NOAA FISHERIES

Development of underwater recorders to quantify predation of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in a river environment Demetras, Nicholas J., David D. Huff, Cyril J. Michel, Joseph M. Smith, George R. Cutter, Sean A. Hayes, and Steven T. Lindley Fishery Bulletin 114(2):179-185

Tracking and forecasting ecosystem interactions in real time Deyle, Ethan R., Robert M. May, Stephan B. Munch, and George Sugihara Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283(1822):20152258 (9 p.)

Multi-year persistence of the 2014/15 North Pacific marine heatwave Di Lorenzo, Emanuele, and Nathan Mantua Nature Climate Change 6(11):1042-1047

Climate interpretation of the North Pacific marine heatwave of 2013-2015 Di Lorenzo, Emanuele, Giovanni Liguori, and Nathan Mantua US CLIVAR Variations 14(2):13-18

Status of china rockfish off the U.S. Pacific Coast in 2015 Dick, E.J., Melissa Monk, Ian Taylor, Melissa Haltuch, Tien-Shui Tsou, and Patrick Mirick Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 511 p.

Brandt's cormorant diet (1994-2012) indicates the importance of fall ocean conditions for northern anchovy in central California Elliott, Meredith L., Annie E. Schmidt, Sara Acosta, Russell Bradley, Pete Warzybok, Keith M. Sakuma, John C. Field, and Jaime Jahncke Fisheries Oceanography 25(5):515-528

Status of the chilipepper rockfish, Sebastes goodei, in the California Current for 2015 Field, John C., Sabrina G. Beyer, and Xi He Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 185 p.

Steelhead abundance in seasonally closed estuaries estimated using mark recapture methods Frechette, Danielle, William H. Satterthwaite, Ann-Marie K. Osterback, and Sean A. Hayes U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-555. 30 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): State of the California Current report, 2016 Garfield, Toby, and Chris Harvey (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 45 p.

Hierarchical phylogeographic structure of Coho Salmon in California Gilbert-Horvath, Elizabeth A., Kerrie A. Pipal, Brian C. Spence, Thomas H. Williams, and John Carlos Garza Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145(5):1122-1138

Status report: Assessment of statistical properties of transgenerational genetic-based mark-recapture estimators of abundance Hankin, David G., and Michael S. Mohr In: Andrew P. Kinziger (ed.), Genetic-based capture-recapture estimation of coho salmon escapement, p. 1-23. Completion report for California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fisheries Restoration Grant Program: P1310322.

Genetic stock composition of marine bycatch reveals disproportional impacts on depleted river herring genetic stocks Hasselman, Daniel J., Eric C. Anderson, Emily E. Argo, N. David Bethoney, Stephen R. Gephard, David M. Post, Bradley P. Schondelmeier, Thomas F. Schultz, Theodore V. Willis, and Eric P. Palkovacs Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73(6):951-963

Early ocean distribution of juvenile Chinook salmon in an upwelling ecosystem Hassrick, Jason L., Mark J. Henderson, David D. Huff, William J. Sydeman, Megan C. Sabal, Jeffrey A. Harding, Arnold J. Ammann, Eric D. Crandall, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, John Carlos Garza, and Sean A. Hayes Fisheries Oceanography 25(2):133-146

Observations of steelhead in the California Current lead to a marine-based hypothesis for the "half-pounder" life history, with climate change implications for anadromy Hayes, Sean A., Arnold J. Ammann, Jeffrey A. Harding, Jason L. Hassrick, Lynn deWitt, and Cheryl A. Morgan In: Shigehiko Urawa et al. (eds.), Pacific salmon and steelhead production in a changing climate: past, present, and future. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, Bulletin 6:97-105.

