NOAA FISHERIES

Paternity re-visited in a recovering population of Caribbean leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) Figgener, Christine, Didiher Chacon-Chaverri, Michael P. Jensen, and Heike Feldhaar Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 475:114-123

Humpback whale diets respond to variance in ocean climate and ecosystem conditions in the California Current Fleming, Alyson H., Casey T. Clark, John Calambokidis, and Jay Barlow Global Change Biology 22(3):1214-1224

Genome-wide SNP data suggest complex ancestry of sympatric North Pacific killer whale ecotypes Foote, A.D., and P.A. Morin Heredity 117(5):316-325

Genome-culture coevolution promotes rapid divergence of killer whale ecotypes Foote, Andrew D., Nagarjun Vijay, Maria C. Avila-Arcos, Robin W. Baird, John W. Durban, Matteo Fumagalli, Richard A. Gibbs, M. Bradley Hanson, Thorfinn S. Korneliussen, Michael D. Martin, Kelly M. Robertson, Vitor C. Sousa, Filipe G. Vieira, Tomas Vinar, Paul Wade, Kim C. Worley, Laurent Excoffier, Phillip A. Morin, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, and Jochen B.W. Wolf Nature Communications 7:11693 (12 p.)

How to tag a jellyfish? A methodological review and guidelines to successful jellyfish tagging Fossette, Sabrina, Kakani Katija, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Steven Bograd, Wyatt Patry, Michael J. Howard, Thomas Knowles, Steven H.D. Haddock, Loryn Bedell, Elliott L. Hazen, Bruce H. Robison, T. Aran Mooney, K. Alex Shorter, Thomas Bastian, and Adrian C. Gleiss Journal of Plankton Research 38(6):1347-1363

Steelhead abundance in seasonally closed estuaries estimated using mark recapture methods Frechette, Danielle, William H. Satterthwaite, Ann-Marie K. Osterback, and Sean A. Hayes U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-555. 30 p.

Prey-mediated behavioral responses of feeding blue whales in controlled sound exposure experiments Friedlaender, A.S., E.L. Hazen, J.A. Goldbogen, A.K. Stimpert, J. Calambokidis, and B.L. Southall Ecological Applications 26(4):1075-1085

Multiple-stage decisions in a marine central-place forager Friedlaender, Ari S., David W. Johnston, Reny B. Tyson, Amanda Kaltenberg, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Alison K. Stimpert, Corrie Curtice, Elliott L. Hazen, Patrick N. Halpin, Andrew J. Read, and Douglas P. Nowacek Royal Society Open Science 3(5):160043 (15 p.)

Hawksbill turtle terra incognita: conservation genetics of eastern Pacific rookeries Gaos, Alexander R., Rebecca L. Lewison, Michael J. Liles, Velkiss Gadea, Eduardo Altamirano, Ana V. Henriquez, Perla Torres, Jose Urteaga, Felipe Vallejo, Andres Baquero, Carolina LeMarie, Juan Pablo Munoz, Jaime A. Chaves, Catherine E. Hart, Alejandro Pena de Niz, Didiher Chacon, Luis Fonseca, Sarah Otterstrom, Ingrid L. Yanez, Erin L. LaCasella, Amy Frey, Michael P. Jensen, and Peter H. Dutton Ecology and Evolution 6(4):1251-1264

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): State of the California Current report, 2016 Garfield, Toby, and Chris Harvey (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 45 p.

Genomics in conservation: Case studies and bridging the gap between data and application Garner, Brittany A., Brian K. Hand, Stephen J. Amish, Louis Bernatchez, Jeffrey T. Foster, Kristina M. Miller, Phillip A. Morin, Shawn R. Narum, Stephen J. O'Brien, Gretchen Roffler, William D. Templin, Paul Sunnucks, Jeffrey Strait, Kenneth I. Warheit, Todd R. Seamons, John Wenburg, Jeffrey Olsen, and Gordon Luikart Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31(2):81-83

Hierarchical phylogeographic structure of Coho Salmon in California Gilbert-Horvath, Elizabeth A., Kerrie A. Pipal, Brian C. Spence, Thomas H. Williams, and John Carlos Garza Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145(5):1122-1138

Seasonal habitat-based density models for a marine top predator, the harbor porpoise, and a dynamic environment Gilles, A., S. Viquerat, E.A. Becker, K.A. Forney, S.C.V. Geelhoed, J. Haelters, J. Nabe-Nielsen, M. Scheidat, U. Siebert, S. Sveegaard, F.M. van Beest, R. van Bemmelen, and G. Aarts Ecosphere 7(6):e01367 (22 p.)

