NOAA FISHERIES

Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area [abstract] Bigman, J.S., S.A. Pardo, T.S. Prinzing, N.C. Wegner, and N.K. Dulvy Integrative and Comparative Biology 59(supp.1):e18

The neglected complexities of shark fisheries, and priorities for holistic risk-based management Booth, Hollie, Dale Squires, and E.J. Milner-Gulland Ocean and Coastal Management 182:104994 (15 p.)

Good practices for including environmental data to inform spawner-recruit dynamics in integrated stock assessments: Small pelagic species case study Crone, Paul R., Mark N. Maunder, HuiHua Lee, and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 217:122-132

Rearing and inducing spawning in captive Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) Dorval, Emmanis, Patrick Appel, Megan H. Human, Beverly J. Macewicz, and William Watson CalCOFI Reports 60:123-134

Modeling the dynamic habitats of mobile pelagic predators (Makaira nirgricans and Istiompax indica) in the eastern Pacific Ocean Farchadi, Nima, Michael G. Hinton, Andrew R. Thompson, and Zhi-Yong Yin Marine Ecology Progress Series 622:157-176

Proceedings of the 2017 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (December 7-8, 2017, La Jolla, California, USA) Flores, Stephanie (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-19-02. 34 p.

Endothermy in the smalleye opah (Lampris incognitus): A potential role for the uncoupling protein sarcolipin Franck, Jens P.C., Eva Slight-Simcoe, and Nicholas C. Wegner Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 233:48-52

Bridging from monitoring to solutions-based thinking: Lessons from CalCOFI for understanding and adapting to marine climate change impacts Gallo, Natalya D., Elizabeth Drenkard, Andrew R. Thompson, Edward D. Weber, Deb Wilson-Vandenberg, Sam McClatchie, J. Anthony Koslow, and Brice X. Semmens Frontiers in Marine Science 6:695 (21 p.)

Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2019: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA) Harvey, Chris, Newell Garfield, Gregory Williams, Nick Tolimieri, Isaac Schroeder, Kelly Andrews, Katie Barnas, Eric Bjorkstedt, Steven Bograd, Richard Brodeur, Brian Burke, Jason Cope, Audrey Coyne, Lynn deWitt, Judy Dowell, John Field, Jennifer Fisher, Peter Frey, Thomas Good, Correigh Greene, Elliott Hazen, Daniel Holland, Matthew Hunter, Kym Jacobson, Michael Jacox, Christy Juhasz, Isaac Kaplan, Stephen Kasperski, Dan Lawson, Andrew Leising, Alex Manderson, Sharon Melin, Stephanie Moore, Chery Morgan, Barbara Muhling, Stuart Munsch, Karma Norman, Roxanne Robertson, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Keith Sakuma, Jameal Samhouri, Rebecca Selden, Samantha Siedlecki, Kayleigh Somers, William Sydeman, Andrew Thompson, Jim Thorson, Desiree Tommasi, Vera Trainer, Anna Varney, Brian Wells, Curt Whitmire, Margaret Williams, Thomas Williams, Jeannette Zamon, and Samantha Zeman U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-149. 87 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): California Current Ecosystem status report, 2019 Harvey, Chris, Toby Garfield, Greg Williams, and Nick Tolimieri (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 66 p.

Tuna species of the U.S. West Coast: a photographic identification guide Heberer, Liana N., Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, and David G. Itano U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-624. 16 p.

Measuring willingness to pay for environmental attributes in seafood Hilger, James, Eric Hallstein, Andrew W. Stevens, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas Environmental and Resource Economics 73(1):307-332

Marine angler expenditures for Southern California based trips to non-US waters, 2016 Hilger, James, Rachel Mahler, Sabrina J. Lovell, and Charles Villafana U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-611. 9 p.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2019 for U.S. management in 2019-20 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, and Juan P. Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-615. 130 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Movements and habitat use of juvenile silky sharks in the Pacific Ocean inform conservation strategies Hutchinson, Melanie, Daniel M. Coffey, Kim Holland, David Itano, Bruno Leroy, Suzanne Kohin, Russell Vetter, Ashley J. Williams, and Johanna Wren Fisheries Research 210:131-142

Predicting the evolution of the 2014-2016 California Current System marine heatwave from an ensemble of coupled global climate forecasts Jacox, Michael G., Desiree Tommasi, Michael A. Alexander, Gaelle Hervieux, and Charles A. Stock Frontiers in Marine Science 6:497 (13 p.)