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), Aaron Mamula, Susan Sogard, William Watson, Nick Wegner, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 57th annual meeting of the TSC (April 26-27, 2016, Newport, Oregon), p. 308-326. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Age sample sizes and their effects on growth estimation and stock assessment outputs: Three case studies from U.S. West Coast fisheries He, Xi, John C. Field, Donald E. Pearson, and Lyndsey S. Lefebvre Fisheries Research 180:92-102

Numerical integration of temperature-dependent functions in bioenergetics models to avoid overestimation of fish growth Holsman, Kirstin, and Eric Danner Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145(2):334-347

Report of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center and Pacific Fishery Management Council workshop on CPS assessments Ianelli, Jim, Andre Punt, Evelyn Brown, Will Satterthwaite, Owen Hamel, Doug Butterworth, Mike Prager, Alexandra Silva, Martin Dorn, Aaron Berger, Diane Pleschner-Steele, Lorna Wargo, David Crabbe, Corey Niles, Steve Haeseker, Josh Lindsay, and Ian Stewart Report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 38 p. coastal pelagic species

Central Valley Recovery Domain Johnson, Rachel C., and Steven T. Lindley In: Thomas H. Williams et al. (eds.), Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 83-108. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564.

Isotopes and genes reveal freshwater origins of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha aggregations in California's coastal ocean Johnson, Rachel C., John Carlos Garza, R. Bruce MacFarlane, Churchill B. Grimes, Corey C. Phillis, Paul L. Koch, Peter K. Weber, and Mark H. Carr Marine Ecology Progress Series 548:181-196

Klamath River fall Chinook salmon age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2015 run Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 19 p.

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2016 season Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 31 p.

A comparison of density and length of Pacific groundfishes observed from 2 survey vehicles: a manned submersible and a remotely operated vehicle Laidig, Thomas E., and Mary M. Yoklavich Fishery Bulletin 114(4):386-396

Reproductive dynamics of Pacific sanddab, Citharichthys sordidus, off the central coast of California Lefebvre, Lyndsey S., Amber M. Payne, and John C. Field Journal of Sea Research 107(pt.1):100-111

Round-the-coast: Snapshots of estuarine climate change effects Limburg, Karin, Randy Brown, Rachel Johnson, Bill Pine, Roger Rulifson, David Secor, Kelly Timchak, Ben Walther, and Karen Wilson Fisheries 41(7):392-394

Modelling anadromous salmonid life-history Mangel, Marc, and William H. Satterthwaite In: Tomislav Vladic and Erik Petersson (eds.), Evolutionary biology of the Atlantic salmon, p. 221-247. CRC Press.

Food limitation of sea lion pups and the decline of forage off central and southern California McClatchie, Sam, John Field, Andrew R. Thompson, Tim Gerrodette, Mark Lowry, Paul C. Fiedler, William Watson, Karen M. Nieto, and Russell D. Vetter Royal Society Open Science 3(3):150628 (9 p.)

State of the California Current 2015-16: Comparisons with the 1997-98 El Nino McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, Andrew Leising, Toby D. Auth, Eric Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Richard D. Brodeur, Xiuning Du, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Francisco P. Chavez, Amanda J. Debich, John Hildebrand, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Michael G. Jacox, Mati Kahru, Raphael Kudela, Clarissa Anderson, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Jose Gomez-Valdes, S. Patricia A. Jimenez-Rosenberg, Ryan McCabe, Sharon R. Melin, Mark D. Ohman, Linsey M. Sala, Bill Peterson, Jennifer Fisher, Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Stephanie R. Schneider, Richard T. Golightly, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Stephanie Loredo, Jessica M. Porquez, Andrew R. Thompson, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Vera Trainer, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, and Jaime Jahncke CalCOFI Reports 57:5-61

Documentation for California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Onboard Sampling of the Rockfish and Lingcod Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Industry in Northern and Central California (1987-1998) as a relational database Monk, Melissa H., Rebecca R. Miller, John Field, E.J. Dick, Deb Wilson-Vandenberg, and Paul Reilly U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-558. 63 p.

Biology and life history of Green Sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris Ayres, 1854): state of the science Moser, M.L., J.A. Israel, M. Neuman, S.T. Lindley, D.L. Erickson, B.W. McCovey Jr., and A.P. Klimley Journal of Applied Ichthyology 32(S1):67-86

The Pacific decadal oscillation, revisited Newman, Matthew, Michael A. Alexander, Toby R. Ault, Kim M. Cobb, Clara Deser, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Nathan J. Mantua, Arthur J. Miller, Shoshiro Minobe, Hisashi Nakamura, Niklas Schneider, Daniel J. Vimont, Adam S. Phillips, James D. Scott, and Catherine A. Smith Journal of Climate 29(12):4399-4427

Western Regional Action Plan (WRAP), NOAA Fisheries Climate Science Strategy NOAA NW/SW Fisheries Science Centers U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-565. 75 p.

