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Evaluating the potential for efficient, UAS-based reach-scale mapping of river channel bathymetry from multispectral images Legleiter, Carl J., and Lee R. Harrison Frontiers in Remote Sensing 5:1305991 (16 p.)

A two-dimensional, reach-scale implementation of space-time image velocimetry (STIV) and comparison to particle image velocimetry (PIV) Legleiter, Carl J., Paul J. Kinzel, Frank L. Engel, Lee R. Harrison, and Gregory Hewitt Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 49(10):3093-3114

Introduction Leis, Jeffrey M., William Watson, Bruce C. Mundy, and Peter Konstantinidis 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. 1-2. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS-24.

Globally coordinated acoustic aquatic animal tracking reveals unexpected, ecologically important movements across oceans, lakes and rivers Lennox, Robert J., Frederick G. Whoriskey, Pieterjan Verhelst, Christopher S. Vandergoot, Marc Soria, Jan Reubens, Erin L. Rechisky, Michael Power, Taryn Murray, Ingeborg Mulder, James L. Markham, Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri, Steven T. Lindley, Nathan A. Knott, Steven T. Kessel, Sara Iverson, Charlie Huveneers, Maike Heidemeyer, Robert Harcourt, Lucas P. Griffin, Claudie Friess, Alexander Filous, Lachlan C. Fetterplace, Andy J. Danylchuk, Ryan Daly, Paul Cowley, Steven J. Cooke, Elpis J. Chavez, Antonin Blaison, and Kim Whoriskey Ecography 2024(1):e06801 (16 p.)

Report of Working Group 41 on Marine Ecosystem Services in the North Pacific Lew, Daniel K., Gisele Magnusson, and Kevin D. Ray (eds.) North Pacific Marine Science Organization, PICES Scientific Report no. 65 (247 p.)

Divergent responses of highly migratory species to climate change in the California Current Lezama-Ochoa, Nerea, Stephanie Brodie, Heather Welch, Michael G. Jacox, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Jerome Fiechter, Megan Cimino, Barbara Muhling, Heidi Dewar, Elizabeth A. Becker, Karin A. Forney, Daniel Costa, Scott R. Benson, Nima Farchadi, Camrin Braun, Rebecca Lewison, Steven Bograd, and Elliott L. Hazen Diversity and Distributions 30(2):e13800 (14 p.)

Genetic data reveal wintering ground affiliation of humpback whales from the Mexican Central Pacific Llamas-Gonzalez, Myriam, Christian D. Ortega-Ortiz, Luis M. Enriquez-Paredes, Ursula A. Gonzalez-Peral, Eric Bautista-Guerrero, and Karen K. Martien Marine Mammal Science 40(1):54-72

The gill oxygen limitation hypothesis remains unsupported by experimental evidence: Response to 'Testing mechanistic theories must be based on correct interpretations' Lonthair, Joshua K., Nicholas C. Wegner, Brian S. Cheng, Nann A. Fangue, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Amy M. Regish, John D. Swenson, Estefany Argueta, Stephen D. McCormick, Benjamin H. Letcher, and Lisa M. Komoroske Journal of Experimental Biology 227(16):jeb248173 (3 p.)

Smaller body size under warming is not due to gill-oxygen limitation in a cold-water salmonid Lonthair, Joshua K., Nicholas C. Wegner, Brian S. Cheng, Nann A. Fangue, Matthew J. O'Donnell, Amy M. Regish, John D. Swenson, Estefany Argueta, Stephen D. McCormick, Benjamin H. Letcher, and Lisa M. Komoroske Journal of Experimental Biology 227(4):jeb246477

Seascape genomics of the pink abalone (Haliotis corrugata): An insight into a cross-border species in the northeast Pacific coast Mares-Mayagoitia, Jorge Alberto, Fabioloa Lafarga-De la Cruz, Fiorenza Micheli, Pedro Cruz-Hernandez, Juan A. de-Anda-Montanez, John Hyde, Norma Y. Hernandez-Saavedra, Paulina Mejia-Ruiz, Vladimir S. De Jesus-Bonilla, Carmen E. Vargas-Peralta, and Fausto Valenzuela-Quinonez Journal of Heredity 115(2):188-202

Evidence of a small, island-associated population of common bottlenose dolphins in the Mariana Islands Martien, Karen K., Marie C. Hill, Frederick I. Archer, Robin W. Baird, Andrea R. Bendlin, Louella Dolar, Allan D. Ligon, Erin M. Oleson, Kelly M. Robertson, Samuel M. Woodman, Adam C. U, Kymberly M. Yano, and Amanda L. Bradford Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1254959 (18 p.)

