NOAA FISHERIES

Using hierarchical models to estimate stock-specific and seasonal variation in ocean distribution, survivorship, and aggregate abundance of fall run Chinook salmon Shelton, Andrew Olaf, William H. Satterthwaite, Eric J. Ward, Blake E. Feist, and Brian Burke Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76(1):95-108

Behavioral responses of individual blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) to mid-frequency military sonar Southall, Brandon L., Stacy L. DeRuiter, Ari Friedlaender, Alison K. Stimpert, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Elliott Hazen, Caroline Casey, Selene Fregosi, David E. Cade, Ann N. Allen, Catriona M. Harris, Greg Schorr, David Moretti, Shane Guan, and John Calambokidis Journal of Experimental Biology 222(5):jeb190637

Interpreting early species range descriptions for Pacific salmon, Oncorhynchus spp., in coastal California watersheds: the historical context Spence, Brian C. Marine Fisheries Review 81(1):1-39

Analytical solution of advection-dispersion boundary value processes in environmental flows Sridharan, Vamsi Krishna, and Andrew M. Hein Water Resources Research 55(12):10130-10143

Using mixed stock analysis to assess source populations for at-sea bycaught juvenile and adult loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the north-west Atlantic Stewart, Kelly R., Erin L. LaCasella, Michael P. Jensen, Sheryan P. Epperly, Heather L. Haas, Lesley W. Stokes, and Peter H. Dutton Fish and Fisheries 20(2):239-254

Distribution, biomass, and demography of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2018 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-613. 81 p.

Report of the 2018 California Current Ecosystem (CCE) Survey (1807RL), 26 June to 23 September 2018, conducted aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Danial G. Palance, Josiah S. Renfree, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Thomas S. Sessions, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-609. 34 p.

Acoustic influence of underwater mobile survey vehicles on the soundscape of Pacific rockfish habitat Stimpert, Alison K., Brijonnay C. Madrigal, W. Waldo Wakefield, and Mary M. Yoklavich Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146(1):EL45-EL51

Eight decades of hatchery salmon releases in the California Central Valley: factors influencing straying and resilience Sturrock, Anna M., William H. Satterthwaite, Kristina M. Cervantes-Yoshida, Eric R. Huber, Hugh J.W. Sturrock, Sebastien Nussle, and Stephanie M. Carlson Fisheries 44(9):433-444

Likely annual calving in the vaquita, Phocoena sinus: A new hope? Taylor, Barbara L., Randall S. Wells, Paula A. Olson, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Frances M.D. Gulland, Andrew J. Read, Francisco J. Valverde-Esparza, Oscar H. Ortiz-Garcia, Diego Ruiz-Sabio, Armando M. Jaramillo-Legorreta, Edwyna Nieto-Garcia, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho Marine Mammal Science 35(4):1603-1612

Status of Big Skate (Beringraja binoculata) off the U.S. Pacific Coast in 2019 Taylor, Ian G., Vladlena Gertseva, Andi Stephens, and Joseph Bizzarro Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 158 p.

Contrasting genomic shifts underlie parallel phenotypic evolution in response to fishing Therkildsen, Nina O., Aryn P. Wilder, David O. Conover, Stephan B. Munch, Hannes Baumann, and Stephen R. Palumbi Science 365(6452):487-490

Displaying bioacoustic directional information from sonobuoys using "azigrams" Thode, Aaron M., Taiki Sakai, Jeffrey Michalec, Shannon Rankin, Melissa S. Soldevilla, Bruce Martin, and Katherine H. Kim Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146(1):95-102

Indicators of pelagic forage community shifts in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem, 1998-2016 Thompson, Andrew R., Chris J. Harvey, William J. Sydeman, Caren Barcelo, Steven J. Bograd, Richard D. Brodeur, Jerome Fiechter, John C. Field, Newell Garfield, Thomas P. Good, Elliott L. Hazen, Mary E. Hunsicker, Kym Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Joshua Lindsay, Sharon R. Melin, Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, Julie A. Thayer, Brian K. Wells, and Gregory D. Williams Ecological Indicators 105:215-228

