NOAA FISHERIES

Marine heatwaves and climate-driven warming impact availability of sardine subpopulations to northeast Pacific fishing ports Muhling, Barbara A., et al. Fisheries Oceanography

Resource partitioning among pelagic predators remains stable despite annual variability in diet composition Portner, Elan J., Barbara A. Muhling, Antonella Preti, Owyn E. Snodgradd, Travis M. Richards, Catherine F. Nickels, Heidi Dewar, Elliott L. Hazen, and C. Anela Choy Journal of Animal Ecology

Randomization methods to evaluate the reliability of the recruitment index in an integrated assessment model Lee, Huihua, Kevin R. Piner, Mark N. Maunder, and Hiromu Fukuda Fishery Bulletin

Climate change impacts to foraging seascapes for a highly migratory top predator Muhling, Barbara, Stephanie Snyder, Elliott Hazen, Rebecca Whitlock, Jong-Yeon Park, Charles Stock, and Barbara Block Movement Ecology

States of development and application of genetic and genomic tools in aquaculture and conservation programs: a guide for strengthening dialogue among practitioners of aquaculture and genetics Purcell, Catherine, Brendan F. Wringe, Pierre Boudry, Marine S.O. Brieuc, Mark Coulson, Tony Kess, Monica F. Solberg, Harri Vehvilainen, and Federico Calboli Aquatic Living Resources

Socio-economic impacts and responses of the fishing industry and fishery managers to changes in small pelagic fish distributions and abundance Quezada, Felipe J., et al. Reviews in Fish Biology 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.

Update assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2025 for U.S. management in 2025-2026 Allen Akselrud, Caitlin, Alexander J. Jensen, Peter T. Kuriyama, Kevin T. Hill, and Juan P. Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-719. 66 p.

Re-evaluation of the recruits-per-spawner and CalCOFI SST relationship in Pacific sardine Allen Akselrud, Caitlin, Alexander Jensen, and Kevin Hill U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-716. 9 p.

Advancing genetic improvement in the omics era: status and priorities for United States aquaculture Andersen, Linnea K., Neil F. Thompson, Jason W. Abernathy, Ridwan O. Ahmed, Ali Ali, Rafet Al-Tobasei, Benjamin H. Beck, Bernarda Calla, Thomas A. Delomas, Rex A. Dunham, Christine G. Elsik, S. Adam Fuller, Julio C. Garcia, Mackenzie R. Gavery, Christopher M. Hollenbeck, Kevin M. Johnson, Emily Kunselman, Erin L. Legacki, Sixin Liu, Zhanjiang Liu, Brittany Martin, Joseph L. Matt, Samuel A. May, Caitlin E. Older, Kev Overturf, Yniv Palti, Eric J. Peatman, Brian C. Peterson, Michael P. Phelps, Louis V. Plough, Mark P. Polinski, Dina A. Proestou, Catherine M. Purcell, Sylvie M.A. Quiniou, Guglielmo Raymo, Caird E. Rexroad, Kenneth L. Riley, Steven B. Roberts, Luke A. Roy, Mohamed Salem, Kelly Simpson, Geoffrey C. Waldbieser, Hanping Wang, Charles D. Waters, Benjamin J. Reading, and on behalf of The Aquaculture Genomics, Genetics and Breeding Workshop BMC Genomics 26:155 (24 p.)

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

Continuing long-term shifts in larval fish phenology in the southern California Current Ecosystem are matched by rapid advances in the north Chen, Kathryn S., Colleen M. Petrik, Rebecca G. Asch, Andrew R. Thompson, and Toby D. Auth Global Change Biology 31(3):e70141 (14 p.)

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

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

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

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

Catch-only stock assessment of Pacific mackerel (Scomber japonicus) for U.S. management in the 2025-26 and 2026-27 fishing years Jensen, Alexander J., Caitlin Allen Akselrud, Juan P. Zwolinski, Peter T. Kuriyama, and Kevin T. Hill U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-718. 19 p.

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

Applications of species distribution modeling and future needs to support marine resource management Karp, Melissa A., Megan Cimino, J. Kevin Craig, Daniel P. Crear, Christopher Haak, Elliott L. Hazen, Isaac Kaplan, Donald R. Kobayashi, Hassan Moustahfid, Barbara Muhling, Malin L. Pinsky, Lauren A. Smith, James T. Thorson, and Phoebe A. Woodworth-Jefcoats ICES Journal of Marine Science 82(3):fsaf024 (19 p.)

