NOAA FISHERIES

Long time series in US fisheries oceanography McClatchie, Sam, Janet Duffy-Anderson, John C. Field, Ralf Goericke, Dave Griffith, David S. Hanisko, Jonathan A. Hare, Joanne Lyczkowski-Shultz, William T. Peterson, William Watson, Edward D. Weber, and Glenn Zapfe Oceanography 27(4):48-67

Physical oceanographic measurements and underway environmental observations Needham, Derek, and Andre Hoek In: Jennifer G. Walsh (ed.), AMLR 2010-2011 field season report, p. 1-7. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-524.

Effect of mesoscale eddies and streamers on sardine spawning habitat and recruitment success off Southern and central California Nieto, Karen, Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, and Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 119(9):6330-6339

Annual state of the California Current Ecosystem report NMFS Northwest and Southwest Fisheries Science Centers Report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 20 p.

Aggregation behavior and seasonal philopatry in male and female leopard sharks Triakis semifasciata along the open coast of southern California, USA Nosal, A.P., A. Caillat, E.K. Kisfaludy, M.A. Royer, and N.C. Wegner Marine Ecology Progress Series 499:157-175

Spatio-temporal associations of albacore CPUEs in the Northeastern Pacific with regional SST and climate environmental variables Phillips, A. Jason, Lorenzo Ciannelli, Richard D. Brodeur, William G. Pearcy, and John Childers ICES Journal of Marine Science 71(7):1717-1727

Regional growth patterns of juvenile albacore (Thunnus alalunga) in the eastern North Pacific Renck, Charlene L., Drew M. Talley, R.J. David Wells, and Heidi Dewar CalCOFI Reports 55:135-143

Will a catch share for whales improve social welfare? Smith, Martin D., Frank Asche, Lori S. Bennear, Elizabeth Havice, Andrew J. Read, and Dale Squires Ecological Applications 24(1):15-23

The SWFSC Director's 2014 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-14-04. 40 p.

Prediction of fishing effort distributions using boosted regression trees Soykan, Candan U., Tomoharu Eguchi, Suzanne Kohin, and Heidi Dewar Ecological Applications 24(1):71-83

White abalone at San Clemente Island: population estimates and management recommendations Stierhoff, Kevin L., Melissa Neuman, Scott A. Mau, and David W. Murfin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-527. 26 p.

Dynamics of larval fish assemblages in the California Current System: a comparative study between Oregon and southern California Thompson, Andrew R., Toby D. Auth, Richard D. Brodeur, Noelle M. Bowlin, and William Watson Marine Ecology Progress Series 506:193-212

Evaluation of virgin recruitment profiling as a diagnostic for selectivity curve structure in integrated stock assessment models Wang, Sheng-Ping, Mark N. Maunder, Kevin R. Piner, Alexandre Aires-da-Silva, and Hui-Hua Lee Fisheries Research 158:158-164

Coastal pelagic and forage fishes Wells, Brian K., Richard D. Brodeur, John C. Field, Ed Weber, Andrew R. Thompson, Sam McClatchie, Paul R. Crone, Kevin T. Hill, and Caren Barcelo In: C.J. Harvey et al. (eds.), The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment: Phase III report. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

Ecological intregrity Williams, Gregory D., Kelly S. Andrews, Jameal F. Samhouri, Nick Tolimieri, Caren Barcelo, Richard D. Brodeur, John Field, Bill Peterson, and Andrew Thompson In: C.J. Harvey et al. (eds.), The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment: Phase III report. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

2014 Billfish Newsletter Wraith, James, and Suzanne Kohin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 14 p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

A study on relationships between large-scale climate indices and estimates of North Pacific albacore tuna productivity Zhang, Zane, John Holmes, and Steven L.H. Teo Fisheries Oceanography 23(5):409-416

Environmental and parental control of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) recruitment Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 71(8):2198-2207

Building on fisheries acoustics for marine ecosystem surveys Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, George R. Cutter Jr., Kevin Stierhoff, and Beverly J. Macewicz Oceanography 27(4):68-79

Selectivity: theory, estimation, and application in fishery stock assessment models Crone, Paul, Mark Maunder, Juan Valero, Jenny McDaniel, and Brice Semmens Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM), Workshop Series Report 1 (46 p.)

