NOAA FISHERIES

The influence of Pacific equatorial water on fish diversity in the southern California Current System McClatchie, Sam, Andrew R. Thompson, Simone R. Alin, Samantha Siedlecki, William Watson, and Steven J. Bograd Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121(8):6121-6136

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

Evidence that the migration of the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the west coast of the United States is age-based McDaniel, Jenny, Kevin Piner, Hui-Hua Lee, and Kevin Hill PLoS ONE 11(11):0166780 (16 p.)

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.

Evaluation of using random-at-length observations and an equilibrium approximation of the population age structure in fitting the von Bertalanffy growth function Piner, Kevin R., Hui-Hua Lee, and Mark N. Maunder Fisheries Research 180:128-137

Defining an ideal temperature range for the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine, Sardinops sagax caeruleus Pribyl, Alena L., John R. Hyde, Larry Robertson, and Russell Vetter Environmental Biology of Fishes 99(2):275-291

Optimizing transmit interval and logging range while avoiding aliased seabed echoes Renfree, Josiah S., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(8):1955-1964

A fishery-independent survey of juvenile shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and blue (Prionace glauca) sharks in the Southern California Bight, 1994-2013 Runcie, Rosa, David Holts, James Wraith, Yi Xu, Darlene Ramon, Rand Rasmussen, and Suzanne Kohin Fisheries Research 183:233-243

The DNA of coral reef biodiversity: predicting and protecting genetic diversity of reef assemblages Selkoe, Kimberly A., Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Eric A. Treml, Johanna L.K. Wren, Mary K. Donovan, Hawai'i Reef Connectivity Consortium, and Robert J. Toonen Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1829):20160354 (10 p.)

Size and sex structure of blue sharks in the North Pacific Ocean Sippel, Tim, Yasuko Semba, Ko Shiozaki, Felipe Carvalho, Jose Leonardo Castillo-Geniz, Wen-Pei Tsai, Kwang-Ming Liu, Youjung Kwon, Yan Chen, and Suzanne Kohin Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (14-21 November 2016, Busan, South Korea). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/SHARKWG-1/14. 47 p.

The 2016 annual report on research regarding highly migratory species (HMS) and their fisheries in the North Pacific Ocean Southwest Fisheries Science Center U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-16-02. 41 p.

Firm behavior under quantity controls: The theory of virtual quantities Squires, Dale Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 79:70-86

Putting economics into maximum economic yield Squires, Dale, and Niels Vestergaard Marine Resource Economics 31(1):101-116

Improving the estimations of transect length and width for underwater visual surveys of targets on or near the seabed Stierhoff, Kevin L., David W. Murfin, David A. Demer, Scott A. Mau, and Deanna R. Pinkard-Meier ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(10):2729-2736

Regulatory impacts of recreational fishery management alternatives for North Pacific bluefin tuna Stohs, Stephen M. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-567. 27 p.

Early life of an inshore population of West Greenlandic cod Gadus morhua: spatial and temporal aspects of growth and survival Swalethorp, Rasmus, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Andrew R. Thompson, Malene Mohl, and Peter Monk Marine Ecology Progress Series 555:185-202

2016 Billfish Newsletter SWFSC Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 26 p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags; Fish Catch, Photo, Release (FishCPR mobile phone);

Spatiotemporal definitions of the US albacore longline fleets in the North Pacific for the 2017 assessment Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (8-14 November 2016, Nanaimo, British Columbia). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/ALBWG-02/08. 19 p.

Status of common thresher sharks, Alopias vulpinus, along the west coast of North America Teo, Steven L.H., Emiliano Garcia Rodriguez, and Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-557. 196 p.

