NOAA FISHERIES

Breeding season distribution and population growth of California sea lions, Zalophus californianus, in the United States during 1964-2014 Lowry, Mark S., Sharon R. Melin, and Jeffrey L. Laake U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-574. 63 p.

Distribution of California sea lions, northern elephant seals, Pacific harbor seals, and Steller sea lions at the Channel Islands during July 2011-2015 Lowry, Mark S., Stephanie E. Nehasil, and Elizabeth M. Jaime U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-578. 64 p.

Assessing Fukushima-derived radiocesium in migratory Pacific predators Madigan, Daniel J., Zofia Baumann, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, Michelle Berman-Kowalewski, Kevin C. Weng, Jun Nishikawa, Peter H. Dutton, and Nicholas S. Fisher Environmental Science and Technology 51(16):8962-8971

Anthropogenic noise generated by mobile vehicles used to survey rockfishes in the Channel Islands, California [abstract] Madrigal, Brijonnay, Alison K. Stimpert, Mary M. Yoklavich, and W. Waldo Wakefield Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141(5):3865

Temporal resolutions in species distribution models of highly mobile marine animals: Recommendations for ecologists and managers Mannocci, Laura, Andre M. Boustany, Jason J. Roberts, Daniel M. Palacios, Daniel C. Dunn, Patrick N. Halpin, Shay Viehman, Jerry Moxley, Jesse Cleary, Helen Bailey, Steven J. Bograd, Elizabeth A. Becker, Beth Gardner, Jason R. Hartog, Elliott L. Hazen, Megan C. Ferguson, Karin A. Forney, Brian P. Kinlan, Matthew J. Oliver, Charles T. Perretti, Vincent Ridoux, Steven L.H. Teo, and Arliss J. Winship Diversity and Distributions 23(10):1098-1109

Survival probabilities and movements of harbor seals in central California Manugian, Suzanne C., Denise Greig, Derek Lee, Benjamin H. Becker, Sarah Allen, Mark S. Lowry, and James T. Harvey Marine Mammal Science 33(1):154-171

Vulnerability of loggerhead turtle eggs to the presence of clay and silt on nesting beaches Marco, Adolfo, Elena Abella-Perez, and Manjula Tiwari Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 486:195-203

Unexpected patterns of global population structure in melon-headed whales Peponocephala electra Martien, Karen K., Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Robin W. Baird, Jeremy J. Kiszka, Jessica M. Aschettino, Marc Oremus, and Marie C. Hill Marine Ecology Progress Series 577:205-220

Analytical approaches to subspecies delimitation with genetic data Martien, Karen K., Matthew S. Leslie, Barbara L. Taylor, Phillip A. Morin, Frederick I. Archer, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Patricia E. Rosel, Nicole L. Vollmer, Amelia Viricel, and Frank Cipriano Marine Mammal Science 33(supp.1):27-55

Phenomenological vs. biophysical models of thermal stress in aquatic eggs Martin, Benjamin T., Andrew Pike, Sara N. John, Natnael Hamda, Jason Roberts, Steven T. Lindley, and Eric M. Danner Ecology Letters 20(1):50-59

Integrating lipid storage into general representations of fish energetics Martin, Benjamin T., Ron Heintz, Eric M. Danner, and Roger M. Nisbet Journal of Animal Ecology 86(4):812-825

Population genomics reveals high gene flow in grass rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger) Martinez, Edith, Vincent Buonaccorsi, John R. Hyde, and Andres Aguilar Marine Genomics 33:57-63

Quest for the Holy Grail: The stock-recruitment curve in fishery stock assessment Maunder, Mark N., and Kevin R. Piner 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. 3-6. March 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda item I.2, Attachment 2. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Dealing with data conflicts in statistical inference of population assessment models that integrate information from multiple diverse data sets Maunder, Mark N., and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 192:16-27

Data conflict and weighting, likelihood functions and process error Maunder, Mark N., Paul R. Crone, Andre E. Punt, Juan L. Valero, and Brice X. Semmens Fisheries Research 192:1-4