Modeling variable phanerozoic oxygen effects on physiology and evolution Graham, Jeffrey B., Corey J. Jew, Nicholas C. Wegner In: Robert C. Roach, Peter D. Wagner, and Peter H. Hackett (eds.), Hypoxia: translation in progress, p. 409-426. Springer.

Research priorities from animal behaviour for maximising conservation progress Greggor, Alison L., Oded Berger-Tal, Daniel T. Blumstein, Lisa Angeloni, Carmen Bessa-Gomes, Bradley F. Blackwell, Colleen Cassady St. Clair, Kevin Crooks, Shermin de Silva, Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Shifra Z. Goldenberg, Sarah L. Mesnick, Megan Owen, Catherine J. Price, David Saltz, Christopher J. Schell, Andrew V. Suarez, Ronald R. Swaisgood, Clark S. Winchell, and William J. Sutherland Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31(12):953-964

Cetacean acoustic detections from free-floating vertical hydrophone arrays in the southern California Current Griffiths, Emily T., and Jay Barlow Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(5):EL399-EL404

Status report: Assessment of statistical properties of transgenerational genetic-based mark-recapture estimators of abundance Hankin, David G., and Michael S. Mohr In: Andrew P. Kinziger (ed.), Genetic-based capture-recapture estimation of coho salmon escapement, p. 1-23. Completion report for California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fisheries Restoration Grant Program: P1310322.

Validation of ultrasound as a noninvasive tool to measure subcutaneous fat depth in leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) Harris, Heather S., Scott R. Benson, Michael C. James, Kelly J. Martin, Brian A. Stacy, Pierre-Yves Daoust, Paul M. Rist, Thierry M. Work, George H. Balazs, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 47(1):275-279

Genetic stock composition of marine bycatch reveals disproportional impacts on depleted river herring genetic stocks Hasselman, Daniel J., Eric C. Anderson, Emily E. Argo, N. David Bethoney, Stephen R. Gephard, David M. Post, Bradley P. Schondelmeier, Thomas F. Schultz, Theodore V. Willis, and Eric P. Palkovacs Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 73(6):951-963

Early ocean distribution of juvenile Chinook salmon in an upwelling ecosystem Hassrick, Jason L., Mark J. Henderson, David D. Huff, William J. Sydeman, Megan C. Sabal, Jeffrey A. Harding, Arnold J. Ammann, Eric D. Crandall, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, John Carlos Garza, and Sean A. Hayes Fisheries Oceanography 25(2):133-146

Observations of steelhead in the California Current lead to a marine-based hypothesis for the "half-pounder" life history, with climate change implications for anadromy Hayes, Sean A., Arnold J. Ammann, Jeffrey A. Harding, Jason L. Hassrick, Lynn deWitt, and Cheryl A. Morgan In: Shigehiko Urawa et al. (eds.), Pacific salmon and steelhead production in a changing climate: past, present, and future. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, Bulletin 6:97-105.