Rockfish assemblage structure and spawning locations in southern California identified through larval sampling Thompson, Andrew R., John R. Hyde, William Watson, Dustin C. Chen, and Lian W. Guo Marine Ecology Progress Series 547:177-192

A new species of grouper (Epinephelus; Epinephelidae) from the Indo-Pacific Tucker, Sarah J., Eka M. Kurniasih, and Matthew T. Craig Copeia 104(3):658-662

From sunrise to sunset in the California drift gillnet fishery: An examination of the effects of time and area closures on the catch and catch rates of pelagic species Urbisci, Laura C., Stephen M. Stohs, and Kevin R. Piner Marine Fisheries Review 78(3-4):1-11

Drifting to oblivion? Rapid genetic differentiation in an endangered lizard following habitat fragmentation and drought Vandergast, Amy G., Dustin A. Wood, Andrew R. Thompson, Mark Fisher, Cameron W. Barrows, and Tyler J. Grant Diversity and Distributions 22(3):344-357

Closed-loop tracking-by-detection for ROV-based multiple fish tracking Wang, Gaoang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kresimir Williams, and George Cutter In: Alexandra Branzan Albu and Maia Hoeberechts (eds.), Proceedings, 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery: CVAUI 2016 (4 December 2016, Cancun, Mexico), p. 7-12. IEEE Computer Society.

Early larvae of the swordspine rockfish (Sebastes ensifer) identified by molecular methods Watson, William, Sharon R. Charter, and Cynthia A. Taylor-Lawley Fishery Bulletin 114(2):135-143

Elasmobranch gill structure Wegner, Nicholas C. In: Robert E. Shadwick, Anthony P. Farrell, and Colin J. Brauner (eds.), Physiology of elasmobranch fishes: structure and interaction with environment, p. 101-151. Elsevier / Academic Press.

Gill morphology, movements, and in vivo temperature measurements of an endothermic fish, the opah, Lampris guttatus [abstract] Wright, A.J., J.R. Hyde, and N.C. Wegner Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 annual meeting abstracts (January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(supp.1):e397

Using an approximate length-conditional approach to estimate von Bertalanffy growth parameters of North Pacific albacore (Thunnus alalunga) Xu, Yi, Steven L.H. Teo, Kevin R. Piner, Kuo-Shu Chen, R.J. David Wells Fisheries Research 180:138-146

Acoustic-trawl estimates of northern-stock Pacific sardine biomass during 2015 Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Beverly J. Macewicz, George R. Cutter, Brian Elliot, Scott Mau, David Murfin, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Kevin Stierhoff U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-559. 15 p.

New abbreviated calculation for measuring intrinsic rebound potential in exploited fish populations — example for sharks Au, David W., Susan E. Smith, and Christina Show Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(5):767-773

Combining otolith microstructure and trace elemental analyses to infer the arrival of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna in the California current ecosystem Baumann, Hannes, R.J.D. Wells, Jay R. Rooker, Saijin Zhang, Zofia Baumann, Daniel J. Madigan, Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, and Nicholas S. Fisher ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(7):2128-2138

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.

Lepadichthys bilineatus, a new species of clingfish from Oman (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae), with a redescription of Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs and Link from the Red Sea Craig, Matthew T., Sergey V. Bogorodsky, John E. Randall, and Ahmad O. Mal Zootaxa 3990(1):113-122

Automated detection of rockfish in unconstrained underwater videos using Haar cascades and a new image dataset: labeled fishes in the wild Cutter, George, Kevin Stierhoff, and Jiaming Zeng In: Proceedings, 2015 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (5-9 January 2015, Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii), p. 57-62. IEEE Computer Society, Conference Publishing Services.

Two-million-liter tank expands the boundaries of marine technology innovation: National resource available for advancing marine science Demer, David A., George Randall Cutter Jr., Kevin L. Stierhoff, Josiah S. Renfree Marine Technology Society Journal 49(2):87-98

Calibration of acoustic instruments Demer, David A., Laurent Berger, Matteo Bernasconi, Eckhard Bethke, Kevin Boswell, Dezhang Chu, Reka Domokos, Adam Dunford, Sascha Fassler, Stephane Gauthier, Lawrence T. Hufnagle, J. Michael Jech, Naigle Bouffant, Anne Lebourges-Dhaussy, Xavier Lurton, Gavin J. Macaulay, Yannick Perrot, Tim Ryan, Sandra Parker-Stetter, Sarah Stienessen, Thomas Weber, and Neal Williamson ICES Cooperative Research Report no. 326. 133 p.