Collapse and recovery of forage fish populations prior to commercial exploitation McClatchie, S., I.L. Hendy, A.R. Thompson, and W. Watson Geophysical Research Letters 44(4):1877-1885

Collapse and recovery of forage fish populations [abstract] McClatchie, Sam, Andrew R. Thompson, Ingrid L. Hendy, and William Watson 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. 41. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

Spatial valuation of California marine fisheries as an ecosystem service Miller, Rebecca R., John C. Field, Jarrod A. Santora, Melissa H. Monk, Rosemary Kosaka, and Cynthia Thomson Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(11):1732-1748

Evaluation of alternative marking/tagging systems for hatchery produced California fall-run Chinook salmon Mohr, Michael S., William H. Satterthwaite, David G. Hankin, Peter A. Bisson, Churchill B. Grimes, Scott Hamelberg, David C. Hillemeier, Steven T. Lindley, Alice Low, Melodie L. Palmer-Zwahlen, Jim Smith, and Thomas H. Williams U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-571. 57 p.

The impact of the ocean observing system on estimates of the California current circulation spanning three decades Moore, Andrew M., Michael G. Jacox, William J. Crawford, Bruce Laughlin, Christopher A. Edwards, and Jerome Fiechter Progress in Oceanography 156:41-60

Population abundance and trend estimates for beaked whales and sperm whales in the California Current from ship-based visual line-transect survey data, 1991-2014 Moore, Jeff, and Jay Barlow U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-585. 16 p.

Genetic structure of the beaked whale genus Berardius in the North Pacific, with genetic evidence for a new species Morin, Phillip A., C. Scott Baker, Reid S. Brewer, Alexander M. Burdin, Merel L. Dalebout, James P. Dines, Ivan D. Fedutin, Olga A. Filatova, Erich Hoyt, Jean-Luc Jung, Morgane Lauf, Charles W. Potter, Gaetan Richard, Michelle Ridgway, Kelly M. Robertson, and Paul R. Wade Marine Mammal Science 33(1):96-111

Phenotypic variation in dorsal fin morphology of coastal bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) off Mexico Morteo, Eduardo, Axayacatl Rocha-Olivares, Rodrigo Morteo, and David W. Weller PeerJ 5:e3415 (25 p.)

Abundance and distribution of sturgeon feeding pits in a Washington estuary Moser, Mary L., Kim Patten, Stephen C. Corbett, Blake E. Feist, and Steven T. Lindley Environmental Biology of Fishes 100(5):597-609

Avoiding a crisis of motivation for ocean management under global environmental change Mumby, Peter J., James N. Sanchirico, Kenneth Broad, Michael W. Beck, Peter Tyedmers, Megan Morikawa, Thomas A. Okey, Larry B. Crowder, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Denny Kelso, Joanie A. Kleypas, Stephan B. Munch, Polita Glynn, Kathryn Matthews, and Jane Lubchenco Global Change Biology 23(11):4483-4496

Circumventing structural uncertainty: A Bayesian perspective on nonlinear forecasting for ecology Munch, Stephan B, Valerie Poynor, and Juan Lopez Arriaza Ecological Complexity 32B:134-143

Meta-analysis comparing parametric and non-parametric stock-recruit models Munch, Steve 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. 12-14. March 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda item I.2, Attachment 2. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Fisheries economics of the United States, 2015 National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-170. 245 p.

Regional conservation implications of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) genetic stock composition in China Ng, Connie Kay Yan, Peter H. Dutton, He Xiang Gu, Tsung Hsien Li, Ming Bin Ye, Zhong Rong Xia, Fei Yan Zhang, Jin Xia Duan, Chung Kang Hsu, George H. Balazs, and Margaret B. Murphy Chelonian Conservation and Biology 16(2):139-150

How important are coastal fronts to albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) habitat in the Northeast Pacific Ocean? Nieto, Karen, Yi Xu, Steven L.H. Teo, Sam McClatchie, and John Holmes Progress in Oceanography 150:62-71

Out-migration survival of wild Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) smolts from Mill Creek through the Sacramento River during drought conditions Notch, Jeremy Master's thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz. 81 p.

