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Variations in the biomass of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) around the South Shetland Islands, 1996-2006. Reiss, Christian S., Anthony M. Cossio, Valerie Loeb, and David A. Demer. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65(4): 497-508.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for April to June 2008 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 15 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for July to September 2008 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 14 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for October to December 2008 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 23 p.

Kilo Nalu: physical/biogeochemical dynamics above and within permeable sediments Sansone, Francis J., Geno Pawlak, Timothy P. Stanton, Margaret A. McManus, Brian T. Glazer, Eric H. DeCarlo, Marion Bandet, Jeffrey Sevadjian, Kevin Stierhoff, Christopher Colgrove, Andres B. Hebert, and In Chieh Chen Oceanography 21(4):173-178

Intrinsic rates of increase in pelagic elasmobranchs Smith, Susan E., David W. Au, and Christina Show Camhi, Merry D., Ellen K. Pikitch, and Elizabeth A. Babcock (eds.), Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation, p. 288-297. Blackwell Science, Ames, Iowa.

The biology and ecology of thresher sharks (Alopiidae) Smith, Susan E., Randall C. Rasmussen, Darlene A. Ramon, and Gregor M. Cailliet In: Camhi, Merry D., Ellen K. Pikitch, and Elizabeth A. Babcock (eds.), Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation, p. 60-68. Blackwell Science, Ames, Iowa.

I. Building a framework for fisheries forecasting: understanding nonlinear couplings between fishing, climate change and variability in fish populations. II. A retrospective analysis of nonlinear forecast methods for fisheries ecosystems Sugihara, George, Roger Hewitt, Chih-Hao Hsieh, and Christian Anderson Report to NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program, Project 06-17. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 3 p.

Predatory interactions and niche overlap between mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, and jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas, in the California Current Vetter, Russ, Suzanne Kohin, Antonella Preti, Sam McClatchie, and Heidi Dewar CalCOFI Reports 49:142-156

Bottom-up and top-down indicators of ecosystem variability: an integrated ecosystem assessment for the California Current system Bograd, Steven, Frank Schwing, William Sydeman, Julie Thayer, John Field, Brian Wells, Roger Hewitt, and Kevin Hill Report to NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program, Project 06-16. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 2 p.

Measurements of total scattering spectra from bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis). Conti, S. G., B. D. Maurer, M. A. Drawbridge, and D. A. Demer. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 105:153-157 MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - BOCACCIO ROCKFISH - TOTAL SCATTERING SPECTRA - MEASUREMENTS

Introduction Curtis Rita, and Dale Squires In: Rita Curtis and Dale Squires (eds.), Fisheries buybacks, p. 3-13. Blackwell Publishing.

Fisheries buybacks Curtis, Rita, and Dale Squires (eds.) Blackwell Publishing, 267 p.

Accounting for scattering directivity and fish behaviour in multibeam-echosounder surveys Cutter, G.R. Jr., and D.A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 64:1664-1674

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Field, John (ed.), Anne Allen, John Hyde, Janet Mason, Deanna Pinkard, Stephen Ralston, Susan Sogard, Cynthia Thomson, and William Watson In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: Forty-eighth annual meeting of the TSC (April 24-25, 2007, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California), p. 183-203. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Portland, Oregon.

Director's report to the 58th Tuna Conference on tuna and tuna-related activities at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center for the period May 1, 2006 to April 30, 2007 Fox, William W. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-07-03. 27 p.

The state of the California Current, 2006-2007: Regional and local processes dominate Goericke, Ralf, Elizabeth Venrick, Tony Koslow, William J. Sydeman, Franklin B. Schwing, Steven J. Bograd, William T. Peterson, Robert Emmett, J. Ruben Lara Lara, Gilberto Gaxiola Castro, Jose Gomez Valdez, K. David Hyrenbach, Russel W. Bradley, Michael J. Weise, James T. Harvey, Curtis Collins, and Nancy C.H. Lo CalCOFI Reports 48:33-66

Lessons from fisheries buybacks Groves, Theodore, and Dale Squires In: Rita Curtis and Dale Squires (eds.), Fisheries buybacks, p. 15-53. Blackwell Publishing.

