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Reduced swimming and metabolic fitness of aquaculture-reared California Yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) in comparison to wild-caught conspecifics Wegner, Nicholas C., Mark A. Drawbridge, and John R. Hyde Aquaculture 486:51-56

Predation on marine mammals Weller, David W. In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 772-780. Academic Press.

Prevalence of killer whale tooth rake marks on gray whales off Sakhalin Island, Russia Weller, David W., Amanda L. Bradford, Aimee R. Lang, Alexander M. Burdin, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Aquatic Mammals 44(6):643-652

Informing research priorities for immature sea turtles through expert elicitation Wildermann, Natalie E., Christian Gredzens, Laria Avens, Hector A. Barrios-Garrido, Ian Bell, Janice Blumenthal, Alan B. Bolten, Joanne Braun McNeill, Paolo Casale, Maikon Di Domenico, Camila Domit, Sheryan P. Epperly, Matthew H. Godfrey, Brendan J. Godley, Victoria Gonzalez-Carman, Mark Hamann, Kristen M. Hart, Takashi Ishihara, Kate L. Mansfield, Tasha L. Metz, Jeffrey D. Miller, Nicolas J. Pilcher, Mark A. Read, Christopher Sasso, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Erin E. Seney, Amanda Southwood Williard, Jesus Tomas, Gabriela M. Velez-Rubio, Matthew Ware, Jessica L. Williams, Jeanette Wyneken, and Mariana M.P.B. Fuentes Endangered Species Research 37:55-76

Removing San Clemente Dam did more than restore fish passage Williams, Thomas H., Amy E. East, Douglas P. Smith, David A. Boughton, Nate Mantua, and Lee R. Harrison The Osprey 89:1,4-9

Diversity of Coastal Cutthroat Trout across their distributional range Williams, Thomas H., Kitty E. Griswold, Ernest R. Keeley, Kenneth P. Currens, and Gordon H. Reeves In: Patrick Trotter et al. (eds.), Cutthroat Trout: evolutionary biology and taxonomy, p. 199-230. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 36.

Fishery collapse, recovery, and the cryptic decline of wild salmon on a major California river Willmes, Malte, James A. Hobbs, Anna M. Sturrock, Zachary Bess, Levi S. Lewis, Justin J.G. Glessner, Rachel C. Johnson, Ryon Kurth, and Jason Kindopp Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75(11):1836-1848

Extensive hybridization following a large escape of domesticated Atlantic salmon in the Northwest Atlantic Wringe, Brendan F., Nicholas W. Jeffery, Ryan R.E. Stanley, Lorraine C. Hamilton, Eric C. Anderson, Ian A. Fleming, Carole Grant, J. Brian Dempson, Geoff Veinott, Steven J. Duffy, and Ian R. Bradbury Communications Biology 1:108 (9 p.)

History of marine mammal research Wursig, Bernd, William F. Perrin, and J.G.M. Thewissen In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 472-477. Academic Press.

Cetacean and seabird data collected during the Hawaiian Islands Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (HICEAS), July-December 2017 Yano, Kymberly M., Erin M. Oleson, Jennifer L. Keating, Lisa T. Ballance, Marie C. Hill, Amanda L. Bradford, Ann N. Allen, Trevor W. Joyce, Jeffrey E. Moore, and Annette Henry NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-72 (100 p.)

Incidence of disturbance and damage to deep-sea corals and sponges in areas of high trawl bycatch near the California and Oregon border Yoklavich, Mary M., Thomas E. Laidig, Kaitlin Graiff, M. Elizabeth Clarke, and Curt E. Whitmire Deep Sea Research II 150:156-163

Rethinking "normal": The role of stochasticity in the phenology of a synchronously breeding seabird Youngflesh, Casey, Stephanie Jenouvrier, Jefferson T. Hinke, Lauren DuBois, Judy St. Leger, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, Susan G. Trivelpiece, and Heather J. Lynch Journal of Animal Ecology 87(3):682-690

Molecular population genetics of the northern elephant seal Mirounga angustirostris Abadia-Cardoso, Alicia, Nelson B. Freimer, Kristy Deiner, and John Carlos Garza Journal of Heredity 108(6):618-627

Suite of simple metrics reveals common movement syndromes across vertebrate taxa Abrahms, Briana, Dana P. Seidel, Eric Dougherty, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Alan M. Wilson, J. Weldon McNutt, Daniel P. Costa, Stephen Blake, Justin S. Brashares, and Wayne M. Getz Movement Ecology 5:12 (11 p.)