Sampling selectivity in acoustic-trawl surveys of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) biomass and length distribution Demer, David A., Juan P. Zwolinski, George R. Cutter Jr., Kyle A. Byers, Beverly J. Macewicz, and Kevin T. Hill ICES Journal of Marine Science 70(7):1369-1377

Status review of the northeastern Pacific population of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) under the Endangered Species Act Dewar, Heidi, Tomoharu Eguchi, John Hyde, Doug Kinzey, Suzanne Kohin, Jeff Moore, Barbara L. Taylor, and Russ Vetter U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-523. 153 p.

Computing and selecting ageing errors to include in stock assessment models of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) Dorval, Emmanis, Jennifer D. McDaniel, Dianna L. Porzio, Robert Felix-Uraga, Vanessa Hodes, and Sandra A. Rosenfield CalCOFI Reports 54:192-204

Variability of egg escapement, fishing mortality and spawning population in the market squid fishery in the California Current Ecosystem Dorval, Emmanis, Paul R. Crone, and Jennifer D. McDaniel Marine and Freshwater Research 64(1):80-90

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, Andrew Thompson, Cindy Thomson, Susan Sogard, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 54th annual meeting of the TSC (April 30-May 1, 2013, Seattle, Washington), p. 261-273. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Oceans and marine resources in a changing climate Howard, Jennifer, Eleanora Babij, Roger Griffis, Brian Helmuth, Amber Himes-Cornell, Paul Niemier, Michael Orbach,Laura Petes, Stewart Allen, Guillermo Auad, Carol Auer, Russell Beard, Mary Boatman, Nicholas Bond, Timothy Boyer, David Brown, Patricia Clay, Katherine Crane, Scott Cross, Michael Dalton, Jordan Diamond, Robert Diaz, Quay Dortch, Emmett Duffy, Deborah Fauquier, William Fisher, Michael Graham, Benjamin Halpern, Lara Hansen, Bryan Hayum, Samuel Herrick, Anne Hollowed, David Hutchins, Elizabeth Jewett, Di Jin, Nancy Knowlton, Dawn Kotowicz, Trond Kristiansen, Peter Little, Cary Lopez, Philip Loring, Rick Lumpkin, Amber Mace, Kathryn Mengerink, J. Ru Morrison, Jason Murray, Karma Norman, James O'Donnell, James Overland, Rost Parsons, Neal Pettigrew, Lisa Pfeiffer, Emily Pidgeon, Mark Plummer, Jeffrey Polovina, Josie Quintrell, Teressa Rowles, Jeffrey Runge, Michael Rust, Eric Sanford, Uwe Send, Merrill Singer, Cameron Speir, Diane Stanitski, Carol Thornber, Cara Wilson, and Yan Xue Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 51:71-192

Fishing games under climate variability: transboundary management of Pacific sardine in the California Current System Ishimura, Gakushi, Sam Herrick, and Ussif Rashid Sumaila Environmental Economics and Policy Studies 15(2):189-209

Comment on temperature-dependent stock-recruitment modeling for Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) in Jacobson and MacCall (1995), McClatchie et al. (2010), and Lindegren and Checkley (2013) Jacobson, Larry D., and Sam McClatchie Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 70(10):1566-1569

Pacific sanddab Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report Jagielo, Tom, Kevin Piner, Beatriz Roel, and Yan Jiao Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 8 p.

Do shifts in otolith morphology of young Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) reflect changing recruitment contributions from northern and southern stocks? Javor, Barbara J. CalCOFI Reports 54:85-96

Atmospheric oxygen levels affect mudskipper terrestrial performance: implications for early tetrapods Jew, Corey J., Nicholas C. Wegner, Yuzo Yanagitsuru, Martin Tresguerres, and Jeffrey B. Graham Integrative and Comparative Biology 53(2):248-257

Does fish larval dispersal differ between high and low latitudes? Leis, Jeffrey M., Jennifer E. Caselle, Ian R. Bradbury, Trond Kristiansen, Joel K. Llopiz, Michael J. Miller, Mary I. O'Connor, Claire B. Paris, Alan L. Shanks, Susan M. Sogard, Stephen E. Swearer, Eric A. Treml, Russell D. Vetter, and Robert R. Warner Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280(1759):20130327 (9 p.)