Plasma catecholamine levels as indicators of the post-release survivorship of juvenile pelagic sharks caught on experimental drift longlines in the Southern California Bight Hight, Barbara V., David Holts, Jeffrey B. Graham, Brian P. Kennedy, Valerie Taylor, Chugey A. Sepulveda, Diego Bernal, Darlene Ramon, Randall Rasmussen, and N. Chin Lai Marine and Freshwater Research 58(1):145-151

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2007 for U.S. management in 2008 Hill, Kevin T., Emmanis Dorval, Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Christina Show, and Roberto Felix-Uraga U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-413. 179 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Geographical distribution and abundance of Pacific saury, Cololabis saira (Brevoort) (Scomberesocidae), fishing stocks in the northwestern Pacific in relation to sea temperatures Huang, Wen-Bin, Nancy C.H. Lo, Tai-Sheng Chiu, and Chih-Shin Chen Zoological Studies 46(6):705-716

The origin, evolution, and diversification of rockfishes of the genus Sebastes (Cuvier) Hyde John R., and Russell D. Vetter Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 44(2):790-811

Daily larval production of Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) off California in 1951-2006 Lo, Nancy C.H. CalCOFI Reports 48:147-164

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off U.S. and Canada in 2007 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and Richard L. Charter U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-411. 31 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES - CANADA

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off U.S. and Canada in 2006 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Richard L. Charter U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-401. 32 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES - CANADA

Reproduction in the viviparous South African clinid fish Fucomimus mus Moser, H.G. African Journal of Marine Science 29(3):423-436

Life history and stock structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) Rooker, Jay R., Jaime R. Alvarado Bremer, Barbara A. Block, Heidi Dewar, Gregorio De Metrio, Aldo Corriero, Richard T. Kraus, Eric D. Prince, Enrique Rodriguez-Marin, and David H. Secor Reviews in Fisheries Science 15(4):265-310

Simulation of the estimation of ageing bias inside an integrated assessment of canary rockfish using age estimates from a bomb radiocarbon study Stewart, Ian J., and Kevin R. Piner Marine and Freshwater Research 58(10):905-913

An investigation of time series prediction methods for improved stock projections: understanding variability in fish populations (first year of a 2-year project) Sugihara, George, and Roger Hewitt Report to NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program, Project 06-17. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 2 p.

Ichthyoplankton and station data for oblique (bongo net) plankton tows taken during a survey of shallow coastal waters of the Southern California Bight in 2004 and 2005 Watson, William, Susan M. Manion, and Richard L. Charter U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-410. 63 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - OBLIQUE PLANKTON TOWS (BONGO NET) - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BIGHT - SHALLOW COASTAL WATERS

Fisher profiles and perceptions of sea turtle–fishery interactions: Case study of east coast Peninsular Malaysia Yeo, Bee Hong, Dale Squires, Kamarruddin Ibrahim, Heidi Gjertsen, Syarifah Khadiejah Syed Mohd Kamil, Rahayu Zulkifli, Theodore Groves, Hong Meen Chee, and Tan Chun Hong WorldFish Center (Penang, Malaysia), Discussion Series no. 6. 69 p.

Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey in 2005 Ambrose, David A., Richard L. Charter, Susan M. Manion U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-392. 125 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - SURFACE PLANKTON TOWS (MANTA) - OBLIQUE PLANKTON TOWS (BONGO) - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

The removal of large whales from the Southern Ocean: evidence for long-term ecosystem effects? Ballance, Lisa T., Robert L. Pitman, Roger P. Hewitt, Donald B. Siniff, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, Phillip J. Clapham, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. In: James A. Estes et al. (eds.), Whales, whaling, and ocean ecosystems, p. 215-230. University of California Press.

