NOAA FISHERIES

Scientific guidance for evaluating California's Marine Protected Area network Hall-Arber, M., S. Murray, L. Aylesworth, M. Carr, J. Field, K. Grorud-Colvert, R. Martone, K. Nickols, E. Saarman, and S. Wertz Report by the Ocean Protection Council Science Advisory Team Working Group and California Ocean Science Trust. 166 p.

Estimating the abundance of marine mammal populations Hammond, Philip S., Tessa B. Francis, Dennis Heinemann, Kristy J. Long, Jeffrey E. Moore, Andre E. Punt, Randall R. Reeves, Maritza Sepulveda, Gudjon Mar Sigurdsson, Gisli Vikingsson, Paul R. Wade, Rob Williams, and Alexandre N. Zerbini Frontiers in Marine Science 8:735770 (27 p.)

Marine important bird and biodiversity areas for penguins in Antarctica, targets for conservation action Handley, Jonathan, Marie-Morgane Rouyer, Elizabeth J. Pearmain, Victoria Warwick-Evans, Katharina Teschke, Jefferson T. Hinke, Heather Lynch, Louise Emmerson, Colin Southwell, Gary Griffith, Cesar A. Cardenas, Aldina M.A. Franco, Phil Trathan, and Maria P. Dias Frontiers in Marine Science 7:602972 (17 p.)

Citizen-sourced sightings and underwater photography reveal novel insights about green sea turtle distribution and ecology in southern California Hanna, Megan E., Erin M. Chandler, Brice X. Semmens, Tomoharu Eguchi, Garrett E. Lemons, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Frontiers in Marine Science 8:671061 (14 p.)

Distribution patterns of fish and invertebrates from summer salmon surveys in the central California Current System 2010–2015 Harding, Jeffrey, Edward Dick, Nathan Mantua, Brian Wells, Arnold Ammann, and Sean Hayes U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-645. 72 p.

Introduction Harvey, Chris J., Newell (Toby) Garfield, Gregory D. Williams, and Nicholas Tolimieri In: Chris J. Harvey et al. (eds.), Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2020-21: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA), p. 1-7. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-170.

Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2020-21: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA) Harvey, Chris J., Newell (Toby) Garfield, Gregory D. Williams, and Nicholas Tolimieri (eds.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-170. 100 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): California Current Ecosystem status report, 2021 Harvey, Chris, Toby Garfield, Greg Williams, and Nick Tolimieri (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 89 p.

Dynamic strategies offer potential to reduce lethal ship collisions with large whales under changing climate conditions Hausner, Arjun, Jameal F. Samhouri, Elliott L. Hazen, Delgerzaya Delgerjargal, and Briana Abrahms Marine Policy 130:104565 (8 p.)

Where did they not go? Considerations for generating pseudo-absences for telemetry-based habitat models Hazen, Elliott L., Briana Abrahms, Stephanie Brodie, Gemma Carroll, Heather Welch, and Steven J. Bograd Movement Ecology 9:5 (13 p.)

The NOAA Pacific Bluefin Tuna Port Sampling Program, 2014-2019 Heberer, Liana N., and Owyn E. Snodgrass U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-651. 50 p.

The NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program operations and database Heberer, Liana N., James A. Wraith, Suzanne Kohin, Yuhong Gu, Nicole Nasby-Lucas, and Heidi Dewar U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-640. 46 p.

Successful long-distance breeding range expansion of a top marine predator Henry, Robert William III, Scott A. Shaffer, Michelle Antolos, Maria Felix-Lizarraga, David G. Foley, Elliott L. Hazen, Yann Tremblay, Daniel P. Costa, Bernie R. Tershy, and Donald A. Croll Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:620103 (16 p.)

Pacific sardine rebuilding analysis based on the 2020 stock assessment Hill, Kevin T., Peter T. Kuriyama, and Paul R. Crone U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-642. 80 p.

Serendipitous observations from animal-borne video loggers reveal synchronous diving and equivalent simultaneous prey capture rates in chinstrap penguins Hinke, Jefferson T., Tamara M. Russell, Victoria R. Hermanson, Laura Brazier, and Stephanie L. Walden Marine Biology 168:135 (12 p.)