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

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

Vertical energy seascapes and diving behaviour modulate metabolic scope in a pelagic predator Luongo, Sarah M., Nicholas C. Wegner, Zachary R. Skelton, Sofia Ortega-Garcia, Ruben Rodriguez-Sanchez, Heather Fenix, Meghan Lake, John B. O'Sullivan, Seishiro Furukawa, Ryo Kawabe, and Yannis P. Papastamatiou Proceedings of the Royal Society B 292(2045):20250200 (10 p.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bridging science and industry: Next-generation multi-function trawl system for NOAA’s fisheries research Shaughnessy, Greg U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-722. 38 p.

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2026 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Josiah S. Renfree, and Juan P. Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-721. 98 p.

Temporal dynamics and distributions of sardine and anchovy in the southern California Current Ecosystem Tran, Bryant, Andrew D. Barton, Barbara Muhling, Brice X. Semmens, Brad Erisman, Matthew T. Craig, Sylvia P.A. Jiminez-Rosenberg, Gerardo Aceves-Medina, and Andrew R. Thompson Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 82:1-15

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

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

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.)

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

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

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

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

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

Multi-trophic level responses to marine heatwave disturbances in the California Current Ecosystem Chen, Tz-Chian, Mati Kahru, Michael R. Landry, Mark D. Ohman, Andrew R. Thompson, and Michael R. Stukel Ecology Letters 27(12):e14502 (14 p.)

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.

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.)

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.)

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

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.)

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.)

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.

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

Rapid inference of larval fish recruitment potential from size spectrum models Hinchliffe, Charles, Hayden T. Schilling, Pierre Pepin, Fonti Kar, Daniel S. Falster, and Iain M. Suthers Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(11):1581-1593

Vertical structure of Caribbean deep-reef fishes from the altiphotic to deep-sea boundary Jacquemont, Juliette, Simon J. Brandl, Emily P. McFarland, Joachim Claudet, Carole C. Baldwin, Jenna Barrett, and Luke Tornabene Scientific Reports 14:19489 (16 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.)

Characterization of incremental markings in the sagittal otolith of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) using different imaging modalities James, Kelsey C., Uwe Kierdorf, Victoria Cooley, Viktor Nikitin, Stuart R. Stock, and Horst Kierdorf Minerals 14(7):705 (20 p.)

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.

Trophic level influences larval Shortbelly Rockfish development Kwan, Garfield T., Kamran A. Walsh, Andrew R. Thompson, Noah J. Ben-Aderet, H. William Fennie, Brice X. Semmens, and Rasmus Swalethorp Marine and Coastal Fisheries 16(6):e10319 (10 p.)

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

Divergent responses of highly migratory species to climate change in the California Current Lezama-Ochoa, Nerea, Stephanie Brodie, Heather Welch, Michael G. Jacox, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Jerome Fiechter, Megan Cimino, Barbara Muhling, Heidi Dewar, Elizabeth A. Becker, Karin A. Forney, Daniel Costa, Scott R. Benson, Nima Farchadi, Camrin Braun, Rebecca Lewison, Steven Bograd, and Elliott L. Hazen Diversity and Distributions 30(2):e13800 (14 p.)

Crossing the Pacific: Genomics reveals the presence of Japanese Sardine (Sardinops melanosticta) in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Longo, Gary C., Jeremiah J. Minich, Nicholas Allsing, Kelsey James, Ella S. Adams-Herrmann, Wes Larson, Nolan Hartwick, Tiffany Duong, Barbara Muhling, Todd P. Michael, and Matthew T. Craig Molecular Ecology 33(22):e17561 (13 p.)

