NOAA FISHERIES

Anomalous epipelagic micronekton assemblage patterns in the neritic waters of the California Current in spring 2015 during a period of extreme ocean conditions Sakuma, Keith M., John C. Field, Nathan J. Mantua, Stephen Ralston, Baldo B. Marinovic, and Cynthia N. Carrion CalCOFI Reports 57:163-183

Identifying predictable foraging habitats for a wide-ranging marine predator using ensemble ecological niche models Scales, Kylie L., Peter I. Miller, Simon N. Ingram, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, and Richard A. Phillips Diversity and Distributions 22(2):212-224

Dynamic social networks based on movement Scharf, Henry R., Mevin B. Hooten, Bailey K. Fosdick, Devin S. Johnson, Josh M. London, and John W. Durban Annals of Applied Statistics 10(4):2182-2202

Post-glacial habitat release and incipient speciation in the genus Delphinus Segura-Garcia, I., J.P. Gallo, S. Chivers, R. Diaz-Gamboa, and A.R. Hoelzel Heredity 117(6):400-407

The DNA of coral reef biodiversity: predicting and protecting genetic diversity of reef assemblages Selkoe, Kimberly A., Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Eric A. Treml, Johanna L.K. Wren, Mary K. Donovan, Hawai'i Reef Connectivity Consortium, and Robert J. Toonen Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1829):20160354 (10 p.)

The 15th volume of Chelonian Conservation and Biology: another shining example of our international scope Seminoff, Jeffrey A. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 15(1):1

Hydrologic indicators of hot spots and hot moments of mercury methylation potential along river corridors Singer, Michael Bliss, Lee R. Harrison, Patrick M. Donovan, Joel D. Blum, and Mark Marvin-DiPasquale Science of the Total Environment 568:697-711

Size and sex structure of blue sharks in the North Pacific Ocean Sippel, Tim, Yasuko Semba, Ko Shiozaki, Felipe Carvalho, Jose Leonardo Castillo-Geniz, Wen-Pei Tsai, Kwang-Ming Liu, Youjung Kwon, Yan Chen, and Suzanne Kohin 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-1/14. 47 p.

Spatial dynamic optimization of groundwater use with ecological standards for instream flow Speir, Cameron, Jae Han, and Nicholas Brozovic Water Economics and Policy 2(3):1650013 (23 p.)

North-Central California Coast Recovery Domain Spence, Brian C. In: Thomas H. Williams et al. (eds.), Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 32-82. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564.

Inactivation of cone-specific phototransduction genes in rod monochromatic cetaceans Springer, Mark S., Christopher A. Emerling, Noah Fugate, Rachna Patel, James Starrett, Phillip A. Morin, Cheryl Hayashi, and John Gatesy Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 4:61 (13 p.)

Inactivation of C4orf26 in toothless placental mammals Springer, Mark S., James Starrett, Phillip A. Morin, Agnese Lanzetti, Cheryl Hayashi, and John Gatesy Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 95:34-45

Firm behavior under quantity controls: The theory of virtual quantities Squires, Dale Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 79:70-86

Putting economics into maximum economic yield Squires, Dale, and Niels Vestergaard Marine Resource Economics 31(1):101-116

Discovery and characterization of single nucleotide polymorphisms in coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch Starks, Hilary A., Anthony J. Clemento, and John Carlos Garza Molecular Ecology Resources 16(1):277-287

Targeting abundant fish stocks while avoiding overfished species: video and fishing surveys to inform management after long-term fishery closures Starr, Richard M., Mary G. Gleason, Corina I. Marks, Donna Kline, Steve Rienecke, Christian Denney, Anne Tagini, and John C. Field PLoS ONE 11(12):e0168645 (23 p.)

Nesting population origins of leatherback turtles caught as bycatch in the U.S. pelagic longline fishery Stewart, Kelly R., Erin L. LaCasella, Suzanne E. Roden, Michael P. Jensen, Lesley W. Stokes, Sheryan P. Epperly, and Peter H. Dutton Ecosphere 7(3):e01272 (18 p.)

Improving the estimations of transect length and width for underwater visual surveys of targets on or near the seabed Stierhoff, Kevin L., David W. Murfin, David A. Demer, Scott A. Mau, and Deanna R. Pinkard-Meier ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(10):2729-2736

Regulatory impacts of recreational fishery management alternatives for North Pacific bluefin tuna Stohs, Stephen M. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-567. 27 p.

