NOAA FISHERIES

Modelling three-dimensional directivity of sound scattering by Antarctic krill: progress towards biomass estimation using multibeam sonar Cutter, George R., Josiah S. Renfree, Martin J. Cox, Andrew S. Brierley, and David A. Demer In: David A. Demer and David N. MacLennan (eds.), The ecosystem approach with fisheries acoustics and complementary technologies: Selected papers of an ICES Symposium (Bergen, Norway, 16-20 June 2008). ICES Journal of Marine Science 66(6):1245-1251.

The ecosystem approach with fisheries acoustics and complementary technologies: Selected papers of an ICES Symposium (Bergen, Norway, 16-20 June 2008) Demer, David A., and David N. MacLennan (eds.) ICES Journal of Marine Science 66(6):961-1433

A statistical-spectral method for echo classification Demer, David A., George R. Cutter, Josiah S. Renfree, and John L. Butler In: David A. Demer and David N. MacLennan (eds.), The ecosystem approach with fisheries acoustics and complementary technologies: Selected papers of an ICES Symposium (Bergen, Norway, 16-20 June 2008). ICES Journal of Marine Science 66(6):1081-1090.

An introduction to the proceedings and a synthesis of the 2008 ICES Symposium on the Ecosystem Approach with Fisheries Acoustics and Complementary Technologies (SEAFACTS) Demer, David A., Rudy J. Kloser, David N. MacLennan, and Egil Ona In: David A. Demer and David N. MacLennan (eds.), The ecosystem approach with fisheries acoustics and complementary technologies: Selected papers of an ICES Symposium (Bergen, Norway, 16-20 June 2008). ICES Journal of Marine Science 66(6):961-965.

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Dick, E.J., Anne Allen, and John Field (eds.), Carlos Garza, John Hyde, David Demer, Cynthia Thomson, William Watson, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: Fiftieth annual meeting of the TSC (May 5-6, 2009, Juneau, Alaska), p. 214-230. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Portland, Oregon.

Proceedings of the 2008 Tri-National Sardine Forum (Astoria, Oregon, December 4-5, 2008) Emmett, Robert L., and Nancy C.H. Lo (eds.) NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report. 89 p.

Occurrence of plastic micro-debris in the southern California Current system Gilfillan, Lisa R., Mark D. Ohman, Miriam J. Doyle, and William Watson CalCOFI Reports 50:123-133

Ecological and economic considerations in the conservation and management of the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) Hannesson, Rögnvaldur, Samuel Herrick, Jr., and John Field Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(5):859-868

Global production and economics Herrick, Samuel F., Jr., Jerrold G. Norton, Rognvaldur Hannesson, U. Rashid Sumaila, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed, and Julio Pena-Torres In: D. Checkley et al. (eds.), Climate change and small pelagic fish, p. 256-274. Cambridge University Press.

Krill and other plankton Hewitt, Roger, and Jessica D. Lipsky In: William F. Perrin, Bernd Wursig, and J.G.M. Thewissen (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (2nd ed.), p. 657-664. Academic Press.

Utility theoretic semi-logarithmic incomplete demand systems in a natural experiment: Forest fire impacts on recreational values and use Hilger, James, and Jeffrey Englin Resource and Energy Economics 31(4):287-298

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2009 for U.S. management in 2010 Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Paul R. Crone, and Roberto Felix-Uraga U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-452. 216 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Deployment of an underwater photographic/video imaging system to characterize seafloor habitats and benthic invertebrate megafauna and detect vulnerable marine ecosystems Hoek, Andre, Christopher Jones, Anthony Cossio, Susanne Lockhart, and Derek Needham In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 76-80. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

Climate-driven changes in abundance and distribution of larvae of oceanic fishes in the southern California region Hsieh, Chih-Hao, Hey Jin Kim, William Watson, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, and George Sugihara Global Change Biology 15(9):2137-2152

Population genetic structure in the redefined vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) indicates limited larval dispersal and reveals natural management units Hyde, John R., and Russell D. Vetter Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 66(9):1569-1581

Report of the CalCOFI Committee 2008 Koslow, Tony, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Russ Vetter, and Anne Allen CalCOFI Reports 50:5-13

Fish and invertebrate bycatch estimates for the California set gillnet fishery targeting halibut and white seabass, 1990-2006 Larese, Jason P. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-441. 49 p.