State of the California Current 2018-2019: A novel anchovy regime and a new marine heat wave? Thompson, Andrew R., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Brian K. Wells, John Largier, Jennifer L. Fisher, Kym C. Jacobson, Samantha M. Zeman, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Mati Kahru, Ralf Goericke, Clare E. Peabody, Timoth R. Baumgartner, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Luis E. Miranda, Eliana Gomez-Ocampo, Joes Gomez-Valdes, Toby D. Auth, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Brian J. Burke, John C. Field, Keith M. Sakuma, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Jessica M. Porquez, Jane Dolliver, Donald E. Lyons, Rachael A. Orben, Jeannette E. Zamon, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, Jarrod A. Santora, Sarah Ann Thompson, Brian Hoover, William Sydeman, and Sharon R. Melin CalCOFI Reports 60:1-65

Movements and dive behaviour of a toothfish-depredating killer and sperm whale Towers, Jared R., Paul Tixier, Katherine A. Ross, John Bennett, John P.Y. Arnould, Robert L. Pitman, and John W. Durban ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(1):298-311

Progress on implementing ecosystem-based fisheries management in the United States through the use of ecosystem models and analysis Townsend, Howard, Chris J. Harvey, Yvonne deReynier, Dawn Davis, Stephani G. Zador, Sarah Gaichas, Mariska Weijerman, Elliott L. Hazen, and Isaac C. Kaplan Frontiers in Marine Science 6:641 (17 p.)

Tracking transcriptomic responses to endogenous and exogenous variation in cetaceans in the Southern California Bight Trego, Marisa L., Andrew Whitehead, Nicholas M. Kellar, Morgane Lauf, and Rebecca L. Lewison Conservation Physiology 7(1):coz018 (15 p.)

Contaminant exposure linked to cellular and endocrine biomarkers in Southern California bottlenose dolphins Trego, Marisa L., Eunha Hoh, Andrew Whitehead, Nicholas M. Kellar, Morgane Lauf, Dana O. Datuin, and Rebecca L. Lewison Environmental Science and Technology 53(7):3811-3822

Oceanographic barriers, divergence, and admixture: Phylogeography and taxonomy of two putative subspecies of short-finned pilot whale Van Cise, Amy M., Robin W. Baird, Charles Scott Baker, Salvatore Cerchio, Diane Claridge, Russell Fielding, Brittany Hancock-Hanser, Jacobo Marrero, Karen K. Martien, Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, Erin M. Oleson, Marc Oremus, M. Michael Poole, Patricia E. Rosel, Barbara L. Taylor, and Phillip A. Morin Molecular Ecology 28(11):2886-2902

Effects of species invasion on population dynamics, vital rates and life histories of the native species Vincenzi, Simone, Alain J. Crivelli, Dusan Jesensek, Ellen Campbell, and John C. Garza Population Ecology 61(1):25-34

Taxonomic revision of the dolphin genus Lagenorhynchus Vollmer, Nicole L., Erin Ashe, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Frank Cipriano, James G. Mead, Randall R. Reeves, Melissa S. Soldevilla, and Rob Williams Marine Mammal Science 35(3):957-1057

Effect of a mammal excluder device on trawl catches of salmon and other pelagic animals Wainwright, Thomas C., Robert L. Emmett, Laurie A. Weitkamp, Sean A. Hayes, Paul J. Bentley, and Jeffrey A. Harding Marine and Coastal Fisheries 11(1):17-31

Environmental indicators to reduce loggerhead turtle bycatch offshore of Southern California Welch, Heather, Elliott L. Hazen, Dana K. Briscoe, Steven J. Bograd, Michael G. Jacox, Tomoharu Eguchi, Scott R. Benson, Christina C. Fahy, Toby Garfield, Dale Robinson, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Helen Bailey Ecological Indicators 98:657-664

Practical considerations for operationalizing dynamic management tools Welch, Heather, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Michael G. Jacox, Stephanie Brodie, Dale Robinson, Kylie L. Scales, Lynn Dewitt, and Rebecca Lewison Journal of Applied Ecology 56(2):459-469

Predicted hotspots of overlap between highly migratory fishes and industrial fishing fleets in the northeast Pacific White, Timothy D., Francesco Ferretti, David A. Kroodsma, Elliott L. Hazen, Aaron B. Carlisle, Kylie L. Scales, Steven J. Bograd, and Barbara A. Block Science Advances 5(3):eaau3761 (11 p.)