Genetic homogeneity of the geoduck clam Panopea generosa in the northeast Pacific Suarez-Moo, Pablo de Jesus, Elizabeth A. Gilbert-Horvath, Brent Vadopalas, Luis Eduardo Calderon-Aguilera, John Carlos Garza, and Axayacatl Rocha-Olivares Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 65:66-71

Early life of an inshore population of West Greenlandic cod Gadus morhua: spatial and temporal aspects of growth and survival Swalethorp, Rasmus, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Andrew R. Thompson, Malene Mohl, and Peter Monk Marine Ecology Progress Series 555:185-202

Growth and shrinkage in Antarctic krill Euphausia superba is sex-dependent Tarling, G.A., S. Hill, H. Peat, S. Fielding, C. Reiss, and A. Atkinson Marine Ecology Progress Series 547:61-78

Spatiotemporal definitions of the US albacore longline fleets in the North Pacific for the 2017 assessment Teo, Steven L.H. 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-02/08. 19 p.

Status of common thresher sharks, Alopias vulpinus, along the west coast of North America Teo, Steven L.H., Emiliano Garcia Rodriguez, and Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-557. 196 p.

Status of the world's baleen whales Thomas, Peter O., Randall R. Reeves, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Marine Mammal Science 32(2):682-734

Rockfish assemblage structure and spawning locations in southern California identified through larval sampling Thompson, Andrew R., John R. Hyde, William Watson, Dustin C. Chen, and Lian W. Guo Marine Ecology Progress Series 547:177-192

Effects of El Nino-driven changes in wind patterns on North Pacific albatrosses Thorne, L.H., M.G. Conners, E.L. Hazen, S.J. Bograd, M. Antolos, D.P. Costa, and S.A. Shaffer Journal of the Royal Society Interface 13(119):20160196 (13 p.)

A new species of grouper (Epinephelus; Epinephelidae) from the Indo-Pacific Tucker, Sarah J., Eka M. Kurniasih, and Matthew T. Craig Copeia 104(3):658-662

Methods for sampling sequential annual bone growth layers for stable isotope analysis Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Larisa Avens, and Carolyn M. Kurle Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7(5):556-564

From sunrise to sunset in the California drift gillnet fishery: An examination of the effects of time and area closures on the catch and catch rates of pelagic species Urbisci, Laura C., Stephen M. Stohs, and Kevin R. Piner Marine Fisheries Review 78(3-4):1-11

Panmixia in a critically endangered fish: the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi) in the Gulf of California Valenzuela-Quinonez, Fausto, Juan A. De-Anda-Montanez, Elizabeth Gilbert-Horvath, John Carlos Garza, and Francisco J. Garcia-De Leon Journal of Heredity 107(6):496-503

Redrawing the map: mtDNA provides new insight into the distribution and diversity of short-finned pilot whales in the Pacific Ocean Van Cise, Amy M., Phillip A. Morin, Robin W. Baird, Aimee R. Lang, Kelly M. Robertson, Susan J. Chivers, Robert L. Brownell Jr., and Karen K. Martien Marine Mammal Science 32(4):1177-1199

Drifting to oblivion? Rapid genetic differentiation in an endangered lizard following habitat fragmentation and drought Vandergast, Amy G., Dustin A. Wood, Andrew R. Thompson, Mark Fisher, Cameron W. Barrows, and Tyler J. Grant Diversity and Distributions 22(3):344-357

Oceanographic influences on the diet of 3 surface-migrating myctophids in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean VanNoord, Joel E., Robert J. Olson, Jessica V. Redfern, Leanne M. Duffy, and Ronald S. Kaufmann Fishery Bulletin 114(3):274-287

Phylogeography, genetic diversity, and management units of hawksbill turtles in the Indo-Pacific Vargas, Sarah M., Michael P. Jensen, Simon Y.W. Ho, Asghar Mobaraki, Damien Broderick, Jeanne A. Mortimer, Scott D. Whiting, Jeff Miller, Robert I.T. Prince, Ian P. Bell, Xavier Hoenner, Colin J. Limpus, Fabricio R. Santos, and Nancy N. FitzSimmons Journal of Heredity 107(3):199-213

Using measurement error models to account for georeferencing error in species distribution models Velasquez-Tibata, Jorge, Catherine H. Graham, and Stephan B. Munch Ecography 39(3):305-316

Trade-offs between accuracy and interpretability in von Bertalanffy random-effects models of growth Vincenzi, Simone, Alain J. Crivelli, Stephan Munch, Hans J. Skaug, and Marc Mangel Ecological Applications 26(5):1535-1552

Within- and among-population variation in vital rates and population dynamics in a variable environment Vincenzi, Simone, Marc Mangel, Dusan Jesensek, John Carlos Garza, and Alain J. Crivelli Ecological Applications 26(7):2086-2102

Local adaptation in transgenerational responses to predators Walsh, Matthew R., Todd Castoe, Julian Holmes, Michelle Packer, Kelsey Biles, Melissa Walsh, Stephan B. Munch, and David M. Post Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283(1823):20152271 (9 p.)

