NOAA FISHERIES

Review of 2024 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. 350 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2025 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 140 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2025 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 77 p.

Using eDNA to supplement population genetic analyses for cryptic marine species: Identifying population boundaries for Alaska harbour porpoises Parsons, Kim M., Samuel A. May, Zachary Gold, Marilyn Dahlheim, Christine Gabriele, Janice M. Straley, John R. Moran, Kimberly Goetz, Alexandre N. Zerbini, Linda Park, and Phillip A. Morin Molecular Ecology 34(5):e17563 (17 p.)

Updated conditioning results for the IWC Gray Whale Rangewide Operating Model Punt, André E., John R. Brandon, Greg P. Donovan, Geof H. Givens, Aimée R. Lang, Peter Mahoney, Jonathan Scordino, and David W. Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-720. 11 p.

Science advice for genetic effects from shellfish aquaculture in Southern California and the Gulf of America Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-709. 184 p.

Science advice for genetic effects from marine finfish aquaculture in Southern California and the Gulf of America Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-710. 344 p.

Science advice for genetic effects from macroalgae aquaculture in Southern California and the Gulf of America Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-711. 184 p.

Using OMEGA to model risks of escaped fish associated with offshore finfish culture in Southern California: an evaluation of proposed Pacific Ocean AquaFarms operations Purcell, Catherine, Jason Volk, John Hyde, and Greg Blair U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-712. 173 p.

Socio-economic impacts and responses of the fishing industry and fishery managers to changes in small pelagic fish distribution and abundance Quezada‑Escalona, Felipe J., Desiree Tommasi, Isaac C. Kaplan, Pierre‑Yves Hernvann, Timothy H. Frawley, Dorleta Garcia, Leire Ibaibarriaga, Sonia Sánchez‑Maroño, Carryn de Moor, Jennifer Beckensteiner, Amy M. Schueller, Diana Feijó, Domenico Ciorciaro, Hiroyuki Kurota, Ricardo Oliveros‑Ramos, Robert P. Wildermuth, Ray Mroch, Laura Wise, Matthew R. Baker, Cecilie Hansen, Sidi Ahmed Hemed, Timothée Brochier, Stephen M. Stohs. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 35:1063–1093. 31 p.

Burmeister's porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeister, 1865 Reyes, Julio C., and Robert L. Brownell Jr. In: Thomas A. Jefferson (ed.), Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1: Coastal dolphins and porpoises, p. 537-556. Academic Press.

Audible changes in marine trophic ecology: Baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the eastern North Pacific Ryan, John P., William K. Oestreich, Kelly J. Benoit-Bird, Chad M. Waluk, Carlos A. Rueda, Danelle E. Cline, Yanwu Zhang, Ted, Cheeseman, John Calambokidis, James A. Fahlbusch, Jack Barkowski, Alyson H. Fleming, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Jarrod A. Santora, Tetyana Margolina, John E. Joseph, Ari S. Friedlaender, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen PLoS ONE 20(2):e0318624 (32 p.)

On-land pinniped classification of multiple species and demographic classes on multiple substrates using deep learning and aerial imagery Santini, Silas, Sara Codde, Elizabeth M. Jaime, Alan Jian, Esteban Valenzuela, and Benjamin H. Becker Aquatic Conservation 35(4):e70111 (15 p.)

The global turtle crisis: A wildlife trafficking challenge like no other Seminoff, Jeffrey A. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 23(2):135-136

Bridging science and industry: Next-generation multi-function trawl system for NOAA’s fisheries research Shaughnessy, Greg U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-722. 38 p.

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2026 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Josiah S. Renfree, and Juan P. Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-721. 98 p.