Climate change and the economics of thw world's fisheries: an introduction Barange, Manuel, Rognvaldur Hannesson, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. In: Rognvaldur Hannesson, Manuel Barange, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. (eds.), Climate change and the economics of the world's fisheries: examples of small pelagic stocks, p. xv-xvii. Edward Elgar Publishing.

The use of multibeam sonar mapping techniques to refine population estimates of the endangered white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni). Butler, J., M. Neuman, D. Pinkard, R. Kvitek, and G. Cochrane. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 104:521-532. INVERTEBRATES - ABALONES - WHITE ABALONE - ENDANGERED - POPULATION ESTIMATES - SONAR MAPPING

Ichthyoplankton, paralarval cephalopod, and station data for oblique (bongo) plankton tows from the Oregon, California, and Washington Line-Transect Expedition (ORCAWALE) in 2001 Charter, Sharon R., Barbara S. MacCall, Richard L. Charter, Susan M. Manion, William Watson, and Lisa T. Ballance U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-393. 41 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - OBLIQUE PLANKTON TOWS (BONGO) - INVERTEBRATES - CEPHALOPODS - PARALARVAL - JUVENILE - LINE-TRANSECT - SURVEYS - CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - ORCAWALE - ECOSYSTEM STUDIES - NOAA R/V - MCARTHUR - DAVID STARR JORDAN

Improved parameterization of the SDWBA for estimating krill target strength Conti, Stéphane G., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 63(5):928-935

Acoustical monitoring of fish density, behavior, and growth rate in a tank Conti, Stéphane G., Philippe Roux, Christian Fauvel, Benjamin D. Maurer, and David A. Demer Aquaculture 251(2-4):314-323

Director's report to the 57th Tuna Conference on tuna and tuna-related activities at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center for the period May 1, 2005 to April 30, 2006 Fox, William W. Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-06-04. 26 p.

Economics for fisheries management Grafton, R. Quentin, James Kirkley, Tom Kompas, and Dale Squires Ashgate. 176 p.

Climate change and the economics of the world's fisheries: examples of small pelagic stocks Hannesson, Rognvaldur, Manuel Barange, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. (eds.) Edward Elgar Publishing, 310 p.

On the consequences of climate change in pelagic fish populations: a conclusion Hannesson, Rognvaldur, Samuel F. Herrick Jr., and Manuel Barange In: Rognvaldur Hannesson, Manuel Barange, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. (eds.), Climate change and the economics of the world's fisheries: examples of small pelagic stocks, p. 296-304. Edward Elgar Publishing.

An optimal harvest policy for the recently renewed United States Pacific sardine fishery Herrick, Samuel F. Jr., Kevin Hill, and Christian Reiss In: Rognvaldur Hannesson, Manuel Barange, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. (eds.), Climate change and the economics of the world's fisheries: examples of small pelagic stocks, p. 126-150. Edward Elgar Publishing. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC SARDINE - FISHERY - OPTIMAL HARVEST - POLICY - FISHERIES MANAGEMENT

Assessment of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax caerulea) population for U.S. management in 2006 Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. LO, Beverly J. Macewicz, Roberto Felix-Uraga U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-386. 66+9 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Assessment of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax caerulea) population for U.S. management in 2007 Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Roberto Felix-Uraga U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-396. 79+11 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Developing country fisheries and technical efficiency: the Java Sea purse seine fishery Jeon, Yongil, Ishak Haji Omar, K. Kuperan, Dale Squires, and Indah Susilowati Applied Economics 38(13):1541-1552

2006 Billfish Newsletter Kohin, Suzanne, and Randall Rasmussen U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 14 p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Marine Game Fish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

Shifts in a Pacific Ocean fish assemblage: the potential influence of exploitation Levin, Phillip S., Elizabeth E. Holmes, Kevin R. Piner, and Chris J. Harvey Conservation Biology 20(4):1181-1190

Spawning biomas of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off California in 2005 Lo, Nancy C.H. and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-387. 29 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES - CALIFORNIA

Minutes of the 2005 Trinational Sardine Forum (Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, November 14-15, 2005) Lo, Nancy C.H., Anne C. Allen, and Sharon Z. Herzka U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-06-05. 118 p.