Predator-driven brain size evolution in natural populations of Trinidadian killifish (Rivulus hartii) Walsh, Matthew R., Whitnee Broyles, Shannon Beston, and Stephan B. Munch Proceedings of the Royal Society B 283(1834):20161075 (9 p.)

Closed-loop tracking-by-detection for ROV-based multiple fish tracking Wang, Gaoang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kresimir Williams, and George Cutter In: Alexandra Branzan Albu and Maia Hoeberechts (eds.), Proceedings, 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery: CVAUI 2016 (4 December 2016, Cancun, Mexico), p. 7-12. IEEE Computer Society.

What is a 'significant portion' of a range? Reply to Nelson et al. (2016) Waples, Robin S., Peter B. Adams, James A. Bohnsack, and Barbara L. Taylor Endangered Species Research 30:191-192

Early larvae of the swordspine rockfish (Sebastes ensifer) identified by molecular methods Watson, William, Sharon R. Charter, and Cynthia A. Taylor-Lawley Fishery Bulletin 114(2):135-143

Elasmobranch gill structure Wegner, Nicholas C. In: Robert E. Shadwick, Anthony P. Farrell, and Colin J. Brauner (eds.), Physiology of elasmobranch fishes: structure and interaction with environment, p. 101-151. Elsevier / Academic Press.

Coastal bottlenose dolphins off California and northern Baja California, Mexico: Photo-identification catalog 1981-2014 Weller, David W., and R.H. Defran U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-566. 1291 p.

Mark-recapture abundance estimate of California coastal stock bottlenose dolphins: November 2009 to April 2011 Weller, David W., Gregory S. Campbell, Amanda Debich, Alex G. Kesaris, and R.H. Defran U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-563. 17 p.

Marine ecosystem perspectives on Chinook salmon recruitment: a synthesis of empirical and modeling studies from a California upwelling system Wells, Brian K., Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, Nathan Mantua, William J. Sydeman, David D. Huff, and John C. Field Marine Ecology Progress Series 552:271-284

Searching for trends in river dolphin abundance: Designing surveys for looming threats, and evidence for opposing trends of two species in the Colombian Amazon Williams, Rob, Jeffrey E. Moore, Catalina Gomez-Salazar, Fernando Trujillo, and Louise Burt Biological Conservation 195:136-145

Southern Oregon / Northern California Coast Recovery Domain Williams, Thomas H. In: Thomas H. Williams et al. (eds.), Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 18-31. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564.

Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest Williams, Thomas H., Brian C. Spence, David A. Boughton, Rachel C. Johnson, Lisa G. Crozier, Nathan J. Mantua, Michael R. O'Farrell, and Steven T. Lindley U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564. 152 p.

Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) calf mortality at Peninsula Valdes, Argentina: Are harmful algal blooms to blame? Wilson, Cara, A. Viviana Sastre, Monica Hoffmeyer, Victoria J. Rowntree, Spencer E. Fire, Norma H. Santinelli, Soledad Diaz Ovejero, Valeria D'Agostino, Carina F. Maron, Gregory J. Doucette, Margaret H. Broadwater, Zhihong Wang, Nora Montoya, Jon Seger, Frederick R. Adler, Mariano Sironi, and Marcela M. Uhart Marine Mammal Science 32(2):423-451

Gill morphology, movements, and in vivo temperature measurements of an endothermic fish, the opah, Lampris guttatus [abstract] Wright, A.J., J.R. Hyde, and N.C. Wegner Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 annual meeting abstracts (January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(supp.1):e397

Using an approximate length-conditional approach to estimate von Bertalanffy growth parameters of North Pacific albacore (Thunnus alalunga) Xu, Yi, Steven L.H. Teo, Kevin R. Piner, Kuo-Shu Chen, R.J. David Wells Fisheries Research 180:138-146

A characterization of deep-sea coral and sponge communities in areas of high bycatch in bottom trawls off northern California Yoklavich, Mary, M. Elizabeth Clarke, Tom Laidig, Erica Fruh, Lisa Krigsman, Jeff Anderson, Jeremy Taylor, and Chris Romsos U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-556. 39 p.