Accounting for shifting distributions and changing productivity in the development of scientific advice for fishery management Karp, Melissa A., Jay O. Peterson, Patrick D. Lynch, Roger B. Griffis, Charles F. Adams, William S. Arnold, Lewis A.K. Barnett, Yvonne deReynier, Jane DiCosimo, Kari H. Fenske, Sarah K. Gaichas, Anne Hollowed, Kirstin Holsman, Mandy Karnauskas, Donald Kobayashi, Andrew Leising, John P. Manderson, Michelle McClure, Wendy E. Morrison, Erin Schnettler, Andrew Thompson, James T. Thorson, John F. Walter III, Annie J. Yau, Richard D. Methot, and Jason S. Link ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(5):1305-1315

The evolving response of mesopelagic fishes to declining midwater oxygen concentrations in the southern and central California Current Koslow, J. Anthony, Pete Davison, Erica Ferrer, S. Patricia A. Jimenez Rosenberg, Gerardo Aceves-Medina, and William Watson ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(3):626-638

Ontogenetic changes in cutaneous and branchial ionocytes and morphology in yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) larvae Kwan, Garfield T., Jeanne B. Wexler, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Martin Tresguerres Journal of Comparative Physiology B 189(1):81-95

Quantification of cutaneous ionocytes in small aquatic organisms Kwan, Garfield T., Shane H. Finnerty, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Martin Tresguerres Bio-protocol 9(9):e3227 (22 p.)

Climate sensitivities and uncertainties in food-web pathways supporting larval bluefin tuna in subtropical oligotrophic oceans Landry, Michael R., Lynnath E. Beckley, and Barbara A. Muhling ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(2):359-369

On the use of conditional age at length data as a likelihood component in integrated population dynamics models Lee, Huihua, Kevin R. Piner, Ian G. Taylor, and Toshihide Kitakado Fisheries Research 216:204-211

Bridging disciplines to advance elasmobranch conservation: applications of physiological ecology Lyons, K., J.S. Bigman, D. Kacev, C.G. Mull, A.B. Carlisle, J.L. Imhoff, J.M. Anderson, K.C. Weng, A.S. Galloway, E. Cave, T.R. Gunn, C.G. Lowe, R.W. Brill, and C.N. Bedore Conservation Physiology 7(1):coz011 (14 p.)

Organic contaminants as an ecological tool to explore niche partitioning: a case study using three pelagic shark species Lyons, Kady, Dovi Kacev, Antonella Preti, David Gillett, and Heidi Dewar Scientific Reports 9:12080 (7 p.)

Species-specific characteristics influence contaminant accumulation trajectories and signatures across ontogeny in three pelagic shark species Lyons, Kady, Dovi Kacev, Antonella Preti, David Gillett, Heidi Dewar, and Suzanne Kohin Environmental Science and Technology 53(12):6997-7006

Community-level effects of spatial management in the California drift gillnet fishery Mason, Julia G., Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Heidi Dewar, and Larry B. Crowder Fisheries Research 214:175-182

An annotated genome for Haliotis rufescens (red abalone) and resequenced green, pink, pinto, black, and white abalone species Masonbrink, Rick E., Catherine M. Purcell, Sara E. Boles, Andrew Whitehead, John R. Hyde, Arun S. Seetharam, and Andrew J. Severin Genome Biology and Evolution 11(2):431-438