Diverse migratory strategies for a hawksbill sea turtle population Maurer, Andrew S., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Martha O. Burford Reiskind, and Seth P. Stapleton Aquatic Conservation 34(1):e4080 (13 p.)

Geographic distribution of the Cross Seamount beaked whale based on acoustic detections McCoullough, Jennifer L.K., E. Elizabeth Henderson, Jennifer S. Trickey, Jay Barlow, Simone Baumann-Pickering, Roanne Manzano-Roth, Gabriela Alongi, Stephen Martin, Selene Fregosi, David K. Mellinger, Holger Klinck, Angela R. Szesciorka, and Erin M. Oleson Marine Mammal Science 40(1):164-183

Range-wide phylogeographic structure of the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) using expanded sampling from contemporary and historical specimens McGowen, Michael R., Susana Caballero, Mary Faith C. Flores, Katherine R. Murphy, Frederick I. Archer, Sam Ayyagari, Isabel Beasley, C. Sarah Cohen, M. Louella L. Dolar, Chalatip Junchompoo, Patcharaporn Kaewmong, Worata Klinsawat, Danielle Kreb, Sui Hyang Kuit, Kelly Robertson, Richard Sabin, Watchara Sakornwimon, Kerri J. Smith, Zhi Yi Teoh, Trifan Budi, Louisa S. Ponnampalam, and Ellen Hines Marine Mammal Science 40(4):e13159 (18 p.)

Evidence for an oceanic population of killer whales (Orcinus orca) in offshore waters of California and Oregon McInnes, Josh D., Andrew W. Trites, Chelsea R. Mathieson, Marilyn E. Dahlheim, Jeffrey E. Moore, Paula A. Olson, and Kevin M. Lester Aquatic Mammals 50(2):93-106

POSER: and oPen sOurce Simulation platform for tEaching and tRaining underwater photogrammetry Menna, Fabio, Scott McAvoy, Erica Nocerino, Beatrice Tanduo, Louise Giuseffi, Alessio Calantropio, Filiberto Chiabrando, Lorenzo Teppati Lose, Andrea Maria Lingua, Stuart Sandin, Clint Edwards, Brian Zgliczynski, Dominique Rissolo, and Falko Kuester In: The Role of Photogrammetry for a Sustainable World: mid-term symposium (11-14 June 2024, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA). International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-2-2024:265-272

Heterochrony and the evolution of the longjaw mudsucker (Gobiidae, Teleostei) Milan, Jimjohn, Tyler Fidel, Watcharapong Hongjamrassilp, Benjamin W. Frable, Zachary R. Skelton, and Philip A. Hastings Journal of Fish Biology 104(1):155-162

The use of conceptual models to structure stock assessments: A tool for collaboration and for "modelling what to model" Minte-Vera, Carolina V., Mark N. Maunder, Alexandre Aires-da-Silva, Haikun Xu, Juan L. Valero, Steven L.H. Teo, Patricio Barria, and Nicholas D. Ducharme-Barth Fisheries Research 279:107135 (16 p.)

First records of hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) connectivity between the Galapagos Islands and Continental Ecuador Miranda, Cristina, Felipe Vallejo, Patricia Zarate, Juan Pablo Munoz, Daniela Alarcon, Luis Mera, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Ingrid Yanez, and Alexander Gaos Marine Turtle Newsletter 167:19-23

Development and application of a bioenergetics growth model for multiple early life stages of an ecologically important marine fish Morales, Mark M., Jerome Fiechter, John C. Field, Neosha S. Kashef, Elliott L. Hazen, and Mark H. Carr Ecological Modelling 488:110575 (17 p.)

Revised taxonomy of eastern North Pacific killer whales (Orcinus orca): Bigg's and resident ecotypes deserve species status Morin, Phillip A., Morgan L. McCarthy, Charissa W. Fung, John W. Durban, Kim M. Parsons, William F. Perrin, Barbara L. Taylor, Thomas A. Jefferson, and Frederick I. Archer Royal Society Open Science 11(3):231368 (23 p.)