Seasonal gene expression profiling of Antarctic krill in three different latitudinal regions Horing, Flavia, Alberto Biscontin, Lars Harms, Gabriele Sales, Christian S. Reiss, Cristiano De Pitta, and Bettina Meyer Marine Genomics 56:100806 (9 p.)

Introducing the Microbes and Social Equity Working Group: Considering the microbial components of social, environmental, and health justice Ishaq, Suzanne L., Francisco J. Parada, Patricia G. Wolf, Carla Y. Bonilla, Megan A. Carney, Amber Benezra, Emily Wissel, Michael Friedman, Kristen M. DeAngelis, Jake M. Robinson, Ashkaan K. Fahimipour, Melissa B. Manus, Laura Grieneisen, Leslie G. Dietz, Ashish Pathak, Ashvini Chauhan, Sahana Kuthyar, Justin D. Steward, Mauna R. Dasari, Emily Nonnamaker, Mallory Choudoir, Patrick F. Horve, Naupaka B. Zimmerman, Ariangela J. Kozik, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Adriana L. Romero-Olivares, Janani Hariharan, Nicole Farmer, Katherine A. Maki, Jackie L. Collier, Kieran C. O'Doherty, Jeffrey Letourneau, Jeff Kline, Peter L. Moses, and Nicolae Morar mSystems 6(4):e00471-21 (12 p.)

Marine aquaculture in a changing environment: Proceedings of the 46th U.S.-Japan Aquaculture Panel Symposium (NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Mystic, Connecticut, November 14-15, 2018) Jabanoski, Kristen, Clete Otoshi, Erick Sturm, and Mike Rust (eds.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-222. 140 p.

Comparison of length sampling programs for recreational fisheries of U.S. Pacific Bluefin Tuna from 2014 to 2020 James, Kelsey C., Liana N. Heberer, Huihua Lee, Heidi Dewar, and Alayna Siddall U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-652. 36 p.

Using Bayesian models to estimate humpback whale entanglements in the United State West Coast sablefish pot fishery Jannot, Jason E., Eric J. Ward, Kayleigh A. Somers, Blake E. Feist, Thomas P. Good, Dan Lawson, and James V. Carretta Frontiers in Marine Science 8:775187 (14 p.)

Operationalizing ensemble models for scientific advice to fisheries management Jardim, Ernesto, Manuela Azevedo, Jon Brodziak, Elizabeth N. Brooks, Kelli F. Johnson, Nikolai Klibansky, Colin P. Millar, Coilin Minto, Iago Mosqueira, Richard D.M. Nash, Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos, and Brian K. Wells ICES Journal of Marine Science 78(4):1209-1216

Thomas F. Norris 1965-2020 [obituary] Jefferson, Thomas A., and Tomo Eguchi Marine Mammal Science 37(1):361-363

Leveraging spatial information to forecast nonlinear ecological dynamics Johnson, Bethany, Marcella Gomez, and Stephan B. Munch Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12(2):266-279

Status of lingcod (Ophiodon elongatus) along the southern U.S. west coast in 2021 Johnson, Kelli F., Ian G. Taylor, Brian J. Langseth, Andi Stephens, Laurel S. Lam, Melissa H. Monk, John E. Budrick, and Melissa A. Haltuch Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 212 p.

Management strategy evaluation: Allowing the light on the hill to illuminate more than one species Kaplan, Isaac C., Sarah K. Gaichas, Christine C. Stawitz, Patrick D. Lynch, Kristin N. Marshall, Jonathan J. Deroba, Michelle Masi, Jon K.T. Brodziak, Kerim Y. Aydin, Kirstin Holsman, Howard Townsend, Desiree Tommasi, James A. Smith, Stefan Koenigstein, Mariska Weijerman, and Jason Link Frontiers in Marine Science 8:624355 (22 p.)

Assessing the state of coupled social-ecological modeling in support of ecosystem based fisheries management in the United States Kasperski, Stephen, Geret S. DePiper, Alan C. Haynie, Suzana Blake, Lisa L. Colburn, Amy Freitag, Michael Jepson, Mandy Karnauskas, Kirsten M. Leong, Douglas Lipton, Michelle Masi, Cameron Speir, Howard Townsend, and Mariska Weijerman Frontiers in Marine Science 8:631400 (13 p.)