Key questions in marine megafauna movement ecology Hays, Graeme C., Luciana C. Ferreira, Ana M.M. Sequeira, Mark G. Meekan, Carlos M. Duarte, Heley Bailey, Fred Bailleul, W. Don Bowen, M. Julian Caley, Daniel P. Costa, Victor M. Eguiluz, Sabrina Fossette, Ari S. Friedlaender, Nick Gales, Adrian C. Gleiss, John Gunn, Rob Harcourt, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael R. Heithaus, Michelle Heupel, Kim Holland, Markus Horning, Ian Jonsen, Gerald L. Kooyman, Christopher G. Lowe, Peter T. Madsen, Helene Marsh, Richard A. Phillips, David Righton, Yan Ropert-Coudert, Katsufumi Sato, Scott A. Shaffer, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, David W. Sims, Gregory Skomal, Akinori Takahashi, Philip N. Trathan, Martin Wikelski, Jamie N. Womble, and Michele Thums Trends in Ecology and Evolution 31(6):463-475

Quantifying overlap between the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and predicted bluefin tuna spawning habitat in the Gulf of Mexico Hazen, Elliott L., Aaron B. Carlisle, Steven G. Wilson, James E. Ganong, Michael R. Castleton, Robert J. Schallert, Michael J.W. Stokesbury, Steven J. Bograd, and Barbara A. Block Scientific Reports 6:33824 (11 p.)

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), Aaron Mamula, Susan Sogard, William Watson, Nick Wegner, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 57th annual meeting of the TSC (April 26-27, 2016, Newport, Oregon), p. 308-326. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Age sample sizes and their effects on growth estimation and stock assessment outputs: Three case studies from U.S. West Coast fisheries He, Xi, John C. Field, Donald E. Pearson, and Lyndsey S. Lefebvre Fisheries Research 180:92-102

2016 Billfish Newsletter: 2015 Survey Trends [2015 International Billfish Angler Survey], 2015 Billfish tagging and recoveries [2015 Billfish Tagging Program], 2015 Top anglers and captains, Billfish habitat in a changing environment:Black marlin off eastern Australia. Heberer, Liana U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 26p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags; Fish Catch, Photo, Release (FishCPR mobile phone);

Report of the joint Marine Mammal Commission - National Marine Fisheries Service passive acoustic surveying workshop Heinemann, Dennis, Jason Gedamke, Erin Oleson, Jay Barlow, Jessica Crance, Marla Holt, Melissa Soldevilla, and Sofie Van Parijs U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-164. 107 p.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2016 for U.S.A. management in 2016-17 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Emmanis Dorval, and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-562. 184 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Numerical integration of temperature-dependent functions in bioenergetics models to avoid overestimation of fish growth Holsman, Kirstin, and Eric Danner Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 145(2):334-347

Report of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center and Pacific Fishery Management Council workshop on CPS assessments Ianelli, Jim, Andre Punt, Evelyn Brown, Will Satterthwaite, Owen Hamel, Doug Butterworth, Mike Prager, Alexandra Silva, Martin Dorn, Aaron Berger, Diane Pleschner-Steele, Lorna Wargo, David Crabbe, Corey Niles, Steve Haeseker, Josh Lindsay, and Ian Stewart Report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 38 p. coastal pelagic species

Optimal environmental conditions and anomalous ecosystem responses: Constraining bottom-up controls of phytoplankton biomass in the California Current System Jacox, Michael G., Elliott L. Hazen, and Steve J. Bograd Scientific Reports 6:27612 (12 p.)

Impacts of the 2015-2016 El Nino on the California Current System: Early assessment and comparison to past events Jacox, Michael G., Elliott L. Hazen, Katherine D. Zaba, Daniel L. Rudnick, Christopher A. Edwards, Andrew M. Moore, and Steven J. Bograd Geophysical Research Letters 43(13):7072-7080

Drivers of retention and discards of elasmobranch non-target catch James, Kelsey C., Rebecca L. Lewison, Peter W. Dillingham, K. Alexandra Curtis, and Jeffrey E. Moore Environmental Conservation 43(1):3-12

Stability of trace elements in otoliths of juvenile Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax Javor, Barbara J., and Emmanis Dorval CalCOFI Reports 57:109-123

Central Valley Recovery Domain Johnson, Rachel C., and Steven T. Lindley In: Thomas H. Williams et al. (eds.), Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 83-108. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564.