Lessons learned from the NOAA CoastWatch Ocean Satellite Course developed for integrating oceanographic satellite data into operational use Wilson, Cara, and Dale H. Robinson ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 8(8):354 (14 p.)

eSDM: A tool for creating and exploring ensembles of predictions from species distribution and abundance models Woodman, Samuel M., Karin A. Forney, Elizabeth A. Becker, Monica L. DeAngelis, Elliott L. Hazen, Daniel M. Palacios, and Jessica V. Redfern Methods in Ecology and Evolution 10(11):1923-1933

Development and evaluation of SNP panels for the detection of hybridization between wild and escaped Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the western Atlantic Wringe, Brendan F., Eric C. Anderson, Nicholas W. Jeffery, Ryan R.E. Stanley, and Ian R. Bradbury Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 76(5):695-704

Drift and beaching patterns of sea otter carcasses and car tire dummies Young, Colleen, Tomoharu Eguchi, Jack A. Ames, Michelle Staedler, Brian B. Hatfield, Mike Harris, and Emily A. Golson-Fisch Marine Mammal Science 35(4):1512-1526

Managing hydropower dam releases for water users and imperiled fishes with contrasting thermal habitat requirements Zarri, Liam J., Eric M. Danner, Miles E. Daniels, and Eric P. Palkovacs Journal of Applied Ecology 56(11):2423-2430

Re-evaluation of the environmental dependence of Pacific sardine recruitment Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer Fisheries Research 216:120-125

Distribution, biomass, and demography of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2017 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Zwolinski, Juan P., Kevin L. Stierhoff, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-610. 74 p.

Climate mediates the success of migration strategies in a marine predator Abrahms, Briana, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Justin S. Brashares, Patrick W. Robinson, Kylie L. Scales, Daniel E. Crocker, and Daniel P. Costa Ecology Letters 21(1):63-71

Mesoscale activity facilitates energy gain in a top predator Abrahms, Briana, Kylie L. Scales, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Robert S. Schick, Patrick W. Robinson, and Daniel P. Costa Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285(1885):20181101 (9 p.)

Ecosystem-based management affecting Brandt's Cormorant resources and populations in the central California Current region Ainley, David G., Jarrod A. Santora, Phillip J. Capitolo, John C. Field, Jessie N. Beck, Ryan D. Carle, Erica Donnelly-Greenan, Gerard J. McChesney, Meredith Elliott, Russell W. Bradley, Kirsten Lindquist, Peter Nelson, Jan Roletto, Peter Warzybok, Michelle Hester, and Jaime Jahncke Biological Conservation 217:407-418

Summer diatom blooms in the eastern North Pacific gyre investigated with a long-endurance autonomous surface vehicle Anderson, Emily E., Cara Wilson, Anthony H. Knap, and Tracy A. Villareal PeerJ 6:e5387 (26 p.)

Striped dolphin: Stenella coeruleoalba Archer, Frederick I. II In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 954-956. Academic Press.

Taxonomic status of a "finner whale" (Balaenoptera swinhoei Gray, 1865) from southern Taiwan Archer, Frederick, Kelly Robertson, Richard Sabin, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Marine Mammal Science 34(4):1134-1140

Managing for change: Using vertebrate at sea habitat use to direct management efforts Arthur, Benjamin, Mark Hindell, Marthan Bester, P.J. Nico De Bruyn, Michael E. Goebel, Phil Trathan, and Mary-Anne Lea Ecological Indicators 91:338-349

Towards fishery-independent biomass estimation for Hawaaian Islands deepwater snappers Ault, Jerald S., Steven G. Smith, Benjamin L. Richards, Annie J. Yau, Brian J. Langseth, Joseph M. O'Malley, Christofer H. Boggs, Michael P. Seki, and Gerard T. DiNardo Fisheries Research 208:321-328

Microhaplotypes provide increased power from short-read DNA sequences for relationship inference Baetscher, Diana S., Anthony J. Clemento, Thomas C. Ng, Eric C. Anderson, and John Carlos Garza Molecular Ecology Resources 18(2):296-305

Lessons learned from WhaleWatch: A tool using satellite data to provide near-real-time predictions of whale occurrence Bailey, Helen, Elliott Hazen, Bruce Mate, Steven J. Bograd, Ladd Irvine, Daniel M. Palacios, Karin A. Forney, Evan Howell, Aimee Hoover, Lynn DeWitt, Jessica Wingfield, and Monica DeAngelis In: Allison K. Leidner and Graeme M. Buchanan (eds.), Satellite remote sensing for conservation action: Case studies from aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems, p. 229-273. Cambridge University Press.