The urban lives of green sea turtles: Insights in behavior in an industrialized habitat using an animal-borne camera Mullaney, Cameron M., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Garrett E. Lemons, Bryant Chesney, and Andrew S. Maurer Ecology and Evolution 14(4):e11282 (7 p.)

Empirical dynamic programming for model-free ecosystem-based management Munch, Stephan B., and Antoine Brias Methods in Ecology and Evolution 15(4):769-778

H. Geoffrey Moser's contributions to fisheries biology and ichthyology Mundy, Bruce C., Jeffrey M. Leis, William Watson, and Peter Konstantinidis 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. 3-19. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Professional Paper NMFS-24.

Anthropogenic and environmental risk factors of salmonid predation in a tidal freshwater delta Nelson, T. Reid, Brendan M. Lehman, Nicholas J. Demetras, Lance Takata, Matthew J. Young, Frederick Feyrer, and Cyril J. Michel Freshwater Biology 69(10):1494-1510

Biological status of Oregon Coast and Southern Oregon/Northern California coastal Chinook salmon: Report of the Status Review Team NOAA Fisheries Oregon Coast and Southern Oregon/Northern California Coastal Chinook Salmon Status Review Team U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-189. 150 p.

Environmental drivers of biogeography and community structure in a Mid-Atlantic estuary Oleynik, Haley A., Joseph J. Bizzarro, Edward A. Hale, and Aaron B. Carlisle Oecologia 204(3):543-557

Using Antarctic blue whale photo-ID data from the SOWER cruises: Capture-recapture estimates of abundance Olson, Paula A., and Douglas Kinzey Journal of Cetacean Research and Management, Special Issue 4:13-20

Future climate-induced distribution shifts in a sexually dimorphic key predator of the Southern Ocean Ouled-Cheikh, Jazel, David March, Renato Borras-Chavez, Massimiliano Drago, Michael E. Goebel, Jose M. Farina, Manel Gazo, Marta Coll, and Luis Cardona Global Change Biology 30(3):e17191 (17 p.)

Review of 2023 ocean salmon fisheries (amended): 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. 354 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2024 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 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 73 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2024 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 59 p.

Demographic and physiological signals of reproductive events in humpback whales on a southwest Pacific breeding ground Pallin, Logan J., Claire Garrigue, Nicholas M. Kellar, C. Scott Baker, Claire D. Bonneville, Solene Derville, Ellen C. Garland, Debbie Steel, and Ari S. Friedlaender Conservation Physiology 12(1):coae038 (17 p.)

Energy-dispersive diffraction tomography of shark vertebral centra Park, Jun-Sang, Ryan M. Horn, Haiyan Chen, Kelsey C. James, Michelle S. Passerotti, Lisa J. Natanson, and Stuart R. Stock Powder Diffraction 39(2):69-75

Small pelagic fish: new frontiers in ecological research Peck, Myron A., Ignacio A. Catalan, Susana Garrido, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Rebecca G. Asch, Jan R. McDowell, Elliott L. Hazen, and Isaac C. Kaplan Marine Ecology Progress Series 741:1-6

Detection of Leptospira kirschneri in a short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis delphis) stranded off the coast of southern California, USA Prager, K.C., Kerri Danil, Elyse Wurster, Kathleen M. Colegrove, Renee Galloway, Niesa Kettler, Rinosh Mani, Ryelan F. McDonough, Jason W. Sahl, Nathan E. Stone, David M. Wagner, and James O. Lloyd-Smith BMC Veterinary Research 20:266 (11 p.)

Reintroduction of spring-run Chinook salmon in the San Joaquin River: Evaluating genetic and phenotypic effects of captive breeding Pregler, Kasey C., Anthony Clemento, Mike Grill, Paul Adelizi, Stephanie M. Carlson, John Carlos Garza Conservation Science and Practice 6(9):e13176 (13 p.)

Catch as catch can: markets, availability, and fishery closures drive distinct responses among the U.S. West Coast coastal pelagic species fleet segments Quezada, Felipe J., Desiree Tommasi, Timothy H. Frawley, Barbara Muhling, Isaac Kaplan, and Stephen Stohs Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 81(8):1135-1153

Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses Rankin, Shannon, Taiki Sakai, Frederick I. Archer, Jay Barlow, Danielle Cholewiak, Annamaria I. DeAngelis, Jennifer L.K. McCullough, Erin M. Oleson, Anne E. Simonis, Melissa S. Soldevilla, and Jennifer S. Trickey Ecological Informatics 80:102511 (8 p.)

Gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus) post-mortem findings from December 2018 through 2021 during the Unusual Mortality Event in the Eastern North Pacific Raverty, Stephen, Padraig Duignan, Denise Greig, Jessica L. Huggins, Kathy Burek Huntington, Michael Garner, John Calambokidis, Paul Cottrell, Kerri Danil, Dalin D'Alessandro, Deborah Duffield, Moe Flannery, Frances M.D. Gulland, Barbie Halaska, Dyanna M. Lambourn, Taylor Lehnhart, Jorge Urban R., Teri Rowles, James Rice, Kate Savage, Kristin Wilkinson, Justin Greenman, Justin Viezbicke, Brendan Cottrell, P. Dawn Goley, Maggie Martinez, and Deborah Fauquier PLoS ONE 19(3):e0295861 (25 p.)

Aquaculture-related ecosystem services in PICES member countries Ray, Kevin D., Gisele Magnusson, Yuhang Liu, Hiroki Wakamatsu, Claire Cazorla, Adam Colilli, Rosemary Kosaka, Daniel K. Lew, Jingmei Li, Wei Liu, Meng Su, and Ziyan Wang In: Daniel K. Lew, Gisele Magnusson, and Kevin D. Ray (eds.), Report of Working Group 41 on Marine Ecosystem Services in the North Pacific, p. 75-133. North Pacific Marine Science Organization, PICES Scientific Report no. 65.

Report on the Summer 2023 California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (2307RL), 17 July to 3 November 2023, conducted aboard NOAA Ships Reuben Lasker and Bell M. Shimada, fishing vessels Lisa Marie and Long Beach Carnage, and three uncrewed surface vessels Renfree, Josiah S., Alice Beittel, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brad E. Erisman, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, Lanora Vasquez, William Watson, Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-702. 53 p.

Relative sarcolipin (SLN) and sarcoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA1) transcript levels in closely related endothermic and ectothermic scombrid fishes: Implications for molecular basis of futile calcium cycle non-shivering thermogenesis (NST) Robinson, Sean, Nicholas C. Wegner, Chugey A. Sepulveda, and Jens P.C. Franck Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 295:111667 (7 p.)

Evaluating top-down, bottom-up, and environmental drivers of pelagic food web dynamics along an estuarine gradient Rogers, Tanya L., Samuel M. Bashevkin, Christina E. Burdi, Denise D. Colombano, Peter N. Dudley, Brian Mahardja, Lara Mitchell, Sarah Perry, and Parsa Saffarinia Ecology 105(4):e4274 (15 p.)

Mexico must save the vaquita from gill nets [letter to the editor] Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo, Barbara L. Taylor, Randall R. Reeves, Andrew Read, Jay Barlow, Greg Donovan, Peter O. Thomas, Frances Gulland, Sarah L. Mesnick, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Annette Henry, Jorge Urban, and Tim Gerrodette Science 385(6708):504

Advancing bioenergetics-based modeling to improve climate change projections of marine ecosystems Rose, Kenneth A., Kirstin Holsman, Janet A. Nye, Emily H. Markowitz, Thomas N.S. Banha, Nina Bednarsek, Juan Bueno-Pardo, David Deslauriers, Elizabeth A. Fulton, Klaus B. Huebert, Martin Huret, Shin-ichi Ito, Stefan Koenigstein, Lingbo Li, Hassan Moustahfid, Barbara A. Muhling, Philipp Neubauer, Jose Ricardo Paula, Elizabeth C. Siddon, Morten D. Skogen, Paul D. Spencer, P. Daniel van Denderen, Gro I. van der Meeren, and Myron A. Peck Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:193-221

Development of methods for collecting spectral data from Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy to age three small coastal pelagic species (Pacific Sardine, Pacific Mackerel, Northern Anchovy) in the northeast Pacific Ocean Saas, Emma, Emmanis Dorval, Dianna L. Porzio, and Brittany D. Schwartzkopf U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-694. 47 p.

Project report: Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment Survey (NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, RL-24-06, May 1 - June 18, 2024) Sakuma, Keith NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 18 p.