Ichthyoplankton Moser, H.G., and W. Watson In: Larry G. Allen, Daniel J. Pondella II, and Michael H. Horn (eds.), The ecology of marine fishes: California and adjacent waters, p. 269-319. University of California Press.

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

Evaluation of ageing accuracy of bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) rockfish using bomb radiocarbon Piner, Kevin R., John R. Wallace, Owen S. Hamel, and Robert Mikus Fisheries Research 77(2):200-206

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.

Transboundary movement of sailfish, Istiophorus platypterus, off the Pacific coast of Central America Prince, Eric D., David B. Holts, Derke Snodgrass, Eric S. Orbesen, Jiangang Luo, Michael L. Domeier, and Joseph E. Serafy Bulletin of Marine Science 79(3):827-838 MARINE FISHES - BILLFISHES - BILLFISH - SAILFISH - MOVEMENT - BEHAVIOR - TRANSBOUNDARY - CENTRAL AMERICA - PACIFIC

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

Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey in 2003 Acuna, Elaine Sandknop, Richard L. Charter, William Watson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-370. 112 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - SURFACE PLANKTON TOWS (MANTA) - OBLIQUE PLANKTON TOWS (BONGO) - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

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.

Limited realized dispersal and introgressive hybridization influence genetic structure and conservation strategies for brown rockfish, Sebastes auriculatus Buonaccorsi, Vincent P., Carol A. Kimbrell, Eric A. Lynn, and Russell D. Vetter Conservation Genetics 6(5):697-713

Fish surveys and habitat investigations of cowcod and bocaccio Butler, John L. In: D.A. Somerton and C.T. Glendhill (eds.), Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service workshop on underwater video analysis (August 4-6, 2004), p. 24-25. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-68.

Broad-bandwidth, sound scattering, and absorption from krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica), mysids (Praunus flexuosus and Neomysis integer), and shrimp (Crangon crangon). Conti, S. G., D. A. Demer, and A. S. Brierley. ICES Journal of Marine Science 62(5):956-965. INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - KRILL - SHRIMP - BROAD BANDWIDTH - SOUND SCATTERING - ABSORPTION

An improved multiple-frequency method for measuring in situ target strengths Conti, Stéphane G., David A. Demer, Michael A. Soule, and Jean H.E. Conti ICES Journal of Marine Science 62(8):1636-1646

Mako sharks. De Maddalena, A., A. Preti, and R. Smith. Krieger Publishing Company, Malabar, Florida. 72 p. MARINE FISHES - SHARKS - MAKO SHARK

New target-strength model indicates more krill in the Southern Ocean. Demer, D. A., and S. G. Conti. ICES Journal of Marine Science 62(1):25-32. INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - KRILL - ANTARCTIC KRILL - ANTARCTICA - SOUTHERN OCEAN - MODEL - ABUNDANCE

Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) stock discrimination off the West Coast of Baja California and Southern California using otolith morphometry. Félix-Uraga, R., V. M. Gómez-Muñoz, C. Quiñónez-Velázquez, F. N. Melo-Barrera, K. T. Hill, and W. García-Franco. CalCOFI Reports 46:113-121. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC SARDINE - CALIFORNIA - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - BAJA - STOCK DISCRIMINATION - STOCKS - OTOLITHS - MORPHOMETRY

Director's report to the 56th Tuna Conference on tuna and tuna-related activities at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center for the period May 1, 2004 to April 30, 2005 Fox, William W. Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-05-04. 31 p.