Staying close to home? Genetic differentiation of rough-toothed dolphins near oceanic islands in the central Pacific Ocean Albertson, G. Renee, Robin W. Baird, Marc Oremus, M. Michael Poole, Karen K. Martien, and C. Scott Baker Conservation Genetics 18(1):33/51

Temporally varying natural mortality: Sensitivity of a virtual population analysis and an exploration of alternatives Allen, Shanae D., William H. Satterthwaite, David G. Hankin, Diana J. Cole, and Michael S. Mohr Fisheries Research 185:185-197

Oceanographic drivers of population differentiation in Indo-Pacific bottlenose (Tursiops aduncus) and humpback (Sousa spp.) dolphins of the northern Bay of Bengal Amaral, Ana R., Brian D. Smith, Rubaiyat M. Mansur, Robert L. Brownell Jr., and Howard C. Rosenbaum Conservation Genetics 18(2):371-381

Genetic and individual assignment of tetraploid green sturgeon with SNP assay data Anderson, Eric C., Thomas C. Ng, Eric D. Crandall, and John Carlos Garza Conservation Genetics 18(5):1119-1130

Diet composition and food consumption rate of harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the western Baltic Sea Andreasen, Heidi, Stine D. Ross, Ursula Siebert, Niels G. Andersen, Katrin Ronnenberg, and Anita Gilles Marine Mammal Science 33(4):1053-1079

Evolutionary restoration potential evaluated through the use of a trait-linked genetic marker Apgar, Travis M., Devon E. Pearse, and Eric P. Palkovacs Evolutionary Applications 10(5):485-497

Extensive core microbiome in drone-captured whale blow supports a framework for health monitoring Apprill, Amy, Carolyn A. Miller, Michael J. Moore, John W. Durban, Holly Fearnbach, and Lance G. Barrett-Lennard mSystems 2:e00119-17 (15 p.)

Diagnosability of mtDNA with Random Forests: Using sequence data to delimit subspecies Archer, Frederick I., Karen K. Martien, and Barbara L. Taylor Marine Mammal Science 33(supp.1):101-131

strataG: An R package for manipulating, summarizing and analysing population genetic data Archer, Frederick I., Paula E. Adams, and Brita B. Schneiders Molecular Ecology Resources 17(1):5-11

Winter habitat predictions of a key Southern Ocean predator, the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) Arthur, Benjamin, Mark Hindell, Marthan Bester, P.J. Nico De Bruyn, Phil Trathan, Michael Goebel, and Mary-Anne Lea Deep-Sea Research II 140:171-181

KRILLBASE: a circumpolar database of Antarctic krill and salp numerical densities, 1926-2016 Atkinson, Angus, Simeon L. Hill, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Volker Siegel, Ricardo Anadon, Sanae Chiba, Kendra L. Daly, Rod Downie, Sophie Fielding, Peter Fretwell, Laura Gerrish, Graham W. Hosie, Mark J. Jessopp, So Kawaguchi, Bjorn A. Krafft, Valerie Loeb, Jun Nishikawa, Helen J. Peat, Christian S. Reiss, Robin M. Ross, Langdon B. Quetin, Katrin Schmidt, Deborah K. Steinberg, Roshni C. Subramaniam, Geraint A. Tarling, and Peter Ward Earth System Science Data 9(1):193-210

Discovery and characterization of single nucleotide polymorphisms in two anadromous alosine fishes of conservation concern Baetscher, Diana S., Daniel J. Hasselman, Kerry Reid, Eric P. Palkovacs, and John Carlos Garza Ecology and Evolution 7(17):6638-6648