Preliminary evaluation of alternative Sacramento River winter Chinook salmon control rules O'Farrell, Michael R. In: April 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda Item E.1.a, SRWCW Report 1 (14 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Sacramento River winter Chinook management strategy evaluation: methods supplement O'Farrell, Michael R. In: April 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda Item E.1.a, SRWCW Report 2 (14 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

ENSO impacts on ecosystem indicators in the California Current System Ohman, Mark D., Nate Mantua, Julie Keister, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, and Sam McClatchie US CLIVAR Variations 15(1):8-15

Patterns of cetacean vaginal folds yield insights into functionality Orbach, Dara N., Christopher D. Marshall, Sarah L. Mesnick, and Bernd Wursig PLoS ONE 12(3):e0175037 (15 p.)

Evaluation of Sacramento River winter Chinook salmon control rules: updated Management Strategy Evaluation analysis Pacific Fishery Management Council (Ad Hoc Sacramento River Winter Chinook Workgroup) In: September 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda Item F.2.a, SRWCW Report 1 (24 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Further evaluation of Sacramento River winter Chinook salmon control rules: addendum to Ad Hoc SRWC Workgroup (2017) Pacific Fishery Management Council (Ad Hoc Sacramento River Winter Chinook Workgroup) In: November 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda Item D.3.a, SRWCW Report 1 (9 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Review of 2016 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. 342 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2017 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 131 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2017 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 67 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2017 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 48 p.

skeleSim: an extensible, general framework for population genetic simulation in R Parobek, Christian M., Frederick I. Archer, Michelle E. Deprenger-Levin, Sean M. Hoban, Libby Liggins, and Allan E. Strand Molecular Ecology Resources 17(1):101-109

Opportunism on the high seas: foraging ecology of olive ridley turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean Peavey, Lindsey E., Brian N. Popp, Robert L. Pitman, Steven D. Gaines, Karen E. Arthur, Shaleyla Kelez, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Frontiers in Marine Science 4:348 (14 p.)

Humpback whales interfering when mammal-eating killer whales attack other species: Mobbing behavior and interspecific altruism? Pitman, Robert L., Volker B. Deecke, Christine M. Gabriele, Mridula Srinivasan, Nancy Black, Judith Denkinger, John W. Durban, Elizabeth A. Mathews, Dena R. Matkin, Janet L. Neilson, Alisa Schulman-Janiger, Debra Shearwater, Peggy Stap, and Richard Ternullo Marine Mammal Science 33(1):7-58

Stable isotope analyses of feather amino acids identify penguin migration strategies at ocean basin scales Polito, Michael J., Jefferson T. Hinke, Tom Hart, Mercedes Santos, Leah A. Houghton, and Simon R. Thorrold Biology Letters 13(8):20170241 (5 p.)

Combining functional data with hierarchical Gaussian process models Poynor, Valerie, and Stephan Munch Environmental and Ecological Statistics 24(2):175-199

Pacific sardine STAR Panel meeting report (NOAA / Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California, February 21-23, 2017) Punt, Andre, Will Satterthwaite, Evelyn Brown, Jon Volstad, and Gary Melvin In: April 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda item G.5.a, STAR Panel report (24 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Floating algae blooms in the East China Sea Qi, Lin, Chuanmin Hu, Mengqiu Wang, Shaoling Shang, and Cara Wilson Geophysical Research Letters 44(22):11501-11509

Growth dynamics of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles undergoing an ontogenetic habitat shift Ramirez, Matthew D., Larisa Avens, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Lisa R. Goshe, and Selina S. Heppell Oecologia 183(4):1087-1099

Acoustic classification of dolphins in the California Current using whistles, echolocation clicks, and burst pulses Rankin, Shannon, Frederick Archer, Jennifer L. Keating, Julie N. Oswald, Michael Oswald, Alex Curtis, and Jay Barlow Marine Mammal Science 33(2):520-540

Assessing the risk of chronic shipping noise to baleen whales off Southern California, USA Redfern, Jessica V., Leila T. Hatch, Chris Caldow, Monica L. DeAngelis, Jason Gedamke, Sean Hastings, Laurel Henderson, Megan F. McKenna, Thomas J. Moore, and Michael B. Porter Endangered Species Research 32:153-167