Population structure and genetic diversity of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in Bird's Head Seascape, Papua-Indonesia Toha, Abdul Hamid A., Deasy Lontoh, Fitryanti Pakiding, Andhika P. Prasetyo, Lisa Marie Komoroske, and Peter H. Dutton Frontiers in Marine Science, 12:1569466. 11 p. population genetics, sea turtles, mtDNA, microsatellites, RAD-capture, whole genome resequencing

Population genetic structure of the bottlenose dolphin in the Turkish waters based on mtDNA sequences with implications for the Black Sea subspecies Tursiops truncatus ponticus Tonay, Arda M., Begum Uzun, Ayhan Dede, Erdem Danyer, Isil Aytemiz Danyer, Ayaka Amaha Ozturk, Frederick I. Archer, Bayram Ozturk, and Rasit Bilgin Mitochondrial DNA Part A 35(1-2):34-43

Temporal dynamics and distributions of sardine and anchovy in the southern California Current Ecosystem Tran, Bryant, Andrew D. Barton, Barbara Muhling, Brice X. Semmens, Brad Erisman, Matthew T. Craig, Sylvia P.A. Jiminez-Rosenberg, Gerardo Aceves-Medina, and Andrew R. Thompson Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 82:1-15

Green sea turtle photo-identification catalog: Southern California, 2023-2024 Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Jason Askri, and David W. Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-715. 53 p.

Spatio-temporal changes in the macrozooplankton community in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during austral summers: A comparison between 1996 and 2018-2019 Urabe, Ippei, Kohei Matsuno, Rikuto Sugioka, Ryan Driscoll, Sara Driscoll, Fokje L. Schaafsma, Atsushi Yamaguchi, Ryuichi Matsukura, Hiroko Sasaki, and Hiroto Murase Progress in Oceanography 231:103414 (14 p.)

Phylogenetic relationships among eastern Pacific common dolphins (Delphinus spp.) Urrutia-Osorio, M. Fernanda, Thomas A. Jefferson, Phillip A. Morin, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Michael McGowen, Madeleine A. Becker, and Frederick I. Archer Aquatic Mammals 51(2):144-153

Vaquita Phocoena sinus Norris and McFarland, 1958 Vidal, Omar, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Lloyd T. Findley, Jorge Torre, and Richard C. Brusca In: Thomas A. Jefferson (ed.), Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume 1: Coastal dolphins and porpoises, p. 487-518. Academic Press.

Juvenile and small adult cowcod (Sebastes levis) show high post-release survival following angling-induced barotrauma Wegner, Nicholas C., Lyall Bellquist, Roberto Silva, John R. Hyde Fisheries Research 287:107403. 5 p.

Long-distance winter migrations of chinstrap penguins and elephant seals to a persistent bloom at the edge of the Ross Gyre Wilson, Cara, Jefferson T. Hinke, and Matthew Mazloff Scientific Reports 15:9867 (11 p.)

Direct measurement of the mutation rate and its evolutionary consequences in a critically endangered mollusk Wooldridge, T. Brock, Sarah M. Ford, Holland C. Conwell, John Hyde, Kelley Harris, and Beth Shapiro Molecular Biology and Evolution 42(1):msae266 (13 p.)

Habitat use and trophic ecology of the world's rarest whale population on a rapidly warming subarctic foraging ground Wright, Dana L., Geraldine Busquets-Vass, Andrew J. Read, Alaina Harmon, and Seth D. Newsome Marine Ecology Progress Series 754:121-136

Multiple pathways of visual adaptations for water column usage in an Antarctic adaptive radiation Yoder, Ella B., Elyse Parker, Bruno Frederich, Alexandra Tew, Christopher D. Jones, and Alex Dornburg Ecology and Evolution 15(3):e70867 (16 p.)

Patterns of interpopulation variation and physiological trade-offs of the acute thermal tolerance of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Zillig, Kenneth W., Heather N. Bell, Alyssa M. FitzGerald, and Nann A. Fangue Frontiers in Fish Science 2:1508746 (18 p.)

Phylogeography of the Pacific sardine, Sardinops sagax, across its northeastern Pacific range Adams, Ella S., and Matthew T. Craig Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 123(1): 10-24

Expanded, compressed, or equal? Interactions between spawning window and stream thermal regime generate three responses in modeled juvenile emergence for Pacific salmon Adelfio, Luca A., Steven M. Wondzell, Nathan J. Mantua, and Gordon H. Reeves Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(5):573-588

Estimating the scope, scale, and contribution of direct seafood marketing to the United States seafood sector Advani, Sahir, Jeffrey K. O'Hara, Sarah M. Shoffler, Patricia Pinto da Silva, Juan Agar, JuliAnna Arnett, Lilian Brislen, Matthew Cutler, Abigail Harley, Justin Hospital, Karma Norman, Edward Ragland, Dale Squires, Brent Stoffle, Marysia Szymkowiak, Americo J. Vega-Labiosa, and Josua S. Stoll Marine Policy 165:106188 (10 p.)