Isotopes and genes reveal freshwater origins of Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha aggregations in California's coastal ocean Johnson, Rachel C., John Carlos Garza, R. Bruce MacFarlane, Churchill B. Grimes, Corey C. Phillis, Paul L. Koch, Peter K. Weber, and Mark H. Carr Marine Ecology Progress Series 548:181-196

Use of time-at-temperature data to describe dive behavior in five species of sympatric deep-diving toothed whales Joyce, Trevor W., John W. Durban, Holly Fearnbach, Diane Claridge, and Lisa T. Ballance Marine Mammal Science 32(3):1044-1071

Shifts in frequency-modulated pulses recorded during an encounter with Blainville's beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) Keating, Jennifer L., Jay Barlow, and Shannon Rankin Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 140(2):EL166-EL171

Using photo-identification data to investigate movement and occurrence patterns of short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) in the eastern North Pacific [abstract] Kendall-Bar, J.M., D. Weller, H. Fearnbach, S. Shane, G. Schorr, E. Falcone, J. Calambokidis, A. Schulman-Janiger, and J.P. Barlow Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 annual meeting abstracts (January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(supp.1):e109

Movement and occurrence patterns of short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) in the eastern North Pacific Kendall-Bar, Jessica M., David W. Weller, Holly Fearnbach, Susan Shane, Gregory S. Schorr, Erin A. Falcone, John Calambokidis, Alisa Schulman-Janiger, and Jay Barlow Aquatic Mammals 42(3):300-305

Oxytetracycline age validation of an adult shortfin mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus after 6 years at liberty Kinney, M.J., R.J.D. Wells, and S. Kohin Journal of Fish Biology 89(3):1828-1833

Meta-analysis of north Pacific albacore tuna natural mortality Kinney, Michael John, and Steven L.H. Teo Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (8-14 November 2016, Nanaimo, British Columbia). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/ALBWG-02/07. 10 p.

Klamath River fall Chinook salmon age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2015 run Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 19 p.

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2016 season Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 31 p.

A complex past: historical and contemporary fisheries demonstrate nonlinear dynamics and a loss of determinism Klein, E.S., S.M. Glaser, A. Jordaan, L. Kaufman, and A.A. Rosenberg Marine Ecology Progress Series 557:237-246

Catch and size of blue sharks caught in U.S. fisheries in the North Pacific Kohin, Suzanne, Tim Sippel, and Felipe Carvalho Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (14-21 November 2016, Busan, South Korea). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/SHARKWG-1/15. 18 p.

Sublethal salinity stress contributes to habitat limitation in an endangered estuarine fish Komoroske, Lisa M., Ken M. Jeffries, Richard E. Connon, Jason Dexter, Matthias Hasenbein, Christine Verhille, and Nann A. Fangue Evolutionary Applications 9(8):963-981

Summer diving and haul-out behavior of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) near mesopredator breeding colonies at Livingston Island, Antarctic Peninsula Krause, Douglas J., Michael E. Goebel, Greg J. Marshall, and Kyler Abernathy Marine Mammal Science 32(3):839-867

Spatial distribution pattern and physical-biological interactions in the larval notothenioid fish assemblages from the Bransfield Strait and adjacent waters La Mesa, Mario, Gabriele La Mesa, Barbara Catalano, and Christopher D. Jones Fisheries Oceanography 25(6):624-636

A comparison of density and length of Pacific groundfishes observed from 2 survey vehicles: a manned submersible and a remotely operated vehicle Laidig, Thomas E., and Mary M. Yoklavich Fishery Bulletin 114(4):386-396

Reproductive dynamics of Pacific sanddab, Citharichthys sordidus, off the central coast of California Lefebvre, Lyndsey S., Amber M. Payne, and John C. Field Journal of Sea Research 107(pt.1):100-111

Purse-seine vessels as platforms for monitoring the population status of dolphin species in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean Lennert-Cody, Cleridy E., Mark N. Maunder, Paul C. Fiedler, Mihoko Minami, Tim Gerrodette, Jeremy Rusin, Carolina V. Minte-Vera, Michael Scott, and Stephen T. Buckland Fisheries Research 178:101-113

Using genome-wide SNPs to detect structure in high-diversity and low-divergence populations of severely impacted eastern tropical Pacific spinner (Stenella longirostris) and pantropical spotted dolphins (S. attenuata) Leslie, Matthew S., and Phillip A. Morin Frontiers in Marine Science 3:253 (12 p.)

