NOAA FISHERIES

Regional variation in the marine growth and energy accumulation of juvenile Chinook salmon and coho salmon along the west coast of North America Trudel, Marc, Mary E. Thiess, Cynthia Bucher, Edward V. Farley Jr., R. Bruce MacFarlane, Edmundo Casillas, Joseph Fisher, John F. T. Morris, James M. Murphy, and David W. Welch C. B. Grimes et al. (eds.), The ecology of juvenile salmon in the northeast Pacific Ocean: regional comparisons. American Fisheries Society Symposium 57:205-232.

A biological framework for evaluating whether a species is threatened or endangered in a significant portion of its range Waples, R.S., P.B. Adams, J. Bohnsack, and B.L. Taylor Conservation Biology 21(4):964-974

Normativity redux Waples, Robin S., Peter B. Adams, James Bohnsack, and Barbara L. Taylor Conservation Biology 21(6):1649-1650

Quantifying the effects of wind, upwelling, curl, sea surface temperature and sea level height on growth and maturation of a California Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) population. Wells, B. K., C. B. Grimes, and J. B. Waldvogel. Fisheries Oceanography 16(4):363-382 ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - CHINOOK - GROWTH - MATURATION - CLIMATE - WIND - UPWELLING - CURL - SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE - SEA LEVEL HEIGHT - EFFECTS

MONITORING AND RESEARCH NEEDED TO MANAGE THE RECOVERY OF THREATENED AND ENDANGERED CHINOOK AND STEELHEAD IN THE SACRAMENTO-SAN JOAQUIN BASIN WILLIAMS, J.G., J.J. ANDERSON, S. GREENE, C. HANSON, STEVEN T. LINDLEY, A. LOW, B.P. MAY, D. McEWAN, M.S. MOHR, R.B. MacFARLANE, AND C. SWANSON U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-399. 11 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - CHINOOK - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - SACRAMENTO SAN JOAQUIN BASIN - THREATENED - ENDANGERED - RECOVERY - MONITORING

A fishery-independent assessment of an overfished rockfish stock, cowcod (Sebastes levis), using direct observations from an occupied submersible Yoklavich, M.M., M.S. Love, and K.A. Forney Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64:1795-1804

Analysis of Fst outliers at allozyme loci in Pacific salmon: implications for natural selection. Aguilar, A. Environmental Biology of Fishes 76(2-4):329-339 ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - PACIFIC - GENETICS - OUTLIERS - ALLOZYME LOCI

A comparison of variability and population structure for major histocompatibility complex and microsatellite loci in California coastal steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum). Aguilar, A., and J. C. Garza Molecular Ecology 15(4): 923-937 ANADROMOUS FISHES - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - POPULATION - VARIABILITY - GENETICS - MICROSATELLITE LOCI

Bays and estuaries Allen, Larry G., Mary M. Yoklavich, Gregor M. Cailliet, and Michael H. Horn In: Larry G. Allen, Daniel J. Pondella II, and Michael H. Horn (eds.), The ecology of marine fishes: California and adjacent waters, p. 119-148. University of California Press. OCEANOGRAPHY - BAYS - ESTUARIES - MARINE FISHES - ECOLOGY

The power of single-nucleotide polymorphisms for large-scale parentage inference. Anderson, E. C., and J. C. Garza. Genetics 172(4):2567-2582. GENETICS - SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISMS - LARGE SCALE PARENTAGE INFERENCE - GENOTYPING - STATISTICS - METHODS - EXCLUSION - LIKELIHOOD - SIMULATIONS - HYPOTHETICAL LARGE POPULATIONS - ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - CHINOOK

Marine species. Armsworth, P. R., C. V. Kappel, F. Micheli, and E. P. Bjorkstedt. D. D. Goble, J. M. Scott, and F. W. Davis (eds.), The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, vol. 1: Renewing the conservation promise, p. 36-44. Island Press. MARINE SPECIES - ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

Working seascapes. Armsworth, P. R., C. V. Kappel, F. Micheli, and E. P. Bjorkstedt. D. D. Goble, J. M. Scott, and F. W. Davis (eds.), The Endangered Species Act at Thirty, vol. 2: Conserving biodiversity in human-dominated landscapes, p. 244-255. Island Press. MARINE ECOLOGY - MARINE HABITAT - ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT

THE PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST DURING MAY-JUNE 2001: A SUMMARY OF CTD AND OTHER HYDROGRAPHIC DATA FROM YOUNG OF THE YEAR JUVENILE ROCKFISH SURVEYS BALTZ, KENNETH A., KEITH M. SAKUMA, STEPHEN RALSTON U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-395. 83 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - PHYSICAL - CALIFORNIA - CTD - ROCKFISH - PELAGIC YOUNG OF THE YEAR - JUVENILES - SURVEYS

Use of otoliths to identify river and hatchery of origin of California Central Valley Chinook salmon in the ocean fishery: potential application to Klamath River Chinook salmon Barnett-Johnson, Rachel, Frank C. Ramos, Churchill B. Grimes, and R. Bruce MacFarlane Pacific Fishery Management Council, June 2006 Briefing Book, Informational Report 1. 3 p.

Predation, competition, and the recovery of overexploited fish stocks in marine reserves. Baskett, M., M. Yoklavich, and M. Love. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63(6):1214-1229. MARINE FISHES - PREDATION - COMPETITION - RECOVERY - OVEREXPLOITED FISH STOCKS - MARINE RESERVES

Comparative Lagoon Ecological Assessment Project (CLEAP), Santa Cruz County, California Beck, Nicole, Ellen Freund, and Maggie Mathias Report for the Santa Cruz County Resource Conservation District, funded by the California Coastal Conservancy. 2ndNature, Santa Cruz, California. 270 p. + appendices.

Petrale sole: STAR Panel report (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, September 26-30, 2005) Berkeley, Steven, Martin Dorn, Ray Conser, Owen Hamel, Robert Mohn, Kevin Piner, Stephen Ralston, John DeVore, and Peter Leipzig In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume II. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 8 p.

Potential steelhead over-summering habitat in the south-central/southern California coast recovery domain: maps based on the envelope method Boughton, David A. and Matthew Goslin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-391. 36 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - HABITAT - COASTAL MONITORING - RECOVERY DOMAIN - MAPS - ENVELOPE METHOD

Steelhead of the south-central/southern California coast: population characterization for recovery planning. Boughton, David A., Peter B. Adams, Eric Anderson, Craig Fusaro, Edward Keller, Elise Kelley, Leo Lentsch, Jennifer Nielsen, Katie Perry, Helen Regan, Jerry Smith, Camm Swift, Lisa Thompson, Fred Watson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-394. 116 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - HABITAT - COASTAL MONITORING - RECOVERY PLANNING - POPULATION - CHARACTERIZATION

Anomalous pelagic nekton abundance, distribution, and apparent recruitment in the northern California Current in 2004 and 2005. Brodeur, R. D., S. Ralston, R. L. Emmett, M. Trudel, T. D. Auth, and A. J. Phillips. Geophysical Research Letters 33:L22S08 (5 p.) MARINE ANIMALS - NEKTON - PELAGIC - ANOMALIES - ABUNDANCE - DISTRIBUTION - RECRUITMENT - OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT ECOSYSTEM - CCE

Status of kelp greenling (Hexagrammos decagrammus) in Oregon and California waters as assessed in 2005 Cope, Jason M., and Alec D. MacCall In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume V. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 158 p.

Local mutagenic impact of insertions of LTR retrotransposons on the mouse genome. Desmarais, E., K. Belkhir, J. C. Garza, and F. Bonhomme. Journal of Molecular Evolution 63(5):662-675. MAMMALS - RODENTS - MOUSE GENOME - GENETICS - LOCAL MUTAGENIC IMPACT - LTR RETROTRANSPOSONS

Considering ecosystem-based fisheries management in the California Current. Field, J. C., and R. C. Francis. Marine Policy 30(5):552-569. MARINE FISHES - FISHERIES MANAGEMENT - CALIFORNIA - ECOSYSTEMS

Top-down modeling and bottom-up dynamics: linking a fisheries-based ecosystem model with climate hypotheses in the Northern California Current. Field, J. C., R. C. Francis, and K. Aydin. Progress in Oceanography 68:238-270. MARINE FISHES - FISHERIES MANAGEMENT - CALIFORNIA - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CURRENT - ECOSYSTEMS - MODELING

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Field, John (ed.), Anne Allen, and Janet Mason In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: Forty seventh annual meeting of the TSC (May 2-3, 2006, Inn at Otter Crest, Otter Rock, Oregon), p. 174-189. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Does MPA mean Major Problem for Assessments? Considering the consequences of place-based management systems Field, John C., Andre E. Punt, Richard D. Methot, and Cynthia J. Thomson Fish and Fisheries 7(4):284-302