Whales, dolphins & porpoises: A natural history and species guide, edited by Annalisa Berta [book review] Ballance, Lisa T. Quarterly Review of Biology 92(1):113-114

A strategic plan for conducting large geographic scale, ship-based surveys to support the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection and Endangered Species Acts Ballance, Lisa T., Mridula Srinivasan, Annette Henry, Robyn Angliss, Lynne Barre, Jay Barlow, John Bengtson, Shannon Bettridge, Jim Bohnsack, Steve Brown, Phil Clapham, Christina Fahy, Mike Ford, Lance Garrison, Tim Gerrodette, Nicole LeBoeuf, Jeff Moore, Erin Oleson, Debra Palka, Frank Parrish, Jessica Redfern, Mike Simpkins, Barbara Taylor, and Paul Wade U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-169. 20 p.

Precision and bias in estimating detection distances for beaked whale echolocation clicks using a two-element vertical hydrophone array Barlow, Jay, and Emily T. Griffiths Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141(6):4388-4397

Estimating geo-position and depth of echo-locating beaked whales using an array of drifting recorders [abstract] Barlow, Jay, and Emily T. Griffiths Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141(5):3605

Moving forward in circles: challenges and opportunities in modelling population cycles Barraquand, Frederic, Stilianos Louca, Karen C. Abbott, Christina A. Cobbold, Flora Cordoleani, Donald L. DeAngelis, Bret D. Elderd, Jeremy W. Fox, Priscilla Greenwood, Frank M. Hilker, Dennis L. Murray, Christopher R. Stieha, Rachel A. Taylor, Kelsey Vitense, Gail S.K. Wolkowicz, and Rebecca C. Tyson Ecology Letters 20(8):1074-1092

Effects of the Blob on settlement of spotted sand bass, Paralabrax maculatofasciatus, to Mission Bay, San Diego, CA Basilio, Anthony, Steven Searcy, and Andrew R. Thompson PLoS ONE 12(11):e0188449 (15 p.)

Initial validation of blubber cortisol and progesterone as indicators of stress response and maturity in an otariid; the California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) Beaulieu-McCoy, Nicole E., Kathryn K. Sherman, Marisa L. Trego, Daniel E. Crocker, and Nicholas M. Kellar General and Comparative Endocrinology 252:1-11

Habitat-based density models for three cetacean species off Southern California illustrate pronounced seasonal differences Becker, Elizabeth A., Karin A. Forney, Bruce J. Thayre, Amanda J. Debich, Gregory S. Campbell, Katherine Whitaker, Annie B. Douglas, Anita Gilles, Ryan Hoopes, and John A. Hildebrand Frontiers in Marine Science 4:121 (14 p.)

Body temperature, cerebral vasculature, and the potential for brain warming in cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonuses) [abstract] Bedore, C.N., and N.C. Wegner Integrative and Comparative Biology 57(supp.1):e11

Impacts of recently implemented recreational fisheries regulations on the Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel fishery for Paralabrax sp. in California Bellquist, Lyall, Brice Semmens, Stephen Stohs, and Alayna Siddall Marine Policy 86:134-143

Minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata Berta, Annalisa, Susan J. Chivers, and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 355-357. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Bryde's whale, Balaenoptera edeni Berta, Annalisa, Susan J. Chivers, and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 357-358. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae Berta, Annalisa, Susan J. Chivers, and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 362-364. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Diet composition and foraging ecology of U.S. Pacific Coast groundfishes with applications for fisheries management Bizzarro, Joseph J., Mary M. Yoklavich, and W. Waldo Wakefield Environmental Biology of Fishes 100(4):375-393

Oceanographic context for baseline characterization and future evaluation of MPAs along California's North Coast Bjorkstedt, Eric P., Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Marcel Losekoot, William Sydeman, John Largier, and Brian Tissot Technical report to California Sea Grant for Projects R/MPA-31A, R/MPA-31B, and R/MPA-31C. 88 p.