Satellite remote sensing and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network: current science and future steps Kavanaugh, Maria T., Tom Bell, Dylan Catlett, Megan A. Cimino, Scott C. Doney, Willem Klaybor, Monique Messie, Enrique Montes, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Daniel Otis, Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, Joaquin Trinanes, and David A. Siegel Oceanography 34(2):62-79

Using global-scale earth system models for regional fisheries applications Kearney, Kelly A., Steven J. Bograd, Elizabeth Drenkard, Fabian A. Gomez, Melissa Haltuch, Albert J. Hermann, Michael G. Jacox, Isaac C. Kaplan, Stefan Koenigstein, Jessica Y. Luo, Michelle Masi, Barbara Muhling, Mercedes Pozo Buil, and Phoebe A. Woodworth-Jefcoats Frontiers in Marine Science 8:622206 (27 p.)

Interaction network structure and spatial patterns influence invasiveness and invasibility in a stochastic model of plant communities Kinlock, Nicole L., and Stephan B. Munch Oikos 130(11):2040-2052

Workshop report: Economics aspects of bycatch reduction Kitts, A., L. Benaka, D. Heinemann, S. Lovell, N. Olsen, and D. Squires (eds.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-214. 46 p.

Klamath River fall Chinook salmon age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2020 run Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 21 p.

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2021 season Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 31 p.

Coastal regions of the northern Antarctic Peninsula are key for gentoo populations Korczak-Abshire, Malgorzata, Jefferson T. Hinke, Gennadi Milinevsky, Mariana A. Juares, and George M. Watters Biology Letters 17(1):20200708 (6 p.)

Standing stock of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba Dana, 1850) (Euphausiacea) in the Southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean, 2018-2019 Krafft, Bjorn A., Gavin J. Macaulay, Georg Skaret, Tor Knutsen, Odd A. Bergstad, Andrew Lowther, Geir Huse, Sophie Fielding, Philip Trathan, Eugene Murphy, Seok-Gwan Choi, Sangdeok Chung, Inwoo Han, Kyounghoon Lee, Xianyong Zhao, Xinliang Wang, Yiping Ying, Xiaotao Yu, Kostiantyn Demianenko, Viktor Podhornyi, Karina Vishnyakova, Leonid Pshenichnov, Andrii Chuklin, Hanna Shyshman, Martin J. Cox, Keith Reid, George M. Watters, Christian S. Reiss, Jefferson T. Hinke, Javier Arata, Olav R. Godo, and Nils Hoem Journal of Crustacean Biology 41(3):ruab046 (17 p.)

Finally within reach: A drone census of an important, but practically inaccessible, Antarctic fur seal colony Krause, Douglas J., and Jefferson T. Hinke Aquatic Mammals 47(4):349-354

Drones minimize Antarctic predator responses relative to ground survey methods: An appeal for context in policy advice Krause, Douglas J., Jefferson T. Hinke, Michael E. Goebel, and Wayne L. Perryman Frontiers in Marine Science 8:648772 (15 p.)

Long-term patterns of noise from underwater explosions and their relation to fisheries in Southern California Krumpel, Anna, Ally Rice, Kaitlin E. Frasier, Fairlie Reese, Jennifer S. Trickey, Anne E. Simonis, John P. Ryan, Sean M. Wiggins, Annette Denzinger, Hans-Ulrich Schnitzler, and Simone Baumann-Pickering Frontiers in Marine Science 8:796849 (21 p.)

Ion-transporting capacity and aerobic respiration of larval white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis) may be resilient to ocean acidification conditions Kwan, Garfield T., Sara G. Shen, Mark Drawbridge, David M. Checkley Jr., and Martin Tresguerres Science of the Total Environment 791:148285 (9 p.)

Mitochondrial DNA profiling to combat the illegal trade in tortoiseshell products LaCasella, Erin L., Michael P. Jensen, Christine A. Madden Hof, Ian P. Bell, Amy Frey, and Peter H. Dutton Frontiers in Marine Science 7:595853 (10 p.)

A characterization of deep-sea coral and sponge communities along the California and Oregon coast using a remotely operated vehicle on the EXPRESS 2018 expedition: A report to NOAA Deep-sea Coral Research and Technology Program Laidig, Tom, Diana Watters, Nancy Prouty, Meredith Everett, Lizzie Duncan, Liz Clarke, Chris Caldow, and Amanda W.J. Demopoulos U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-657. 122 p.