Smaller body size under warming is not due to gill-oxygen limitation in a cold-water salmonid Lonthair, Joshua K., Nicholas C. Wegner, Brian S. Cheng, Nann A. Fangue, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Amy M. Regish, John D. Swenson, Estefany Argueta, Stephen D. McCormick, Benjamin H. Letcher, and Lisa M. Komoroske Journal of Experimental Biology 227(4):jeb246477

The gill oxygen limitation hypothesis remains unsupported by experimental evidence: Response to 'Testing mechanistic theories must be based on correct interpretations' Lonthair, Joshua K., Nicholas C. Wegner, Brian S. Cheng, Nann A. Fangue, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Amy M. Regish, John D. Swenson, Estefany Argueta, Stephen D. McCormick, Benjamin H. Letcher, and Lisa M. Komoroske Journal of Experimental Biology 227(16):jeb248173 (3 p.)

Seascape genomics of the pink abalone (Haliotis corrugata): An insight into a cross-border species in the northeast Pacific coast Mares-Mayagoitia, Jorge Alberto, Fabioloa Lafarga-De la Cruz, Fiorenza Micheli, Pedro Cruz-Hernandez, Juan A. de-Anda-Montanez, John Hyde, Norma Y. Hernandez-Saavedra, Paulina Mejia-Ruiz, Vladimir S. De Jesus-Bonilla, Carmen E. Vargas-Peralta, and Fausto Valenzuela-Quinonez Journal of Heredity 115(2):188-202

Heterochrony and the evolution of the longjaw mudsucker (Gobiidae, Teleostei) Milan, Jimjohn, Tyler Fidel, Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp, Benjamin W. Frable, Zachary R. Skelton, and Philip A. Hastings Journal of Fish Biology 104(1):155-162

The use of conceptual models to structure stock assessments: A tool for collaboration and for "modelling what to model" Minte-Vera, Carolina V., Mark N. Maunder, Alexandre Aires-da-Silva, Haikun Xu, Juan L. Valero, Steven L.H. Teo, Patricio Barria, and Nicholas D. Ducharme-Barth Fisheries Research 279:107135 (16 p.)

Energy-dispersive diffraction tomography of shark vertebral centra Park, Jun-Sang, Ryan M. Horn, Haiyan Chen, Kelsey C. James, Michelle S. Passerotti, Lisa J. Natanson, and Stuart R. Stock Powder Diffraction 39(2):69-75

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 81(8):1135-1153

Report on the Summer 2023 California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (2307RL), 17 July to 3 November 2023, conducted aboard NOAA Ships Reuben Lasker and Bell M. Shimada, fishing vessels Lisa Marie and Long Beach Carnage, and three uncrewed surface vessels Renfree, Josiah S., Alice Beittel, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brad E. Erisman, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, Lanora Vasquez, William Watson, Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-702. 53 p.

Relative sarcolipin (SLN) and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA1) transcript levels in closely related endothermic and ectothermic scombrid fishes: Implications for molecular basis of futile calcium cycle non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) Robinson, Sean, Nicholas C. Wegner, Chugey A. Sepulveda, and Jens P.C. Franck Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 295:111667 (7 p.)

Advancing bioenergetics-based modeling to improve climate change projections of marine ecosystems Rose, Kenneth A., Kirstin Holsman, Janet A. Nye, Emily H. Markowitz, Thomas N.S. Banha, Nina Bednarsek, Juan Bueno-Pardo, David Deslauriers, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Klaus B. Huebert, Martin Huret, Shin-ichi Ito, Stefan Koenigstein, Lingbo Li, Hassan Moustahfid, Barbara A. Muhling, Philipp Neubauer, Jose Ricardo Paula, Elizabeth C. Siddon, Morten D. Skogen, Paul D. Spencer, P. Daniel van Denderen, Gro I. van der Meeren, and Myron A. Peck Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:193-221

Development of methods for collecting spectral data from Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy to age three small coastal pelagic species (Pacific Sardine, Pacific Mackerel, Northern Anchovy) in the northeast Pacific Ocean Saas, Emma, Emmanis Dorval, Dianna L. Porzio, and Brittany D. Schwartzkopf U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-694. 47 p.

Spirochaete genome identified in red abalone sample represents a novel genus Candidatus Haliotispira gen. nov. within the order Spirochaetales Sharma, Sharu Paul, Catherine M. Purcell, John R. Hyde, and Andrew J. Severin International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 74:006198 (8 p.)