Predicting cetacean distributions in data-poor marine ecosystems Redfern, Jessica V., Thomas J. Moore, Paul C. Fiedler, Asha de Vos, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Karin A. Forney, Elizabeth A. Becker, and Lisa T. Ballance Diversity and Distributions 23(4):394-408

Overwinter habitat selection by Antarctic krill under varying sea-ice conditions: implications for top predators and fishery management Reiss, Christian S., Anthony Cossio, Jarrod A. Santora, Kimberly S. Dietrich, Alison Murray, B. Greg Mitchell, Jennifer Walsh, Elliot L. Weiss, Carla Gimpel, Christopher D. Jones, and George M. Watters Marine Ecology Progress Series 568:1-16

Standardising curved carapace length measurements for leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, to investigate global patterns in body size Robinson, Nathan J., Kelly R. Stewart, Peter H. Dutton, Ronel Nel, Frank V. Paladino, and Pilar Santidrian Tomillo Herpetological Journal 27(2):231-234

Genetic fingerprinting reveals natal origins of male leatherback turtles encountered in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea Roden, Suzanne E., Kelly R. Stewart, Michael C. James, Kara L. Dodge, Florence Dell'Amico, and Peter H. Dutton Marine Biology 164(9):181 (9 p.)

Abundance and distribution of cetaceans in the Gulf of Alaska Rone, Brenda K., Alexandre N. Zerbini, Annie B. Douglas, David W. Weller, and Phillip J. Clapham Marine Biology 164(1):23 (23 p.)

A review of molecular genetic markers and analytical approaches that have been used for delimiting marine mammal subspecies and species Rosel, Patricia E., Barbara L. Taylor, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Phillip A. Morin, Frederick I. Archer, Aimee R. Lang, Sarah L. Mesnick, Victoria L. Pease, William F. Perrin, Kelly M. Robertson, Matthew S. Leslie, Annalisa Berta, Frank Cipriano, Kim M. Parsons, Amelia Viricel, Nicole L. Vollmer, and Karen K. Martien Marine Mammal Science 33(supp.1):56-75

Examining metrics and magnitudes of molecular genetic differentiation used to delimit cetacean subspecies based on mitochondrial DNA control region sequences Rosel, Patricia E., Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Frederick I. Archer, Kelly M. Robertson, Karen K. Martien, Matthew S. Leslie, Annalisa Berta, Frank Cipriano, Amelia Viricel, Karine A. Viaud-Martinez, and Barbara L. Taylor Marine Mammal Science 33(supp.1):76-100

Estimating fish abundance at spawning aggregations from courtship sound levels Rowell, Timothy J., David A. Demer, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Juan Jose Cota-Nieto, John R. Hyde, and Brad E. Erisman Scientific Reports 7:3340 (14 p.)

Genetic assignment with isotopes and habitat suitability (GAIAH), a migratory bird case study Ruegg, Kristen C., Eric C. Anderson, Ryan J. Harrigan, Kristina L. Paxton, Jeffrey F. Kelly, Frank Moore, and Thomas B. Smith Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8(10):1241-1252

Temporal variation in pelagic food chain length in response to environmental change Ruiz-Cooley, Rocio I., Tim Gerrodette, Paul C. Fiedler, Susan J. Chivers, Kerri Danil, and Lisa T. Ballance Science Advances 3(10):e1701140 (8 p.)

Central Valley passive integrated transponder (PIT) tag array feasibility study Rundio, David E., Alina N. Montgomery, Matthew G. Nesbit, Matthew S. Morris, Gabriel T. Brooks, Gordon A. Axel, Jesse J. Lamb, Richard W. Zabel, John Ferguson, and Steven T. Lindley U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-573. 118 p.

A framework for informing permitting decisions on scientific activities in marine protected areas Saarman, Emily T., Brian Owens, Richard F. Ambrose, Mark H. Carr, John C. Field, Steven N. Murray, Karina J. Nielsen, and Stephen B. Weisberg Report to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. California Ocean Protection Council, Science Advisory Team. 61 p.