Re-examination of population structure in Arctic ringed seals using DArTseq genotyping Lang, A.R., P. Boveng, L. Quakenbush, K. Robertson, M. Lauf, K.D. Rode, H. Ziel, and B.L. Taylor Endangered Species Research 44:11-31

Bioenergetic model sensitivity to diet diversity across space, time and ontogeny Lawson, Christopher L., Matthew D. Taylor, James A. Smith, Nicholas L. Payne, Jayson M. Semmens, Iain M. Suthers, and Stephanie Brodie Frontiers in Marine Science 8:625855 (13 p.)

Sexually dimorphic measurements from stranded and bycaught specimens contribute to the characterization of group composition in free ranging common dolphins (Delphinus spp.) from aerial images Leander, Samantha G.M., John W. Durban, Kerri Danil, Holly Fearnbach, Trevor W. Joyce, and Lisa T. Ballance Marine Mammal Science 37(4):1507-1513

Modeling at-sea density of marine birds to support renewable energy planning on the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf of the contiguous United States Leirness, Jeffery B., Josh Adams, Lisa T. Ballance, Michael Coyne, Jonathan J. Felis, Trevor Joyce, David M. Pereksta, Arliss J. Winship, Christopher F.G. Jeffrey, David Ainley, Donald Croll, Joseph Evenson, Jaime Jahncke, William McIver, Peter I. Miller, Scott Pearson, Craig Strong, William Sydeman, Jeannette E. Waddell, Jeannette E. Zamon, and John Christensen U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, OCS Study BOEM 2021-014. 385 p.

Otolith-based approaches indicate strong effects of environmental variation on growth of a Critically Endangered estuarine fish Lewis, Levi S., Christian Denney, Malte Willmes, Wilson Xieu, Rachel A. Fichman, Feng Zhao, Bruce G. Hammock, Andrew Schultz, Nann Fangue, and James A. Hobbs Marine Ecology Progress Series 676:37-56

Recent changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of salmon habitat in the North Pacific Lindley, Steven T., Nathan J. Mantua, Tanya L. Rogers, and Stephan B. Munch In: Jeongseok Park, William Stanbury, and MacKenzie Kermoade (eds.), Third NPAFC-IYS Virtual Workshop on Linkages between Pacific Salmon Production and Environmental Changes (May 25-28, 2021). North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, NPAFC Technical Report 17:108-112.

A NOAA Fisheries science perspective on the conditions during and after COVID-19: challenges, observations, and some possible solutions, or why the future is upon us Link, Jason S., Francisco E. Werner, Kevin Werner, John Walter, Mark Strom, Michael P. Seki, Franklin Schwing, Jeremy Rusin, Clay E. Porch, Kenric Osgood, Karl Moline, Richard D. Methot, Patrick D. Lynch, Douglas Lipton, Kristen Koch, Evan A. Howell, Jonathan A. Hare, Robert J. Foy, David Detlor, Lisa Desfosse, John Crofts, and Nicole Cabana Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 78(1):1-12

Phylogenomic discordance in the eared seals is best explained by incomplete lineage sorting following explosive radiation in the Southern Hemisphere Lopes, Fernando, Larissa R. Oliveira, Amanda Kessler, Yago Beux, Enrique Crespo, Susana Cardenas-Alayza, Patricia Majluf, Maritza Sepulveda, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Valentina Franco-Trecu, Diego Paez-Rosas, Jaime Chaves, Carolina Loch, Bruce C. Robertson, Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse, Fernando R. Elorriaga-Verplancken, Stephen P. Kirkman, Claire R. Peart, Jochen B.W. Wolf, and Sandro L. Bonatto Systematic Biology 70(4):786-802

Selection on ancestral genetic variation fuels repeated ecotype formation in bottlenose dolphins Louis, Marie, Marco Galimberti, Frederick Archer, Simon Berrow, Andrew Brownlow, Ramon Fallon, Milaja Nykanen, Joanne O'Brien, Kelly M. Robertson, Patricia E. Rosel, Benoit Simon-Bouhet, Daniel Wegmann, Michael C. Fontaine, Andrew D. Foote, and Oscar E. Gaggiotti Science Advances 7(44):eabg1245 (14 p.)