Temporal recruitment patterns and gene flow in kelp rockfish (Sebastes atrovirens). Gilbert-Horvath, E. A., R. J. Larson, and J. C. Garza. Molecular Ecology 15(12):3801-3815. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - KELP ROCKFISH - RECRUITMENT - GENETICS - GENE FLOW

Population structure and ancestry of O. mykiss populations in South-Central California based on genetic analysis of microsatellite data Girman, Derek, and John Carlos Garza Final report for California Department of Fish and Game Project No. P0350021 and Pacific States Marine Fisheries Contract No. AWIP-S-1. 48 p.

Mating system and reproductive success in eastern Pacific harbour seals. Hayes, S. A., D. E. Pearse, D. P. Costa, J. T. Harvey, B. J. Le Boeuf, and J. C. Garza. Molecular Ecology 15(10):3023-3034. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - HARBOR SEAL - EASTERN PACIFIC - REPRODUCTION - MATING - SUCCESS

A prior for steepness in stock-recruitment relationships, based on an evolutionarily persistence principle. He, X., M. Mangel, and A. MacCall. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 104:428-433. FISHERIES MANAGEMENT - STOCKS - RECRUITMENT - EVOLUTIONARY PERSISTENCE PRINCIPLE - MODELS - STEEPNESS - RELATIONSHIPS

Rebuilding analysis for widow rockfish in 2005. He, Xi, Andre Punt, Alec D. MacCall, and Stephen Ralston In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume III. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 22 p. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - WIDOW ROCKFISH - ANALYSIS

Status of the widow rockfish resource in 2005. He, Xi, Donald E. Pearson, E. J. Dick, John C. Field, Stephen Ralston, and Alec D. MacCall In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume III. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 119 p. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - WIDOW ROCKFISH - STATUS

Evolution Hobson, Edmund S. In: Larry G. Allen, Daniel J. Pondella II, and Michael H. Horn (eds.), The ecology of marine fishes: California and adjacent waters, p. 55-80. University of California Press. MARINE FISHES - CALIFORNIA - EVOLUTION - ECOLOGY

Bayesian ranking and selection of fishing boat efficiencies. Holloway, G., and D. Tomberlin. Marine Resource Economics 21(4):415-432. FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY - VESSELS - BOATS - FISHING GEAR - BAYESIAN RANKING - SELECTION - EFFICIENCIES

Duration analysis of fleet dynamics Holloway, Garth, and David Tomberlin In: Rebuilding fisheries in an uncertain environment: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Biennial Conference of the International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET) (July 11-14, 2006, Portsmouth, UK), 9 p. International Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade, Corvallis, Oregon. (CD-ROM)

Report of the joint Canadian and U.S. Pacific hake/whiting Stock Assessment Review Panel (February 6-9, 2006, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington) Jagielo, Tom, Alan Sinclair, Paul Medley, Jeff Fargo, Marion Larkin, and John Field Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 14 p.

Stock assessment of the gopher rockfish (Sebastes carnatus) Key, Meisha, Alec D. MacCall, Traci Bishop, and Bob Leos In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume V. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 57 p.

Klamath River fall chinook age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2005 run Klamath River Technical Advisory Team Klamath Fishery Management Council, Yreka, California. 16 p.

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall chinook, 2006 season Klamath River Technical Advisory Team Klamath Fishery Management Council, Yreka, California. 26 p.

Historical population structure of Central Valley steelhead and its alteration by dams. Lindley, S. T., R. S. Schick, A. Agrawal, M. Goslin, T. E. Pearson, E. Mora, J. J. Anderson, B. May, S. Greene, C. Hanson, A. Low, D. McEwan, R. B. MacFarlane, C. Swanson, and J. G. Williams. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 4(1):3 (21 p.) ANADROMOUS FISHES - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - CENTRAL VALLEY - HISTORICAL POPULATIONS - DAMS

Chinook salmon and steelhead in the Bay and Central Valley rivers Lindley, Steve, et al. In: State of the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary 2006: science and stewardship (State of the Estuary Proceedings, October 2005), p. 66. San Francisco Estuary Project and CALFED.