Orange coloration in a black-and-yellow rockfish (Sebastes chrysomelas) from central California Lewand, Kevin O., John R. Hyde, Vince P. Buonaccorsi, and Robert N. Lea California Fish and Game 99(4):237-239

Proceedings of the 2012 Trinational Sardine Forum (Seattle, Washington, USA, November 28-29, 2012) Lo, Nancy C.H. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-13-02. 60 p.

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off U.S. in 2012 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and David A. Griffith U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-505. 39 p.

A hybrid stock synthesis - Virtual population analysis model of Pacific bluefin tuna MacCall, Alec D., and Steven L.H. Teo Fisheries Research 142:22-26

Radiocesium in Pacific bluefin tuna Thunnus orientalis in 2012 validates new tracer technique Madigan, Daniel J., Zofia Baumann, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Halim A. Ergul, Heidi Dewar, and Nicholas S. Fisher Environmental Science and Technology 47(5):2287-2294

Coastal pelagics and forage fishes McClatchie, Sam, Richard D. Brodeur, John C. Field, Ed Weber, Andrew R. Thompson, Robert L. Emmett, Paul R. Crone, Kevin T. Hill, Caren Barcelo, and Brian K. Wells In: Phillip S. Levin, Brian K. Wells, and Mindi B. Sheer (eds.), Integrated ecosystem assessment of the California Current: Phase II report 2012, p. 374-399. U.S. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

Physical, biological and economic interconnections in the ecosystems and fisheries off California, 1877-2004 Norton, Jerrold G., Janet E. Mason, Cindy Bessey, and Samuel F. Herrick Quaternary International 310:7-19

Demography and movement patterns of leopard sharks (Triakis semifasciata) aggregating near the head of a submarine canyon along the open coast of southern California, USA Nosal, A.P., D.C. Cartamil, J.W. Long, M. Luhrmann, N.C. Wegner, and J.B. Graham Environmental Biology of Fishes 96(7):865-878

Pacific coast Fishery Ecosystem Plan for the U.S. portion of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Pacific Fishery Management Council, Ecosystem Plan Development Team Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon (190 p.)

Report of the CalCOFI Committee 2012 Rogers-Bennett, Laura, Sam McClatchie, and Dave Checkley CalCOFI Reports 54:5-10

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for January to March 2013 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 6, quarter 1). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 12 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for April to June 2013 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 6, quarter 2). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 26 p.

The SWFSC Director's 2013 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-14-03. 41 p.

Distribution of ommastrephid paralarvae in the eastern tropical Pacific Staaf, Danna J., Jessica V. Redfern, William F. Gilly, William Watson, and Lisa T. Ballance Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 111(1):78-89

Abundance and biomass estimates of demersal fishes at the Footprint and Piggy Bank from optical surveys using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Stierhoff, Kevin L., John L. Butler, Scott A. Mau, and David W. Murfin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-521. 45 p.

A fishery-independent survey of cowcod (Sebastes levis) in the Southern CA Bight using a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) Stierhoff, Kevin L., Scott A. Mau, and David W. Murfin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-520. 86 p.

Archival and acoustic tags reveal the post-spawning migrations, diving behavior, and thermal habitat of hatchery-origin Sacramento River steelhead kelts (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Teo, Steven L.H., Phil T. Sandstrom, Eric D. Chapman, Robert E. Null, Kurt Brown, A. Peter Klimley, Barbara A. Block Environmental Biology of Fishes 96(2-3):175-187

Ecology and evolution affect network structure in an intimate marine mutualism Thompson, Andrew R., Thomas C. Adam, Kristin M. Hultgren, and Christine E. Thacker American Naturalist 182(2):E58-E72