Stomach contents analysis of Tursiops aduncus and Sousa plumbea stranded along the United Arab Emirates coastline Alkhamis, Razan, Malcolm J. Smale, Mark J. Beech, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Henrik Stahl, and Ada Natoli Marine Mammal Science 40(2):e13086 (12 p.)

Random forest regression models in ecology: Accounting for messy biological data and producing predictions with uncertainty Allen Akselrud, Caitlin I. Fisheries Research 280:107161 (12 p.)

Sex ratios of olive ridley sea turtles in the North Pacific high seas: implications for climate change research Allen, Camryn D., Lindsey E. Peavey Reeves, Tomoharu Eguchi, Sydney J. Sawyer, Lisa T. Ballance, Robert L. Pitman, Summer L. Martin, T. Todd Jones, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Ecology Progress Series 748:149-162

Seasonal upwelling forecasts in the California Current System Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Steven J. Bograd, and Liwei Jia Geophysical Research Letters 51(22):e2024GL111083 (11 p.)

Characterizing Antarctic air-breathing predator dive patterns on a common prey base from stationary echosounders Annasawmy, Pavanee, John K. Horne, Christian S. Reiss, and Gavin J. Macaulay Polar Science 39:100974 (18 p.)

Field comparison of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) backscatter and aggregation types using NORTEK and SIMRAD echosounders Annasawmy, Pavanee, John K. Horne, Christian S. Reiss, George R. Cutter, and Gavin J. Macaulay ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(7):1433-1448

Global conservation genomics of blue whales calls into question subspecies taxonomy and refines knowledge of population structure Attard, C.R.M., J. Sandoval-Castillo, A.R. Lang, B.G. Vernazzani, L.G. Torres, R. Baldwin, K.C.S. Jenner, P.C. Gill, C.L.K. Burton, A. Barcelo, M. Sironi, M.-N.M. Jenner, M.G. Morrice, L.B. Beheregaray, and L.M. Moller Animal Conservation 27(5):626-638

Long-term strategies for studying rare species: results and lessons from a multi-species study of odontocetes around the main Hawaiian Islands Baird, Robin W., Sabre D. Mahaffy, Brittany Hancock-Hanser, Tori Cullins, Kristi L. West, Michaela A. Kratofil, Daniel M. Barrios, Annette E. Harnish, and Paul C. Johnson Pacific Conservation Biology 30:PC23027

Estimating spawning green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris Ayres, 1854) abundance in the Sacramento River using side-scan sonar and N-mixture models Battaile, Brian C., Ethan A. Mora, Brendan M. Lehman, and Peter N. Dudley Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(7):935-951

Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) mitochondrial genomes from Senegal reveal geographic structure across the North Atlantic but provide no support for global long-beaked clade Becker, Madeleine A., Katherine R. Murphy, Frederick I. Archer, Thomas A. Jefferson, Lucy W. Keith-Diagne, Charles W. Potter, M. Fernanda Urrutia-Osorio, Ibrahima Ndong, and Michael R. McGowen Marine Mammal Science 40(4):e13144 (21 p.)

Shifting ocean conditions influence temporal variation in the fecundity of California Current rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) Beyer, Sabrina G., Susan M. Sogard, David M. Stafford, Neosha S. Kashef, Abel Rodriguez, Suzanne H. Alonzo, and John C. Field Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(6):781-795

Advancing the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Bograd, Steven J., Laura C. Anderson, Gabrielle Canonico, Sanae Chiba, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Claire Enterline, Edward Gorecki, Roger Griffis, Kristin M. Kleisner, Hannah Lachance, Margaret Leinen, Katherine E. Mills, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Grace Roskar, Jorn Schmidt, Rachel Seary, Sophie Seeyave, Tan Shau Hwai, Joana Soares, and Michelle Tigchelaar ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(9):1705-1711

Genetic insights into the giant keyhole limpet (Megathura crenulata), and eastern Pacific coastal endemic: Complete mitogenome, phylogenetics, phylogeography, and historical demography Bonett-Calzada, Brenda, Fausto Valenzuela-Quinonez, Miguel A. Del Rio-Portilla, Natalia J. Bayona-Vasquez, Carmen E. Vargas-Peralta, John R. Hyde, and Fabiola Lafarga-De la Cruz Genes 15(10):1303 (17 p.)