The state of the California Current, 2004-2005: Still cool? Goericke, R., E. Venrick, A. Mantyla, S. J. Bograd, F. B. Schwing, A. Huyer, R. L. Smith, P. A. Wheeler, R. Hooff, W. T. Peterson, C. A. Collins, N. Lo, G. Gaxiola-Castro, R. Durazo, K. D. Hyrenbach, and W. J. Sydeman. CalCOFI Reports 46: 32-71. OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT - STATE - COOL

Biophysical mechanisms of larval fish ingress into Chesapeake Bay Hare, Jonathan A., Simon Thorrold, Harvey Walsh, Christian Reiss, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, and Cynthia M. Jones Marine Ecology Progress Series 303:295-310

2005 Billfish Newsletter Holts, David B., and Randall Rasmussen. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 14 p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Marine Game Fish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

A comparison of long-term trends and variability in populations of larvae of exploited and unexploited fishes in the Southern California region: A community approach. Hsieh, C., C. Reiss, W. Watson, M. J. Allen, J. R. Hunter, R. N. Lea, R. H. Rosenblatt, P. E. Smith, and G. Sugihara. Progress in Oceanography 67:160-185. MARINE FISHES - CALIFORNIA - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - LARVAE - POPULATIONS - EXPLOITED FISHES - UNEXPLOITED FISHES

Shipboard identification of fish eggs and larvae by multiplex PCR, and description of fertilized eggs of blue marlin, shortbill spearfish, and wahoo. Hyde, J. R., E. Lynn, R. Humphreys Jr., M. Musyl, A. P. West, and R. Vetter. Marine Ecology Progress Series 286:269-277. MARINE FISHES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - EGGS - LARVAE - SHIPBOARD IDENTIFICATION - MULTIPLEX PCR - BLUE MARLIN - SHORTBILL SPEARFISH - WAHOO

Correction factors for quantitative analysis of anchovy eggs and larval stages from the southern waters of Korea. Kim, J. Y., N. C. H. Lo, and J. I. Kim. Ocean Science Journal 40(1):11-16. MARINE FISHES - ANCHOVIES - ANCHOVY - KOREA - EGGS - LARVAE - QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

USING LIDAR TO DETECT TUNA SCHOOLS UNASSOCIATED WITH DOLPHINS IN THE EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC, A REVIEW AND CURRENT STATUS LARESE, JASON P. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-378. 7 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - MARINE FISHES - TUNA - AIRBORNE - DETECTION - LIDAR - EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC - ETP - CURRENT STATUS

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax), from 1994-2004 off California. Lo, N. C. H., Macewicz, B. J., and D. A. Griffith. CalCOFI Reports 46:93-112. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC SARDINE - SPAWNING BIOMASS - CALIFORNIA

Meeting reports of Working Group 2, Trinational Sardine Forum: Regional biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off west coast of Northern American continent, in 2003 and 2004 Lo, Nancy C.H., Sandy McFarlane, Jake Schweigert, Robert Emmett, Timothy Baumgartner, Ray Conser, Yanira Green-Ruiz, Darrell Kapp, Richard Charter, Beverly Macewicz, Martin E. Hernandez-Rivas, Sarita De La Campa, and Rick Brodeur U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-05-09. 42 p.

Eggs-per-recruit model for management of the California market squid (Loligo opalescens) fishery Maxwell, Michael R., Larry D. Jacobson, and Ramon J. Conser Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62(7):1640-1650

Myctophidae: Lanternfishes. Moser, H. G., and W. Watson. W. J. Richards (ed.), Early stages of Atlantic fishes: an identification guide for the western central north Atlantic, p. 473-579. CRC Press, Boca Raton. MARINE FISHES - ATLANTIC FISHES - LANTERNFISHES - MYCTOPHIFORMES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - STAGES - IDENTIFICATION

Neoscopelidae: Blackchins. Moser, H. G., and W. Watson. W. J. Richards (ed.), Early stages of Atlantic fishes: an identification guide for the western central north Atlantic, p. 463-471. CRC Press, Boca Raton. MARINE FISHES - ATLANTIC FISHES - BLACKCHINS - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - STAGES - IDENTIFICATION

