NOAA FISHERIES

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

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.)

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

Cruise report, F/V Ventura II, LL-JS-0024, June 24, 2011 - July 13, 2011 and October 21, 2011 - October 30, 2011: Highly Migratory Species (HMS) abundance survey: Fisheries Resources Division. Wraith, James, and Suzanne Kohin NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 5 p.

Estimation of spawning habitats of market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) from field surveys of eggs off Central and Southern California Zeidberg, Louis D., John L. Butler, Darlene Ramon, Anthony Cossio, Kevin L. Stierhoff, and Annette Henry Marine Ecology 33(3):326-336

A cold oceanographic regime with high exploitation rates in the Northeast Pacific forecasts a collapse of the sardine stock Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(11):4175-4180

Distributions and abundances of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) and other pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during spring 2006, 2008, and 2010, estimated from acoustic-trawl surveys Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Kyle A. Byers, George R. Cutter, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Beverly J. Macewicz Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 110(1):110-122

Calculating acceptable biological catch for stocks that have reliable catch data only (Only Reliable Catch Stocks - ORCS) Berkson, Jim, Luiz Barbieri, Steve Cadrin, Shannon Cass-Calay, Paul Crone, Martin Dorn, Claudia Friess, Donald Kobayashi, Thomas J. Miller, Wesley S. Patrick, Sarah Pautzke, Stephen Ralston, and Michael Trianni NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-616. 44 p.

State of the California Current 2010-2011: Regionally variable responses to a strong (but fleeting?) La Nina Bjorkstedt, Eric P., Ralf Goericke, Sam McClatchie, Ed Weber, William Watson, Nancy Lo, Bill Peterson, Bob Emmett, Ric Brodeur, Jay Peterson, Marisa Litz, Jose Gomez-Valdes, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Bertha Lavaniegos, Francisco Chavez, Curtis A. Collins, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Steven J. Bograd, Franklin B. Schwing, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, Jaime Jahncke, Gregory S. Campbell, John A. Hildebrand, William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, John L. Largier, Chris Halle, Sung Yong Kim, and Jeff Abell CalCOFI Reports 52:36-68

Tracking apex marine predator movements in a dynamic ocean Block, B.A., I.D. Jonsen, S.J. Jorgensen, A.J. Winship, S.A. Shaffer, S.J. Bograd, E.L. Hazen, D.G. Foley, G.A. Breed, A.-L. Harrison, J.E. Ganong, A. Swithenbank, M. Castleton, H. Dewar, B.R. Mate, G.L. Shillinger, K.M. Schaefer, S.R. Benson, M.J. Weise, R.W. Henry, and D.P. Costa Nature 475(7354):86-90

Development of metabolic-process EST-SSR PCR primers within the bocaccio rockfish Sebastes paucispinis Buonaccorsi, Vincent P., Ashton Bunce, Carol Kimbrell, Eric Lynn, and John Hyde Conservation Genetics Resources 3(3):475-477

Endangered white abalone: the view from a decade of research [abstract] Butler, John, and Melissa Neuman In: New frontiers in fisheries management and ecology: Leading the way in a changing world: American Fisheries Society 141st annual meeting (Seattle, Washington, September 4-8, 2011). American Fisheries Society. URL: https://afs.confex.com/afs/2011/webprogram/Paper3400.html

Elopomorpha Charter, Sharon R., and Denice Drass In: Arthur W. Kendall Jr. (ed.), Identification of eggs and larvae of marine fishes, p. 1-41. National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan); Tokai University Press.

Ichthyoplankton and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey cruises in 2007 Charter, Sharon R., William Watson, and Susan M. Manion U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-478. 112 p.

Satellite remote sensing for an ecosystem approach to fisheries management Chassot, Emmanuel, Sylvain Bonhommeau, Gabriel Reygondeau, Karen Nieto, Jeffrey J. Polovina, Martin Huret, Nicholas K. Dulvy, and Herve Demarcq ICES Journal of Marine Science 68(4):651-666

Pacific ocean perch: Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report (Seattle, Washington, 20-24 June 2011) Chen, Yong, Ray Conser, James Ianelli, and Kevin Stokes Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 17 p.

Petrale sole: Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report (Seattle, Washington, 20-24 June 2011) Chen, Yong, Ray Conser, James Ianelli, and Kevin Stokes Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 17 p.

Migration and behavior of juvenile North Pacific albacore (Thunnus alalunga) Childers, John, Stephanie Snyder, and Suzanne Kohin Fisheries Oceanography 20(3):157-173

Introduction to the conservation of Pacific sea turtles Dalzell, Paul, Peter H. Dutton, Kitty M. Simonds, and Dale Squires In: Peter H. Dutton, Dale Squires, and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed (eds.), Conservation of Pacific sea turtles, p. 1-11. University of Hawaii Press.