Ontogenetic vertical distribution and abundance of early life history stages of mesopelagic fishes off central California Bowlin, Noelle M., Andrew R. Thompson, Juan P. Zwolinski, William Watson, and Philip A. Hastings In: Jeffrey M. Leis, William Watson, Bruce C. Mundy, and Peter Konstantinidis (eds.), Early life history and biology of marine fishes: research inspired by the work of H. Geoffrey Moser, p. 185-201. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS 24.

Building a coordinated framework for research and monitoring in large-scale international marine protected areas: The Ross Sea region as a model system Brooks, Cassandra, Sharon Stammerjohn, Grant Ballard, Alice K. DuVivier, Eileen Hofmann, Michelle LaRue, Cara Nissen, Alexander J. Orona, B. Jack Pan, Annie E. Schmidt, Nathan Walker, George M. Watters, and John Weller Conservation Letters 17(6):e13053 (9 p.)

Avian influenza H5N1 threatens imperiled krill-dependent predators in Antarctica Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Douglas J. Krause, Alastair M.M. Baylis, Carolina A. Bonin, Larissa R. Oliveira, Marcela M. Uhart, Mauricio Ulloa, and George M. Watters Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1453737 (4 p.)

Michael F. Tillman 1943-2023 [obituary] Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Linda L. Jones, Douglas P. DeMaster, Greg P. Donovan, Stephen B. Reilly, Rolland A. Schmitten, Jeffrey M. Breiwick, Robert Suydam, Daryl J. Boness, and William W. Fox Jr. Marine Mammal Science 40(1):326-331

Evaluating the time to detect biological effects of ocean acidification and warming: an example using simulations of purple sea urchin settlement Buchheister, Andre, Paul McElhany, and Eric P. Bjorkstedt Marine Ecology Progress Series 738:133-149

A high-quality blue whale genome, segmental duplications, and historical demography Bukhman, Yury V., Phillip A. Morin, Susanne Meyer, Li-Fang Chu, Jeff K. Jacobsen, Jessica Antosiewicz-Bourget, Daniel Mamott, Maylie Gonzales, Cara Argus, Jennifer Bolin, Mark E. Berres, Olivier Fedrigo, John Steill, Scott A. Swanson, Peng Jiang, Arang Rhie, Giulio Formenti, Adam M. Phillippy, Robert S. Harris, Jonathan M.D. Wood, Kerstin Howe, Bogdan M. Kirilenko, Chetan Munegowda, Michael Hiller, Aashish Jain, Daisuke Kihara, J. Spencer Johnston, Alexander Ionkov, Kalpana Raja, Huishi Toh, Aimee Lang, Magnus Wolf, Erich D. Jarvis, James A. Thomson, Mark J.P. Chaisson, and Ron Stewart Molecular Biology and Evolution 41(3):msae036 (22 p.)

You shall not pass: The Pacific oxygen minimum zone creates a boundary to shortfin mako shark distribution in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean Byrne, Michael E., Heidi Dewar, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood S. Shivji Diversity and Distributions 30(12):e13924 (14 p.)

Biologically Important Areas II for cetaceans within U.S. and adjacent waters - West Coast Region Calambokidis, John, Michaela A. Kratofil, Daniel M. Palacios, Barbara A. Lagerquist, Gregory S. Schorr, M. Bradley Hanson, Robin W. Baird, Karin A. Forney, Elizabeth A. Becker, R. Cotton Rockwood, and Elliott L. Hazen Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1283231 (31 p.)

Estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in the California large-mesh drift gillnet fishery: 1990-2023 Carretta, James V. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-700. 66 p.

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2023 Carretta, James V., Erin M. Oleson, Karin A. Forney, Amanda L. Bradford, Kym Yano, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Jason Baker, Anthony J. Orr, Brad Hanson, Jeffrey E. Moore, Megan Wallen, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-704. 414 p.

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific West Coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2018-2022 Carretta, James V., Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Lauren Saez, Dan Lawson, and Justin Viezbicke U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-705 (241 p.).