Effective population sizes of a major vector of human diseases, Aedes aegypti Saarman, Norah P., Andrea Gloria-Soria, Eric C. Anderson, Benjamin R. Evans, Evlyn Pless, Luciano V. Cosme, Cassandra Gonzalez-Acosta, Basile Kamgang, Dawn M. Wesson, and Jeffrey R. Powell Evolutionary Applications 10(10):1031-1039

Cruise report, NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker RL-17-03, April 26 - June 13, 2017: Rockfish recruitment and ecosystem assessment Sakuma, Keith NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, SWFSC Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 20 p.

Defining ecosystem thresholds for human activities and environmental pressures in the California Current Samhouri, Jameal F., Kelly S. Andrews, Gavin Fay, Chris J. Harvey, Elliott L. Hazen, Shannon M. Hennessey, Kirstin Holsman, Mary E. Hunsicker, Scott I. Large, Kristin N. Marshall, Adrian C. Stier, Jamie C. Tam, and Stephani G. Zador Ecosphere 8(6):e01860 (21 p.)

Lingcod Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report Sampson, David, Panayiota Apostolaki, Norman Hall, and Kevin Piner Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 35 p.

Pacific ocean perch Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report Sampson, David, Panayiota Apostolaki, Norman Hall, and Kevin Piner Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 25 p.

Impacts of ocean climate variability on biodiversity of pelagic forage species in an upwelling ecosystem Santora, Jarrod A., Elliott L. Hazen, Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Keith M. Sakuma, and John C. Field Marine Ecology Progress Series 580:205-220

Ecosystem oceanography of seabird hotspots: Environmental determinants and relationship with Antarctic krill within an important fishing ground Santora, Jarrod A., Richard R. Veit, Christian S. Reiss, Isaac D. Schroeder, and Marc Mangel Ecosystems 20(5):885-903

Persistence of trophic hotspots and relation to human impacts within an upwelling marine ecosystem Santora, Jarrod A., William J. Sydeman, Isaac D. Schroeder, John C. Field, Rebecca R. Miller, and Brian K. Wells Ecological Applications 27(2):560-574

Ocean size and corresponding life history diversity among the four run timings of California Central Valley Chinook Salmon Satterthwaite, William H., Stephanie M. Carlson, and Anne Criss Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 146(4):594-610

Scale of inference: on the sensitivity of habitat models for wide-ranging marine predators to the resolution of environmental data Scales, Kylie L., Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Christopher A. Edwards, Andre M. Boustany, Matthew J. Oliver, and Steven J. Bograd Ecography 40(1):210-220

Fit to predict? Eco-informatics for predicting the catchability of a pelagic fish in near real time Scales, Kylie L., Elliott L. Hazen, Sara M. Maxwell, Heidi Dewar, Suzanne Kohin, Michael G. Jacox, Christopher A. Edwards, Dana K. Briscoe, Larry B. Crowder, Rebecca L. Lewison, and Steven J. Bograd Ecological Applications 27(8):2313-2329

Should I stay or should I go? Modelling year-round habitat suitability and drivers of residency for fin whales in the California Current Scales, Kylie L., Gregory S. Schorr, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Peter I. Miller, Russel D. Andrews, Alexandre N. Zerbini, and Erin A. Falcone Diversity and Distributions 23(10):1204-1215

Killer whale, Orcinus orca Schulman-Janiger, Alisa, Philip Unitt, and Susan J. Chivers In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 380. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Chelonian Conservation and Biology Volume 16: New changes signal a bright future [Editorial introduction] Seminoff, Jeffrey A., Anders G.J. Rhodin, and Eric V. Goode Chelonian Conservation and Biology 16(1):1-2

Mexican origins for the Texas green turtle foraging aggregation: A cautionary tale of incomplete baselines and poor marker resolution Shamblin, Brian M., Peter H. Dutton, Donna J. Shaver, Dean A. Bagley, Nathan F. Putman, Katherine L. Mansfield, Llewellyn M. Ehrhart, Luis Jaime Pena, and Campbell J. Nairn Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 488:111-120