Population genetic structure of the tropical two-wing flyingfish (Exocoetus volitans) Lewallen, Eric A., Andrew J. Bohonak, Carolina A. Bonin, Andre J. van Wijnen, Robert L. Pitman, and Nathan R. Lovejoy PLoS ONE 11(10):0163198 (16 p.)

Round-the-coast: Snapshots of estuarine climate change effects Limburg, Karin, Randy Brown, Rachel Johnson, Bill Pine, Roger Rulifson, David Secor, Kelly Timchak, Ben Walther, and Karen Wilson Fisheries 41(7):392-394

The economic contribution of marine angler expenditures on durable goods in the United States, 2014 Lovell, Sabrina J., James Hilger, Scott Steinback, and Clifford Hutt NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-165. 72 p.

The historical biogeography of groupers: Clade diversification patterns and processes Ma, Ka Yan, Matthew Thomas Craig, John Howard Choat, and Lynne van Herwerden Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100:21-30

Newly identified DDT-related compounds accumulating in Southern California bottlenose dolphins Mackintosh, Susan A., Nathan G. Dodder, Nellie J. Shaul, Lihini I. Aluwihare, Keith A. Maruya, Susan J. Chivers, Kerri Danil, David W. Weller, and Eunha Hoh Environmental Science and Technology 50(22):12129-12137

Modelling anadromous salmonid life-history Mangel, Marc, and William H. Satterthwaite In: Tomislav Vladic and Erik Petersson (eds.), Evolutionary biology of the Atlantic salmon, p. 221-247. CRC Press.

An ecosystem services perspective for the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific: Commercial fisheries, carbon storage, recreational fishing, and biodiversity Martin, Summer L., Lisa T. Ballance, and Theodore Groves Frontiers in Marine Science 3:50 (19 p.)

Fine-scale genetic population structure of loggerhead turtles in the Northwest Pacific Matsuzawa, Y., N. Kamezaki, T. Ishihara, K. Omuta, H. Takeshita, K. Goto, T. Arata, H. Honda, K. Kameda, Y. Kashima, M. Kayo, I. Kawazu, J. Kodama, Y. Kumazawa, K. Kuroyanagi, K. Mizobuchi, K. Mizuno, K. Oki, K.K. Watanabe, A. Yamamoto, Y. Yamashita, T. Yamato, T. Hamabata, A. Ishizaki, and P.H. Dutton Endangered Species Research 30:83-93

Growth: Theory, estimation, and application in fishery stock assessment models Maunder, Mark N., Paul R. Crone, Andre E. Punt, Juan L. Valero, and Brice X. Semmens Fisheries Research 180:1-3

The influence of Pacific equatorial water on fish diversity in the southern California Current System McClatchie, Sam, Andrew R. Thompson, Simone R. Alin, Samantha Siedlecki, William Watson, and Steven J. Bograd Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121(8):6121-6136

Food limitation of sea lion pups and the decline of forage off central and southern California McClatchie, Sam, John Field, Andrew R. Thompson, Tim Gerrodette, Mark Lowry, Paul C. Fiedler, William Watson, Karen M. Nieto, and Russell D. Vetter Royal Society Open Science 3(3):150628 (9 p.)

State of the California Current 2015-16: Comparisons with the 1997-98 El Nino McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, Andrew Leising, Toby D. Auth, Eric Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Richard D. Brodeur, Xiuning Du, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Francisco P. Chavez, Amanda J. Debich, John Hildebrand, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Michael G. Jacox, Mati Kahru, Raphael Kudela, Clarissa Anderson, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Jose Gomez-Valdes, S. Patricia A. Jimenez-Rosenberg, Ryan McCabe, Sharon R. Melin, Mark D. Ohman, Linsey M. Sala, Bill Peterson, Jennifer Fisher, Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Stephanie R. Schneider, Richard T. Golightly, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Stephanie Loredo, Jessica M. Porquez, Andrew R. Thompson, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Vera Trainer, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, and Jaime Jahncke CalCOFI Reports 57:5-61

Evidence that the migration of the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the west coast of the United States is age-based McDaniel, Jenny, Kevin Piner, Hui-Hua Lee, and Kevin Hill PLoS ONE 11(11):0166780 (16 p.)