Potential use of offshore marine structures in rebuilding an overfished rockfish species, bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) Love, M. S., D. M. Schroeder, W. Lenarz, A. MacCall, A. Scarborough Bull, and L. Thorsteinson. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 104:383-390. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - BOCACCIO ROCKFISH - OVERFISHING - OFFSHORE MARINE STRUCTURES - ARTIFICIAL REEFS

Deep rock habitats Love, Milton S., and Mary M. Yoklavich In: Larry G. Allen, Daniel J. Pondella II, and Michael H. Horn (eds.), The ecology of marine fishes: California and adjacent waters, p. 253-266. University of California Press. ECOLOGY - HABITATS - DEEP ROCK HABITAT - MARINE FISHES

Bocaccio rebuilding analysis for 2005 MacCall, Alec D. In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume I. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 12 p.

Status of bocaccio off California in 2005 MacCall, Alec D. In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume I. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 47 p.

The status of California scorpionfish (Scorpaena guttata) off southern California in 2004 Maunder, Mark N., J. Thomas Barnes, Debbie Aseltine-Nielson, and Alec D. MacCall In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume I. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 125 p.

Hidden process models for animal population dynamics. Newman, K. B., S. T. Buckland, S. T. Lindley, L. Thomas, and C. Fernandez. Ecological Applications 16(1):74-86 ECOLOGY - ANIMAL POPULATION DYNAMICS - MODELS - MODELING - HIDDEN PROCESS - STATISTICS

Accounting for demographic and environmental stochasticity, observation error, and parameter uncertainty in fish population dynamics models Newman, Ken B., and Steven T. Lindley North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26(3):685-701

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis for 2006 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 90 p.

Preseason report II: Analysis of proposed regulatory options for 2006 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 54 p.

Preseason report III: Analysis of council adopted management measures for 2006 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 38 p.

Review of 2005 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 311 p.

Spatial distribution and environmental correlates of Australian snubfin and Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins. Parra, G. J., R. Schick, and P. J. Corkeron. Ecography 29(3):396-406 MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - AUSTRALIAN SNUBFIN DOLPHIN - INDO-PACIFIC HUMPBACK DOLPHIN - DISTRIBUTION - SPATIAL - HABITAT - ENVIRONMENTAL CORRELATES

The state of the California Current, 2005-2006: Warm in the north, cool in the south Peterson, Bill, Robert Emmett, Ralf Goericke, Elizabeth Venrick, Arnold Mantyla, Steven J. Bograd, Franklin B. Schwing, Roger Hewitt, Nancy Lo, William Watson, Jay Barlow, Mark Lowry, Steve Ralston, Karin A. Forney, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, William J. Sydeman, David Hyrenbach, Russel W. Bradley, Pete Warzybok, Francisco Chavez, Karen Hunter, Scott Benson, Michael Weise, James Harvey, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, and Reginaldo Durazo CalCOFI Reports 47:30-74 OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT - TEMPERATURE

2005 stock status of cowcod in the Southern California Bight and future prospects Piner, Kevin, Edward J. Dick, and John Field In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume I. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 107 p.

Bocaccio: STAR Panel report (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California, August 1-5, 2005) Punt, Andre, Mark Maunder, Robert Mohn, Tony Smith, Michael Schirripa, Susan Ashcraft, John Field, and Peter Leipzig In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume I. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 6 p.

Kelp greenling: STAR Panel report (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California, August 1-5, 2005) Punt, Andre, Mark Maunder, Robert Mohn, Tony Smith, Michael Schirripa, Susan Ashcraft, Peter Leipzig, and John Field In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume V. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 7 p.

Widow rockfish: STAR Panel report (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California, August 1-5, 2005) Punt, Andre, Mark Maunder, Robert Mohn, Tony Smith, Michael Schirripa, Susan Ashcraft, Peter Leipzig, and John Field In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume III. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 7 p.

Blackgill rockfish: STAR Panel report (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California, August 1-5, 2005) Punt, Andre, Robert Mohn, Mark Maunder, Michael Schirripa, Tony Smith, Susan Ashcraft, Peter Leipzig, and John Field In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume V. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 7 p.

An assessment of starry flounder off California, Oregon, and Washington Ralston, Stephen In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume II. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 74 p.

Darkblotched rockfish: STAR Panel meeting report (NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, May 16-20, 2005) Ralston, Steve, Vivian Haist, Bob Mohn, Paul Spencer, and Theresa Tsou In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume III. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 5 p.