Data summary - Carmel River steelhead population 2013-2016 Boughton, David National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California. 17 p.

Spatial structure of water-quality impacts and foraging opportunities for steelhead in the Russian River Estuary: an energetics perspective Boughton, David, Joshua Fuller, Gregg Horton, Eric Larson, William Matsubu, and Charles Simenstad U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-569. 38 p.

Consistent extinction risk assessment under the U.S. Endangered Species Act Boyd, Charlotte, Douglas P. DeMaster, Robin S. Waples, Eric J. Ward, and Barbara L. Taylor Conservation Letters 10(3):328-336

Injury determinations for marine mammals observed interacting with Hawaii and American Samoa longline fisheries during 2010-2014 Bradford, Amanda L., and Karin A. Forney NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-62. 28 p.

Abundance estimates of cetaceans from a line-transect survey within the U.S. Hawaiian Islands Exclusive Economic Zone Bradford, Amanda L., Karin A. Forney, Erin M. Oleson, and Jay Barlow Fishery Bulletin 115(2):129-142

Hot eats and cool creeks: juvenile Pacific salmonids use mainstem prey while in thermal refuges Brewitt, Kimberly S., Eric M. Danner, and Jonathan W. Moore Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(10):1588-1602

Ecological bridges and barriers in pelagic ecosystems Briscoe, Dana K., Alistair J. Hobday, Aaron Carlisle, Kylie Scales, J. Paige Eveson, Haritz Arrizabalaga, Jean Noel Druon, and Jean-Marc Fromentin Deep-Sea Research II 140:182-192

Dams threaten rare Mekong dolphins Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Randall R. Reeves, Peter O. Thomas, Brian D. Smith, and Gerard E. Ryan Science 355(6327):805

Estimating blue whale skin isotopic incorporation rates and baleen growth rates: Implications for assessing diet and movement patterns in mysticetes Busquets-Vass, Geraldine, Seth D. Newsome, John Calambokidis, Gabriela Serra-Valente, Jeff K. Jacobsen, Sergio Aguiniga-Garcia, and Diane Gendron PLoS ONE 12(5):e0177880 (25 p.)

Evolutionary affinities of the unfathomable Parabrotulidae: Molecular data indicate placement of Parabrotula within the family Bythitidae, Ophidiiformes Campbell, Matthew A., Jorgen G. Nielsen, Tetsuya Sado, Chuya Shinzato, Miyuki Kanda, Takashi P. Satoh, and Masaki Miya Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 109:337-342

Regression tree and ratio estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in the California drift gillnet fishery: 1990-2015 Carretta, James V., Jeffrey E. Moore, and Karin A. Forney U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-568. 83 p.

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2016 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-577. 407 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, 2011-2015 Carretta, James V., Marcia M. Muto, Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Dan Lawson, Justin Viezbicke, and Jason Jannot U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-579. 126 p.

Can diagnostic tests help identify model misspecification in integrated stock assessments? Carvalho, Felipe, Andre E. Punt, Yi-Jay Chang, Mark N. Maunder, and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 192:28-40

Stock assessment for blue shark in the North Pacific using stock synthesis Carvalho, Felipe, Mikihiko Kai, Tim Sippel, and Kevin Piner Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (17-24 March 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/SHARKWG-1/5. 52 p.

A first estimate of sea turtle bycatch in the industrial trawling fishery of Gabon Casale, Paolo, Gaspard Abitsi, Marie Pierre Aboro, Pierre Didier Agamboue, Laureen Agbode, Nontse Lois Allela, Davy Angueko, Jean Noel Bibang Bi Nguema, Francois Boussamba, Floriane Cardiec, Emmanuel Chartrain, Claudio Ciofi, Yves Armand Emane, J. Michael Fay, Brendan J. Godley, Carmen Karen Kouerey Oliwiwina, Jean de Dieu Lewembe, Donatien Leyoko, Georges Mba Asseko, Pulcherie Mengue M'adzaba, Jean Herve Mve Beh, Chiara Natali, Clauvice Nyama-Mouketou, Jacob Nzegoue, Carole Ogandagas, Richard J. Parnell, Guy Anicet Rerambyath, Micheline Schummer Gnandji, Guy-Philippe Sounguet, Manjula Tiwari, Bas Verhage, Raul Vilela, Lee White, Matthew J. Witt, and Angela Formia Biodiversity and Conservation 26(10):2421-2433