Predictive mapping of seabirds, pinnipeds and cetaceans off the Pacific coast of Washington Menza, Charles, Jeffery Leirness, Tim White, Arliss Winship, Brian Kinlan, Laura Kracker, Jeannette E. Zamon, Lisa Ballance, Elizabeth Becker, Karin A. Forney, Jay Barlow, Josh Adams, David Pereksta, Scott Pearson, John Pierce, Steven Jeffries, John Calambokidis, Annie Douglas, Brad Hanson, Scott R. Benson, and Liam Antrim NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS NCCOS 201 (96 p.)

Coevolution of female and male reproductive tract anatomy in cetaceans [abstract] Mesnick, S.L., D.N. Orbach, K. Danil, S.J. Chivers, T.R. Robeck, G.A. Montano, F. Gulland, C.D. Marshall, J. Dines, M.D. Dean, K. Ralls, and A.F. Dixson Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 annual meeting abstracts (January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(supp.1):e148

Documentation for California Department of Fish and Wildlife's Onboard Sampling of the Rockfish and Lingcod Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel Industry in Northern and Central California (1987-1998) as a relational database Monk, Melissa H., Rebecca R. Miller, John Field, E.J. Dick, Deb Wilson-Vandenberg, and Paul Reilly U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-558. 63 p.

Long-term spatial and temporal patterns of sea turtle strandings in southern Brazil Monteiro, Danielle S., Sergio C. Estima, Tiago B.R. Gandra, Andrine P. Silva, Leandro Bugoni, Yonat Swimmer, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Eduardo R. Secchi Marine Biology 163(12):247 (19 p.)

Developing control rules for threatened bycatch species Moore, Jeffrey E., and K. Alexandra Curtis In: Charles T.T. Edwards and Dorothy J. Dankel (eds.), Management science in fisheries: An introduction to simulation-based methods, p. 278-297. Routledge.

Biology and life history of Green Sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris Ayres, 1854): state of the science Moser, M.L., J.A. Israel, M. Neuman, S.T. Lindley, D.L. Erickson, B.W. McCovey Jr., and A.P. Klimley Journal of Applied Ichthyology 32(S1):67-86

Integrating population dynamics models and distance sampling data: a spatial hierarchical state-space approach Nadeem, Khurram, Jeffrey E. Moore, Ying Zhang, and Huch Chipman Ecology 97(7):1735-1745

An historical analysis of the California Current circulation using ROMS 4D-Var: System configuration and diagnostics Neveu, Emilie, Andrew M. Moore, Christopher A. Edwards, Jerome Fiechter, Patrick Drake, William J. Crawford, Michael G. Jacox, and Emma Nuss Ocean Modelling 99:133-151

The Pacific decadal oscillation, revisited Newman, Matthew, Michael A. Alexander, Toby R. Ault, Kim M. Cobb, Clara Deser, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Nathan J. Mantua, Arthur J. Miller, Shoshiro Minobe, Hisashi Nakamura, Niklas Schneider, Daniel J. Vimont, Adam S. Phillips, James D. Scott, and Catherine A. Smith Journal of Climate 29(12):4399-4427

Western Regional Action Plan (WRAP), NOAA Fisheries Climate Science Strategy NOAA NW/SW Fisheries Science Centers U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-565. 75 p.

An evaluation of preseason abundance forecasts for Sacramento River winter Chinook salmon O'Farrell, Michael, Noble Hendrix, and Michael Mohr In: November 2016 Briefing Book, Agenda Item D.2, Attachment 1 (34 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Fine-scale monitoring of routine deep dives by gravid leatherback turtles during the internesting interval indicate a capital breeding strategy Okuyama, Junichi, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Peter H. Dutton, and Scott R. Benson Frontiers in Marine Science 3:166 (12 p.)