Order Myctophiformes. Moser, H. G., and W. Watson. W. J. Richards (ed.), Early stages of Atlantic fishes: an identification guide for the western central north Atlantic, p. 461. CRC Press, Boca Raton. MARINE FISHES - ATLANTIC FISHES - LANTERNFISHES - MYCTOPHIFORMES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - STAGES - IDENTIFICATION

Preliminary use of oxygen stable isotopes and the 1983 El Niño to assess the accuracy of aging black rockfish (Sebastes melanops). Piner, K. R., M. A. Haltuch, and J. R. Wallace. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 103:553-558. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - BLACK ROCKFISH - AGE - AGING - OXYGEN STABLE ISOTOPES - EL NINO - ACCURACY

Age validation of canary rockfish (Sebastes pinniger) from off the Oregon coast (USA) using the bomb radiocarbon method Piner, Kevin R., Owen S. Hamel, Jennifer L. Menkel, John R. Wallace, and Charles E. Hutchinson Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 62(5):1060-1066

Use of a video and laser system to quantify transect area for remotely operated vehicle (ROV) rockfish and abalone surveys Pinkard, Deanna R., Donna M. Kocak, and John L. Butler In: Proceedings of Oceans 2005, vol. 3, p. 2824-2829. Marine Technology Society / IEEE. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - INVERTEBRATES - MOLLUSCS - ABALONE - SURVEYS - REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLES - ROV - VIDEO - LASER - TRANSECT AREAS

Pigment variability in larval Sebastes jordani off central California. Sakuma, K. M., C. A. Taylor, and W. Watson. Journal of Fish Biology 67:510-520. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - SHORTBELLY ROCKFISH - LARVAE - PIGMENT VARIABILITY - CALIFORNIA

A history of proposals for subpopulation structure in the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) population off Western North America. Smith, P. E. CalCOFI Reports 46:75-82. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC SARDINE - POPULATIONS - SUBPOPULATIONS - STRUCTURE - WESTERN NORTH AMERICA - HISTORY - PROPOSALS

Leopard shark. Smith, S. E. S. L. Fowler, etal. (comps. and eds.), Sharks, rays and chimaeras: the status of the chondrichthyan fishes, p. 281-283. IUCN/SSC Shark Specialist Group. IUCN, Cambridge, U.K. x + 461 p. MARINE FISHES - SHARKS - LEOPARD SHARK - STATUS

Leopard shark mating observed off La Jolla, California. Smith, S. E. California Fish and Game 91(1):128-135. MARINE FISHES - SHARKS - LEOPARD SHARK - MATING - REPRODUCTION - BEHAVIOR

Productive efficiency, property rights, and sustainable renewable resource development in the mini-purse seine fishery of the Java Sea Susilowati, Indah, Norman Bartoo, Ishak Haji Omar, Yongil Jeon, K. Kuperan, Dale Squires, and Niels Vestergaard Envronment and Development Economics 10(6):837-859

Order Ptereleotridae: Dartfishes. Watson, W., and H. J. Walker. W. J. Richards (ed.), Early stages of Atlantic fishes: an identification guide for the western central north Atlantic, p. 2105-2107, CRC Press. MARINE FISHES - ATLANTIC FISHES - DARTFISHES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - STAGES - IDENTIFICATION

Order Microdesmidae: Wormfishes. Watson, W., H. J. Walker Jr., D. G. Smith, C. Thacker, and G. P. Owen. W. J. Richards (ed.), Early stages of Atlantic fishes: an identification guide for the western central north Atlantic, p. 2089-2103. CRC Press. MARINE FISHES - ATLANTIC FISHES - WORMFISHES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - STAGES - IDENTIFICATION

Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey in 2004 Watson, William, Richard L. Charter, and Susan M. Manion U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-384. 123 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

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