Extremely low allelic diversity of microsatellite markers in the banded guitarfish (Zapteryx exasperata). Supplementary material for Castillo-Paez et al., Microsatellite records for volume 9, issue 1 Castillo-Paez, Ana, John Carlos Garza, Miguel Angel del Rio-Portilla, Celia Isabel Bisbal-Pardo, and Axayacatl Rocha-Olivares Conservation Genetics Resources 9(1):165-171

Blubber cortisol qualitatively reflects circulating cortisol concentrations in bottlenose dolphins Champagne, Cory D., Nicholas M. Kellar, Daniel E. Crocker, Samuel K. Wasser, Rebecca K. Booth, Marisa L. Trego, and Dorian S. Houser Marine Mammal Science 33(1):134-153

The origins of the anomalous warming in the California coastal ocean and San Francisco Bay during 2014-2016 Chao, Yi, John D. Farrara, Eric Bjorkstedt, Fei Chai, Francisco Chavez, Daniel L. Rudnick, Wendy Enright, Jennifer L. Fisher, William T. Peterson, Gregory F. Welch, Curtiss O. Davis, Richard C. Dugdale, Frances P. Wilkerson, Hongchun Zhang, Yinglong Zhang, and Eli Ateljevich Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 122(9):7537-7557

Multiple paternity in the East Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas) from the Pacific coast of Mexico Chassin-Noria, Omar, Rodrigo Macip-Rios, Peter H. Dutton, and Ken Oyama Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 495:43-47

Readying California fisheries for climate change Chavez, Francisco P., Christopher Costello, Debbie Aseltine-Neilson, Holly Doremus, John Field, Steve Gaines, Madeleine Hall-Arber, Nathan Mantua, Carrie Pomeroy, Leila Sievanen, Bill Sydeman, Barry Wayne-McCovey Jr., and Sara Wheeler (Climate Change and Fisheries Working Group) California Ocean Science Trust, Oakland, California. 58 p.

Trophic sensitivity of invasive predator and native prey interactions: integrating environmental context and climate change Cheng, Brian S., Lisa M. Komoroske, and Edwin D. Grosholz Functional Ecology 31(3):642-652

Movement patterns of juvenile hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata at a Caribbean coral atoll: long-term tracking using passive acoustic telemetry Chevis, Megan G., Brendan J. Godley, James P. Lewis, Julie Jackson Lewis, Kylie L. Scales, and Rachel T. Graham Endangered Species Research 32:309-319

Eastern North Pacific long-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus capensis Chivers, Susan J. In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 368-369. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Pacific white-sided dolphin, Lagenorhynchus obliquidens Chivers, Susan J. In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 377-378. San Diego Natural History Museum.

False killer whale, Pseudorca crassidens Chivers, Susan J., and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 381. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena Chivers, Susan J., and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 386. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Dall's porpoise, Phocoenoides dalli Chivers, Susan J., and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 386. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus Chivers, Susan J., and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 387. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Pygmy sperm whale, Kogia breviceps Chivers, Susan J., and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 388. San Diego Natural History Museum.

North Pacific right whale, Eubalaena japonica Chivers, Susan J., James V. Carretta, and Philip Unitt In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 354. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Gray whale, Eschrichtius robustus Chivers, Susan J., Wayne L. Perryman, and David W. Weller In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 365-367. San Diego Natural History Museum.

State of deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems of the U.S. West Coast Clarke, M. Elizabeth, Curt E. Whitmire, and Mary M. Yoklavich In: Thomas F. Hourigan, Peter J. Etnoyer, and Stephen D. Cairns (eds.), The state of deep-sea coral and sponge ecosystems of the United States, p. 113-155. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OHC-4.