Variable coastal hypoxia exposure and drivers across the southern California Current Low, Natalie H.N., Fiorenza Micheli, Juan Domingo Aguilar, Daniel Romero Arce, Charles A. Boch, Juan Carlos Bonilla, Miguel Angel Bracamontes, Giulio De Leo, Eduardo Diaz, Eduardo Enriquez, Arturo Hernandez, Ramon Martinez, Ramon Mendoza, Claudia Miranda, Stephen Monismith, Mario Ramade, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Alfonso Romero, Carmina Salinas, Alexandra E. Smith, Jorge Torre, Gustavo Villavicencio, and C. Brock Woodson Scientific Reports 11:10929 (10 p.)

Abundance and distribution of pinnipeds at the Channel Islands in southern California, central and northern California, and southern Oregon during summer 2016‒2019 Lowry, Mark S., Elizabeth M. Jaime, and Jeffrey E. Moore U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-656. 79 p.

Isotopic tracers suggest limited trans-oceanic movements and regional residency in North Pacific blue sharks (Prionace glauca) Madigan, Daniel J., Oliver N. Shipley, Aaron B. Carlisle, Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, and Nigel E. Hussey Frontiers in Marine Science 8:653606 (15 p.)

Stable isotope turnover rates and fractionation in captive California yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis): insights for application to field studies Madigan, Daniel J., Owyn E. Snodgrass, John R. Hyde, and Heidi Dewar Scientific Reports 11:4466 (15 p.)

Mechanisms, impacts, and mitigation for thiamine deficiency and early life stage mortality in California's Central Valley Chinook salmon [abstract] Mantua, Nate, Rachel Johnson, John Field, Steve Lindley, Tommy Williams, Anne Todgham, Nanne Fangue, Carson Jeffres, Heather Bell, Dennis Cocherell, Jacques Rinchard, Donald Tillitt, Bruce Finney, Dale Honeyfield, Taylor Lipscomb, Scott Foott, Kevin Kwak, Mark Adkison, Brett Kormos, Steve Litvin, and Iliana Ruiz-Cooley In: Jeongseok Park, William Stanbury, and MacKenzie Kermoade (eds.), Third NPAFC-IYS Virtual Workshop on Linkages between Pacific Salmon Production and Environmental Changes (May 25-28, 2021). North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, NPAFC Technical Report 17:92-93.

Reproductive hyperallometry and managing the world's fisheries Marshall, Dustin J., Michael Bode, Marc Mangel, Robert Arlinghaus, and E.J. Dick Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the Unites States of America 118(34):e2100695118 (8 p.)

Evaluation of Mexico Distinct Population Segment of Humpback Whales as units under the Marine Mammal Protection Act Martien, Karen K., Barbara L. Taylor, Frederick I. Archer, Katherina Audley, John Calambokidis, Ted Cheeseman, Joelle De Weerdt, Astrid Frisch Jordan, Pamela Martinez-Loustalot, Christian D. Ortega-Ortiz, Eric M. Patterson, Nicola Ransome, Penny Ruvelas, Jorge Urban Ramirez, and Francisco Villegas-Zurita U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-658. 18 p.

Spatial ecology of hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in foraging habitats of the Gulf of California, Mexico Martinez-Estevez, Lourdes, Juan Pablo Cuevas Amador, Felipe Cuevas Amador, Kelly M. Zilliacus, Anuar Martinez Pacheco, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Jesus Lucero, Karen Oceguera, Bernie R. Tershy, and Donald A. Croll Global Ecology and Conservation 27:e01540 (12 p.)

Population viability of sea turtles in the context of global warming Maurer, Andrew S., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Craig A. Layman, Seth P. Stapleton, Matthew H. Godfrey, and Martha O. Burford Reiskind BioScience 71(8):790-804

Acoustic classification of false killer whales in the Hawaiian islands based on comprehensive vocal repertoire McCullough, Jennifer L.K., Anne E. Simonis, Taiki Sakai, and Erin M. Oleson JASA Express Letters 1(7):071201 (8 p.)

An acoustic survey in the main Hawaiian Islands using drifting recorders McCullough, Jennifer L.K., Erin M. Oleson, Jay Barlow, Ann N. Allen, and Karlina Merkens U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report H-21-04. 20 p.

