Wakamatsu, Claire Cazorla, Adam Colilli, Rosemary Kosaka, Daniel K. Lew, Jingmei Li, Wei Liu, Meng Su, and Ziyan Wang In: Daniel K. Lew, Gisele Magnusson, and Kevin D. Ray (eds.), Report of Working Group 41 on Marine Ecosystem Services in the North Pacific, p. 75-133. North Pacific Marine Science Organization, PICES Scientific Report no. 65.

Evaluating top-down, bottom-up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient Rogers, Tanya L., Samuel M. Bashevkin, Christina E. Burdi, Denise D. Colombano, Peter N. Dudley, Brian Mahardja, Lara Mitchell, Sarah Perry, and Parsa Saffarinia Ecology 105(4):e4274 (15 p.)

Using environmental DNA to assess the response of steelhead/Rainbow Trout and Coastrange Sculpin populations to postfire 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 44(6):1167-1182

Project report: Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, RL-24-06, May 1 - June 18, 2024) Sakuma, Keith NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 18 p.

Seabirds in 3D: A framework to evaluate collision vulnerability with future offshore wind developments. Interim project report #1: Estimating collision vulnerability of the seabird community across a segment of the California Current System. Schneider, Stephanie R., Eli Wallach, Charles Chamberlin, Sophie B. Bernstein, Sadie Trush, David G. Ainley, Scott B. Terrill, Sharon H. Kramer, R. Glenn Ford, Janet Casey, Jarrod A. Santora, Lisa Ballance, and Arne Jacobson Report to the California Energy Commission, prepared by H.T. Harvey and Associates, the Schatz Energy Research Center, R.G. Ford Consulting Company, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, and Oregon State University. Schatz Energy Research Center, Arcata, California. 175 p.

Comparison of environmental DNA and underwater visual count surveys for detecting juvenile Coho Salmon in small rivers Shaffer, Jason T., Andrew P. Kinziger, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, and Andre Buchheister North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(2):449-462

Marine biophysical conditions influence the vertical and horizontal distribution of sub-adult Chinook salmon in nearshore marine waters Smith, Joseph M., Brian J. Burke, Doug Jackson, Brian Wells, Brian Beckman, Will Duguid, Thomas P. Quinn, and David D. Huff Marine Ecology Progress Series 744:133-146

Connecting thiamine availability to the microbial community composition in Chinook salmon spawning habitats of the Sacramento River basin Suffridge, Christopher P., Kelly C. Shannon, H. Matthews, R.C. Johnson, C. Jeffres, N. Mantua, A.E. Ward, E. Holmes, J. Kindopp, M. Aldoo, and F.S. Colwell Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(1):e01760-23 (26 p.)

State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Ninas Thompson, Andrew R., Rasmus Swalethorp, Michaela Alksne, Jarrod A. Santora, Elliott L. Hazen, Andrew Leising, Erin Satterthwaite, William J. Sydeman, Clarissa R. Anderson, Toby D. Auth, Simone Baumann-Pickering, Timothy Baumgardner, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Steven J. Bograd, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brian J. Burke, Elizabeth A. Daly, Heidi Dewar, John C. Field, Jennifer L. Fisher, Newell Garfield, Ashlyn Gidding, Ralf Goericke, Richard Golightly, Eliana Gomez-Ocampo, Jose Gomez-Valdes, John A. Hildebrand, Kym C. Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Jaime Jahncke, Michael Johns, Joshua M. Jones, Bertha Lavaniegos, Nate Mantua, Gerard J. McChesney, Megan E. Medina, Sharon R. Melin, Luis Erasmo Miranda, Cheryl A. Morgan, Catherine F. Nickels, Rachael A. Orben, Jessica M. Porquez, Antonella Preti, Roxanne R. Robertson, Daniel L. Rudnick, Keith M. Sakuma, Carley R. Schacter, Isaac D. Schroeder, Lauren Scopel, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Sarah Ann Thompson, Pete Warzybok, Katherine Whitaker, William Watson, Edward D. Weber, and Brian Wells Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1294011 (21 p.)

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 81(7):1209-1220

A new, standardized international Pacific Rim baseline for genetic stock identification (GSI) of Chinook Salmon Van Doornik, Donald M., Paul Moran, Eric B. Rondeau, Krista M. Nichols, Shawn R. Narum, Matthew R. Campbell, Anthony J. Clemento, John S. Hargrove, Jon E. Hess, Rebekah L. Horn, Lisa W. Seeb, Jeff J. Stephenson, and Garrett J. McKinney North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(4):857-869

Size-selective predation effects on juvenile Chinook salmon cohort survival off Central California evaluated with an individual-based model Vasbinder, Kelly, Jerome Fiechter, Jarrod A. Santora, James J. Anderson, Nate Mantua, Steve T. Lindley, David D. Huff, and Brian K. Wells Fisheries Oceanography 33(1):e12654 (15 p.)