Corrected conversion algorithms for the CalCOFI station grid and their implementation in several computer languages Weber, Edward D., and Thomas J. Moore CalCOFI Reports 54:97-106

Seabed classification for trawlability determined with a multibeam echo sounder on Snakehead Bank in the Gulf of Alaska Weber, Thomas C., Christopher Rooper, John Butler, Darin Jones, and Chris Wilson Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 111(1):68-77

Structural adaptations for ram ventilation: gill fustions in scombrids and billfishes Wegner, Nicholas C., Chugey A. Sepulveda, Scott A. Aalbers, and Jeffrey B. Graham Journal of Morphology 274(1):108-120

State of the California Current 2012-13: No such thing as an "average" year Wells, Brian K., Isaac D. Schroeder, Jarrod A. Santora, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Valerie J. Loeb, Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Andrew R. Thompson, William T. Peterson, Richard D. Brodeur, Jeff Harding, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Sean Hayes, Nathan Mantua, William J. Sydeman, Marcel Losekoot, Sarah Ann Thompson, John Largier, Sung Yong Kim, Francisco P. Chavez, Caren Barcelo, Pete Warzybok, Russel Bradley, Jaime Jahncke, Ralf Goericke, Gregory S. Campbell, John A. Hildebrand, Sharon R. Melin, Robert L. DeLong, Jose Gomez-Valdes, Bertha Lavaniegos, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Richard T. Golightly, Stephanie R. Schneider, Nancy Lo, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Cheryl A. Horton, Jennifer Fisher, Cheryl Morgan, Jay Peterson, Elizabeth A. Daly, Toby D. Auth, and Jeffrey Abell CalCOFI Reports 54:37-71

Age validation of juvenile Shortfin Mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) tagged and marked with oxytetracycline off southern California Wells, R.J. David, Susan E. Smith, Suzanne Kohin, Ellen Freund, Natalie Spear, and Darlene A. Ramon Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 111(2):147-160

The firm's management in production: management, firm, and time effects in an Indian Ocean tuna fishery Wolff, Francois-Charles, Dale Squires, and Patrice Guillotreau American Journal of Agricultural Economics 95(3):547-567

2013 Billfish Newsletter Wraith, James, and Suzanne Kohin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 15 p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

Measurements of natural mortality for Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 70(7):1408-1415

Modeling swordfish daytime vertical habitat in the North Pacific Ocean from pop-up archival tags Abecassis, Melanie, Heidi Dewar, Donald Hawn, and Jeffrey Polovina Marine Ecology Progress Series 452:219-236

State of the California Current 2011-2012: Ecosystems respond to local forcing as La Nina wavers and wanes Bjorkstedt, Eric P., Ralf Goericke, Sam McClatchie, Ed Weber, William Watson, Nancy Lo, William T. Peterson, Richard D. Brodeur, Toby Auth, Jennifer Fisher, Cheryl Morgan, Jay Peterson, John Largier, Steven J. Bograd, Reginaldo Durazo, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Bertha Lavaniegos, Francisco P. Chavez, Curtis A. Collins, Bob Hannah, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Will Satterthwaite, Michael O'Farrell, Sean Hayes, Jeff Harding, William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, Jaime Jahncke, Richard T. Golightly, Stephanie R. Schneider, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Cheryl A. Horton, Sung Yong Kim, Sharon R. Melin, Robert L. DeLong, and Jeffrey Abell CalCOFI Reports 53:41-76

Regional habitat assessment prioritization for California stocks Blackhart, Kristan, Stephen K. Brown, Bryant Chesney, E.J. Dick, Kirsten Larsen, Michael O'Farrell, Korie Schaeffer, Brian Spence, Kevin Stierhoff, Dale Sweetnam, and Mary Yoklavich Report of the Southwest Regional Habitat Assessment Prioritization Working Group. U.S. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. 36 p.

Comparative population genetic analysis of bocaccio rockfish Sebastes paucispinis using anonymous and gene-associated simple sequence repeat loci Buonaccorsi, Vincent P., Carol A. Kimbrell, Eric A. Lynn, and John R. Hyde Journal of Heredity 103(3):391-399

A guide to the rockfishes, thornyheads, and scorpionfishes of the northeast Pacific Butler, John L., Milton S. Love, and Tom E. Laidig University of California Press. 185 p.