An evaluation of preseason abundance forecasts for Sacramento River winter Chinook salmon O'Farrell, Michael, Noble Hendrix, and Michael Mohr In: November 2016 Briefing Book, Agenda Item D.2, Attachment 1 (34 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Estimating a nonparametric homothetic S-shaped production relation for the US West Coast groundfish production 2004-2007 Oleson, O.B., J. Ruggiero, and A.T. Mamula Data Envelopment Analysis Journal 2(2):163-199

Review of 2015 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. 340 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2016 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 132 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2016 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 72 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2016 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 45 p.

Saving the spandrels? Adaptive genomic variation in conservation and fisheries management Pearse, D.E. Journal of Fish Biology 89(6):2697-2716

Conservation of native Pacific trout diversity in western North America Penaluna, Brooke E., Alicia Abadia-Cardoso, Jason B. Dunham, Francisco J. Garcia-de Leon, Robert E. Gresswell, Arturo Ruiz Luna, Eric B. Taylor, Bradley B. Shepard, Robert Al-Chokhachy, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Kevin R. Bestgen, Kevin Rogers, Marco A. Escalante, Ernest R. Keeley, Gabriel M. Temple, Jack E. Williams, Kathleen R. Matthews, Ron Pierce, Richard L. Mayden, Ryan P. Kovach, John Carlos Garza, and Kurt D. Fausch Fisheries 41(6):286-300

Shifting thresholds: rapid evolution of migratory life histories in steelhead/rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss Phillis, Corey C., Jonathan W. Moore, Mathieu Buoro, Sean A. Hayes, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Journal of Heredity 107(1):51-60

Contrasting patterns in growth and survival of Central Valley fall run Chinook salmon related to hatchery and ocean conditions Sabal, Megan C., David D. Huff, Mark J. Henderson, Jerome Fiechter, Jeffrey A. Harding, and Sean A. Hayes Environmental Biology of Fishes 99(12):949-967

Habitat alterations and a nonnative predator, the Striped Bass, increase native Chinook Salmon mortality in the Central Valley, California Sabal, Megan, Sean Hayes, Joseph Merz, and Jose Setka North American Journal of Fisheries Management 36(2):309-320

Cruise report, NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker RL-16-03, April 26 - June 12, 2016: Rockfish recruitment and ecosystem assessment Sakuma, Keith NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 19 p.

Anomalous epipelagic micronekton assemblage patterns in the neritic waters of the California Current in spring 2015 during a period of extreme ocean conditions Sakuma, Keith M., John C. Field, Nathan J. Mantua, Stephen Ralston, Baldo B. Marinovic, and Cynthia N. Carrion CalCOFI Reports 57:163-183

Hydrologic indicators of hot spots and hot moments of mercury methylation potential along river corridors Singer, Michael Bliss, Lee R. Harrison, Patrick M. Donovan, Joel D. Blum, and Mark Marvin-DiPasquale Science of the Total Environment 568:697-711

Spatial dynamic optimization of groundwater use with ecological standards for instream flow Speir, Cameron, Jae Han, and Nicholas Brozovic Water Economics and Policy 2(3):1650013 (23 p.)

North-Central California Coast Recovery Domain Spence, Brian C. In: Thomas H. Williams et al. (eds.), Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 32-82. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564.

Discovery and characterization of single nucleotide polymorphisms in coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch Starks, Hilary A., Anthony J. Clemento, and John Carlos Garza Molecular Ecology Resources 16(1):277-287

Targeting abundant fish stocks while avoiding overfished species: video and fishing surveys to inform management after long-term fishery closures Starr, Richard M., Mary G. Gleason, Corina I. Marks, Donna Kline, Steve Rienecke, Christian Denney, Anne Tagini, and John C. Field PLoS ONE 11(12):e0168645 (23 p.)