Seasonal spatial segregation in blue sharks (Prionace glauca) by sex and size class in the Northeast Pacific Ocean Maxwell, Sara M., Kylie L. Scales, Steven J. Bograd, Dana K. Briscoe, Heidi Dewar, Elliott L. Hazen, Rebecca L. Lewison, Heather Welch, and Larry B. Crowder Diversity and Distributions 25(8):1304-1317

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Monk, Melissa (ed.), John Field, Tom Laidig, Nick Wegner, and William Watson In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 60th annual meeting of the TSC (April 23-24, 2019, Olympia, Washington), p. 341-354. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Dynamic habitat use of albacore and their primary prey species in the California Current System Muhling, Barbara, Stephanie Brodie, Owyn Snodgrass, Desiree Tommasi, Heidi Dewar, John Childers, Michael Jacox, Christopher A. Edwards, Yi Xu, and Stephanie Snyder CalCOFI Reports 60:79-93

Movements of electronically tagged shortfin mako sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the eastern North Pacific Ocean Nasby-Lucas, Nicole, Heidi Dewar, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Cara Wilson, John R. Hyde, Russell D. Vetter, James Wraith, Barbara A. Block, Michael J. Kinney, Tim Sippel, David B. Holts, and Suzanne Kohin Animal Biotelemetry 7:12 (26 p.)

Movement ecology of young-of-the-year blue sharks Prionace glauca and shortfin makos Isurus oxyrinchus within a putative binational nursery area Nosal, A.P., D.P. Cartamil, N.C. Wegner, C.H. Lam, and P.A. Hastings Marine Ecology Progress Series 623:99-115

Length conversions and mass-length relationships of five forage-fish species in the California current ecosystem Palance, Danial G., Beverly J. Macewicz, Kevin Stierhoff, David A. Demer, and Juan P. Zwolinski Journal of Fish Biology 95(4):1116-1124

Seasonal-to-decadal prediction of marine ecosystems: opportunities, approaches, and applications Payne, Mark R., Alistair J. Hobday, Brian R. MacKenzie, and Desiree Tommasi Frontiers in Marine Science 6:100 (2 p.)

Transcriptomic analysis of short-term 17α-ethynylestradiol exposure in two Californian sentinel fish species sardine (Sardinops sagax) and mackerel (Scomber japonicus) Renaud, Ludivine, Nisha Agarwal, Dylan J. Richards, Silvia Falcinelli, E. Starr Hazard, Oliana Carnevali, John Hyde, and Gary Hardiman Environmental Pollution 244:926-937

Calibrations of wide-bandwidth tranceivers (WBT Mini) with dual-frequency transducers (ES38-18/200-18C) for Saildrone surveys of the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2018 Renfree, Josiah S., Thomas S. Sessions, David Murfin, Danial G. Palance, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-608. 27 p.

Genome to phenome: Improving animal health, production, and well-being -- A new USDA blueprint for animal genome research 2018-2027 Rexroad, Caird, Jeffrey Vallet, Lakshmi Kumar Matukumalli, James Reecy, Derek Bickhart, Harvey Blackburn, Mark Boggess, Hans Cheng, Archie Clutter, Noelle Cockett, Catherine Ernst, Janet E. Fulton, John Liu, Joan Lunney, Holly Neibergs, Catherine Purcell, Timothy P.L. Smith, Tad Sonstegard, Jerry Taylor, Bhanu Telugu, Alison Van Eenennaam, Curtis P. Van Tassell, and Kevin Wells on behalf of the Agricultural Animal Genomics Community Frontiers in Genetics 10:327 (29 p.)