Whale temples are unique repositories for understanding marine mammal diversity in Central Vietnam McGowen, Michael R., Long Vu, Charles W. Potter, Truong Anh Tho, Thomas A. Jefferson, Sui Hyang Kuit, Salma T. Abdel-Raheem, and Ellen Hines Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 69:481-496

Transient killer whales of central and northern California and Oregon: A catalog of photo-identified individuals McInnes, Josh D., Chelsea R. Mathieson, Peggy J. West-Stap, Stephanie L. Marcos, Victoria L. Wade, Paula A. Olson, and Andrew W. Trites U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-644. 146 p.

Rethinking sustainability in seafood: Synergies and trade-offs between fisheries and climate change McKuin, Brandi, Jordan T. Watson, Stephen Stohs, and J. Elliott Campbell Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9(1):00081 (21 p.)

Mitigating the effect of shipping on freshwater cetaceans: The case study of the Yangtze finless porpoise Mei, Zhigang, Yi Han, Samuel T. Turvey, Jiajia Liu, Zhitao Wang, Ghulam Nabi, Mao Chen, Peiyu Lei, Yujiang Hao, Kexiong Wang, Jay Barlow, and Ding Wang Biological Conservation 257:109132 (8 p.)

Application of endocrine biomarkers to update information on reproductive physiology in gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) Melica, Valentina, Shannon Atkinson, John Calambokidis, Aimee Lang, Jonathan Scordino, and Franz Mueter PLoS ONE 16(8):e0255368 (23 p.)

Vaquita bycatch in small-scale commercial gillnet fisheries in the upper Gulf of California, Mexico Mesnick, Sarah, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Oriana Poindexter, Enrique Sanjuro, Sara Avila Forcada, Tomo Eguchi, Dale Squires, and Rebecca Lent In: A. Kitts, L. Benaka, D. Heinemann, S. Lovell, N. Olson, and D. Squires (eds.), Workshop report: Economic aspects of bycatch reduction, p. 12-19. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-214.

Nonlinear survival of imperiled fish informs managed flows in a highly modified river Michel, Cyril J., Jeremy J. Notch, Flora Cordoleani, Arnold J. Ammann, and Eric M. Danner Ecosphere 12(5):e03498 (20 p.)

Sexual dichromatism is decoupled from diversification over deep time in fishes Miller, Elizabeth Christina, Sarah L. Mesnick, and John J. Wiens American Naturalist 198(2):232-252

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Monk, Melissa (ed.), John Field, Tom Laidig, Nick Wegner, Sabrina Beyer, and Joe Bizzarro In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: Annual meeting of the TSC (April 20-21, 2021), p. 217-230. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

The status of vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) and sunset rockfish (Sebastes crocotulus) in U.S. waters of the coast of California north of Point Conception in 2021 Monk, Melissa H., E.J. Dick, John C. Field, Emma M. Saas, and Tanya L. Rogers Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 331 p.

Population structure in a continuously distributed coastal marine species, the harbor porpoise, based on microhaplotypes derived from poor-quality samples Morin, Phillip A., Brenna R. Forester, Karin A. Forney, Carla A. Crossman, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Kelly M. Robertson, Lance G. Barrett-Lennard, Robin W. Baird, John Calambokidis, Pat Gearin, M. Bradley Hanson, Cassie Schumacher, Timothy Harkins, Michael C. Fontaine, Barbara L. Taylor, and Kim M. Parsons Molecular Ecology 30(6):1457-1476

Reference genome and demographic history of the most endangered marine mammal, the vaquita Morin, Phillip A., Frederick I. Archer, Catherine D. Avila, Jennifer R. Balacco, Yury V. Bukhman, William Chow, Olivier Fedrigo, Giulio Formenti, Julie A. Fronczek, Arkarachai Fungtammasan, Frances M.D. Gulland, Bettina Haase, Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen, Marlys L. Houck, Kerstin Howe, Ann C. Misuraca, Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Whitney Musser, Sadye Paez, Sarah Pelan, Adam Phillippy, Arang Rhie, Jacqueline Robinson, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Teri K. Rowles, Oliver A. Ryder, Cynthia R. Smith, Sacha Stevenson, Barbara L. Taylor, Jonas Teilmann, James Torrance, Randall S. Wells, Andrew J. Westgate, and Erich D. Jarvis Molecular Ecology Resources 21(4):1008-1020

A latitudinal gradient in thermal transgenerational plasticity and a test of theory Munch, Stephan B., Who Seung Lee, Matthew Walsh, Thomas Hurst, Ben A. Wasserman, Marc Mangel, and Santiago Salinas Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1950):20210797 (8 p.)