Organismal responses to deteriorating water quality during the historic 2020 red tide off Southern California Skelton, Zachary R., Lillian R. McCormick, Garfield T. Kwan, Joshua Lonthair, Carlos Neira, Samantha M. Clements, Todd R. Martz, Philip J. Bresnahan, Uwe Send, Sarah N. Giddings, Jeffrey C. Sevadjian, Stephanie Jaeger, Adriano Feit, Benjamin W. Frable, Phillip J. Zerofski, Melissa Torres, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Justin McCullough, Melissa L. Carter, Eva Ternon, Luke P. Miller, Gabriella M. Kalbach, Duncan C. Wheeler, P. Ed Parnell, Katherine M. Swiney, Garrett Seibert, Jeremiah J. Minich, John R. Hyde, Philip A. Hastings, Jennifer E. Smith, Lisa M. Komoroske, Martin Tresguerres, Lisa A. Levin, and Nicholas C. Wegner Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12(1):00067 (27 p.)

Observations of skin color aberrations in four shark species off the coast of southern California, USA Skelton, Zachary R., Tanya S. Prinzing, Andrew P. Nosal, Zoey Vagner, Peter Demman, Phil J. Zerofski, and Nicholas C. Wegner Environmental Biology of Fishes 107(3):391-400

Insights into vertebral band pair deposition rate in the juvenile common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Spear, Luka N., Suzanne Kohin, John A. Mohan, and R.J. David Wells Journal of Fish Biology 104(1):104-112

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2023 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-703. 87 p.

Micrometer-scale structure in shark vertebral centra Stock, S.R., U. Kierdorf, K.C. James, P.D. Shevchenko, L.J. Natanson, S. Gomez, and H. Kierdorf Acta Biomaterialia 177:300-315

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.)

Distinct natal origins based on vertebral ring analysis corroborate the migration pattern of Pacific bluefin tuna in the North Pacific Ocean Uematsu, Yuki, Taiki Ishihara, Tamaki Shimose, Kuo-Shu Chen, John A. Mohan, Jay R. Rooker, R.J. David Wells, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, Seiji Ohshimo, and Yosuke Tanaka Marine Ecology Progress Series 743:65-74

Integrating vertical and horizontal movements of shortfin mako sharks Isurus oxyrinchus in the easter North Pacific Ocean Vaudo, Jeremy J., Heidi Dewar, Michael E. Byrne, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood S. Shivji Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:85-99

Diet and size at birth affect larval rockfish condition and survival Walsh, Kamran A., Andrew R. Thompson, Garfield T. Kwan, Brice X. Semmens, H. William Fennie, and Rasmus Swalethorp Marine Ecology Progress Series 745:95-114

Plasticity in gill morphology and function Wegner, Nicholas C., and Anthony P. Farrell In: Sarah L. Alderman and Todd E. Gillis (eds.), Encyclopedia of fish physiology (2nd ed.), vol. 1, p. 762-779. Academic Press.

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 81(8):1029-1051

An updated model of potential habitat for northern stock Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) and its use for attributing survey observations and fishery landings Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer Fisheries Oceanography 33(3):e12644 (14 p.)

A shallow scattering layer structures the energy seascape of an open ocean predator Arostegui, Martin C., Barbara Muhling, Emmett Culhane, Heidi Dewar, Stephanie S. Koch, and Camrin D. Braun Science Advances 9(40):eadi8200 (11 p.)

Revisiting a central prediction of the Gill Oxygen Limitation Theory: Gill area index and growth performance Bigman, Jennifer S., Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Fish and Fisheries 24(3):354-366

Gills, growth and activity across fishes Bigman, Jennifer S., Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Fish and Fisheries 24(5):730-743

Mycteroperca profundorum Cervigon, 2011, a junior synonym of Mycteroperca bonaci (Poey, 1860) (Teleostei: Epinephelidae) Craig, Matthew T., and D. Ross Robertson Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation 40:77-80

An anchovy ecosystem indicator of marine predator foraging and reproduction Fennie, H. William, Rachel Seary, Barbara A. Muhling, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie Brodie, Megan A. Cimino, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Elizabeth A. McHuron, Sharon Melin, Jarrod A. Santora, Justin J. Suca, Julie A. Thayer, Andrew R. Thompson, Pete Warzybok, and Desiree Tommasi Proceedings of the Royal Society B 290(1992):20222326 (10 p.)

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