Environmental associations of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) catch in the California Current system Runcie, Rosa M., Barbara Muhling, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Toby Garfield, and Gerard DiNardo Fisheries Oceanography 28(4):372-388

Future ocean observations to connect climate, fisheries and marine ecosystems Schmidt, Jorn O., Steven J. Bograd, Haritz Arrizabalaga, Jose L. Azevedo, Steven J. Barbeaux, John A. Barth, Tim Boyer, Stephanie Brodie, Juan Jose Cardenas, Scott Cross, Jean-Noel Druon, Agneta Fransson, Jason Hartog, Elliott L. Hazen, Alistair Hobday, Michael Jacox, Johannes Karstensen, Sven Kupschus, Jon Lopez, Lauro A.S.-P. Madureira, Jose E. Martinelli Filho, Patricia Miloslavich, Catarina P. Santos, Kylie Scales, Sabrina Speich, Matthew B. Sullivan, Amber Szoboszlai, Desiree Tommasi, Douglas Wallace, Stephani Zador, and Paulo Antonio Zawislak Frontiers in Marine Science 6:550 (18 p.)

2019 highly migratory species annual report Southwest Fisheries Science Center U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-19-01. 37 p.

Distribution, biomass, and demography of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2018 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-613. 81 p.

Report of the 2018 California Current Ecosystem (CCE) Survey (1807RL), 26 June to 23 September 2018, conducted aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Danial G. Palance, Josiah S. Renfree, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Thomas S. Sessions, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-609. 34 p.

Indicators of pelagic forage community shifts in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem, 1998-2016 Thompson, Andrew R., Chris J. Harvey, William J. Sydeman, Caren Barcelo, Steven J. Bograd, Richard D. Brodeur, Jerome Fiechter, John C. Field, Newell Garfield, Thomas P. Good, Elliott L. Hazen, Mary E. Hunsicker, Kym Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Joshua Lindsay, Sharon R. Melin, Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, Julie A. Thayer, Brian K. Wells, and Gregory D. Williams Ecological Indicators 105:215-228

State of the California Current 2018-2019: A novel anchovy regime and a new marine heat wave? Thompson, Andrew R., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Brian K. Wells, John Largier, Jennifer L. Fisher, Kym C. Jacobson, Samantha M. Zeman, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Mati Kahru, Ralf Goericke, Clare E. Peabody, Timoth R. Baumgartner, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Luis E. Miranda, Eliana Gomez-Ocampo, Joes Gomez-Valdes, Toby D. Auth, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Brian J. Burke, John C. Field, Keith M. Sakuma, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Jessica M. Porquez, Jane Dolliver, Donald E. Lyons, Rachael A. Orben, Jeannette E. Zamon, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, Jarrod A. Santora, Sarah Ann Thompson, Brian Hoover, William Sydeman, and Sharon R. Melin CalCOFI Reports 60:1-65

Re-evaluation of the environmental dependence of Pacific sardine recruitment Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer Fisheries Research 216:120-125

Distribution, biomass, and demography of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2017 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Zwolinski, Juan P., Kevin L. Stierhoff, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-610. 74 p.

Towards fishery-independent biomass estimation for Hawaaian Islands deepwater snappers Ault, Jerald S., Steven G. Smith, Benjamin L. Richards, Annie J. Yau, Brian J. Langseth, Joseph M. O'Malley, Christofer H. Boggs, Michael P. Seki, and Gerard T. DiNardo Fisheries Research 208:321-328

Vertebrate-wide scaling of metabolic rate and respiratory surface area [abstract] Bigman, J.S., N.C. Wegner, and N.K. Dulvy Integrative and Comparative Biology 58(supp.1):e17

Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area Bigman, Jennifer S., Sebastian A. Pardo, Tanya S. Prinzing, Marc Dando, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Journal of Morphology 279(12):1716-1724