Beyond boundaries: governance considerations for climate-driven habitat shifts of highly migratory marine species across jurisdictions Santos, Bianca S., Elliott L. Hazen, Heather Welch, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Barbara A. Block, Daniel P. Costa, Scott A. Shaffer, and Larry B. Crowder npj Ocean Sustainability 3:22 (8 p.)

Demography of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) from the KY1804 austral summer survey in the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean (80 to 150°E), including specific investigations of the upper surface waters Schaafsma, Fokje L., Ryan Driscoll, Kohei Matsuno, Rikuto Sugioka, Sara Driscoll, Marin van Regteren, Hiroko Sasaki, Ryuichi Matsukura, Jan Andries van Franeker, and Hiroto Murase Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1411130 (15 p.)

Zooplankton communities at the sea surface of the eastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean during the austral summer of 2018/2019 Schaafsma, Fokje, Kohei Matsuno, Ryan Driscoll, Hiroko Sasaki, Marin van Regteren, Sara Driscoll, Ryuichi Matsukura, Rikuto Sugioka, Ippei Urabe, Hiroto Murase, and Jan Andries van Franeker Progress in Oceanography 226:103303 (14 p.)

Buoyancy gliders opening new research opportunities in the Southern Ocean Schofield, Oscar, John Kerfoot, Nicole Waite, Schuyler Nardelli, Darren C. McKee, J. Alexander Brearley, and Christian Reiss Marine Technology Society Journal 58(1-2):26-37

An expert-based system to predict population survival rate from health data Schwacke, Lori H., Len Thomas, Randall S. Wells, Teresa K. Rowles, Gregory D. Bossart, Forrest Townsend Jr., Marilyn Mazzoil, Jason B. Allen, Brian C. Balmer, Aaron A. Barleycorn, Ashley Barratclough, Louise Burt, Sylvain De Guise, Deborah Fauquier, Forrest M. Gomez, Nicholas M. Kellar, John H. Schwacke, Todd R. Speakman, Eric D. Stolen, Brian M. Quigley, Eric S. Zolman, and Cynthia R. Smith Conservation Biology 38(1):e14073 (13 p.)

Update on the status of gray whales since the 2020 Implementation Review Scordino, Jonathan J., John W. Bickham, John R. Brandon, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Alexander Burdin, Thomas Doniol-Valcroze, Tomoharu Eguchi, Geof H. Givens, Aimee R. Lang, Dennis I. Litovka, Gen Nakamura, Andre E. Punt, Joshua D. Stewart, Jorge Urban R., and David W. Weller Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 25:1-18

Comparison of environmental DNA and underwater visual count surveys for detecting juvenile Coho Salmon in small rivers Shaffer, Jason T., Andrew P. Kinziger, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, and Andre Buchheister North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(2):449-462

Spirochaete genome identified in red abalone sample represents a novel genus Candidatus Haliotispira gen. nov. within the order Spirochaetales Sharma, Sharu Paul, Catherine M. Purcell, John R. Hyde, and Andrew J. Severin International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 74:006198 (8 p.)

Identifying spatial movements and residency of pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus) using satellite and passive acoustic telemetry to inform local conservation in central Indonesia Shidqi, Rafid A., Mark V. Erdmann, Edy Setyawan, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Dewi R. Sari, Abraham B. Sianipar, Joshua D. Stewart, and Donald A. Croll Frontiers in Fish Science 2:1391062 (16 p.)

Organismal responses to deteriorating water quality during the historic 2020 red tide off Southern California Skelton, Zachary R., Lillian R. McCormick, Garfield T. Kwan, Joshua Lonthair, Carlos Neira, Samantha M. Clements, Todd R. Martz, Philip J. Bresnahan, Uwe Send, Sarah N. Giddings, Jeffrey C. Sevadjian, Stephanie Jaeger, Adriano Feit, Benjamin W. Frable, Phillip J. Zerofski, Melissa Torres, Jeffrey A. Crooks, Justin McCullough, Melissa L. Carter, Eva Ternon, Luke P. Miller, Gabriella M. Kalbach, Duncan C. Wheeler, P. Ed Parnell, Katherine M. Swiney, Garrett Seibert, Jeremiah J. Minich, John R. Hyde, Philip A. Hastings, Jennifer E. Smith, Lisa M. Komoroske, Martin Tresguerres, Lisa A. Levin, and Nicholas C. Wegner Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 12(1):00067 (27 p.)