Cetacean ecology Ballance, Lisa T. In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 172-180. Academic Press.

Contributions of photographs to cetacean science Ballance, Lisa T. Aquatic Mammals 44(6):668-682

Documentation of a New Zealand blue whale population based on multiple lines of evidence Barlow, Dawn R., Leigh G. Torres, Kristin B. Hodge, Debbie Steel, C. Scott Baker, Todd E. Chandler, Nadine Bott, Rochelle Constantine, Michael C. Double, Peter Gill, Debra Glasgow, Rebecca M. Hamner, Callum Lilley, Mike Ogle, Paula A. Olson, Catherine Peters, Karen A. Stockin, Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes, and Holger Klinck Endangered Species Research 36:27-40

Management Barlow, Jay In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 555-558. Academic Press.

Drifting Acoustic Spar Buoy Recorder (DASBR) deployments in the San Nicolas Basin in January 2018 Barlow, Jay, and Gregory Schorr U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-598. 11 p.

Diving behavior of Cuvier's beaked whales inferred from three-dimensional acoustic localization and tracking using a nested array of drifting hydrophone recorders Barlow, Jay, Emily T. Griffiths, Holger Klinck, and Danielle V. Harris Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 144(4):2030-2041

Wildfire severity, anadromous at-risk fish, and food webs in a California coastal stream Beakes, Michael P., and Sean A. Hayes In: Jan W. Van Wagtendonk et al. (eds.), Fire in California's ecosystems (2nd ed.), Chapter 25: Fire and at-risk species, Sidebar 25.1, p. 481-482. University of California Press.

Whale and dolphin behavioural responses to dead conspecifics Bearzi, Giovanni, Dan Kerem, Nathan B. Furey, Robert L. Pitman, Luke Rendell, and Randall R. Reeves Zoology 128:1-15

Multinational genetic connectivity identified in western Pacific hawksbill turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata Bell, Ian, and Michael P. Jensen Wildlife Research 45(4):307-315

Vertebrate-wide scaling of metabolic rate and respiratory surface area [abstract] Bigman, J.S., N.C. Wegner, and N.K. Dulvy Integrative and Comparative Biology 58(supp.1):e17

Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area Bigman, Jennifer S., Sebastian A. Pardo, Tanya S. Prinzing, Marc Dando, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Journal of Morphology 279(12):1716-1724

A global perspective on the trophic geography of sharks Bird, Christopher S., Ana Verissimo, Sarah Magozzi, Katya G. Abrantes, Alex Aguilar, Hassan Al-Reasi, Adam Barnett, Dana M. Bethea, Gerard Biais, Asuncion Borrell, Marc Bouchoucha, Mariah Boyle, Edward J. Brooks, Juerg Brunnschweiler, Paco Bustamante, Aaron Carlisle, Diana Catarino, Stephane Caut, Yves Cherel, Tiphaine Chouvelon, Diana Churchill, Javier Ciancio, Julien Claes, Ana Colaco, Dean L. Coutney, Pierre Cresson, Ryan Daly, Leigh de Necker, Tetsuya Endo, Ivone Figueiredo, Ashley J. Frisch, Joan Holst Hansen, Michael Heithaus, Nigel E. Hussey, Johannes Iitembu, Francis Juanes, Michael J. Kinney, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Sebastian A. Klarian, Dorothee Kopp, Robert Leaf, Yunkai Li, Anne Lorrain, Daniel J. Madigan, Aleksandra Maljkovic, Luis Malpica-Cruz, Philip Matich, Mark G. Meekan, Frederic Menard, Gui M. Menezes, Samantha E.M. Munroe, Michael C. Newman, Yannis P. Papastamatiou, Heidi Pethybridge, Jeffrey D. Plumlee, Carlos Polo-Silva, Katie Quaeck-Davies, Vincent Raoult, Jonathan Reum, Yassir Eden Torres-Rojas, David S. Shiffman, Oliver N. Shipley, Conrad W. Speed, Michelle D. Staudinger, Amy K. Teffer, Alexander Tilley, Maria Valls, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Tak-Cheung Wai, R.J. David Wells, Alex S.J. Wyatt, Andrew Yool, and Clive N. Trueman Nature Ecology & Evolution 2:299-305