Early larvae of the whitespotted rockfish (Sebastes moseri Eitner, 1999) and the dwarf-red rockfish (S. rufinanus Lea and Fitch, 1972) (Pisces: Sebastidae) identified by molecular methods Charter, Sharon R., William Watson, and John R. Hyde In: Jeffrey M. Leis, William Watson, Bruce C. Mundy, and Peter Konstantinidis (eds.), Early life history and biology of marine fishes: research inspired by the work of H. Geoffrey Moser, p. 143-154. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS 24.

Bellwethers of change: population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response Cheeseman, Ted, Jay Barlow, Jo Marie Acebes, Katherina Audley, Lars Bejder, Caitlin Birdsall, Olga Solis Bracamontes, Amanda L. Bradford, Josie Byington, John Calambokidis, Rachel Cartwright, Jen Cedarleaf, Andrea Jacqueline Garcia Chavez, Jens Currie, Rouenne Camille De Castro, Joelle De Weerdt, Nicole Doe, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Karina Dracott, Olga Filatova, Rachel Finn, Kiirsten R. Flynn, John Ford, Astrid Frisch-Jordan, Chris Gabriele, Beth Goodwin, Craig Hayslip, Jackie Hildering, Marie C. Hill, Jeff K. Jacobsen, M. Esther Jimenez-Lopez, Meagan Jones, Nozomi Kobayashi, Marc Lammers, Edward Lyman, Mark Malleson, Evgeny Mamaev, Pamela Martinez Loustalot, Annie Masterman, Craig O. Matkin, Christie McMillan, Jeff Moore, John Moran, Janet L. Neilson, Hayley Newell, Haruna Okabe, Marilia Olio, Christian D. Ortega-Ortiz, Adam A. Pack, Daniel M. Palacios, Heidi Pearson, Ester Quintana-Rizzo, Raul Ramirez Barragan, Nicola Ransome, Hiram Rosales-Nanduca, Fred Sharpe, Tasli Shaw, Ken Southerland, Stephanie Stack, Iain Staniland, Janice Straley, Andrew Szabo, Suzie Teerlink, Olga Titova, Jorge Urban-Ramirez, Martin van Aswegen, Marcel Vinicius, Olga von Ziegesar, Briana Witteveen, Janie Wray, Kymberly Yano, Igor Yegin, Denny Zwiefelhofer, and Phil Clapham Royal Society Open Science 11(2):231462 (19 p.)

Multi-trophic level responses to marine heatwave disturbances in the California Current Ecosystem Chen, Tz-Chian, Mati Kahru, Michael R. Landry, Mark D. Ohman, Andrew R. Thompson, and Michael R. Stukel Ecology Letters 27(12):e14502 (14 p.)

Tracked gulls help identify potential zones of interaction between whales and shipping traffic Cimino, Megan A., Heather Welch, Jarrod A. Santora, David Kroodsma, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, and Scott A. Shaffer Marine Ornithology 52(1):61-72

The capacity of sentinel species to detect changes in environmental conditions and ecosystem structure Clark-Wolf, T.J., Katie A. Holt, Erik Johansson, Anna C. Nisi, Kasim Rafiq, Leigh West, P. Dee Boersma, Elliott L. Hazen, Sue E. Moore, and Briana Abrahms Journal of Applied Ecology 61(7):1638-1648

Atmospheric precursors of skillful SST prediction in the northeast Pacific Cluett, A.A., M.G. Jacox, D.J. Amaya, M.A. Alexander, and J.D. Scott Journal of Climate 37(20):5337-5353

Restoring freshwater habitat mosaics to promote resilience of vulnerable salmon populations Cordoleani, Flora, Corey C. Phillis, Anna M. Sturrock, Malte Willmes, George Whitman, Eric Holmes, Peter K. Weber, Carson Jeffres, and Rachel C. Johnson Ecosphere 15(3):e4803 (18 p.)

The effects of the Affordable Care Act's insurance subsidies on a commercial fishing fleet Crosson, Scott, Cameron Speir, and Christina Wiegand Marine Resource Economics 39(1):61-71

Sea-ice and macrozooplankton distribution as determinants of top predator community structure in Antarctic winter Czapanskiy, Max F., Jarrod A. Santora, Kimberly S. Dietrich, Megan A. Cimino, Elliott L. Hazen, Christian S. Reiss, and Richard R. Veit Marine Ecology Progress Series 738:57-73

Economic information for Aquaculture Opportunity Areas off Southern California Dealy, Donna D., James R. Hilger, and Stephen M. Stohs U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-697. 205 p.