Application of multiplex PCR approaches for shark molecular identification: feasibility and applications for fisheries management and conservation in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Caballero, S., D. Cardenosa, G. Soler, and J. Hyde Molecular Ecology Resources 12(2):233-237

Biophysical factors affecting the distribution of demersal fish around the head of a submarine canyon off the Bonney Coast, South Australia Currie, David R., Sam McClatchie, John F. Middleton, and Sasi Nayar PLoS ONE 7(1):e30138 (16 p.)

2003 survey of rockfishes in the Southern California Bight using the collaborative optical-acoustic survey technique Demer, David A. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-496. 82 p.

2004 survey of rockfishes in the Southern California Bight using the collaborative optical-acoustic survey technique Demer, David A. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-497. 96 p.

2007 survey of rockfishes in the Southern California Bight using the collaborative optical-acoustic survey technique Demer, David A. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-498. 110 p.

Reply to MacCall et al.: Acoustic-trawl survey results provide unique insight to sardine stock decline Demer, David A., and Juan P. Zwolinski Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(19):E1132-E1133

Prediction and confirmation of seasonal migration of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the California Current Ecosystem Demer, David A., Juan P. Zwolinski, Kyle A. Byers, George R. Cutter, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Beverly J. Macewicz Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 110(1):52-70

Local feed fish supplies and possible offshore aquaculture in California Hannesson, Rognvaldur, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. Aquaculture Research 44(1):1-7

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), E.J. Dick, John Hyde, Janet Mason, Andrew Thompson, Cindy Thomson, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 53rd annual meeting of the TSC (May 1-2, 2012, Newport Beach, California), p. 249-268. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2012 for U.S. management in 2013 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Nancy C.H. Lo, David A. Demer, Juan P. Zwolinski, and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-501. 157 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Larvae define spawning habitat of bocaccio rockfish Sebastes paucispinis within and around a large southern California marine reserve Hitchman, Sean M., Nathalie B. Reyns, and Andrew R. Thompson Marine Ecology Progress Series 465:227-242

The effects of a lanthanide metal alloy on shark catch rates Hutchinson, Melanie, John H. Wang, Yonat Swimmer, Kim Holland, Suzanne Kohin, Heidi Dewar, James Wraith, Russ Vetter, Craig Heberer, and Jimmy Martinez Fisheries Research 131-133:45-51

Evaluation of rockfish abundance in untrawlable habitat: combining acoustic and complementary sampling tools Jones, Darin T., Christopher D. Wilson, Alex De Robertis, Christopher N. Rooper, Thomas C. Weber, and John L. Butler Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 110(3):332-343

Report of the CalCOFI Committee 2011 Koslow, Tony, Laura Rogers-Bennett, and Sam McClatchie CalCOFI Reports 53:5-11

Proceedings of the 2011 Trinational Sardine Forum (La Jolla, California, USA, December 8-9, 2011) Lo, Nancy C.H., and Stephanie R. Schott U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-12-06. 94 p.

Weak evidence for sardine collapse MacCall, Alec D., Kevin T. Hill, Paul Crone, and Robert Emmett Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(19):E1131

Stable isotope analysis challenges wasp-waist food web assumptions in an upwelling pelagic ecosystem Madigan, Daniel J., Aaron B. Carlisle, Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Steven Y. Litvin, Fiorenza Micheli, and Barbara A. Block Scientific Reports 2:654 (10 p.)

Automated techniques for detection and recognition of fishes using computer vision algorithms Matai, J., R. Kastner, G.R. Cutter Jr., and D.A. Demer In: Kresimir Williams, Chris Rooper, and John Harms (eds.), Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service Automated Image Processing Workshop (September 4-7, 2010, Seattle, Washington), p. 35-37. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-121.

Sardine biomass is poorly correlated with the Pacific Decadal Oscillation off California McClatchie, Sam Geophysical Research Letters 39:L13703 (6 p.)