A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks Bird, Christopher S., Ana Verissimo, Sarah Magozzi, Katya G. Abrantes, Alex Aguilar, Hassan Al-Reasi, Adam Barnett, Dana M. Bethea, Gerard Biais, Asuncion Borrell, Marc Bouchoucha, Mariah Boyle, Edward J. Brooks, Juerg Brunnschweiler, Paco Bustamante, Aaron Carlisle, Diana Catarino, Stephane Caut, Yves Cherel, Tiphaine Chouvelon, Diana Churchill, Javier Ciancio, Julien Claes, Ana Colaco, Dean L. Coutney, Pierre Cresson, Ryan Daly, Leigh de Necker, Tetsuya Endo, Ivone Figueiredo, Ashley J. Frisch, Joan Holst Hansen, Michael Heithaus, Nigel E. Hussey, Johannes Iitembu, Francis Juanes, Michael J. Kinney, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Sebastian A. Klarian, Dorothee Kopp, Robert Leaf, Yunkai Li, Anne Lorrain, Daniel J. Madigan, Aleksandra Maljkovic, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Philip Matich, Mark G. Meekan, Frederic Menard, Gui M. Menezes, Samantha E.M. Munroe, Michael C. Newman, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Heidi Pethybridge, Jeffrey D. Plumlee, Carlos Polo-Silva, Katie Quaeck-Davies, Vincent Raoult, Jonathan Reum, Yassir Eden Torres-Rojas, David S. Shiffman, Oliver N. Shipley, Conrad W. Speed, Michelle D. Staudinger, Amy K. Teffer, Alexander Tilley, Maria Valls, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Tak-Cheung Wai, R.J. David Wells, Alex S.J. Wyatt, Andrew Yool, and Clive N. Trueman Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:299-305

Target strength of skipjack tuna (Katsuwanus pelamis) associated with fish aggregating devices (FADs) Boyra, Guillermo, Gala Moreno, Bea Sobradillo, Isabel Perez-Arjona, Igor Sancristobal, and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 75(5):1790-1802

An unusual gelatinous plankton event in the NE Pacific: The Great Pyrosome Bloom of 2017 Brodeur, Richard, Ian Perry, Jennifer Boldt, Linnea Flostrand, Moira Galbraith, Jacquelynne King, James Murphy, Keith Sakuma, and Andrew Thompson PICES Press 26(1):22-27

Integrating dynamic subsurface habitat metrics into species distribution models Brodie, Stephanie, Michael G. Jacox, Steven J. Bograd, Heather Welch, Heidi Dewar, Kylie L. Scales, Sara M. Maxwell, Dana M. Briscoe, Christopher A. Edwards, Larry B. Crowder, Rebecca L. Lewison, and Elliott L. Hazen Frontiers in Marine Science 5:219 (13 p.)

Can the status of pelagic shark populations be determined using simple fishery indicators? Carvalho, Felipe, Hui Hua Lee, Kevin R. Piner, Maia Kapur, and Shelley C. Clarke Biological Conservation 228:195-204

Using landing statistics and fishers' traditional ecological knowledge to assess conservation threats to Pacific goliath grouper in Colombia Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo A., Carolina Chong-Montenegro, Rodrigo A. Baos E, Luis A. Zapata, Paul Tompkins, Rachel T. Graham, and Matthew Craig Aquatic Conservation 28(2):305-314

2018 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, November 12-14, 2018) Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas (CICIMAR-IPN) Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas, Av. Instituto Politecnico Nactional, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico. 29 p.

Reproductive biology of female striped marlin Kajikia audax in the western Pacific Ocean Chang, H.-Y., C.-L. Sun, S.-Z. Yeh, Y.-J. Chang, N.-J. Su, and G. DiNardo Journal of Fish Biology 92(1):105-130

Population connectivity of the highly migratory shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810) and implications for management in the Southern Hemisphere Corrigan, Shannon, Andrew D. Lowther, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Barry D. Bruce, Geremy Cliff, Clinton A. Duffy, Alan Foulis, Malcolm P. Francis, Simon D. Goldsworthy, John R. Hyde, Rima W. Jabado, Dovi Kacev, Lindsay Marshall, Gonzalo R. Mucientes, Gavin J.P. Naylor, Julian G. Pepperell, Nuno Queiroz, William T. White, Sabine P. Wintner, and Paul J. Rogers Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6:187 (15 p.)