Genetic homogeneity of the geoduck clam Panopea generosa in the northeast Pacific Suarez-Moo, Pablo de Jesus, Elizabeth A. Gilbert-Horvath, Brent Vadopalas, Luis Eduardo Calderon-Aguilera, John Carlos Garza, and Axayacatl Rocha-Olivares Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 65:66-71

Panmixia in a critically endangered fish: the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) in the Gulf of California Valenzuela-Quinonez, Fausto, Juan A. De-Anda-Montanez, Elizabeth Gilbert-Horvath, John Carlos Garza, and Francisco J. Garcia-De Leon Journal of Heredity 107(6):496-503

Using measurement error models to account for georeferencing error in species distribution models Velasquez-Tibata, Jorge, Catherine H. Graham, and Stephan B. Munch Ecography 39(3):305-316

Trade-offs between accuracy and interpretability in von Bertalanffy random-effects models of growth Vincenzi, Simone, Alain J. Crivelli, Stephan Munch, Hans J. Skaug, and Marc Mangel Ecological Applications 26(5):1535-1552

Within- and among-population variation in vital rates and population dynamics in a variable environment Vincenzi, Simone, Marc Mangel, Dusan Jesensek, John Carlos Garza, and Alain J. Crivelli Ecological Applications 26(7):2086-2102

Local adaptation in transgenerational responses to predators Walsh, Matthew R., Todd Castoe, Julian Holmes, Michelle Packer, Kelsey Biles, Melissa Walsh, Stephan B. Munch, and David M. Post Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283(1823):20152271 (9 p.)

Predator-driven brain size evolution in natural populations of Trinidadian killifish (Rivulus hartii) Walsh, Matthew R., Whitnee Broyles, Shannon Beston, and Stephan B. Munch Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283(1834):20161075 (9 p.)

What is a 'significant portion' of a range? Reply to Nelson et al. (2016) Waples, Robin S., Peter B. Adams, James A. Bohnsack, and Barbara L. Taylor Endangered Species Research 30:191-192

Marine ecosystem perspectives on Chinook salmon recruitment: a synthesis of empirical and modeling studies from a California upwelling system Wells, Brian K., Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, Nathan Mantua, William J. Sydeman, David D. Huff, and John C. Field Marine Ecology Progress Series 552:271-284

Southern Oregon / Northern California Coast Recovery Domain Williams, Thomas H. In: Thomas H. Williams et al. (eds.), Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 18-31. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564.

Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest Williams, Thomas H., Brian C. Spence, David A. Boughton, Rachel C. Johnson, Lisa G. Crozier, Nathan J. Mantua, Michael R. O'Farrell, and Steven T. Lindley U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564. 152 p.

A characterization of deep-sea coral and sponge communities in areas of high bycatch in bottom trawls off northern California Yoklavich, Mary, M. Elizabeth Clarke, Tom Laidig, Erica Fruh, Lisa Krigsman, Jeff Anderson, Jeremy Taylor, and Chris Romsos U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-556. 39 p.

Separating recruitment and mortality time lags for a delay-difference production model Aalto, Emilius A., E.J. Dick, and Alec D. MacCall Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(2):161-165

Genetic structure of Pacific trout at the extreme southern end of their native range Abadia-Cardoso, Alicia, John Carlos Garza, Richard L. Mayden, and Francisco Javier Garcia de Leon PLoS ONE 10(10):e0141775 (20 p.)

Interpreting the FLOCK algorithm from a statistical perspective Anderson, Eric C., and Patrick D. Barry Molecular Ecology Resources 15(5):1020-1030

Synchronous marine pelagic regime shifts in the Northern Hemisphere Beaugrand, G., A. Conversi, S. Chiba, M. Edwards, S. Fonda-Umani, C. Greene, N. Mantua, S.A. Otto, P.C. Reid, M.M. Stachura, L. Stemmann, and H. Sugisaki Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 370(1659): 20130272 (16 p.)

Geo-referenced, abundance calibrated ocean distribution of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) stocks across the west coast of North America Bellinger, M. Renee, Michael A. Banks, Sarah J. Bates, Eric D. Crandall, John Carlos Garza, Gil Sylvia, and Peter W. Lawson PLoS ONE 10(7):e0131276 (25 p.)