Blinded by the bright: a lack of congruence between colour morphs, phylogeography and taxonomy for a cosmopolitan Indo-Pacific butterflyfish, Chaetodon auriga DiBattista, Joseph D., Ellen Waldrop, Luiz A. Rocha, Matthew T. Craig, Michael L. Berumen, and Brian W. Bowen Journal of Biogeography 42(10):1919-1929

Changes in growth and maturation parameters of Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax collected off California during a period of stock recovery from 1994 to 2010 Dorval, E., J.D. McDaniel, B.J. Macewicz, and D.L. Porzio Journal of Fish Biology 87(2):286-310

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.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2015 for U.S.A. management in 2015-16 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Emmanis Dorval, and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-546. 177 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Comparisons among ten models of acoustic backscattering used in aquatic ecosystem research Jech, J. Michael, John K. Horne, Dezhang Chu, David A. Demer, David T.I. Francis, Natalia Gorska, Benjamin Jones, Andone C. Lavery, Timothy K. Stanton, Gavin J. Macaulay, D. Benjamin Reeder, and Kouichi Sawada Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 138(6):3742-3764

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

Insights into the life history and ecology of a large shortfin mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus captured in southern California Lyons, K., A. Preti, D.J. Madigan, R.J.D. Wells, M.E. Blasius, O.E. Snodgrass, D. Kacev, J.D. Harris, H. Dewar, S. Kohin, K. MacKenzie, and C.G. Lowe Journal of Fish Biology 87(1):200-211

Bayesian inference and assessment for rare-event bycatch in marine fisheries: a drift gillnet fishery case study Martin, Summer L., Stephen M. Stohs, and Jeffrey E. Moore Ecological Applications 25(2):416-429

A tale of three tails: Cryptic speciation in a globally distributed marine fish of the genus Seriola Martinez-Takeshita, Natalie, Catherine M. Purcell, Chris L. Chabot, Matthew T. Craig, Corinne N. Paterson, John R. Hyde, and Larry G. Allen Copeia 103(2):357-368

Contemporary fisheries stock assessment: many issues still remain Maunder, Mark N., and Kevin R. Piner ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(1):7-18

Dynamic ocean management: Defining and conceptualizing real-time management of the ocean Maxwell, Sara M., Elliott L. Hazen, Rebecca L. Lewison, Daniel C. Dunn, Helen Bailey, Steven J. Bograd, Dana K. Briscoe, Sabrina Fossette, Alistair J. Hobday, Meredith Bennett, Scott Benson, Margaret R. Caldwell, Daniel P. Costa, Heidi Dewar, Tomo Eguchi, Lucie Hazen, Suzanne Kohin, Tim Sippel, and Larry B. Crowder Marine Policy 58:42-50

Optimizing biological parameterization in the egg escapement model of the market squid, (Doryteuthis opalescens), population off California McDaniel, Jenny, Emmanis Dorval, Julianne Taylor, and Dianna Porzio U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-551. 23 p.

A collaborative and adaptive strategy for rebuilding white abalone populations in Southern California [abstract] Neuman, Melissa, David Witting, Susan Wang, Kevin Stierhoff, and John Hyde In: Abstracts of technical papers presented at the 107th Annual Meeting, National Shellfisheries Association (Monterey, California, March 22-26, 2015). Journal of Shellfish Research 34(2):668

Digestive enzyme activities are higher in the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, than in ectothermic sharks as a result of visceral endothermy Newton, Kyle C., James Wraith, and Kathryn A. Dickson Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 41(4):887-898

Close-kin mark recapture as a tool for estimation of spawning biomass in Pacific bluefin tuna: sampling design and sampling plan. Outcomes from a workshop on developing CKMR techniques for Pacific bluefin (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, May 27-29, 2015) NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California (23 p.)

Development of microsatellite markers for globally distributed populations of the threatened silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis O'Brhyhim, J.R., J. Spaet, J.R. Hyde, K.L. Jones, D.H. Adams, and S.L. Lance Conservation Genetics Resources 7(2):463-465

Devloping a genetic baseline for the yellowtail amberjack species complex, Seriola lalandi sensu lato, to assess and preserve variation in wild populations of these globally important aquaculture species Purcell, Catherine M., Chris L. Chabot, Matthew T. Craig, Natalie Martinez-Takeshita, Larry G. Allen, and John R. Hyde Conservation Genetics 16(6):1475-1488