Trans-Pacific rafting in tsunami associated debris by the Japanese yellowtail jack, Seriola aureovittata Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 (Pisces, Carangidae) Craig, Matthew T., James Burke, Kevin Clifford, Evonne Mochon-Collura, John W. Chapman, and John R. Hyde Aquatic Invasions 13(1):173-177

Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) movements in the eastern North Pacific determined using satellite telemetry Dewar, Heidi, Steven G. Wilson, John R. Hyde, Owyn Snodgrass, Andrew Leising, Chi H. Lam, Reka Domokos, James A. Wraith, Steve J. Bograd, Sean R. Van Sommeran, and Suzanne Kohin Frontiers in Marine Science 5:163 (15 p.)

Northern anchovy egg production and spawning dynamics off California during the Daily Egg Production Method survey in 2017 [abstract] Dorval, Emmanis, Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Yuhong Gu In: 2018 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, November 12-14, 2018), p. 23. Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas Av. Instituto Politecnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.

Spawning biomass of the central stock of northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) estimated from the daily egg production method off California in 2017 Dorval, Emmanis, Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Yuhong Gu U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-607. 31 p.

Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the California Current: abundance, distribution, and anomalous warming of the North Pacific Eguchi, Tomoharu, Sam McClatchie, Cara Wilson, Scott R. Benson, Robin A. LeRoux, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Frontiers in Marine Science 5:452 (15 p.)

The effectiveness of small-scale lionfish removals as a management strategy: effort, impacts and the response of native prey and piscivores Harms-Tuohy, Chelsea A., Richard S. Appeldoorn, and Matthew T. Craig Management of Biological Invasions 9(2):149-162

The political biogeography of migratory marine predators Harrison, Autumn-Lynn, Daniel P. Costa, Arliss J. Winship, Scott R. Benson, Steven J. Bograd, Michelle Antolos, Aaron B. Carlisle, Heidi Dewar, Peter H. Dutton, Salvador J. Jorgensen, Suzanne Kohin, Bruce R. Mate, Patrick W. Robinson, Kurt M. Schaefer, Scott A. Shaffer, George L. Shillinger, Samantha E. Simmons, Kevin C. Weng, Kristina M. Gjerde, and Barbara A. Block Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1571-1578

Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2018: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA) Harvey, Chris, Newell Garfield, Gregory Williams, Nick Tolimieri, Isaac Schroeder, Elliott Hazen, Kelly Andrews, Katie Barnas, Steven Bograd, Richard Brodeur, Brian Burke, Jason Cope, Lynn deWitt, John Field, Jennifer Fisher, Thomas Good, Correigh Greene, Daniel Holland, Mary Hunsicker, Michael Jacox, Stephen Kasperski, Su Kim, Andrew Leising, Sharon Melin, Cheryl Morgan, Barbara Muhling, Stuart Munsch, Karma Norman, William Peterson, Melissa Poe, Jameal Samhouri, William Sydeman, Julie Thayer, Andrew Thompson, Desiree Tommasi, Anna Varney, Brian Wells, Thomas Williams, Jeannette Zamon, Dan Lawson, Sean Anderson, Jin Gao, Mike Litzow, Sam McClatchie, Eric Ward, and Stephani Zador U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-145. 69 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): California Current Ecosystem status report, 2018 Harvey, Chris, Toby Garfield, Greg Williams, Nick Tolimieri, and Elliott Hazen (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 70 p.

A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries Hazen, Elliott L., Kylie L. Scales, Sara M. Maxwell, Dana K. Briscoe, Heather Welch, Steven J. Bograd, Helen Bailey, Scott R. Benson, Tomo Eguchi, Heidi Dewar, Suzy Kohin, Daniel P. Costa, Larry B. Crowder, and Rebecca L. Lewison Science Advances 4(5):eaar3001 (7 p.)