Rising synchrony controls western North American ecosystems Black, Bryan A., Peter van der Sleen, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Daniel Griffin, William J. Sydeman, Jason B. Dunham, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Mohammad Safeeq, Ivan Arismendi, and Steven J. Bograd Global Change Biology 24(6):2305-2314

Carmel River steelhead fishery report - 2018 Boughton, David A., and Haley A. Ohms Prepared for California-American Water Company in fulfillment of the Memorandum of Agreement SWC-156. NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California. 56 p.

On the capacity of upper Tuolumne and Merced Rivers for reintroduction of steelhead and spring-run Chinook salmon Boughton, David A., Sara John, Carl J. Legleiter, Ryan Richardson, and Lee R. Harrison NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California. 72 p.

Estimation of population size and trends for highly mobile species with dynamic spatial distributions Boyd, Charlotte, Jay Barlow, Elizabeth A. Becker, Karin A. Forney, Tim Gerrodette, Jeffrey W. Moore, and Andre E. Punt Diversity and Distributions 24(1):1-12

Target strength of skipjack tuna (Katsuwanus pelamis) associated with fish aggregating devices (FADs) Boyra, Guillermo, Gala Moreno, Bea Sobradillo, Isabel Perez-Arjona, Igor Sancristobal, and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 75(5):1790-1802

Genotyping-by-sequencing of genome-wide microsatellite loci reveals fine-scale harvest composition in a coastal Atlantic salmon fishery Bradbury, Ian R., Brendan F. Wringe, Beth Watson, Ian Paterson, John Horne, Robert Beiko, Sarah J. Lehnert, Marie Clement, Eric C. Anderson, Nicholas W. Jeffery, Steven Duffy, Emma Sylvester, Martha Robertson, and Paul Bentzen Evolutionary Applications 11(6):918-930

Characterizing habitat suitability for a central-place forager in a dynamic marine environment Briscoe, Dana K., Sabrina Fossette, Kylie L. Scales, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Sara M. Maxwell, Elizabeth A. McHuron, Patrick W. Robinson, Carey Kuhn, Daniel P. Costa, Larry B. Crowder, and Rebecca L. Lewison Ecology and Evolution 8(5):2788-2801

An unusual gelatinous plankton event in the NE Pacific: The Great Pyrosome Bloom of 2017 Brodeur, Richard, Ian Perry, Jennifer Boldt, Linnea Flostrand, Moira Galbraith, Jacquelynne King, James Murphy, Keith Sakuma, and Andrew Thompson PICES Press 26(1):22-27

Integrating dynamic subsurface habitat metrics into species distribution models Brodie, Stephanie, Michael G. Jacox, Steven J. Bograd, Heather Welch, Heidi Dewar, Kylie L. Scales, Sara M. Maxwell, Dana M. Briscoe, Christopher A. Edwards, Larry B. Crowder, Rebecca L. Lewison, and Elliott L. Hazen Frontiers in Marine Science 5:219 (13 p.)

Whaling, illegal and pirate Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Alexey V. Yablokov, and Yulia V. Ivashchenko In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 1063-1066. Academic Press.

Deep-sea Coral Research and Technology Program: Workshop report for the DSCRTP West Coast Research Initiative 2018-2021 (16-17 April 2018, CINMS Office, Santa Barbara, California) Caldow, Chris, M. Elizabeth Clarke, Heather Coleman, Elizabeth Duncan, Meredith V. Everett, Tom F. Hourigan, Tom E. Laidig, Amanda N. Netburn, John H. Stadler, Jenny Waddell, and Arliss J. Winship (eds.) NOAA Deep Sea Coral Research and Technology Program. 43 p.