Evolutionary history influences the microbiomes of a female symbiotic reproductive organ in cephalopods Vijayan, Nidhi, Sarah J. McAnulty, Gustavo Sanchez, Jeffrey Jolly, Yuzuru Ikeda, Michele K. Nishiguchi, Elodie Reveillac, Camino Gestal, Blake L. Spady, Diana H. Li, Benjamin P. Burford, Allison H. Kerwin, and Spencer V. Nyholm Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(3):e00990-23 (19 p.)

Leveraging ecological indicators to improve short term forecasts of fish recruitment Ward, Eric J., Mary E. Hunsicker, Kristin N. Marshall, Kiva L. Oken, Brice X. Semmens, John C. Field, Melissa A. Haltuch, Kelli F. Johnson, Ian G. Taylor, Andrew R. Thompson, and Nick Tolimieri Fish and Fisheries 25(6):895-909

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 D. Brodeur, Elizabeth A. Daly, John C. Field, Kate E. Richerson, and James T. Thorson Marine Ecology Progress Series 741:47-70

Predicting spring phenology in deciduous broadleaf forests: NEON phenology forecasting community challenge Wheeler, Kathryn I., Michael C. Dietze, David LeBauer, Jody A. Peters, Andrew D. Richardson, Arun A. Ross, R. Quinn Thomas, Kai Zhu, Uttam Bhat, Stephan Munch, Raphaela Floreani Buzbee, Min Chen, Benjamin Goldstein, Jessica Guo, Dalei Hao, Chris Jones, Mira Kelly-Fair, Haoran Liu, Charlotte Malmborg, Naresh Neupane, Debasmita Pal, Vaughn Shirey, Yiluan Song, McKalee Steen, Eric A. Vance, Whitney M. Woelmer, Jacob H. Wynne, and Luke Zachmann Agricultural and Forest Meteorology 345:109810 (12 p.)

Forensic geochemistry identifies the illegal introduction of Walleye into Lake Cascade, Idaho Whitman, George, Jordan Messner, Rachel C. Johnson, Malte Willmes, Brian P. Kennedy, and Carson Jeffres North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(2):407-414

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 J. Stauffer-Olsen, and Rachel C. Johnson Journal of Fish Biology 105(2):412-430

Variability in coastal habitat available for Longfin Smelt Spirinchus thaleichthys in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Young, Matthew J., Frederick V. Feyrer, Steven T. Lindley, and David D. Huff Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1282286 (13 p.)

Responses to pathogen exposure in sentinel juvenile fall-run Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River, CA Abdelrazek, Samah M.R., Richard E. Connon, Camilo Sanchez, Benjamin Atencio, Florian Mauduit, Brendan Lehman, Sascha L. Hallett, Stephen D. Atkinson, J. Scott Foott, and Miles E. Daniels Conservation Physiology 11(1):coad066 (13 p.)

Trends in Chinook salmon spawner abundance and total run size highlight linkages between life history, geography and decline Atlas, William I., Matthew R. Sloat, William H. Satterthwaite, Thomas W. Buehrens, Charles K. Parken, Jonathan W. Moore, Nathan J. Mantua, Jon Hart, and Anna Potapova Fish and Fisheries 24(4):595-617

Highly accurate species identification of Eastern Pacific rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) with high-throughput DNA sequencing Baetscher, Diana S., Hayley M. Nuetzel, and John Carlos Garza Conservation Genetics 24(5):563-574

Fin-spine microchemistry discriminates regional stocks of Caspian Sea starry sturgeon Bakhshalizadeh, Shima, Botagoz Murasovna Nasibulina, Tatyana Fedorovna Kurochkin, Attaala Muhaysin Ali, and Theodore W. Hermann Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 292:108483 (8 p.)

Laser ablation strontium isotopes and spatial assignment show seasonal mobility in red deer (Cervus elaphus) at Lazaret Cave, France (MIS 6) Barakat, Sarah, Mael Le Corre, Malte Willmes, Jessica Cohen, Manon Vuillien, Emmanuel Desclaux, and Kate Britton Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:988837 (14 p.)

Genetic and environmental drivers of migratory behavior in western burrowing owls and implications for conservation and management Barr, Kelly, Christen M. Bossu, Rachael A. Bay, Eric C. Anderson, Jim Belthoff, Lynne A. Trulio, Debra Chromczak, Colleen L. Wisinski, Thomas B. Smith, and Kristen C. Ruegg Evolutionary Applications 16(12):1889-1900

Deconstructing dams and disease: predictions for salmon disease risk following Klamath River dam removals Bartholomew, Jerri L., Julie D. Alexander, Justin Alvarez, Stephen D. Atkinson, Michael Belchik, Sarah J. Bjork, J. Scott Foott, Alex Gonyaw, Mark E. Hereford, Richard A. Holt, Barry McCovey Jr., Nicholas A. Som, Toz Soto, Anne Voss, Thomas H. Williams, Ted G. Wise, and Sascha L. Hallett Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1245967 (24 p.)