Observations of skin color aberrations in four shark species off the coast of southern California, USA Skelton, Zachary R., Tanya S. Prinzing, Andrew P. Nosal, Zoey Vagner, Peter Demman, Phil J. Zerofski, and Nicholas C. Wegner Environmental Biology of Fishes 107(3):391-400

Influence of migration range and foraging ecology on mercury accumulation in Southern Ocean penguins Sontag, Philip T., Linda V. Godfrey, William R. Fraser, Jefferson T. Hinke, and John R. Reinfelder Science of the Total Environment 951:175154 (9 p.)

Insights into vertebral band pair deposition rate in the juvenile common thresher shark (Alopias vulpinus) in the northeastern Pacific Ocean Spear, Luka N., Suzanne Kohin, John A. Mohan, and R.J. David Wells Journal of Fish Biology 104(1):104-112

Factors impacting the timing of reproductive development in female Antarctic krill at the northwestern Antarctic Peninsula Steinke, Kirsten B., Kim S. Bernard, Christian S. Reiss, Jennifer Walsh, Giancarlo M. Correa, and Sharon E. Stammerjohn Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1383175 (15 p.)

Get them off the deck: Straightforward interventions increase post-release survival rates of manta and devil rays in tuna purse seine fisheries Stewart, Joshua D., Melissa R. Cronin, Erick Largacha, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Jon Lopez, Martin Hall, Melanie Hutchinson, Emma G. Jones, Malcolm Francis, Maitane Grande, Jefferson Murua, Vanessa Rojo, and Salvador J. Jorgensen Biological Conservation 299:110794 (13 p.)

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2023 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-703. 87 p.

Micrometer-scale structure in shark vertebral centra Stock, S.R., U. Kierdorf, K.C. James, P.D. Shevchenko, L.J. Natanson, S. Gomez, and H. Kierdorf Acta Biomaterialia 177:300-315

Connecting thiamine availability to the microbial community composition in Chinook salmon spawning habitats of the Sacramento River basin Suffridge, Christopher P., Kelly C. Shannon, H. Matthews, R.C. Johnson, C. Jeffres, N. Mantua, A.E. Ward, E. Holmes, J. Kindopp, M. Aldoo, and F.S. Colwell Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(1):e01760-23 (26 p.)

State of the California Current Ecosystem report in 2022: a tale of two La Ninas Thompson, Andrew R., Rasmus Swalethorp, Michaela Alksne, Jarrod A. Santora, Elliott L. Hazen, Andrew Leising, Erin Satterthwaite, William J. Sydeman, Clarissa R. Anderson, Toby D. Auth, Simone Baumann-Pickering, Timothy Baumgardner, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Steven J. Bograd, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brian J. Burke, Elizabeth A. Daly, Heidi Dewar, John C. Field, Jennifer L. Fisher, Newell Garfield, Ashlyn Gidding, Ralf Goericke, Richard Golightly, Eliana Gomez-Ocampo, Jose Gomez-Valdes, John A. Hildebrand, Kym C. Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Jaime Jahncke, Michael Johns, Joshua M. Jones, Bertha Lavaniegos, Nate Mantua, Gerard J. McChesney, Megan E. Medina, Sharon R. Melin, Luis Erasmo Miranda, Cheryl A. Morgan, Catherine F. Nickels, Rachael A. Orben, Jessica M. Porquez, Antonella Preti, Roxanne R. Robertson, Daniel L. Rudnick, Keith M. Sakuma, Carley R. Schacter, Isaac D. Schroeder, Lauren Scopel, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Sarah Ann Thompson, Pete Warzybok, Katherine Whitaker, William Watson, Edward D. Weber, and Brian Wells Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1294011 (21 p.)