Growth and reproduction of female eastern and whitebelly spinner dolphins incidentally killed in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna purse-seine fishery Larese, Jason P., and Susan J. Chivers Canadian Journal of Zoology 87(6):537-552

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off California in 2009 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and David A. Griffith U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-449. 31 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES - CALIFORNIA

Egg, larval and juvenile surveys Lo, Nancy C.H., Paul E. Smith, and Motomitsu Takahashi In: Tore Jakobsen, Michael J. Fogarty, Bernard A. Megrey, and Erlend Moksness (eds.), Fish reproductive biology: implications for assessment and management, p. 207-229. Wiley-Blackwell.

Report on the NMFS California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (April and July-August 2008) McClatchie, Sam (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-438. 98 p.

The state of the California Current, Spring 2008-2009: cold conditions drive regional differences in coastal production McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, Franklin B. Schwing, Steven J. Bograd, William T. Peterson, Robert Emmett, Richard Charter, William Watson, Nancy Lo, Kevin Hill, Curtis Collins, Mati Kahru, B. Greg Mitchell, J. Anthony Koslow, Jose Gomez-Valdes, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Jon Gottschalck, Michelle L'Heureux, Yan Xue, Marlenne Manzano-Sarabia, Eric Bjorkstedt, Stephen Ralston, John Field, Laura Rogers-Bennet, Lisa Munger, Greg Campbell, Karlina Merkens, Dominique Camacho, Andrea Havron, Annie Douglas, and John Hildebrand CalCOFI Reports 50:43-68

White shark offshore habitat: a behavioral and environmental characterization of the eastern Pacific shared offshore foraging area Nasby-Lucas, Nicole, Heidi Dewar, Chi H. Lam, Kenneth J. Goldman, and Michael L. Domeier PLoS One 4(12):e8163 (14 p.)

Physical oceanography and underway environmental observations Needham, Derek, and Andre Hoek In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2008/2009 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 2-6. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-445.

State space model for light based tracking of marine animals: validation on swimming and diving creatures Nielsen, Anders, John R. Sibert, Suzanne Kohin, and Michael K. Musyl In: Jennifer L. Nielsen et al. (eds.), Tagging and tracking of marine animals with electronic devices, p. 295-309. Springer.

Fisheries abundance cycles in ecosystem and economic management of California fish and invertebrate resources Norton, Jerrold G., Samuel F. Herrick, and Janet E. Mason In: Richard J. Beamish and Brian J. Rothschild (eds.), The future of fisheries science in North America, p. 227-244. Springer.

Sound-scattering spectra of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), coho (O. kisutch), and Chinook (O. Tshawytscha) salmonids Renfree, Josiah S., Sean A. Hayes, and David A. Demer In: David A. Demer and David N. MacLennan (eds.), The ecosystem approach with fisheries acoustics and complementary technologies: Selected papers of an ICES Symposium (Bergen, Norway, 16-20 June 2008). ICES Journal of Marine Science 66(6):1091-1099.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for January to March 2009 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 2, quarter 1). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 19 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for April to early July 2009 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 2, quarter 2). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 23 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for July to September 2009 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report (vol. 2, quarter 3). NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 18 p.

Summary of 2009 physical and ecological conditions in the California Current LME Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS annual report. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 26 p.