Cabezon: STAR Panel meeting report (NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, May 16-20, 2005) Ralston, Steve, Vivian Haist, Bob Mohn, Paul Spencer, and Theresa Tsou In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume I. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 7 p.

Pacific ocean perch (POP): STAR Panel meeting report (NOAA Fisheries, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, May 16-20, 2005) Ralston, Steve, Vivian Haist, Bob Mohn, Paul Spencer, Theresa Tsou In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2005: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, volume III. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 4 p.

Interannual and spatial variation in the distribution of young-of-the-year rockfish (Sebastes spp.): expanding and coordinating a survey sampling frame. Sakuma, K. M., S. Ralston, and V. G. Wespestad. CalCOFI Reports 47:127-139. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - JUVENILES - YOUNG OF THE YEAR - INTERANNUAL VARIATION - SPATIAL VARIATION - DISTRIBUTION - SAMPLING - SURVEYS

Toward sustainable open ocean aquaculture in the United States Stickney, Robert R., Barry Costa-Pierce, Donald M. Baltz, Mark Drawbridge, Churchill Grimes, Stephen Phillips, and D. LaDon Swann Fisheries 31(12):607-610

Marine habitat "hotspots" and their use by migratory species and top predators in the North Pacific Ocean: Introduction. Sydeman, W. J., R. D. Brodeur, C. B. Grimes, A. S. Bychkov, and S. McKinnell. Deep-Sea Research II 53(3-4):247-249. OCEANOGRAPHY - NORTH PACIFIC - HABITAT - HOT SPOTS - MIGRATORY SPECIES - PREDATORS

Benthic invertebrates that form habitat on deep banks off southern California, with special reference to deep sea coral. Tissot, B. N., M. M. Yoklavich, M. S. Love, K. York, and M. Amend. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 104:167-181. INVERTEBRATES - BENTHIC - HABITAT - CALIFORNIA - DEEP SEA CORAL

Learning and the adaptive management of fisheries resources Tomberlin, David, and Teresa Ish In: NOAA Fisheries Economics and Social Science Workshop (April 18-20, 2006, San Francisco, CA). NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD.

AN ITERATIVE FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROACH TO OPTION AND PROJECT VALUATION TOMBERLIN, DAVID, VALENTINA BOSETTI U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-389. 16 p. FISHERIES MANAGEMENT - ECONOMICS - INVESTMENTS - ITERATIVE-FINITE DIFFERENCES METHOD - NON-LINEAR LEAST SQUARES - LIMITED ENTRY FISHERIES - OPTION VALUATION - PROJECT VALUATION - UNCERTAINTY

Bayesian estimation of technical efficiency in the Pacific hake fishery Tomberlin, David, Xavier Irz, and Garth Holloway University of British Columbia, Fisheries Centre, Working Paper no. 2006-22. (8 p.)

Managing recreational fishing in MPAs through vertical zoning: the importance of understanding benthic-pelagic linkages Wahle, Charles, Rikki Grober-Dunsmore, and Lisa Wooninck MPA News 7(8):5

Covariation between the average lengths of mature coho (Oncorhynchus kisutch) and Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) and the ocean environment. Wells, B. K., C. B. Grimes, J. C. Field, and C. S. Reiss. Fisheries Oceanography 15(1): 67-79. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - COHO - OCEANOGRAPHY - COVARIATION - AVERAGE LENGTHS

Historical population structure of coho salmon in the southern Oregon/northern California coasts evolutionarily significant unit Williams, Thomas H., Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Walt G. Duffy, Dave Hillemeier, George Kautsky, Tom E. Lisle, Mike McCain,Mike Rode, R. Glenn Szerlong, Robert S. Schick, Matthew N. Goslin, Aditya Agrawal U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-390. 71 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - COHO - CALIFORNIA - OREGON - HISTORICAL POPULATIONS - COASTAL MONITORING - STREAMS - EVOLUTIONARILY SIGNIFICANT UNITS

A GIS-BASED SYNTHESIS OF INFORMATION ON SPAWNING DISTRIBUTIONS OF CHINOOK SALMON IN THE CALIFORNIA COAST CHINOOK SALMON ESU AGRAWAL, ADITYA, ROBERT S. SCHICK, ERIC P. BJORKSTEDT, B. C. SPENCE, MATTHEW N. GOSLIN, B. SWART U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-377. 15 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - CHINOOK - CALIFORNIA - SPAWNING - DISTRIBUTION - GIS - SUMMARY