Distinct patterns of inheritance shape life-history traits in steelhead trout Beulke, Anne K., Alicia Abadia-Cardoso, Devon E. Pearse, Laura C. Goetz, Neil F. Thompson, Eric C. Anderson, and John Carlos Garza Molecular Ecology 32(24):6896-6912

A Field Guide to the Fishes of the Salish Sea is a portable work of art: Theodore W. Pietsch, James W. Orr (illustrated by Joseph R. Tomelleri), A field guide to the fishes of the Salish Sea: Puget Sound and the straits of Georgia and Juan de Fuca, Washington State and British Columbia. Chatwin Books, 2023 [book review] Bizzarro, Joseph J. Environmental Biology of Fishes 106(12):2219-2221

Trophic guilds of marine predators in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Bizzarro, Joseph J., John C. Field, Jarrod A. Santora, K. Alexandra Curtis, and Brian K. Wells Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1195000 (21 p.)

A multi-predator trophic database for the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Bizzarro, Joseph J., Lynn Dewitt, Brian K. Wells, K. Alexandra Curtis, Jarrod A. Santora, and John C. Field Scientific Data 10:496 (10 p.)

Natal contributions of kokanee salmon to Flaming Gorge Reservoir, Wyoming-Utah: An evaluation using otolith microchemistry Black, A.R., J.D. Walrath, M. Willmes, and M.C. Quist Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 14(1):90-107

South-Central / Southern California Coast Recovery Domain Boughton, David A. In: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 175-209. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-686.

Migrant steelhead passage after dam removal, river reroute, and channel evolution in the Carmel River, California Boughton, David A., Haley A. Ohms, and Cory Hamilton Report to California American Water and the California Coastal Office of the National Marine Fisheries Service, West Coast Region. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 8 p.

Ecological forecasts for marine resource management during climate extremes Brodie, Stephanie, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Heather Welch, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Jarrod A. Santora, Rachel Seary, Isaac D. Schroeder, and Michael G. Jacox Nature Communications 14:7701 (10 p.)

Interactions between life history and the environment on changing growth rates of Chinook salmon Buckner, Jack H., William H. Satterthwaite, Benjamin W. Nelson, and Eric J. Ward Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80(4):648-662

Role of maturation and mortality in portfolio effects and climate resilience Carvalho, Paul G., William H. Satterthwaite, Michael R. O'Farrell, Cameron Speir, and Eric P. Palkovacs Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80(6):924-941

Age structure of natural versus hatchery-origin endangered Chinook salmon and implications for fisheries management in California Chen, Emily K., William H. Satterthwaite, Brett J. Kormos, Rachel C. Johnson, Corey C. Phillis, and Stephanie M. Carlson Marine Ecology Progress Series 723:37-55

A unifying framework for understanding ecological and evolutionary population connectivity Cramer, Alli N., Jennifer A. Hoey, Tara E. Dolan, Remy Gatins, Jason A. Troy, Jordan L. Chancellor, Eric P. Palkovacs, John Carlos Garza, and Roxanne S. Beltran Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 11:1072825 (15 p.)

Development of a castable, GPS enabled, Miniaturized Predation Event Recorder (mPER) to quantify predation of juvenile fishes Demetras, Nicholas J., T. Reid Nelson, Brendan M. Lehman, and Cyril J. Michel Fisheries Research 264:106706 (7 p.)

Low-coverage whole genome sequencing for highly accurate population assignment: Mapping migratory connectivity in the American Redstart (Setophaga ruticilla) DeSaix, Matthew G., Eric C. Anderson, Christen M. Bossu, Christine E. Rayne, Teia M. Schweizer, Nicholas J. Bayly, Darshan S. Narang, Julie C. Hagelin, H. Lisle Gibbs, James F. Saracco, Thomas W. Sherry, Michael S. Webster, Thomas B. Smith, Peter P. Marra, and Kristen C. Ruegg Molecular Ecology 32(20):5528-5540

Age structure augments the predictive power of time series for fisheries and conservation Dolan, Tara E., Eric P. Palkovacs, Tanya L. Rogers, and Stephan B. Munch Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80(5):795-807

Environmental variability and krill abundance in the central California Current: Implications for ecosystem monitoring Dorman, Jeffrey G., William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Joseph D. Warren, Helen J. Killeen, Brian A. Hoover, John C. Field, and Jarrod A. Santora Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1099482 (17 p.)

A meta-analysis and model comparison of juvenile salmon growth across different habitat types Dudley, Peter N., Albert Noble Hendrix, and Ann-Marie K. Osterback River Research and Applications 39(2):177-188

NOAA West Coast Deep-Sea Coral Initiative 2018-2021: Final report Duncan, Elizabeth, Caitlin Adams, Chris Caldow, Eric Chavez, Elizabeth Clarke, Heather Coleman, Meredith Everett, Tom Hourigan, Tom Laidig, Jenny Waddell, and Arliss Winship U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OHC-12. 70 p.

Six years of fluvial response to a large dam removal on the Carmel River, California, USA East, Amy E., Lee R. Harrison, Douglas P. Smith, Joshua B. Logan, and Rosealea M. Bond Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 48(8):1487-1501

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