Oceanographic drivers of the vertical distribution of a highly migratory, endothermic shark Coffey, Daniel M., Aaron B. Carlisle, Elliott L. Hazen, and Barbara A. Block Scientific Reports 7:10434 (14 p.)

Uses of genetic parentage analysis in cultured California yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) Craig, Matthew, Catherine Purcell, Kevin Stuart, Mark Drawbridge, and John Hyde In: Kristen Gruenthal, Clete Otoshi, Paul Olin, and Mike Rust (eds.), Genetics and breeding in aquaculture: Proceedings of the 44th U.S.-Japan Aquaculture Panel Symposium (NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, November 1, 2016), p. 58-62. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-175.

Status review report of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) Craig, Matthew, Steven Bograd, Heidi Dewar, Michael Kinney, Hui-hua Lee, Barbara Muhling, and Barbara Taylor U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-587. 101 p.

Gunshot call production by the North Pacific right whale Eubalaena japonica in the southeastern Bering Sea Crance, Jessica L., Catherine L. Berchok, and Jennifer L. Keating Endangered Species Research 34:251-267

Habitat use and behavior of the east Pacific green turtle, Chelonia mydas, in an urbanized system Crear, Daniel P., Daniel D. Lawson, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Tomoharu Eguchi, Robin A. LeRoux, and Christopher G. Lowe Bulletin, Southern California Academy of Sciences 116(1):17-32

Mobile acoustic sampling to map bathymetry and quantify the densities and distributions of salmonid smolt predators in the San Joaquin River Cutter, G.R. Jr., S.C. Manugian, J. Renfree, J. Smith, C. Michel, D. Huff, T.S. Sessions, B.E. Elliot, K. Stierhoff, S. Mau, D. Murfin, and D.A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-575. 134 p.

Short-beaked common dolphin, Delphinus delphis Danil, Kerri, and Susan J. Chivers In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 370-372. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Identification of multiple genetically distinct populations of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in a small coastal watershed Davis, Chante D., John Carlos Garza, and Michael A. Banks Environmental Biology of Fishes 100(8):923-933

Life history effects on hatchery contributions to ocean harvest and natural-area spawning Davison, Raziel J., and William H. Satterthwaite Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(10):1575-1587

Large batoid fishes frequently consume stingrays despite skeletal damage Dean, Mason N., Joseph J. Bizzarro, Brett Clark, Charlie J. Underwood, and Zerina Johanson Royal Society Open Science 4(9):170674 (11 p.)

Research on coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), including a photo-identification catalog, following the 2015 Refugio Beach oil spill in Santa Barbara County, California Defran, R.H., David W. Weller, Nicholas M. Kellar, and Susan J. Chivers U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-591. 99 p.

A method to consistently approach the target total fishing fraction of Pacific Sardine and other internationally exploited fish stocks Demer, David A., and Juan P. Zwolinski North American Journal of Fisheries Management 37(2):284-293

2016 USA–Norway EK80 Workshop Report: Evaluation of a wideband echosounder for fisheries and marine ecosystem science Demer, David A., Lars N. Andersen, Chris Bassett, Laurent Berger, Dezhang Chu, Jeff Condiotty, George R. Cutter Jr., Briony Hutton, Rolf Korneliussen, Naig Le Bouffant, Gavin Macaulay, William L. Michaels, David Murfin, Armin Pobitzer, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, and Charles H. Thompson ICES Cooperative Research Report no. 336. 70 p.

Bias in estimation of biological reference points when three-parameter stock-recruit relationships are considered appropriate: An extension of the results of Mangel et al. 2013 Dick, E.J., and Nick Grunloh In: Report of the Groundfish Productivity Workshop of the Pacific Fishery Management Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee (NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, December 6-8, 2016), p. 8-9. March 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda item I.2, Attachment 2. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Depletion-based stock reduction analysis (DB-SRA) for starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) in U.S. waters off California, Oregon and Washington Dick, E.J., Jim Hastie, Patrick Mirick, and Tien-shui Tsou In: November 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda Item F.6, Attachment 3. Pacific Fisheries Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 14 p.