Multilocus phylogenetic analysis of the first molecular data from the rare and monotypic Amarsipidae places the family within the Pelagia and highlights limitations of existing data sets in resolving pelagian interrelationships Campbell, Matthew A., Tetsuya Sado, Chuya Shinzato, Ryo Koyanagi, Makoto Okamoto, and Masaki Miya Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 124:172-180

Bridging the spawner-recruit disconnect: trends in American lobster recruitment linked to the pelagic food web Carloni, Joshua T., Richard Wahle, Paul Geoghegan, and Eric Bjorkstedt Bulletin of Marine Science 94(3):719-735

A machine-learning approach to assign species to 'unidentified' entangled whales Carretta, James V. Endangered Species Research 36:89-98

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2017 Carretta, James V., Karin A. Forney, Erin M. Oleson, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Jason Baker, Marcia M. Muto, Brad Hanson, Anthony J. Orr, Harriet Huber, Mark S. Lowry, Jay Barlow, Jeffrey E. Moore, Deanna Lynch, Lilian Carswell, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-602. 155 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - PACIFIC - SURVEYS - STOCKS - ASSESSMENTS

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific west coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2012-2016 Carretta, James V., Van Helker, Marcia M. Muto, Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Dan Lawson, Justin Viezbicke, and Jason Jannot U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-601. 144 p.

Recent prey capture experience and dynamic habitat quality mediate short-term foraging site fidelity in a seabird Carroll, Gemma, Robert Harcourt, Benjamin J. Pitcher, David Slip, and Ian Jonsen Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285(1883):20180788 (8 p.)

Can the status of pelagic shark populations be determined using simple fishery indicators? Carvalho, Felipe, Hui Hua Lee, Kevin R. Piner, Maia Kapur, and Shelley C. Clarke Biological Conservation 228:195-204

Using landing statistics and fishers' traditional ecological knowledge to assess conservation threats to Pacific goliath grouper in Colombia Castellanos-Galindo, Gustavo A., Carolina Chong-Montenegro, Rodrigo A. Baos E, Luis A. Zapata, Paul Tompkins, Rachel T. Graham, and Matthew Craig Aquatic Conservation 28(2):305-314

Comprehensive endocrine response to acute stress in the bottlenose dolphin from serum, blubber, and feces Champagne, Cory D., Nicholas M. Kellar, Marisa L. Trego, Brendan Delehanty, Rudy Boonstra, Samuel K. Wasser, Rebecca K. Booth, Daniel E. Crocker, and Dorian S. Houser General and Comparative Endocrinology 266:178-193

Reproductive biology of female striped marlin Kajikia audax in the western Pacific Ocean Chang, H.-Y., C.-L. Sun, S.-Z. Yeh, Y.-J. Chang, N.-J. Su, and G. DiNardo Journal of Fish Biology 92(1):105-130

Adapting multi-frequency echo-sounders for operation on autonomous vehicles Chave, Rene, Jan Buermans, David Lemon, J. Christopher Taylor, Chad Lembke, Christopher DeCollibus, Grace K. Saba, and Christian Reiss In: OCEANS 2018 MTS/IEEE Charleston (6 p.)

Cetacean life history Chivers, Susan J. In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 186-189. Academic Press.

Marine mammal life history: Guide to biological sample collection and data archive Chivers, Susan J. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-594. 50 p.

"Northern" form short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) inhabit the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean Chivers, Susan J., Wayne L. Perryman, Morgan S. Lynn, Kristi West, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Aquatic Mammals 44(4):357-366

The utility of transcriptomics in fish conservation Connon, Richard E., Ken M. Jeffries, Lisa M. Komoroske, Anne E. Todgham, and Nann A. Fangue Journal of Experimental Biology 221(2):jeb148833 (8 p.)

Ancient DNA analysis and stable isotope ecology of sea turtles (Cheloniidae) from the Gold Rush-era (1850s) Eastern Pacific Ocean Conrad, Cyler, Laura Pages Barcelo, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Calandra Turner Tomaszewicz, Maria Labonte, Brian M. Kemp, Emily Lena Jones, Michael Stoyka, Kale Bruner, and Allen Pastron Open Quaternary 4(1):3 (13 p.)