Demonstration of a fully-coupled end-to-end model for small pelagic fish using sardine and anchovy in the California Current Rose, Kenneth A., Jerome Fiechter, Enrique N. Curchitser, Kate Hedstrom, Miguel Bernal, Sean Creekmore, Alan Haynie, Shin-ichi Ito, Salvador Lluch-Cota, Bernard A. Megrey, Chris A. Edwards, Dave Checkley, Tony Koslow, Sam McClatchie, Francisco Werner, Alec MacCall, and Vera Agostini Progress in Oceanography 138(pt.B):348-380

End-to-end modeling of sardine and anchovy in the California Current system Rose, Kenneth A., Sean Creekmore, Jerome Fiechter, Enrique N. Curchitser, Kate Hedstrom, Miguel Bernal, Alan Haynie, Bernard A. Megrey, Shin-Ichi Ito, Salvador Lluch-Cota, Chris A. Edwards, Dave Checkley, Tony Koslow, Sam McClatchie, Francisco Werner, Alec McCall, and Vera Agostini CalCOFI Reports 56:78-79

Post-release survivorship studies on common thresher sharks (Alopias vulpinus) captured in the southern California recreational fishery Sepulveda, C.A., C. Heberer, S.A. Aalbers, N. Spear, M. Kinney, D. Bernal, and S. Kohin Fisheries Research 161:102-108

Using movement data from electronic tags in fisheries stock assessment: A review of models, technology and experimental design Sippel, Tim, J. Paige Eveson, Benjamin Galuardi, Chi Lam, Simon Hoyle, Mark Maunder, Pierre Kleiber, Felipe Carvalho, Vardis Tsontos, Steven L.H. Teo, Alexandre Aires-da-Silva, and Simon Nicol Fisheries Research 163:152-160

Comment on 'Scope and compatibility of measures in international fisheries agreements' by Finus and Schneider Squires, Dale, Lisa T. Ballance, Rick Deriso, James Ianelli, Mark Maunder, and Kurt Schaefer Oxford Economic Papers 67(4):889-894

Characterization and assessment of the Main Hawaiian Island Kona crab (Ranina ranina) fishery Thomas, Lennon R., Hui-Hua Lee, and Kevin Piner U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center. 35 p.

Symbiosis in fishes: The biology of interspecific partnerships, by Ilan Karplus [book review] Thompson, Andrew R. Quarterly Review of Biology 90(2):208-209

Ecology of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, in the southern California Current System Thys, Tierney M., John P. Ryan, Heidi Dewar, Christopher R. Perle, Kady Lyons, John O'Sullivan, Charles Farwell, Michael J. Howard, Kevin C. Weng, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Luis Erasmo Miranda Bojorquez, Elliott L. Hazen, and Steven J. Bograd Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 471:64-76

Productivity change in commercial fisheries: An introduction to the special issue Walden, John, Ben Fissel, Dale Squires, and Niels Vestergaard Marine Policy 62:289-293

Decision-making in the face of uncertainty: an evaluation of pinto abalone under the Endangered Species Act [abstract] Wang, Susan, Melissa Neuman, Shallin Busch, Carolyn Friedman, Kristen Gruenthal, Rick Gustafson, David Kushner, Kevin Stierhoff, Glenn VanBlaricom, and Sadie Wright In: Abstracts of technical papers presented at the 107th Annual Meeting, National Shellfisheries Association (Monterey, California, March 22-26, 2015). Journal of Shellfish Research 34(2):688-689

Transport patterns of Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax eggs and larvae in the California Current System Weber, Edward D., Yi Chao, Fei Chai, and Sam McClatchie Deep-Sea Research I 100:127-139

Whole-body endothermy in a mesopelagic fish, the opah, Lampris guttatus Wegner, Nicholas C., Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, and John R. Hyde Science 348(6236):786-789

Natural tracers reveal population structure of albacore (Thunnus alalunga) in the eastern North Pacific Wells, R.J. David, Michael J. Kinney, Suzanne Kohin, Heidi Dewar, Jay R. Rooker, and Owyn E. Snodgrass ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(7):2118-2127

Gill morphometrics of the thresher sharks (genus Alopias): Correlation of gill dimensions with aerobic demand and environmental oxygen Wootton, Thomas P., Chugey A. Sepulveda, and Nicholas C. Wegner Journal of Morphology 276(5):589-600