A meta-analysis of fecundity in rockfishes (genus Sebastes) Dick, E.J., Sabrina Beyer, Marc Mangel, and Stephen Ralston Fisheries Research 187:73-85

Natural history observations of Hawaiian garden eels, Gorgasia hawaiiensis (Congridae: Heterocongrinae), from the island of Hawai'i Donham, Emily, Michael S. Foster, Marc R. Rice, Gregor M. Cailliet, Mary M. Yoklavich, and Scott L. Hamilton Pacific Science 71(2):135-147

Cradles and museums of Antarctic teleost biodiversity Dornburg, Alex, Sarah Federman, April D. Lamb, Christopher D. Jones, and Thomas J. Near Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(9):1379-1384

Pacific sardine spawning dynamics and egg production in the California Current Ecosystem during the Daily Egg Production Method survey in 2016 [abstract] Dorval, Emmanis, Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Yuhong Gu In: Stephanie Flores and Gerard DiNardo (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Trinational Sardine & Small Pelagics Forum (La Jolla, California, United States of America, December 8-9, 2016), p. 43. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

Insights into Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) echolocation ontogeny from recordings of mother-calf pairs Dunn, Charlotte, Diane Claridge, John Durban, Jessica Shaffer, David Moretti, Peter Tyack, and Luke Rendell Marine Mammal Science 33(1):356-364

Morphological and ecological evidence for two sympatric forms of Type B killer whale around the Antarctic Peninsula Durban, J.W., H. Fearnbach, D.G. Burrows, G.M. Ylitalo, and R.L. Pitman Polar Biology 40(1):231-236

Ecosystem effects of invertebrate fisheries Eddy, Tyler D., Heike K. Lotze, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Marta Coll, Cameron H. Ainsworth, Julio Neves de Araujo, Catherine M. Bulman, Alida Bundy, Villy Christensen, John C. Field, Neil A. Gribble, Mejs Hasan, Steve Mackinson, and Howard Townsend Fish and Fisheries 18(1):40-53

Predicting overlap between drift gillnet fishing and leatherback turtle habitat in the California Current Ecosystem Eguchi, Tomoharu, Scott R. Benson, David G. Foley, and Karin A. Forney Fisheries Oceanography 26(1):17-33

Evaluating economic efficiency of a water buyback program: The Klamath irrigation project Elbakidze, Levan, Benjamin Fa'anunu, Aaron Mamula, and R. Garth Taylor Resource and Energy Economics 48:68-82

Coherent assessments of Europe's marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss. Fernandes, Paul G., Gina M. Ralph, Ana Nieto, Mariana Garcia Criado, Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos, Christos D. Maravelias, Robin M. Cook, Riley A. Pollom, Marcelo Kovacic, David Pollard, Edward D. Farrell, Ann-Britt Florin, Beth A. Polidoro, Julia M. Lawson, Pascal Lorance, Franz Uiblein, Matthew Craig, David J. Allen, Sarah L. Fowler, Rachel H.L. Walls, Mia T. Comeros-Raynal, Michael S. Harvey, Manuel Dureuil, Manuel Biscoito, Caroline Pollock, Sophy R. McCully Phillips, Jim R. Ellis, Constantinos Papaconstantinou, Alen Soldo, Cetin Keskin, Steen Wilhelm Knudsen, Luis Gil de Sola, Fabrizio Serena, Bruce B. Collette, Kjell Nedreaas, Emilie Stump, Barry C. Russell, Silvia Garcia, Pedro Afonso, Armelle B.J. Jung, Helena Alvarez, Joao Delgado, Nicholas K. Dulvy, and Kent E. Carpenter Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:0170 (8 p.)

Oceanographic conditions of the eastern tropical Pacific Fiedler, Paul C., and Miguel F. Lavin In: Peter W. Glynn, Derek P. Manzello, and Ian C. Enochs (eds.), Coral reefs of the eastern tropical Pacific: persistence and loss in a dynamic environment, p. 59-83. Springer.