Resolution of fine biological structure including small narcomedusae across a front in the Southern California Bight McClatchie, Sam, Robert Cowen, Karen Nieto, Adam Greer, Jessica Y. Luo, Cedric Guigand, David Demer, David Griffith, and Daniel Rudnick Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 117(C4):C04020 (18 p.)

Mesoscale frontal structures in the Canary Upwelling System: New front and filament detection algorithms applied to spatial and temporal patterns Nieto, K., H. Demarcq, and S. McClatchie Remote Sensing of Environment 123:339-346

Comparative feeding ecology of shortfin mako, blue and thresher sharks in the California Current Preti, Antonella, Candan U. Soykan, Heidi Dewar, R.J. David Wells, Natalie Spear, and Suzanne Kohin Environmental Biology of Fishes 95(1):127-146

Estimating species and size composition of rockfishes to verify targets in acoustic surveys of untrawlable areas Rooper, Christopher N., Michael H. Martin, John L. Butler, Darin T. Jones, and Mark Zimmermann Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 110(3):317-331

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for [January to March 2012] Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 5, quarter 1). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 11 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for April to June 2012 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 5, quarter 2). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 17 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for July to September 2012 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 5, quarter 3). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 14 p.

Summary of 2012 climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS annual report (vol. 5, annual 4). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 23 p.

StereoMeasure and StereoFeatures: Measuring fish and reconstructing scenes using underwater stereo photographs Rzhanov, Yuri, and George Cutter In: Kresimir Williams, Chris Rooper, and John Harms (eds.), Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service Automated Image Processing Workshop (September 4-7, 2010, Seattle, Washington), p. 38-40. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-121.

Managed relocation: integrating the scientific, regulatory, and ethical challenges Schwartz, Mark W., Jessica J. Hellmann, Jason M. McLachlan, Dov F. Sax, Justin O. Borevitz, Jean Brennan, Alejandro E. Camacho, Gerardo Ceballos, Jamie R. Clark, Holly Doremus, Regan Early, Julie R. Etterson, Dwight Fielder, Jacquelyn L. Gill, Patrick Gonzalez, Nancy Green, Lee Hannah, Dale W. Jamieson, Debra Javeline, Ben A. Minteer, Jay Odenbaugh, Stephen Polasky, David M. Richardson, Terry L. Root, Hugh D. Safford, Osvaldo Sala, Stephen H. Schneider, Andrew R. Thompson, John W. Williams, Mark Vellend, Pati Vitt, and Sandra Zellmer BioScience 62(8):732-743

Application of a data-assimilation model to variability of Pacific sardine spawning and survivor habitats with ENSO in the California Current System Song, Hajoon, Arthur J. Miller, Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, Karen M. Nieto, and David M. Checkley Jr. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 117(C3):C03009 (15 p.)

The SWFSC Director's 2012 report on research regarding highly migratory species 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-12-04. 37 p.

On the road to extinction? Population declines of the endangered white abalone, Haliotis sorenseni Stierhoff, Kevin L., Melissa Neuman, and John L. Butler Biological Conservation 152:46-52

An overview of visual survey research and imaging technology development at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center Stierhoff, Kevin, George Cutter, David Murfin, and David Demer In: Kresimir Williams, Chris Rooper, and John Harms (eds.), Report of the National Marine Fisheries Service Automated Image Processing Workshop (September 4-7, 2010, Seattle, Washington), p. 13-17. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-121.

The spatial structure of coastal ichthyoplankton assemblages off central and southern California Suntsov, Andrey, J. Anthony Koslow, and William Watson CalCOFI Reports 53:153-170

Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Cruises and California Current Ecosystem Survey in 2009 Thompson, Andrew R., William Watson, and Susan M. Manion U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-492. 155 p.

Multi-scale sampling to evaluate assemblage dynamics in an oceanic marine reserve Thompson, Andrew R., William Watson, Sam McClatchie, and Edward D. Weber PLoS ONE 7(3):e33131 (12 p.)

Effect of environmental conditions on the distribution of Pacific mackerel (Scomber japonicus) larvae in the California Current system Weber, Edward D., and Sam McClatchie Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 110(1):85-97