An acoustic-trawl method for surveying epipelagic fishes, and biomass estimates for the dominant species in the California Current Ecosystem during 2006, 2008 and 2010 [abstract] Demer, D.A., J.P. Zwolinski, K.A. Byers, G.R. Cutter, J.S. Renfree, and T.S. Sessions In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 34-35. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Movements and behaviors of swordfish in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans examined using pop-up satellite archival tags Dewar, Heidi, Eric D. Prince, Michael K. Musyl, Richard W. Brill, Chugey Sepulveda, Jiangang Luo, David Foley, Eric S. Orbesen, Michael L. Domeier, Nicole Nasby-Lucas, Derke Snodgrass, R. Michael Laurs, John P. Hoolihan, Barbara A. Block, and Lianne M. McNaughton Fisheries Oceanography 20(3):219-241

Temperature record in the oxygen stable isotopes of Pacific sardine otoliths: experimental vs. wild stocks from the Southern California Bight Dorval, Emmanis, Kevin Piner, Larry Robertson, Christian S. Reiss, Barbara Javor, and Russ Vetter Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 397(2):136-143

Plastic particles in coastal pelagic ecosystems of the Northeast Pacific Ocean Doyle, Miriam J., William Watson, Noelle M. Bowlin, and Seba B. Sheavly Marine Environmental Research 71(1):41-52

A holistic strategy for Pacific sea turtle conservation Dutton, Peter H., and Dale Squires In: Peter H. Dutton, Dale Squires, and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed (eds.), Conservation of Pacific sea turtles, p. 37-59. University of Hawaii Press.

Conservation of Pacific sea turtles Dutton, Peter H., Dale Squires, and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed (eds.) University of Hawaii Press. 481 p.

Daily egg production, spawning biomass and recruitment for the central subpopulation of northern anchovy 1981-2009 Fissel, Benjamin E., Nancy C.H. Lo, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. CalCOFI Reports 52:116-135

Regional estimates of biomass of Pacific sardine in 2010 and recent years [abstract] Green-Ruiz, Yanira, Tim Baumgartner, Martin E. Hernandez-Rivas, Sanda McFarlane, Jake Schweigert, Vanessa Hodes, Robert Emmett, John Ferguson, Ryan Kapp, Tom Jagielo, Ryan Howe, Dave Demer, Juan Zwolinski, Beverly Macewicz, David Griffith, and Nancy C.H. Lo In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 32. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

The effect of the environment on California's commercial fisheries [abstract] Herrick, Samuel F. Jr., Jerrold Norton, and Rognvaldur Hannesson In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 38. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

A steep genetic cline in yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus, suggests regional isolation across the Cape Mendocino faunal break Hess, Jon E., Russell D. Vetter, and Paul Moran Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68(1):89-104

Expert opinion and the demand for experience goods: an experimental approach in the retail wine market Hilger, James, Greg Rafert, and Sofia Villas-Boas Review of Economics and Statistics 93(4):1289-1296

Regional biomass report: United States: Coastwide Assessment Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Paul R. Crone, and Roberto Felix-Uraga In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 9-12. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2010 for U.S. management in 2011 [abstract] Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Paul R. Crone, and Roberto Felix-Uraga In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 30-31. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2011 for U.S. management in 2012 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Emmanis Dorval, Jennifer D. McDaniel, and Yuhong Gu U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-487. 16 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Error in Pacific sardine assessment arising from spatial assumptions [abstract] Hurtado-Ferro, Felipe, Andre E. Punt, and Kevin T. Hill In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 33-34. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Otolith morphometrics and population structure of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) along the west coast of North America Javor, Barbara, Nancy Lo, and Russ Vetter Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 109(4):402-415.

The partnership between gobiid fishes and burrowing alpheid shrimps Karplus, Ilan, and Andrew Richard Thompson In: Robert Patzner et al. (eds.), The biology of gobies, p. 559-607. Science Publishers / CRC Press.

Impact of declining intermediate-water oxygen on deepwater fishes in the California Current Koslow, J. Anthony, Ralf Goericke, Ana Lara-Lopez, and William Watson Marine Ecology Progress Series 436:207-218

Integrated management and visualization of electronic tag data with Tagbase Lam, Chi Hin, and Vardis M. Tsontos PLoS ONE 6(7):e21810 (10 p.)

Migration of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the west coast of United States in 2003-2005 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and David A. Griffith Bulletin of Marine Science 87(3):395-412

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off U.S. in 2011 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and David A. Griffith U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-486. 38 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES

Exploration of a hybrid stock synthesis-VPA model of Pacific bluefin tuna to distinguish between trends in recruitment and changes in fishing intensity on young fish MacCall, Alec D., and Steven L.H. Teo Working document submitted to the ISC Pacific bluefin tuna Working Group, International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-Like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC), 6-13 January 2011, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. ISC document no. ISC/11-1/PBFWG/01. 12 p.