Krill and other plankton Hewitt, Roger P., and Jessica D. Lipsky In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 537-543. Academic Press.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2018 for U.S.A. management in 2018-2019 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, and Juan P. Zwolinski In: 2018 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, November 12-14, 2018), p. 12-19. Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas Av. Instituto Politecnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2018 for U.S. management in 2018-19 Hill, Kevin, Paul Crone, and Juan Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-600. 125 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Future research directions on the "elusive" white shark Huveneers, Charlie, Kirin Apps, Edgar E. Becerril-Garcia, Barry Bruce, Paul A. Butcher, Aaron B. Carlisle, Taylor K. Chapple, Heather M. Christiansen, Geremy Cliff, Tobey H. Curtis, Toby S. Daly-Engel, Heidi Dewar, Matt L. Dicken, Michael L. Domeier, Clinton A.J. Duffy, Richard Ford, Malcolm P. Francis, Georgia C.A. French, Felipe Galvan-Magana, Emiliano Garcia-Rodriguez, Enrico Gennari, Brittany Graham, Barry Hayden, Edgar Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Nigel E. Hussey, Oliver J.D. Jewell, Salvador J. Jorgensen, Alison A. Kock, Christopher G. Lowe, Kady Lyons, Lauren Meyer, Gregg Oelofse, Erick C. Onate-Gonzalez, Herman Oosthuizen, John B. O'Sullivan, Kristopher Ramm, Gregory Skomal, Seal Sloan, Malcolm J. Smale, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Emilio Sperone, Elena Tamburin, Alison V. Towner, Michelle A. Wcisel, Kevin C. Weng, and Jonathan M. Werry Frontiers in Marine Science 5:455 (15 p.)

Persistent toxicity of marine microplankton in the Southern California Bight [abstract] Javor, Barbara In: 2018 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, November 12-14, 2018), p. 28. Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas Av. Instituto Politecnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.

Seasonal distribution of late larval and juvenile rockfish (Sebastes spp.) and associated environmental conditions off Oregon and Washington: new insights based on genetics Johansson, Mattias L., Marisa N.C. Litz, Richard D. Brodeur, Tristan A. Britt, Camilo A. Vanegas, John R. Hyde, and Michael A. Banks Fishery Bulletin 116(3-4):266-280

An inconvenient monophyly: An update on the taxonomy of the groupers (Epinephelidae) Ma, Ka Yan, and Matthew T. Craig Copeia 106(3):443-456

Mercury stable isotopes reveal influence of foraging depth on mercury concentrations and growth in Pacific bluefin tuna Madigan, Daniel J., Miling Li, Runshen Yin, Hannes Baumann, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, David P. Krabbenhoft, Zofia Baumann, Nicholas S. Fisher, Prentiss Balcom, and Elsie M. Sunderland Environmental Science & Technology 52(11):6256-6264

From migrants to mossbacks: tracer- and tag-inferred habitat shifts in the California yellowtail Seriola dorsalis Madigan, Daniel J., Owyn E. Snodgrass, and Nicholas S. Fisher Marine Ecology Progress Series 597:221-230

Isotopic insights into migration patterns of Pacific bluefin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean Madigan, Daniel J., Zofia Baumann, Aaron B. Carlisle, Owyn Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, and Nicholas S. Fisher Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75(2):260-270

Forage fish, small pelagic fisheries and recovering predators: managing expectations McClatchie, S., R.D. Vetter, and I.L. Hendy Animal Conservation 21(6):445-447

Interannual and secular variability of larvae of mesopelagic and forage fishes in the southern California Current System McClatchie, Sam, Jin Gao, Elizabeth J. Drenkard, Andrew R. Thompson, William Watson, Lorenzo Ciannelli, Steven J. Bograd, and James T. Thorson Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 123(9):6277-6295

Translating the terrestrial mitigation hierarchy to marine megafauna by-catch Milner-Gulland, E.J., Serge Garcia, William Arlidge, Joseph Bull, Anthony Charles, Laurent Dagorn, Sonya Fordham, Joshua Gradd Zivin, Martin Hall, Jeffrey Shrader, Niels Vestergaard, Chris Wilcox, and Dale Squires Fish and Fisheries 19(3):547-561

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