Effects of artifical lighting at night on predator density and salmonid predation Nelson, Thomas Reid, Cyril J. Michel, Meagan P. Gary, Brendan M. Lehman, and Nicholas J. Demetras Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 150(2):147-159

Probabilistic graphical inference of pedigrees Ng, Thomas Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz

Responses of ichthyoplankton assemblages to the recent marine heatwave and previous climate fluctuations in several Northeast Pacific marine ecosystems Nielsen, Jens M., Lauren A. Rogers, Richard D. Brodeur, Andrew R. Thompson, Toby D. Auth, Alison L. Deary, Janet T. Duffy-Anderson, Moira Galbraith, J. Anthony Koslow, and R. Ian Perry Global Change Biology 27(3):506-520

Coldwater fish in a warm water world: Implications for predation of salmon smolts during estuary transit Nobriga, Matthew L., Cyril J. Michel, Rachel C. Johnson, and John D. Wikert Ecology and Evolution 11(15):10381-10395

Human wellbeing Norman, Karma, Amanda Phillips, Cameron Speir, Jameal Samhouri, Mary Fisher, Daniel Holland, Stephen Kasperski, and Chris J. Harvey In: Chris J. Harvey et al. (eds.), Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2020-21: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA), p. 77-89. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-170.

Triennial migration and philopatry in the critically endangered soupfin shark Galeorhinus galeus Nosal, Andrew P., Daniel P. Cartamil, Arnold J. Ammann, Lyall F. Bellquist, Noah J. Ben-Aderet, Kayla M. Blincow, Echelle S. Burns, Eric D. Chapman, Ryan M. Freedman, A. Peter Klimley, Ryan K. Logan, Christopher G. Lowe, Brice X. Semmens, Connor F. White, and Philip A. Hastings Journal of Applied Ecology 58(8):1570-1582

A rebuilding time model for Pacific salmon O'Farrell, Michael R., and William H. Satterthwaite Fisheries Research 238:105900 (9 p.)

Carmel River fisheries report 2021 Ohms, Haley, David Boughton, Dereka Chargualaf, and Karlee Liddy U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California. 89 p.

Changes in dive patterns of leatherback turtles with sea surface temperature and potential foraging habitats Okuyama, Junichi, Scott R. Benson, Peter H. Dutton, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Ecosphere 12(2):E03365 (17 p.)

Finding the right home: Depth as a driver of speciation in the genus Sebastes [abstract] Olivares-Zambrano, D., A. Aguilar, and J. Hyde Integrative and Comparative Biology 61(supp.1):e1218

Merging computational fluid dynamics and machine learning to reveal animal migration strategies Olivetti, Simone, Michael A. Gil, Vamsi K. Sridharan, and Andrew M. Hein Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12(7):1186-1200

Tropicalization of temperate ecosystems in North America: The northward range expansion of tropical organisms in response to warming winter temperatures Osland, Michael J., Philip W. Stevens, Margaret M. Lamont, Richard C. Brusca, Kristen M. Hart, J. Hardin Waddle, Catherine A. Langtimm, Caroline M. Williams, Barry D. Keim, Adam J. Terando, Eric A. Reyier, Katie E. Marshall, Michael D. Loik, Ross E. Boucek, Amanda B. Lewis, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Global Change Biology 27(13):3009-3034

Review of 2020 ocean salmon fisheries: Stock assessment and fishery evaluation document for the Pacific Coast Salmon Fishery Management Plan Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 340 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2021 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 132 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2021 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 94 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2021 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 51 p.

Hydrogen isotope assimilation and discrimination in green turtles Pages Barcelo, Laura, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Hanna B. Vander Zanden, T. Todd Jones, Karen A. Bjorndal, Alan B. Bolten, Walter Mustin, Geraldine Busquets-Vass, and Seth D. Newsome Journal of Experimental Biology 224(7):jeb231431

The missing layers: Integrating sociocultural values into marine spatial planning Pennino, Maria Grazia, Stephanie Brodie, Andre Frainer, Priscila F.M. Lopes, Jon Lopez, Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Samiya Selim, and Natasa Vaidianu Frontiers in Marine Science 8:633198 (8 p.)

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