Inter-nesting movements and habitat-use of adult female Kemp's ridley turtles in the Gulf of Mexico Shaver, Donna J., Kristen M. Hart, Ikuko Fujisaki, David Bucklin, Autumn R. Iverson, Cynthia Rubio, Thomas F. Backof, Patrick M. Burchfield, Raul de Jesus Gonzales Diaz Miron, Peter H. Dutton, Amy Frey, Jaime Pena, Daniel Gomez Gamez, Hector J. Martinez, and Jaime Ortiz PLoS ONE 12(3):e0174248 (27 p.)

Spatial patterns of Achoveta (Engraulis ringens) eggs and larvae in relation to pCO2 in the Peruvian upwelling system Shen, Sara G., Andrew R. Thompson, Jonathan Correa, Peer Fietzek, Patricia Ayon, and David M. Checkley Jr. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284(1855):20170509 (9 p.)

Bioavailable dissolved organic matter and biological hot spots during austral winter in Antarctic waters Shen, Yuan, Ronald Benner, Alison E. Murray, Carla Gimpel, B. Greg Mitchell, Elliot L. Weiss, and Christian Reiss Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 122(1):508-520

Metapopulation tracking juvenile penguins reveals and ecosystem-wide ecological trap Sherley, Richard B., Katrin Ludynia, Bruce M. Dyer, Tarron Lamont, Azwianewi B. Makhado, Jean-Paul Roux, Kylie L. Scales, Les G. Underhill, and Stephen C. Votier Current Biology 27(4):563-568

Projecting marine mammal distribution in a changing climate Silber, Gregory K., Matthew D. Lettrich, Peter O. Thomas, Jason D. Baker, Mark Baumgartner, Elizabeth A. Becker, Peter Boveng, Dorothy M. Dick, Jerome Fiechter, Jaume Forcada, Karin A. Forney, Roger B. Griffis, Jonathan A. Hare, Alistair J. Hobday, Daniel Howell, Kristin L. Laidre, Nate Mantua, Lori Quakenbush, Jarrod A. Santora, Kathleen M. Stafford, Paul Spencer, Charles Stock, William Sydeman, Kyle Van Houtan, and Robin S. Waples Frontiers in Marine Science 4:413 (14 p.)

Lunar cycles affect common dolphin Delphinus delphis foraging in the Southern California Bight Simonis, Anne E., Marie A. Roch, Barbara Bailey, Jay Barlow, Rachel E.S. Clemesha, Sam Iacobellis, John A. Hildebrand, and Simone Baumann-Pickering Marine Ecology Progress Series 577:221-235

Searching for M: Is there more information about natural mortality in stock assessments than we realize? Sippel, Tim, Hui Hua Lee, Kevin Piner, and Steven L.H. Teo Fisheries Research 192:135-140

Crossing the line: Tunas actively exploit submesoscale fronts to enhance foraging success Snyder, Stephanie, Peter J.S. Franks, Lynne D. Talley, Yi Xu, and Suzanne Kohin Limnology and Oceanography Letters 2(5):187-194

Patterns of movement, growth, and survival of adult sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) at contrasting depths in slope waters off Oregon Sogard, Susan M., and Steven A. Berkeley Fishery Bulletin 115(2):233-251

Geographic variation in Risso's dolphin echolocation click spectra Soldevilla, Melissa S., Simone Baumann-Pickering, Danielle Cholewiak, Lynne E.W. Hodge, Erin M. Oleson, and Shannon Rankin Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142(2):599-617

Effort rights-based management Squires, Dale, Mark Maunder, Robin Allen, Peder Andersen, Kepa Astorkiza, Douglas Butterworth, Gonzalo Caballero, Raymond Clarke, Hans Ellefsen, Patrice Guillotreau, John Hampton, Rognvaldur Hannesson, Elizabeth Havice, Mark Helvey, Samuel Herrick Jr., Kjartan Hoydal, Vishwanie Maharaj, Rebecca Metzner, Iago Mosqueira, Ana Parma, Ivan Prieto-Bowen, Victor Restrepo, Shaufique Fahmi Sidique, Stein Ivar Steinsham, Eric Thunberg, Ikerne del Valle, and Niels Vestergaard Fish and Fisheries 18(3):440-465