The 2010 California Current Ecosystem Survey, summary and comparison to Pacific sardine caught in 2006 and 2008 spring coastwide surveys [abstract] Macewicz, Beverly J., and David A. Griffith In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 34. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Re-assessment of the stock-recruit and temperature-recruit relationships for Pacific sardine [abstract] McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, Guillermo Auad, and Kevin Hill In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 36. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Myctophiformes Moser, H. Geoffrey, and William Watson In: Arthur W. Kendall Jr. (ed.), Identification of eggs and larvae of marine fishes, p. 95-112. National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan); Tokai University Press.

Physical oceanography and underway environmental observations Needham, Derek, Andre du Randt, Andre Hoek, and Mike Soule In: Amy Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2009/2010 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 1-7. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-470.

Too hot or too cold? How Pacific sardine respond to temperature fluctuations [abstract] Pribyl, Alena L., John Hyde, and Russell Vetter In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 35-36. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Ralston, Stephen (ed.), E.J. Dick, John Field, Alec MacCall, Donald Pearson, Ole Shelton, William Watson, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 52nd annual meeting of the TSC (May 3-4, 2011, Astoria, Oregon), p. 219-238. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

A meta-analytic approach to quantifying scientific uncertainty in stock assessments Ralston, Stephen, Andre E. Punt, Owen S. Hamel, John D. DeVore, and Ramon J. Conser Fishery Bulletin 109(2):217-231

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for [January to May 2011] Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 3, quarters 1 and 2). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 18 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for [June to August 2011] Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 3, quarter 3). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 14 p.

Summary of 2011 climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS annual report (vol. 4, annual 3). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 29 p.

A summary of blue shark (Prionace glauca) and shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus) tagging data available from the North and Southwest Pacific Ocean Sippel, Tim, James Wraith, Suzy Kohin, Valerie Taylor, John Holdsworth, Mioko Taguchi, Hiroaki Matsunaga, and Kotaro Yokawa Working document submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (28 November - 3 December 2011, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, U.S.A.). International Scientific Committee document ISC/11/SHARKWG-2/04. 7 p.

Performance and technology standards in international environmental agreements: Potential lessons for sea turtle conservation and recovery Squires, Dale, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, and Bee Hong Yeo In: Peter H. Dutton, Dale Squires, and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed (eds.), Conservation of Pacific sea turtles, p. 350-369. University of Hawaii Press.

A survey of deep-water coral and sponge habitats along the West Coast of the US using a remotely operated vehicle Stierhoff, Kevin L., Peter J. Etnoyer, David W. Murfin, and John L. Butler U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 138. NOAA Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, Charleston, South Carolina. 38 p.

Which commercial swordfish fishing gear is best for balancing protected species conservation and fishing opportunity? Stohs, Stephen M., and Craig Heberer In: Peter H. Dutton, Dale Squires, and Mahfuzuddin Ahmed (eds.), Conservation of Pacific sea turtles, p. 248-276. University of Hawaii Press.

Are exploited fish populations stable? Sugihara, George, John Beddington, Chih-hao Hsieh, Ethan Deyle, Michael Fogarty, Sarah M. Glaser, Roger Hewitt, Anne Hollowed, Robert M. May, Stephan B. Munch, Charles Perretti, Andrew A. Rosenberg, Stuart Sandin, and Hao Ye Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108(48):E1224-1225

Climate change impacts on the biophysics and economics of world fisheries Sumaila, U. Rashid, William W.L. Cheung, Vicky W.Y. Lam, Daniel Pauly, and Samuel Herrick Nature Climate Change 1:449-456

Phylogeny and evolution of Indo-Pacific shrimp-associated gobies (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) Thacker, Christine E., Andrew R. Thompson, and Dawn M. Roje Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59(1):168-176

Stomiiformes Watson, William, and H. Geoffrey Moser In: Arthur W. Kendall Jr. (ed.), Identification of eggs and larvae of marine fishes, p. 59-77. National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan); Tokai University Press.

Tetraodontiformes Watson, William, and Jeffrey M. Leis In: Arthur W. Kendall Jr. (ed.), Identification of eggs and larvae of marine fishes, p. 329-337. National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan); Tokai University Press.

Ichthyoplankton, paralarval cephalopod, and station data for surface (Manta) and oblique (Bongo) plankton tows for California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations survey California Current Ecosystem Survey cruises in 2008 Watson, William, and Susan M. Manion U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-481. 173 p.

Aulopiformes Watson, William, H. Geoffrey Moser, and David A. Ambrose In: Arthur W. Kendall Jr. (ed.), Identification of eggs and larvae of marine fishes, p. 79-93. National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan); Tokai University Press.

Perciformes Watson, William, Jeffrey M. Leis, and Ann C. Matarese In: Arthur W. Kendall Jr. (ed.), Identification of eggs and larvae of marine fishes, p. 219-309. National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan); Tokai University Press.