Acoustic-trawl estimates of northern-stock Pacific sardine biomass during 2015 Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Beverly J. Macewicz, George R. Cutter, Brian Elliot, Scott Mau, David Murfin, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Kevin Stierhoff U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-559. 15 p.

Separating recruitment and mortality time lags for a delay-difference production model Aalto, Emilius A., E.J. Dick, and Alec D. MacCall Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(2):161-165

Genetic structure of Pacific trout at the extreme southern end of their native range Abadia-Cardoso, Alicia, John Carlos Garza, Richard L. Mayden, and Francisco Javier Garcia de Leon PLoS ONE 10(10):e0141775 (20 p.)

Does polyandry really pay off? The effects of multiple mating and number of fathers on morphological traits and survival in clutches of nesting green turtles at Tortuguero Alfaro-Nunez, Alonzo, Michael P. Jensen, and F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois PeerJ 3:e880 (22 p.)

First assessment of the sex ratio for an East Pacific green sea turtle foraging aggregation: validation and application of a testosterone ELISA Allen, Camryn D., Michelle N. Robbins, Tomoharu Eguchi, David W. Owens, Anne B. Meylan, Peter A. Meylan, Nicholas M. Kellar, Jeffrey A. Schwenter, Hendrik H. Nollens, Robin A. LeRoux, Peter H. Dutton, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff PLoS ONE 10(10):e0138861 (25 p.)

Phylogeographic affinity of Tursiops aduncus from Bangladesh waters Amaral, A. Rita, Brian Smith, Rubaiyat Mansur, Robert L. Brownell Jr., and Howard C. Rosenbaum Paper SC/66a/SM/18 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC66a meeting, San Diego, USA, 2015). 10 p.

Genetic identity of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa spp.) in the northern Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh Amaral, A. Rita, Brian Smith, Rubaiyat Mansur, Robert L. Brownell Jr., and Howard C. Rosenbaum Paper SC/66a/SM/24 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC66a meeting, San Diego, USA, 2015). 13 p.

Interpreting the FLOCK algorithm from a statistical perspective Anderson, Eric C., and Patrick D. Barry Molecular Ecology Resources 15(5):1020-1030

New abbreviated calculation for measuring intrinsic rebound potential in exploited fish populations — example for sharks Au, David W., Susan E. Smith, and Christina Show Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(5):767-773

False killer whales and fisheries interactions in Hawaiian waters: Evidence for sex bias and variation among populations and social groups Baird, Robin W., Sabre D. Mahaffy, Antoinette M. Gorgone, Tori Cullins, Dan J. McSweeney, Erin M. Oleson, Amanda L. Bradford, Jay Barlow, and Daniel L. Webster Marine Mammal Science 31(2):579-590

Oceanic origins of fin whale products sold in the Japanese market: evidence of an illegal, unreported or undocumented source in the Antarctic Baker, C.S., D. Steel, N. Funahashi, and Frederick Archer Paper SC/66a/SD/2 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC66a meeting, San Diego, USA, 2015). 10 p.

Anticipated effects of climate change on coastal upwelling ecosystems Bakun, A., B.A. Black, S.J. Bograd, M. Garcia-Reyes, A.J. Miller, R.R. Rykaczewski, and W.J. Sydeman Current Climate Change Reports 1(2):85-93

Peter B. Best (1939-2015) Bannister, John, Ken Findlay, Robert L. Brownell, Doug Butterworth, Martin Cawthorn, Greg Donovan, Ray Gambell, Hidehiro Kato, Bruce Mate, Michael Moore, Seiji Ohsumi, William Perrin, Desray Reeb, Randall Reeves, Vicky Rowntree, and Peter Shaughnessy Marine Mammal Science 31(4):1594-1597

Inferring trackline detection probabilities, g(0), for cetaceans from apparent densities in different survey conditions Barlow, Jay Marine Mammal Science 31(3):923-943

Combining otolith microstructure and trace elemental analyses to infer the arrival of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna in the California current ecosystem Baumann, Hannes, R.J.D. Wells, Jay R. Rooker, Saijin Zhang, Zofia Baumann, Daniel J. Madigan, Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, and Nicholas S. Fisher ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(7):2128-2138

Synchronous marine pelagic regime shifts in the Northern Hemisphere Beaugrand, G., A. Conversi, S. Chiba, M. Edwards, S. Fonda-Umani, C. Greene, N. Mantua, S.A. Otto, P.C. Reid, M.M. Stachura, L. Stemmann, and H. Sugisaki Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 370(1659): 20130272 (16 p.)