PREDICTING THE POTENTIAL FOR HISTORICAL COHO, CHINOOK AND STEELHEAD HABITAT IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AGRAWAL, ADITYA, ROBERT S. SCHICK, ERIC P. BJORKSTEDT, B. G. SZERLONG, MATTHEW N. GOSLIN, BRIAN C. SPENCE, THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, K. M. BURNETT U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-379. 25 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - STEELHEAD - CALIFORNIA - HISTORICAL HABITAT - PREDICTIONS

Analysis of major histocompatibility complex class II Beta genes from rockfishes (genus Sebastes) Aguilar, A., and J. C. Garza Journal of Fish Biology 67(4):1021-1028

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Allen, Anne, Alec MacCall, Janet Mason, Frank Schwing, and John Field In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: Forty-fifth annual meeting of the TSC (May 3-4, 2005, Parksville, British Columbia), p. 177-194. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

An efficient Monte Carlo method for estimating Ne from temporally spaced samples using a coalescent-based likelihood Anderson, E. C. Genetics 170(2):955-967

SPIP 1.0: program for simulating pedigrees and genetic data in age-structured populations Anderson, E.C., and K.K. Dunham Molecular Ecology Notes 5(2):459-461

A description of full parental genotyping Anderson, Eric C., and John Carlos Garza Report submitted to the Pacific Salmon Commission, Vancouver, British Columbia. 11 p.

Linking fine-scale groundfish distributions with large-scale seafloor maps: issues and challenges of combining biological and geological data. Anderson, T. J., M. M. Yoklavich, and S. L. Eittreim. P. W. Barnes and J. P. Thomas (eds.), Benthic habitats and the effects of fishing. American Fisheries Society Symposium 41:667-678. MARINE FISHES - GROUNDFISH - DISTRIBUTION - SEAFLOOR MAPS - GEOLOGY - GEOLOGICAL DATA

Understanding the complex nature of fish-seagrass associations [abstract] Anderson, T.J. In: P. W. Barnes and J. P. Thomas (eds.), Benthic habitats and the effects of fishing, p. 313. American Fisheries Society Symposium 41.

Cruise report DS-05-04, David Starr Jordan, May 1 - June 12, 2005: rockfish recruitment assessment Baltz, Ken National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, California. 25 p.

Longspine thornyhead: STAR Panel meeting report (revised) (June 20-24, 2005, NOAA Fisheries, Newport, Oregon) Barnes, Tom, Selina Heppell, Bob Mohn, Stephen Smith, Grant Thompson, John Field, Rod Moore, and Mark Saelens Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 8 p.

Dover sole: STAR Panel meeting report (June 20-24, 2005, NOAA Fisheries, Newport, Oregon) Barnes, Tom, Selina Heppell, Bob Mohn, Stephen Smith, Grant Thompson, John Field, Rod Moore, and Mark Saelens Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 8 p.

Sablefish: STAR Panel meeting report (June 20-24, 2005, NOAA Fisheries, Newport, Oregon) Barnes, Tom, Selina Heppell, Bob Mohn, Stephen Smith, Grant Thompson, John Field, Rod Moore, and Mark Saelens Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 11 p.

Shortspine thornyhead: STAR Panel meeting report (June 20-24, 2005, NOAA Fisheries, Newport, Oregon) Barnes, Tom, Selina Heppell, Bob Mohn, Stephen Smith, Grant Thompson, John Field, Rod Moore, and Mark Saelens Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 5 p.

Validation of Sr isotopes in otoliths by laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (LA-MC-ICPMS): opening avenues in fisheries science applications. Barnett-Johnson, R., F. C. Ramos, C. B. Grimes, and R. B. MacFarlane. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62:2425-2430. MARINE FISHES - FISHERIES SCIENCE - GENETICS - OTOLITHS

Canary rockfish: STAR Panel report (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, September 26-30, 2005) Berkeley, Steven, Martin Dorn, Ray Conser, Owen Hamel, Robert Mohn, Kevin Piner, Stephen Ralston, John DeVore, and Peter Leipzig Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 8 p.

DARR 2.0: UPDATED SOFTWARE FOR ESTIMATING ABUNDANCE FROM STRATIFIED MARK-RECAPTURE DATA BJORKSTEDT, ERIC P. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-368. 13 p. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE - ESTIMATION - TAGGING - MARK-RECAPTURE DATA - DOWNSTREAM MIGRANTS - STATISTICS - COMPUTER SOFTWARE UPDATE

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