2015 Billfish Newsletter Wraith, James, Suzanne Kohin, and Liana Heberer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 19 p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

Does spatial variation in environmental conditions affect recruitment? A study using a 3-D model of Peruvian anchovy Xu, Yi, Kenneth A. Rose, Fei Chai, Francisco P. Chavez, and Patricia Ayon Progress in Oceanography 138(B):417-430

Fronts, fish, and predators Belkin, Igor M., George L. Hunt Jr., Elliott L. Hazen, Jeannette E. Zamon, Robert S. Schick, Rui Prieto, Jon Brodziak, Steven L.H. Teo, Lesley Thorne, Helen Bailey, Sachihiko Itoh, Peter Munk, Michael K. Musyl, Jay K. Willis, and Wuchang Zhang Deep Sea Research Part II 107:1-2

Habitat assessment prioritization for the West Coast: Report of the Northwest and Southwest Regional Habitat Assessment Prioritization Working Groups Blackhart, Kristan (ed.), et al. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 179 p.

Genetic diversity and population structure of the pelagic thresher shark (Alopias pelagicus) in the Pacific Ocean: evidence for two Evolutionarily Significant Units Cardenosa, Diego, John Hyde, and Susana Caballero PLoS ONE 9(10):e110193 (12 p.)

Report of the CalCOFI Committee 2013 Checkley, Dave, Sam McClatchie, and Laura Rogers-Bennett CalCOFI Reports 55:5-10

Recruitment and recovery of pink abalone (Haliotis corrugata) in a historically overexploited kelp forest: Are local populations self-sustaining? Coates, Julia H., Kevin A. Hovel, John L. Butler, and Andrew J. Bohonak Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 460:184-192

Evaluation of length- vs. age-composition data and associated selectivity assumptions used in stock assessments based on robustness of derived management quantities Crone, Paul R., and Juan L. Valero Fisheries Research 158:165-171

Seabed classification using surface backscattering strength versus acoustic frequency and incidence angle measured with vertical, split-beam echosounders Cutter, George R. Jr., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 71(4):882-894

Corroboration and refinement of a method for differentiating landings from two stocks of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the California Current Demer, David A., and Juan P. Zwolinski ICES Journal of Marine Science 71(2):328-335

Optimizing fishing quotas to meet target fishing fractions of an internationally exploited stock of Pacific Sardine Demer, David A., and Juan P. Zwolinski North American Journal of Fisheries Management 34(6):1119-1130

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) estimated from the daily egg production method off California in 2013 Dorval, Emmanis, Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, Nancy C.H. Lo, and Yuhong Gu U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-535. 40 p.

Cost-effectiveness of alternative conservation strategies with application to the Pacific leatherback turtle Gjertsen, Heidi, Dale Squires, Peter H. Dutton, and Tomoharu Eguchi Conservation Biology 28(1):140-149

Spiracular air breathing in polypterid fishes and its implications for aerial respiration in stem tetrapods Graham, Jeffrey B., Nicholas C. Wegner, Lauren A. Miller, Corey J. Jew, N. Chin Lai, Rachel M. Berquist, Lawrence R. Frank, and John A. Long Nature Communications 5:3022 (6 p.)

A Wave Glider approach to fisheries acoustics: transforming how we monitor the nation's commercial fisheries in the 21st century Greene, Charles H., Erin L. Meyer-Gutbrod, Louise P. McGarry, Lawrence C. Hufnagle Jr., Dezhang Chu, Sam McClatchie, Asa Packer, Jae-Byung Jung, Timothy Acker, Huck Dorn, and Chris Pelkie Oceanography 27(4):168-174

Selecting and evaluating indicators for habitats within the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Greene, Correigh, Kelly Andrews, Tim Beechie, Dan Bottom, Richard Brodeur, Lisa Crozier, Aimee Fullerton, Lyndal Johnson, Elliott Hazen, Nate Mantua, Charles Menza, Mindi Sheer, Waldo Wakefield, Curt Whitmire, Mary Yoklavich, and Juan Zwolinski In: C.J. Harvey et al. (eds.), The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment: Phase III report. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