Geo-referenced, abundance calibrated ocean distribution of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) stocks across the west coast of North America Bellinger, M. Renee, Michael A. Banks, Sarah J. Bates, Eric D. Crandall, John Carlos Garza, Gil Sylvia, and Peter W. Lawson PLoS ONE 10(7):e0131276 (25 p.)

Leatherback turtle populations in the Pacific Ocean Benson, Scott R., Ricardo F. Tapilatu, Nicolas Pilcher, Pilar Santidrian Tomilla, and Laura Sarti Martinez In: James R. Spotila and Pilar Santidrian Tomillo (eds.), The leatherback turtle: biology and conservation, p. 110-122. Johns Hopkins University Press.

Status review of the humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) under the Endangered Species Act Bettridge, Shannon, C. Scott Baker, Jay Barlow, Phillip J. Clapham, Michael Ford, David Gouveia, David K. Mattila, Richard M. Pace III, Patricia E. Rosel, Gregory K. Silber, and Paul R. Wade U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-540. 240 p.

Variability in rockfish (Sebastes spp.) fecundity: species contrasts, maternal size effects, and spatial differences Beyer, Sabrina G., Susan M. Sogard, Chris J. Harvey, and John C. Field Environmental Biology of Fishes 98(1):81-100

Cooperative research and cooperative management: a review with recommendations Bibb, Sally, Scott Bloom, Ayeisha Brinson, Mark Chandler, Guy Davenport, Kelly Denit, Gerard Dinardo, Joshua Gange, Steve Giordano, Alexis Gutierrez, John Hoey, Steve Ignell, Rosemary Kosaka, Caroline Park, Tauna Rankin, Heather Sagar, and Ryan Silva NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-156. 78 p.

Proceedings of the 2014 NOAA Economics of Protected Resources Workshop (September 9-11, 2014, La Jolla, California) Bisack, Kathryn D., Dale E. Squires, Douglas W. Lipton, James R. Hilger, Daniel S. Holland, Denise H. Johnson, Min-Yang Lee, Rebecca Lent, Daniel K. Lew, Gisele Magnusson, Minling Pan, Lew E. Queirolo, Stephen Stohs, Cameron L. Speir, and Kristy A. Wallmo, with contributions from Lisa Ballance and Sarah Mesnick NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-233. 179 p.

Zooplankton data from high-frequency coastal transects: Enriching the contributions of ocean observing systems to ecosystem-based management in the northern California Current Bjorkstedt, Eric P., and William T. Peterson In: Yonggang Liu, Heather Kerkering, and Robert H. Weisberg (eds.), Coastal ocean observing systems, p. 119-142. Academic Press (Elsevier).

Avoiding tipping points in fisheries management through Gaussian process dynamic programming Boettiger, Carl, Marc Mangel, and Stephan Munch Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282(1801):20141631 (9 p.)

Changes in source waters to the Southern California Bight Bograd, Steven J., Mercedes Pozo Buil, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Carmen G. Castro, Isaac D. Schoeder, Ralf Goericke, Clarissa R. Anderson, Claudia Benitez-Nelso, and Frank A. Whitney Deep-Sea Research II 112:42-52

Causes and impacts of the 2014 warm anomaly in the NE Pacific Bond, Nicholas A., Meghan F. Cronin, Howard Freeland, and Nathan Mantua Geophysical Research Letters 42(9):3414-3420

Thermal potential for steelhead life history expression in a southern California alluvial river Boughton, David A., Lee R. Harrison, Andrew S. Pike, Juan L. Arriaza, and Marc Mangel Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 144(2):258-273

Revised stock boundaries for false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in Hawaiian waters Bradford, Amanda L., Erin M. Oleson, Robin W. Baird, Christofer H. Boggs, Karin A. Forney, and Nancy C. Young NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-47. 29 p.

Rapid recovery of Dutch gray seal colonies fueled by immigration Brasseur, Sophie M.J.M., Tamara D. Van Polanen Petel, Tim Gerrodette, Erik H.W.G. Meesters, Peter J.H. Reijnders, and Geert Aarts Marine Mammal Science 31(2):405-426

Assessment of pygmy type blue whales in the Southern Hemisphere Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Barbara Galletti-Vernazzani, Asha deVos, Paula A. Olson, Ken Findlay, John L. Bannister, and Aimee R. Lang Paper SC/66a/SH/21 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC66a meeting, San Diego, USA, 2015). 25 p.