Estimating a nonparametric homothetic S-shaped production relation for the US West Coast groundfish production 2004-2007 Oleson, O.B., J. Ruggiero, and A.T. Mamula Data Envelopment Analysis Journal 2(2):163-199

Variation in reproductive tract morphology of female common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) [abstract] Orbach, D.N., C.D. Marshall, B. Wursig, and S.L. Mesnick Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 annual meeting abstracts (January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(supp.1):e165

Potential evolution and function of vaginal folds in cetaceans [abstract] Orbach, D.N., C.D. Marshall, B. Wursig, and S.L. Mesnick Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 annual meeting abstracts (January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(supp.1):e345

Variation in female reproductive tract morphology of the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) Orbach, Dara N., Christopher D. Marshall, Bernd Wursig, and Sarah L. Mesnick Anatomical Record 299(4):520-537

Review of 2015 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. 340 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2016 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 132 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2016 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 72 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2016 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 45 p.

Saving the spandrels? Adaptive genomic variation in conservation and fisheries management Pearse, D.E. Journal of Fish Biology 89(6):2697-2716

Conservation of native Pacific trout diversity in western North America Penaluna, Brooke E., Alicia Abadia-Cardoso, Jason B. Dunham, Francisco J. Garcia-de Leon, Robert E. Gresswell, Arturo Ruiz Luna, Eric B. Taylor, Bradley B. Shepard, Robert Al-Chokhachy, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Kevin R. Bestgen, Kevin Rogers, Marco A. Escalante, Ernest R. Keeley, Gabriel M. Temple, Jack E. Williams, Kathleen R. Matthews, Ron Pierce, Richard L. Mayden, Ryan P. Kovach, John Carlos Garza, and Kurt D. Fausch Fisheries 41(6):286-300

Shifting thresholds: rapid evolution of migratory life histories in steelhead/rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss Phillis, Corey C., Jonathan W. Moore, Mathieu Buoro, Sean A. Hayes, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Journal of Heredity 107(1):51-60

Evaluation of using random-at-length observations and an equilibrium approximation of the population age structure in fitting the von Bertalanffy growth function Piner, Kevin R., Hui-Hua Lee, and Mark N. Maunder Fisheries Research 180:128-137

Differing foraging strategies influence mercury (Hg) exposure in an Antarctic penguin community Polito, Michael J., Rebecka L. Brasso, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, Nina Karnovsky, William P. Patterson, and Steven D. Emslie Environmental Pollution 218:196-206

Water masses and circulation in the tropical Pacific off central Mexico and surrounding areas Portela, Esther, Emilio Beier, Eric D. Barton, Ruben Castro, Victor Godinez, Emilio Palacios-Hernandez, Paul C. Fiedler, Laura Sanchez-Velasco, and Armando Trasvina Journal of Physical Oceanography 46(10):3069-3081

Defining an ideal temperature range for the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine, Sardinops sagax caeruleus Pribyl, Alena L., John R. Hyde, Larry Robertson, and Russell Vetter Environmental Biology of Fishes 99(2):275-291

Ocean-wide tracking of pelagic sharks reveals extent of overlap with longline fishing hotspots Queiroz, Nuno, Nicolas E. Humphries, Gonzalo Mucientes, Neil Hammerschlag, Fernando P. Lima, Kylie L. Scales, Peter I. Miller, Lara L. Sousa, Rui Seabra, and David W. Sims Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113(6):1582-1587

Optimizing transmit interval and logging range while avoiding aliased seabed echoes Renfree, Josiah S., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(8):1955-1964

Life history strategies of the Scotia Sea icefish, Chaenocephalus aceratus, along the Southern Scotia Ridge Riginella, Emilio, Carlotta Mazzoldi, Julian Ashford, Christopher D. Jones, Christina Morgan, and Mario La Mesa Polar Biology 39(3):497-509

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