Evidence for cranial endothermy in the opah (Lampris guttatus) Runcie, Rosa M., Heidi Dewar, Donald R. Hawn, Lawrence R. Frank, and Kathryn A. Dickson Journal of Experimental Biology 212(4):461-470

Sounds of captive rockfishes Sirovic, Ana, and David A. Demer Copeia 2009(3):502-509

Rockfish sounds and their potential use for population monitoring in the Southern California Bight Sirovic, Ana, George R. Cutter, John L. Butler, and David A. Demer In: David A. Demer and David N. MacLennan (eds.), The ecosystem approach with fisheries acoustics and complementary technologies: Selected papers of an ICES Symposium (Bergen, Norway, 16-20 June 2008). ICES Journal of Marine Science 66(6):981-990.

Opportunities in social science research Squires, Dale In: Richard J. Beamish and Brian J. Rothschild (eds.), The future of fisheries science in North America, p. 637-696. Springer.

Bioaccumulation of mercury in pelagic sharks from the northeast Pacific Ocean Suk, Seung H., Susan E. Smith, and Darlene A. Ramon CalCOFI Reports 50:172-177

Identification of the larval and juvenile stages of the Cubera Snapper, Lutjanus cyanopterus, using DNA barcoding Victor, Benjamin C., Robert Hanner, Mahmood Shivji, John Hyde, and Chris Caldow Zootaxa 2215:24-36

Temporal variability of neustonic ichthyoplankton assemblages of the eastern Pacific warm pool: Can community structure be linked to climate variability? Vilchis, L. Ignacio, Lisa T. Ballance, and William Watson Deep-Sea Research I 56(1):125-140

Seasonal movements, aggregations and diving behavior of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) revealed with archival tags Walli, Andreas, Steven L.H. Teo, Andre Boustany, Charles J. Farwell, Tom Williams, Heidi Dewar, Eric Prince, and Barbara A. Block PLoS ONE 4(7):e6151 (18 p.)

Submesoscale distribution of Antarctic krill and its avian and pinniped predators before and after a near gale Warren, Joseph D., Jarrod A. Santora, and David A. Demer Marine Biology 156(3):479-491

rcalcofi: Analysis and visualization of CalCOFI data in R Weber, Edward D., and Sam McClatchie CalCOFI Reports 50:178-185

Why fishing magnifies fluctuations in fish abundance Anderson, Christian N.K., Chih-hao Hsieh, Stuart A. Sandin, Roger Hewitt, Ann Hollowed, John Beddington, Robert M. May, and George Sugihara Nature 452(7189):835-839

Shark productivity and reproductive protection, and a comparison with teleosts Au, David W., Susan E. Smith, and Christina Show Camhi, Merry D., Ellen K. Pikitch, and Elizabeth A. Babcock (eds.), Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation, p. 298-308. Blackwell Science, Ames, Iowa.

Report of the CalCOFI Committee CalCOFI Committee (Roger Hewitt, Tony Koslow, and Laura Rogers-Bennett) CalCOFI Reports 49:5-13

California Current Ecosystem Survey 2006 acoustic cruise reports for NOAA FSV Oscar Dyson and NOAA FRV David Starr Jordan Cutter, G. R., Jr., and David A. Demer (eds.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-415. 98 p. CALIFORNIA CURRENT ECOSYSTEM SURVEY - ACCOUSTICS - CRUISE REPORTS - SURVEYS - FSV OSCAR DYSON - FRV DAVID STARR JORDAN -

Variations in echosounder-transducer performance with water temperature Demer, David A., and Josiah S. Renfree ICES Journal of Marine Science 65(6):1021-1035

Movements and site fidelity of the giant manta ray, Manta birostris, in the Komodo Marine Park, Indonesia Dewar, Heidi, Peter Mous, Michael Domeier, Andreas Muljadi, Jos Pet, and Jeff Whitty Marine Biology 155(2):121-133

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Field, John (ed.), David Demer, John Hyde, and William Watson In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: Forty-ninth annual meeting of the TSC (May 6-7, 2008, Seattle, Washington), p. 230-245. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission, Portland, Oregon.