Variability in rockfish (Sebastes spp.) fecundity: species contrasts, maternal size effects, and spatial differences Beyer, Sabrina G., Susan M. Sogard, Chris J. Harvey, and John C. Field Environmental Biology of Fishes 98(1):81-100

Cooperative research and cooperative management: a review with recommendations Bibb, Sally, Scott Bloom, Ayeisha Brinson, Mark Chandler, Guy Davenport, Kelly Denit, Gerard Dinardo, Joshua Gange, Steve Giordano, Alexis Gutierrez, John Hoey, Steve Ignell, Rosemary Kosaka, Caroline Park, Tauna Rankin, Heather Sagar, and Ryan Silva NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-156. 78 p.

Proceedings of the 2014 NOAA Economics of Protected Resources Workshop (September 9-11, 2014, La Jolla, California) Bisack, Kathryn D., Dale E. Squires, Douglas W. Lipton, James R. Hilger, Daniel S. Holland, Denise H. Johnson, Min-Yang Lee, Rebecca Lent, Daniel K. Lew, Gisele Magnusson, Minling Pan, Lew E. Queirolo, Stephen Stohs, Cameron L. Speir, and Kristy A. Wallmo, with contributions from Lisa Ballance and Sarah Mesnick NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-233. 179 p.

Zooplankton data from high-frequency coastal transects: Enriching the contributions of ocean observing systems to ecosystem-based management in the northern California Current Bjorkstedt, Eric P., and William T. Peterson In: Yonggang Liu, Heather Kerkering, and Robert H. Weisberg (eds.), Coastal ocean observing systems, p. 119-142. Academic Press (Elsevier).

Avoiding tipping points in fisheries management through Gaussian process dynamic programming Boettiger, Carl, Marc Mangel, and Stephan Munch Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282(1801):20141631 (9 p.)

Causes and impacts of the 2014 warm anomaly in the NE Pacific Bond, Nicholas A., Meghan F. Cronin, Howard Freeland, and Nathan Mantua Geophysical Research Letters 42(9):3414-3420

Thermal potential for steelhead life history expression in a southern California alluvial river Boughton, David A., Lee R. Harrison, Andrew S. Pike, Juan L. Arriaza, and Marc Mangel Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 144(2):258-273

Statistical modeling of daily water temperature attributes on the Sacramento River Caldwell, Jason, Balaji Rajagopalan, and Eric Danner Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 20(5):04014065. 12 p.

The invasion of an Atlantic Ocean river basin in Patagonia by Chinook salmon: new insights from SNPs Ciancio, Javier E., Carla Riva Rossi, Miguel Pascual, Eric Anderson, and John Carlos Garza Biological Invasions 17(10):2989-2998

Data-moderate stock assessments for brown, China, copper, sharpchin, stripetail, and yellowtail rockfishes and English and rex soles in 2013 Cope, Jason, E.J. Dick, Alec MacCall, Melissa Monk, Braden Soper, and Chantel Wetzel Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 298 p.

Disentangling the contributions of ocean ranching and net-pen aquaculture in the successful establishment of Chinook salmon in a Patagonian basin Di Prinzio, Cecilia Yanina, Carla Riva Rossi, Javier Ciancio, John Carlos Garza, and Ricardo Casaux Environmental Biology of Fishes 98(9):1987-1997

Metapopulation structure of a semi-anadromous fish in a dynamic environment Feyrer, Frederick, James Hobbs, Shawn Acuna, Brian Mahardja, Lenny Grimaldo, Melinda Baerwald, Rachel C. Johnson, and Swee Teh Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(5):709-721

Environmental conditions impacting juvenile Chinook salmon growth off central California: An ecosystem model analysis Fiechter, J., D.D. Huff, B.T. Martin, D.W. Jackson, C.A. Edwards, K.A. Rose, E.N. Curchitser, K.S. Hedstrom, S.T. Lindley, and B.K. Wells Geophysical Research Letters 42(8):2910-2917

Scientific and Statistical Committee's Groundfish Subcommittee mop-up Stock Assessment Review Panel meeting: Black rockfish report Field, John, Andy Cooper, Martin Dorn, Theresa Tsou, John Budrick, Neil Klaer, and Owen Hamel Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 13 p.