Abundance estimates and confidence intervals for the run composition of returning salmonids Steinhorst, Kirk, Timothy Copeland, Michael W. Ackerman, William C. Schrader, and Eric C. Anderson Fishery Bulletin 115(1):1-12

Report on the collection of data during the Acoustic-Trawl and Daily Egg Production Methods survey of coastal pelagic fish species and krill (1504SH) within the California Current Ecosystem, 28 March to 1 May 2015, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Bell M. Shimada Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-580. 23 p.

Report on the collection of data during the Acoustic-Trawl and Daily Egg Production Methods survey of coastal pelagic fish species and krill (1604RL) within the California Current Ecosystem, 22 March to 22 April 2016, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-581. 24 p.

Report on the collection of data during the Acoustic-Trawl and Daily Egg Production Methods survey of coastal pelagic fish species and krill (1704RL) within the California Current Ecosystem, 21 March to 22 April 2017, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-582. 26 p.

Analysis of increasing the required VMS ping rate for the California drift gillnet fishery Stohs, Stephen M., and Tim Sippel U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-570. 18 p.

Will American consumers pay more for eco-friendly labeled canned tuna? Estimating US consumer demand for canned tuna varieties using scanner data Sun, Chin-Hwa Jenny, Fu-Sung Chiang, Matthew Owens, and Dale Squires Marine Policy 79:62-69

A global biogeographic classification of the mesopelagic zone Sutton, Tracey T., Malcolm R. Clark, Daniel C. Dunn, Patrick N. Halpin, Alex D. Rogers, John Guinotte, Steven J. Bograd, Martin V. Angel, Jose Angel A. Perez, Karen Wishner, Richard L. Haedrich, Dhugal J. Lindsay, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Alexander Vereshchaka, Uwe Piatkowski, Telmo Morato, Katarzyna Blachowiak-Samolyk, Bruce H. Robison, Kristina M. Gjerde, Annelies Pierrot-Bults, Patricio Bernal, Gabriel Reygondeau, and Mikko Heino Deep-Sea Research I 126:85-102

Comparing apples to oranges: Common trends and thresholds in anthropogenic and environmental pressures across multiple marine ecosystems Tam, Jamie C., Jason S. Link, Scott I. Large, Kelly Andrews, Kevin D. Friedland, Jamison Gove, Elliott Hazen, Kirstin Holsman, Mandy Karnauskas, Jameal F. Samhouri, Rebecca Shuford, Nick Tomilieri, and Stephani Zador Frontiers in Marine Science 4:282 (17 p.)

Guidelines and quantitative standards to improve consistency in cetacean subspecies and species delimitation relying on molecular genetic data Taylor, Barbara L., Frederick I. Archer, Karen K. Martien, Patricia E. Rosel, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Aimee R. Lang, Matthew S. Leslie, Sarah L. Mesnick, Phillip A. Morin, Victoria L. Pease, William F. Perrin, Kelly M. Robertson, Kim M. Parsons, Amelia Viricel, Nicole L. Vollmer, Frank Cipriano, Randall R. Reeves, Michael Krutzen, and C. Scott Baker Marine Mammal Science 33(supp.1):132-155

Extinction is imminent for Mexico's endemic porpoise unless fishery bycatch is eliminated Taylor, Barbara L., Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Jeffrey Moore, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, Edwyna Nieto-Garcia, Jay Barlow, Tim Gerrodette, Nicholas Tregenza, Len Thomas, and Philip S. Hammond Conservation Letters 10(5):588-595

Why we should develop guidelines and quantitative standards for using genetic data to delimit subspecies for data-poor organisms like cetaceans Taylor, Barbara L., William F. Perrin, Randall R. Reeves, Patricia E. Rosel, John Y. Wang, Frank Cipriano, C. Scott Baker, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Marine Mammal Science 33(supp.1):12-26