Population assignment from genotype likelihoods for low-coverage whole-genome sequencing data DeSaix, Matthew G., Marina D. Rodriguez, Kristen C. Ruegg, and Eric C. Anderson Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(3):493-510

Future changes in the intensity and duration of marine heat and cold waves: insights from coupled model initial-condition large ensembles Deser, Clara, Adam S. Phillips, Michael A. Alexander, Dillon J. Amaya, Antonietta Capotondi, Michael G. Jacox, and James D. Scott Journal of Climate 37(6):1877-1902

Long-distance communication can enable collective migration in a dynamic seascape Dodson, Stephanie, William K. Oestreich, Matthew S. Savoca, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, John P. Ryan, Jerome Fiechter, and Briana Abrahms Scientific Reports 14:14857 (12 p.)

An update of egg escapement, fishing mortality, and spawning stock biomass for the California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) fishery from 1999 to 2022 Dorval, Emmanis, Dianna Porzio, and Katie Grady U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-701. 33 p.

Computing bias and variance for Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) biomass estimated from aerial surveys in California nearshore waters Dorval, Emmanis, Kirk Lynn, Dianna Porzio, Trung Nguyen, and Katie Grady Fisheries Research 274:106999 (16 p.)

An integrated population model and sensitivity assessment for a data-poor population of green sturgeon Dudley, Peter N., Ethan A. Mora, Nick A. Friedenberg, and Phaedra Doukakis Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(9):1238-1247

Ethnobiological methods enhance our capacity to document potential climate sentinels: a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) case study Early-Capistran, Michelle Maria, Nicole L. Crane, Larry B. Crowder, Gerardo Garibay-Melo, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and David Johnston Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1407575 (8 p.)

Abundance of eastern North Pacific gray whales 2023/2024 Eguchi, Tomo, Aimee Lang, and David Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-695. 10 p.

Thermal optima in the hypoxia tolerance of marine ectotherms: Physiological causes and biogeographic consequences Endress, Martin-Georg A., Justin L. Penn, Thomas H. Boag, Benjamin P. Burford, Erik A. Sperling, and Curtis A. Deutsch PLoS Biology 22(1):e3002443 (17 p.)

Accounting for observation noise in equation-free forecasting: The hidden-Markov S-map Esguerra, Dylan, and Stephan B. Munch Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(8):1347-1359

Submesoscale coupling of krill and whales revealed by aggregative Lagrangian coherent structures Fahlbusch, James A., David E. Cade, Elliott L. Hazen, Meredity L. Elliott, Benjamin T. Saenz, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, and Jaime Jahncke Proceedings of the Royal Society B 291(2017):20232461 (12 p.)

Marine heatwaves redistribute pelagic fishing fleets Farchadi, Nima, Heather Welch, Camrin D. Braun, Andrew J. Allyn, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie Brodie, Elliott L. Hazen, Alex Kerney, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Katherine E. Mills, Dylan Pugh, Riley Young-Morse, and Rebecca L. Lewison Fish and Fisheries 25(4):602-618

Momma's larvae: Maternal oceanographic experience and larval size influence early survival of rockfishes Fennie, H. William, Noah Ben-Aderet, Steven J. Bograd, Garfield T. Kwan, Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, and Andrew R. Thompson Fisheries Oceanography 33(2):e12658 (18 p.)

Green and hawksbill sea turtles of the Eastern Atlantic: New insights into a globally important rookery in the Gulf Guinea Ferreira-Airaud, Betania, Sara Vieira, Maria Branco, Antunes Pina, Venceslau Soares, Manjula Tiwari, Matthew Witt, Rita Castilho, Alexandra Teodosio, and Lucy A. Hawkes Ecology and Evolution 14(3):e11133

Critical swimming speed of juvenile rockfishes (Sebastes) following long- and short-term exposures to acidification and deoxygenation Flannery, Corianna, and Eric P. Bjorkstedt Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 573:151993 (14 p.)