Movement and survival of wild Chinook Salmon smolts from Butte Creek during their out-migration to the ocean: comparison of a dry year versus a wet year Cordoleani, Flora, Jeremy Notch, Alex S. McHuron, Arnold J. Ammann, and Cyril J. Michel Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 147(1):171-184

Population connectivity of the highly migratory shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus Rafinesque 1810) and implications for management in the Southern Hemisphere Corrigan, Shannon, Andrew D. Lowther, Luciano B. Beheregaray, Barry D. Bruce, Geremy Cliff, Clinton A. Duffy, Alan Foulis, Malcolm P. Francis, Simon D. Goldsworthy, John R. Hyde, Rima W. Jabado, Dovi Kacev, Lindsay Marshall, Gonzalo R. Mucientes, Gavin J.P. Naylor, Julian G. Pepperell, Nuno Queiroz, William T. White, Sabine P. Wintner, and Paul J. Rogers Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6:187 (15 p.)

Trans-Pacific rafting in tsunami associated debris by the Japanese yellowtail jack, Seriola aureovittata Temminck & Schlegel, 1845 (Pisces, Carangidae) Craig, Matthew T., James Burke, Kevin Clifford, Evonne Mochon-Collura, John W. Chapman, and John R. Hyde Aquatic Invasions 13(1):173-177

Novel anelloviruses identified in buccal swabs of Antarctic fur seals Crane, Adele, Michael E. Goebel, Simona Kraberger, Anne C. Stone, and Arvind Varsani Virus Genes 54(5):719-723

A resonant response of the California Current circulation to forcing by low frequency climate variability Crawford, William J., Andrew M. Moore, Michael G. Jacox, Jerome Fiechter, Emilie Neveu, and Christopher A. Edwards Deep-Sea Research II 151:16-36

Filter feeding Croll, Donald A., Bernie R. Tershy, Kelly M. Newton, Asha de Vos, Elliott Hazen, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 363-368. Academic Press.

Atlantic salmon mortality at sea: Developing an evidence-based "Likely Suspects" Framework Crozier, Walter, Ken Whelan, Mathieu Buoro, Gerald Chaput, Jason Daniels, Sue Grant, Kim Hyatt, James Irvine, Niall O'Maoileidigh, Etiennne Prevost, Etienne Rivot, Ian Russell, Michael Schmidt, and Brian Wells Based on a workshop by the Atlantic Salmon Trust (Edinburgh, 6-8 November 2017). Atlantic Salmon Trust, Edinburgh. 72 p.

Calibration and validation of linked water temperature models for the Shasta Reservoir and the Sacramento River from 2000 to 2015 Daniels, Miles E., Vamsi K. Sridharan, Sara N. John, and Eric M. Danner U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-597. 60 p.

Estimating Cryptosporidium and Giardia disease burdens for children drinking untreated groundwater in a rural population in India Daniels, Miles E., Woutrina A. Smith, and Marion W. Jenkins PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases 12(1):e0006231

Large batoid fishes frequently eat stingrays despite skeletal damage [abstract] Dean, M.N., J.J. Bizzarro, B. Clark, C.J. Underwood, and Z. Johanson Integrative and Comparative Biology 58(supp.1):e304

Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus) movements in the eastern North Pacific determined using satellite telemetry Dewar, Heidi, Steven G. Wilson, John R. Hyde, Owyn Snodgrass, Andrew Leising, Chi H. Lam, Reka Domokos, James A. Wraith, Steve J. Bograd, Sean R. Van Sommeran, and Suzanne Kohin Frontiers in Marine Science 5:163 (15 p.)

Identification of marine Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas for penguins around the South Shetland Islands and South Orkney Islands Dias, Maria P., Ana Paula Bertoldi Carneiro, Victoria Warwick-Evans, Colin Harris, Katharine Lorenz, Ben Lascelles, Harriet L. Clewlow, Michael J. Dunn, Jefferson T. Hinke, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Nobuo Kokubun, Fabrizio Manco, Norman Ratcliffe, Mercedes Santos, Akinori Takahashi, Wayne Trivelpiece, and Philip N. Trathan Ecology and Evolution 8(21):10520-10529

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