Empirical dynamic modeling for sustainable benchmarks of short-lived species Tsai, Cheng-Han, Stephan B. Munch, Michelle D. Masi, and Molly H. Stevens ICES Journal of Marine Science 81(7):1209-1220

Distinct natal origins based on vertebral ring analysis corroborate the migration pattern of Pacific bluefin tuna in the North Pacific Ocean Uematsu, Yuki, Taiki Ishihara, Tamaki Shimose, Kuo-Shu Chen, John A. Mohan, Jay R. Rooker, R.J. David Wells, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, Seiji Ohshimo, and Yosuke Tanaka Marine Ecology Progress Series 743:65-74

Best practices for collecting and preserving marine mammal biological samples in the 'omics era Van Cise, Amy M., Alexandra D. Switzer, Amy Apprill, Cory D. Champagne, Paul M. Chittaro, Natasha K. Dudek, Mackenzie R. Gavery, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Alaina C. Harmon, Alexander L. Jaffe, Nicholas M. Kellar, Carolyn A. Miller, Phillip A. Morin, Sarah E. Nelms, Kelly M. Robertson, Irvin R. Schultz, Emma Timmins-Schiffman, Ebru Unal, and Kim M. Parsons Marine Mammal Science 40(4):e13148 (36 p.)

A new, standardized international Pacific Rim baseline for genetic stock identification (GSI) of Chinook Salmon Van Doornik, Donald M., Paul Moran, Eric B. Rondeau, Krista M. Nichols, Shawn R. Narum, Matthew R. Campbell, Anthony J. Clemento, John S. Hargrove, Jon E. Hess, Rebekah L. Horn, Lisa W. Seeb, Jeff J. Stephenson, and Garrett J. McKinney North American Journal of Fisheries Management 44(4):857-869

Size-selective predation effects on juvenile Chinook salmon cohort survival off Central California evaluated with an individual-based model Vasbinder, Kelly, Jerome Fiechter, Jarrod A. Santora, James J. Anderson, Nate Mantua, Steve T. Lindley, David D. Huff, and Brian K. Wells Fisheries Oceanography 33(1):e12654 (15 p.)

Integrating vertical and horizontal movements of shortfin mako sharks Isurus oxyrinchus in the easter North Pacific Ocean Vaudo, Jeremy J., Heidi Dewar, Michael E. Byrne, Bradley M. Wetherbee, and Mahmood S. Shivji Marine Ecology Progress Series 732:85-99

Trophic history of Hawaiian green turtles as revealed by stable isotope ratios (δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S) in the bones of museum specimens Velasquez-Vacca, Adriana, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, T. Todd Jones, George H. Balazs, and Luis Cardona Aquatic Conservation 34(1):e4063 (12 p.)

Perceived social benefits and drawbacks of sea turtle conservation efforts in a globally important sea turtle rookery Vieira, Sara, Victor Jimenez, Betania Ferreira-Airaud, Antunes Pina, Venceslau Soares, Manjula Tiwari, Maria A. Teodosio, Rita Castilho, and Ana Nuno Biodiversity and Conservation 33:1185-1205

Evolutionary history influences the microbiomes of a female symbiotic reproductive organ in cephalopods Vijayan, Nidhi, Sarah J. McAnulty, Gustavo Sanchez, Jeffrey Jolly, Yuzuru Ikeda, Michele K. Nishiguchi, Elodie Reveillac, Camino Gestal, Blake L. Spady, Diana H. Li, Benjamin P. Burford, Allison H. Kerwin, and Spencer V. Nyholm Applied and Environmental Microbiology 90(3):e00990-23 (19 p.)

Bycatch mitigation from the sky: using helicopter communication for mobulid conservation in tropical tuna fisheries Waldo, Jennifer L., Ernesto Altamirano-Nieto, Donald A. Croll, Marta D. Palacios, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Jon Lopez, Gala Moreno, Stefany Rojas-Perea, and Melissa R. Cronin Frontiers in Marine Science 11:1303324 (10 p.)

Diet and size at birth affect larval rockfish condition and survival Walsh, Kamran A., Andrew R. Thompson, Garfield T. Kwan, Brice X. Semmens, H. William Fennie, and Rasmus Swalethorp Marine Ecology Progress Series 745:95-114

Leveraging ecological indicators to improve short term forecasts of fish recruitment Ward, Eric J., Mary E. Hunsicker, Kristin N. Marshall, Kiva L. Oken, Brice X. Semmens, John C. Field, Melissa A. Haltuch, Kelli F. Johnson, Ian G. Taylor, Andrew R. Thompson, and Nick Tolimieri Fish and Fisheries 25(6):895-909

Plasticity in gill morphology and function Wegner, Nicholas C., and Anthony P. Farrell In: Sarah L. Alderman and Todd E. Gillis (eds.), Encyclopedia of fish physiology (2nd ed.), vol. 1, p. 762-779. Academic Press.

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