Assessing the relationship between gulls Larus spp. and Pacific salmon in central California using radiotelemetry Frechette, Danielle, Ann-Marie K. Osterback, Sean A. Hayes, Jonathan W. Moore, Scott A. Shaffer, Mark Pavelka, Clark Winchell, and James T. Harvey North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35(4):775-788

Fauna crime: elucidating the potential source and introduction history of European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus L.) into Lake Storsjoen, Norway Hagenlund, Mari, Kjartan Ostbye, Kjell Langdal, Marius Hassve, Ruben A. Pettersen, Eric Anderson, Finn Gregersen, and Kim Praebel Conservation Genetics 16(5):1085-1098

Cruise report for OS1401, Juvenile salmon ocean ecology (R/V Ocean Starr, July 5-24, 2014) Harding, Jeffrey NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division. 20 p.

Hydraulic and geomorphic processes in an overbank flood along a meandering, gravel-bed river: implications for chute formation Harrison, Lee R., Thomas Dunne, and G. Burch Fisher Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 40(9):1239-1253

Central Valley salmon – Finding a balance for fish and water Hayes, Sean Fishermen's News 71(2):6

Monitoring of coho salmon and steelhead recovery in Scott Creek after the 2009 Lockheed Martin wildfire Hayes, Sean, Susan Sogard, Cynthia Kern, Noah Finnegan, Ashley Hillard, Mike Beakes, and Brian Dietterick Final report to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fisheries Restoration Grant Program. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, California. 123 p.

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), John Hyde, Susan Sogard, Cindy Thomson, William Watson, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 56th annual meeting of the TSC (April 28-29, 2015, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada), p. 288-307. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Status of bocaccio, Sebastes paucispinis, in the Conception, Monterey and Eureka INPFC areas for 2015 He, Xi, John C. Field, Donald E. Pearson, Lyndsey Lefebvre, and Steve Lindley Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 460 p.

Effects of size-dependent relative fecundity specifications in fishery stock assessments He, Xi, John C. Field, Sabrina G. Beyer, and Susan M. Sogard Fisheries Research 165:54-62

Continental-scale variability in the feeding ecology of juvenile Chinook salmon along the coastal Northeast Pacific Ocean Hertz, Eric, M. Trudel, R.D. Brodeur, E.A. Daly, L. Eisner, E.V. Farley Jr., J.A. Harding, R.B. MacFarlane, S. Mazumder, J.H. Moss, J.M. Murphy, and A. Mazumder Marine Ecology Progress Series 537:247-263

Marine conservation: Science, policy, and management, by G. Carleton Ray and Jerry McCormick-Ray [book review] Huff, David D. Quarterly Review of Biology 90(3):332

Seasonal weather patterns drive population vital rates and persistence in a stream fish Kanno, Yoichiro, Benjamin H. Letcher, Nathaniel P. Hitt, David A. Boughton, John E.B. Wofford, and Elise F. Zipkin Global Change Biology 21(5):1856-1870

Klamath River fall Chinook salmon age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2014 run Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 19 p.

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2015 season Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 30 p.

Reproductive complexity in a long-lived deepwater fish, the blackgill rockfish Lefebvre, Lyndsey S., and John C. Field Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 144(2):383-399

State of the California Current 2014-15: Impacts of the warm-water "blob" Leising, Andrew W., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Jeffrey Abell, Reginaldo Durazo, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Roxanne R. Robertson, Ralf Goericke, William T. Peterson, Richard D. Brodeur, Caren Barcelo, Toby D. Auth, Elizabeth A. Daly, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Jessica M. Porquez, Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Jarrod A. Santora, William J. Sydeman, Sharon R. Melin, Francisco P. Chavez, Richard T. Golightly, Stephanie R. Schneider, Jennifer Fisher, Cheryl Morgan, Russell Bradley, and Peter Warybok CalCOFI Reports 56:31-68

Multifactor productivity, environmental change, and regulatory impacts in the U.S. West Coast groundfish trawl fishery, 1994-2013 Mamula, Aaron, and Trevor Collier Marine Policy 62:326-336

Shifting patterns in Pacific climate, West Coast salmon survival rates, and increased volatility in ecosystem services Mantua, Nathan J. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 112(35):10823-10824

Response of chinook salmon to climate change Mantua, Nathan J., Lisa G. Crozier, Thomas E. Reed, Daniel E. Schindler, and Robin S. Waples Nature Climate Change 5(7):613-615