The challenge of managing nearshore rocky reef resources Gunderson, Donald R., Ana M. Parma, Ray Hilborn, Jason M. Cope, David L. Fluharty, Marc L. Miller, Russell D. Vetter, Selina S. Heppell, and H. Gary Greene Fisheries 33(4):172-179

A robust deterministic model describing the bomb radiocarbon signal for use in fish age validation Hamel, Owen S., Kevin R. Piner, and John R. Wallace Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137(3):852-859

Catch strategies for the Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) Hannesson, Rögnvaldur, and Samuel F. Herrick CalCOFI Reports 49:222-231

Reconciling fisheries with conservation: three examples from the Southern Ocean Hewitt, Roger P., Christopher D. Jones, and Inigo Everson J.L. Nielsen, et al. (eds.), Reconciling fisheries with conservation: Proceedings of the Fourth World Fisheries Congress (May 2-6, 2004, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada), vol. II. American Fisheries Society Symposium 49:1681-1697.

Spatial analysis shows that fishing enhances the climatic sensitivity of marine fishes Hsieh, Chih-hao, Christian S. Reiss, Roger P. Hewitt, and George Sugihara Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65(5):947-961

Cryptic speciation in the vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) and the role of bathymetry in the speciation process Hyde, J.R., C.A. Kimbrell, J.E. Budrick, E.A. Lynn, and R.D. Vetter Molecular Ecology 17(4):1122-1136

Multiple paternity and maintenance of genetic diversity in the live-bearing rockfishes Sebastes spp. Hyde, John R., Carol Kimbrell, Larry Robertson, Kevin Clifford, Eric Lynn, and Russell Vetter Marine Ecology Progress Series 357:245-253

Transoceanic migration rates of young North Pacific albacore, Thunnus alalunga, from conventional tagging data Ichinokawa, Momoko, Atilio L Coan Jr., and Yukio Takeuchi Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65(8):1681-1691

2008 Billfish Newsletter: 2006 and 2007 Surveys:Trends in angler catch rates [2006 and 2007 International Billfish Angler Survey], 2006 and 2007 Billfish tagging and recoveries [2006 and 2007 Billfish Tagging Program], Top anglers and captains acknowledged, Successful catch and release, Billfish "Take Along" ID and tagging guide, Pacific striped marlin stock status update. Kohin, Suzanne, and James Wraith U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 16p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

Identification, description, and daily growth of pelagic larval and juvenile squarespot rockfish, Sebastes hopkinsi (Family Sebastidae) Laidig, Thomas E., Keith M. Sakuma, John R. Hyde, William Watson, and Cynthia Taylor Lawley CalCOFI Reports 49:212-221

Fish and invertebrate bycatch estimates for the California drift gillnet fishery targeting swordfish and thresher shark, 1990-2006 Larese, Jason P., and Atilio L. Coan Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-426. 53 p.

Age estimates for female eastern and whitebelly spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) incidentally killed in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna purse-seine fishery from 1973-82 Larese, Jason P., and Susan J. Chivers Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 10(2):169-177

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off U.S. in 2008 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Richard L. Charter U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-430. 33 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES

The state of the California Current, 2007-2008: La Niña conditions and their effects on the ecosystem McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, J. Anthony Koslow, Franklin B. Schwing, Steven J. Bograd, Richard Charter, William Watson, Nancy Lo, Kevin Hill, Jon Gottschalck, Michelle l'Heureux, Yan Xue, William T. Peterson, Robert Emmett, Curtis Collins, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Reginaldo Durazo, Mati Kahru, B. Greg Mitchell, K. David Hyrenbach, W.J. Sydeman, R.W. Bradley, P. Warzybok, and Eric Bjorkstedt CalCOFI Reports 49:39-76

Physical oceanography and underway environmental observations Needham, Derek, Marcel van den Berg, and Johan Kritzinger In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2007/2008 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 12-28. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-427.

Collecting adult coastal pelagic fish using the Nordic 264 rope trawl: a guide to deployment and sample processing NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Resources Division, La Jolla, California. 12 p.

Feeding habits of the bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) sampled from the California-based drift gillnet fishery Preti, Antonella, Suzanne Kohin, Heidi Dewar, and Darlene Ramon CalCOFI Reports 49:202-211

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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