The influence of biopsy site and pregnancy on stable isotope ratios in humpback whale skin Fraleigh, Devin C., Logan J. Pallin, Ari S. Friedlaender, Jay Barlow, Annette E. Henry, Danielle M. Waples, Teris Oglesby, and Alyson H. Fleming Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 38(11):e9746 (10 p.)

Dynamic human, oceanographic, and ecological factors mediate transboundary fishery overlap across the Pacific high seas Frawley, Timothy H., Barbara Muhling, Stephanie Brodie, Hannah Blondin, Heather Welch, Martin C. Arostegui, Steven J. Bograd, Camrin D. Braun, Megan A. Cimino, Nima Farchadi, Elliott L. Hazen, Desiree Tommasi, and Michael Jacox Fish and Fisheries 25(1):60-81

Self-governance mediates small-scale fishing strategies, vulnerability and adaptive response Frawley, Timothy H., Blanca Gonzalez-Mon, Mateja Nenadovic, Fiona Gladstone, Keiko Nomura, Jose Alberto Zepeda-Dominguez, Salvador Rodriguez-Van Dyck, Erica M. Ferrer, Jorge Torre, Fiorenza Micheli, Heather M. Leslie, and Xavier Basurto Global Environmental Change 84:102805 (17 p.)

Collecting age and length data from recovered carcasses of filleted rockfish: a new data source for examination of life history characteristics Fritch, Kaila, Grant Waltz, Melissa Monk, Ellie Brauer, Zachary Kucinski, Chandler Skinner-Horne, and Dean Wendt Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 122(3):119-128

Diet composition of juvenile green turtles in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: long-term insights from a beach stranding program Gama, Luciana R., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Garrett E. Lemons, Mariana M.P.B. Fuentes, Franciane Pellizzari, Mario R.C. Meira-Filho, Liana Rosa, Gabriela M. Velez-Rubio, Estevan Luis da Silveira, and Camila Domit Marine Ecology Progress Series 727:159-179

Eastern North Pacific gray whales migrating north off the central California coast: A photo-identification catalog of mother-calf pairs 2012-2019 Gilpatrick, James W. Jr., Chelsea Parrish, Alexa K. Kownacki, Morgan S. Lynn, Wayne L. Perryman, and David W. Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-693. 201 p.

Trait-based indicators of resource selection by albacore tuna in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Gleiber, Miram R., Natasha A. Hardy, Caitlin J. Morganson, Catherine F. Nickels, Barbara A. Muhling, Elan J. Portner, Brian K. Wells, Richard D. Brodeur, Toby D. Auth, Jarrod A. Santora, Sarah M. Glaser, Daniel J. Madigan, Elliott L. Hazen, Larry B. Crowder, and Stephanie J. Green Ecological Indicators 158:111473 (16 p.)

Use of telemetry data to quantify life history diversity in migrating juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) Goertler, Pascale Ava Lake, Myfanwy Johnston, Cyril Joseph Michel, Tracy Grimes, Gabriel Singer, Jeremy Notch, and Ted Sommer Water 16(17):2529 (18 p.)

Genetic parentage reveals the (un)natural history of Central Valley hatchery steelhead Goetz, Laura C., Hayley Nuetzel, David L.J. Vendrami, Anne K. Beulke, Eric C. Anderson, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Evolutionary Applications 17(3):e13681 (15 p.)

Archived DNA reveals marine heatwave-associated shifts in fish assemblages Gold, Zachary, Ryan P. Kelly, Andrew Olaf Shelton, Andrew R. Thompson, Kelly D. Goodwin, Ramon Gallego, Kim M. Parsons, Luke R. Thompson, Dovi Kacev, Paul H. Barber Environmental DNA 6(1):e400 (14 p.)

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Life cycle modeling framework for Chinook salmon spawning in the Sacramento River Hendrix, Noble, Ann-Marie K. Osterback, Sara John, Miles Daniels, Eva Dusek Jennings, Eric Danner, and Steve Lindley U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-696. 42 p.

A method to estimate prey density from single-camera images: A case study with chinstrap penguins and Antarctic krill Hermanson, Victoria R., George R. Cutter, Jefferson T. Hinke, Matthew Dawkins, and George M. Watters PLoS ONE 19(7):e0303633 (23 p.)