Biologically important areas for selected cetaceans within U.S. waters - West Coast region Calambokidis, John, Gretchen H. Steiger, Corrie Curtice, Jolie Harrison, Megan C. Ferguson, Elizabeth Becker, Monica DeAngelis, and Sofie M. Van Parijs Aquatic Mammals 41(1):39-53

Statistical modeling of daily water temperature attributes on the Sacramento River Caldwell, Jason, Balaji Rajagopalan, and Eric Danner Journal of Hydrologic Engineering 20(5):04014065. 12 p.

Reconstructing habitat use by juvenile salmon sharks links upwelling to strandings in the California Current Carlisle, Aaron B., Steven Y. Litvin, Elliott L. Hazen, Daniel J. Madigan, Kenneth J. Goldman, Robert N. Lea, and Barbara A. Block Marine Ecology Progress Series 525:217-228

Flexibility in foraging strategies of Brown Skuas in response to local and seasonal dietary constraints Carneiro, Ana P.B., Andrea Manica, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, and Richard A. Phillips Journal of Ornithology 156(3):625-633

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2014 Carretta, James V., Erin M. Oleson, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Karin A. Forney, Jason Baker, Marcia M. Muto, Brad Hanson, Anthony J. Orr, Harriet Huber, Mark S. Lowry, Jay Barlow, Jeffrey E. Moore, Deanne Lynch, Lillian Carswell, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-549. 414 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - PACIFIC - SURVEYS - STOCKS - ASSESSMENTS

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific west coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2009-2013 Carretta, James V., Marcia M. Muto, Sarah Wilkin, Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Monica DeAngelis, Justin Viezbicke, Dan Lawson, Jeremy Rusin, and Jason Jannot U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-548. 108 p.

Life history Chivers, Susan In: Annalisa Berta (ed.), Whales, dolphins, and porpoises: a natural history and species guide, p. 32-39. University of Chicago Press.

The invasion of an Atlantic Ocean river basin in Patagonia by Chinook salmon: new insights from SNPs Ciancio, Javier E., Carla Riva Rossi, Miguel Pascual, Eric Anderson, and John Carlos Garza Biological Invasions 17(10):2989-2998

Shadowed by scale: subtle behavioral niche partitioning in two sympatric, tropical breeding albatross species Conners, Melinda G., Elliott L. Hazen, Daniel P. Costa, and Scott A. Shaffer Movement Ecology 3:28 (20 p.)

Data-moderate stock assessments for brown, China, copper, sharpchin, stripetail, and yellowtail rockfishes and English and rex soles in 2013 Cope, Jason, E.J. Dick, Alec MacCall, Melissa Monk, Braden Soper, and Chantel Wetzel Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 298 p.

Lepadichthys bilineatus, a new species of clingfish from Oman (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae), with a redescription of Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs and Link from the Red Sea Craig, Matthew T., Sergey V. Bogorodsky, John E. Randall, and Ahmad O. Mal Zootaxa 3990(1):113-122

Estimating limit reference points for western Pacific leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the U.S. West Coast EEZ Curtis, K. Alexandra, Jeffrey E. Moore, and Scott R. Benson PLoS ONE 10(9):e0136452 (24 p.)

Managing catch of marine megafauna: Guidelines for setting limit reference points Curtis, K. Alexandra, Jeffrey E. Moore, Charlotte Boyd, Peter W. Dillingham, Rebecca L. Lewison, Barbara L. Taylor, and Kelsey C. James Marine Policy 61:249-263

Automated detection of rockfish in unconstrained underwater videos using Haar cascades and a new image dataset: labeled fishes in the wild Cutter, George, Kevin Stierhoff, and Jiaming Zeng In: Proceedings, 2015 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (5-9 January 2015, Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii), p. 57-62. IEEE Computer Society, Conference Publishing Services.

Assessing risks to endangered blue whales in the Northern Indian Ocean de Vos, Asha, Jessica Redfern, Robert Brownell, Paul Fiedler, Thomas Moore, Lisa Ballance, Bernie Tershy, and Don Croll Paper SC/66a/HIM/13 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC66a meeting, San Diego, USA, 2015). 4 p.

Possible stock structure of coastal bottlenose dolphins off Baja California and California revealed by photo-identification research Defran, R.H., Marthajane Caldwell, Eduardo Morteo, Aimee R. Lang, Megan G. Rice, and David W. Weller Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 114(1):1-11