Development and application of genomic tools to the restoration of green abalone in southern California Gruenthal, K.M., D.A. Witting, T. Ford, M.J. Neuman, J.P. Williams, D.J. Pondella II, A. Bird, N. Caruso, J.R. Hyde, L.W. Seeb, and W.A. Larson Conservation Genetics 15(1):109-121

Fishes of marine protected areas near La Jolla, California Hastings, P.A., M.T. Craig, B.E. Erisman, J.R. Hyde, and H.J. Walker Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 113(3):200-231

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, Andrew Thompson, Cindy Thomson, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 55th annual meeting of the TSC (April 29-30, 2014, Seattle, Washington), p. 287-300. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2014 for U.S.A. management in 2014-15 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, David A. Demer, Juan Zwolinski, Emmanis Dorval, and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-531. 302 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Use of multiple selectivity patterns as a proxy for spatial structure Hurtado-Ferro, Felipe, Andre E. Punt, and Kevin T. Hill Fisheries Research 158:102-115

DNA barcoding provides support for a cryptic species complex within the globally distributed and fishery important opah (Lampris guttatus) Hyde, John R., Karen E. Underkoffler, Meagan A. Sundberg Molecular Ecology Resources 14(6):1239-1247

Geography and ontogeny influence the stable oxygen and carbon isotopes of otoliths of Pacific sardine in the California Current Javor, Barbara, and Emmanis Dorval Fisheries Research 154:1-10

Estimating endangered species interaction risk with the Kalman filter Kvamsdal, Sturla Furunes, and Stephen Milton Stohs American Journal of Agricultural Economics 96(2):458-468

Sex-structured population dynamics of blue marlin Makaira nigricans in the Pacific Ocean Lee, Hui-Hua, Kevin R. Piner, Michael G. Hinton, Yi-Jay Chang, Ai Kimoto, Minoru Kanaiwa, Nan-Jay Su, William Walsh, Chi-Lu Sun, and Gerard DiNardo Fisheries Science 80(5):869-878

Use of likelihood profiling over a global scaling parameter to structure the population dynamics model: An example using blue marlin in the Pacific Ocean Lee, Hui-Hua, Kevin R. Piner, Richard D. Methot Jr., and Mark N. Maunder Fisheries Research 158:138-146

State of the California Current 2013-2014: El Nino looming Leising, Andrew W., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Jeffrey Abell, Roxanne R. Robertson, Joe Tyburczy, William T. Peterson, Ric Brodeur, Caren Barcelo, Toby B. Auth, Elizabeth A. Daly, Gregory S. Campbell, John A. Hildebrand, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Cheryl A. Horton, Mati Kahru, Marlenne Manzano-Sarabia, Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Jarrod A. Santora, Willam J. Sydeman, Sharon R. Melin, Robert L. DeLong, John Largier, Sungyong Kim, Francisco P. Chavez, Richard T. Golightly, Stephanie R. Schneider, Peter Warzybok, Russel Bradley, Jaime Jahncke, Jennifer Fisher, and Jay Peterson CalCOFI Reports 55:51-87

Stock assessment through egg production methods in the U.S. Lo, Nancy C.H., and Benjamin E. Fissel In: Konstantinos Ganias (ed.), Biology and ecology of sardines and anchovies, p. 309-334. CRC Press.

Environmental drivers of the fine-scale distribution of a gelatinous zooplankton community across a mesoscale front Luo, Jessica Y., Benjamin Grassian, Dorothy Tang, Jean-Olivier Irisson, Adam T. Greer, Cedric M. Guigand, Sam McClatchie, and Robert K. Cowen Marine Ecology Progress Series 510:129-149

Reconstructing transoceanic migration patterns of Pacific bluefin tuna using a chemical tracer toolbox Madigan, Daniel J., Zofia Baumann, Aaron B. Carlisle, Danielle K. Hoen, Brian N. Popp, Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Barbara A. Block, and Nicholas S. Fisher Ecology 95(6):1674-1683

Selectivity: Theory, estimation, and application in fishery stock assessment models Maunder, M.N., P.R. Crone, J.L. Valero, and B.X. Semmens Fisheries Research 158:1-4

Regional fisheries oceanography of the California Current System: The CalCOFI program McClatchie, Sam Springer (235 p.)