NOAA FISHERIES

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

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

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

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

2017 highly migratory species annual report Southwest Fisheries Science Center U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-04. 50 p.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2017 Billfish Newsletter SWFSC Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 24 p. Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

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

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

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

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

Meta-analysis of north Pacific albacore tuna natural mortality: an update Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/07. 11 p.

Catch and size composition time series of the US and Mexico surface fishery for the 2017 north Pacific albacore tuna assessment Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/08. 18 p.

Relative abundance indices of juvenile albacore tuna for the US surface fishery in the north Pacific Ocean Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/09. 15 p.

Catch and size composition time series of the US pelagic longline fleets for the 2017 north Pacific albacore tuna assessment Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/10. 13 p.

Relative abundance indices of adult albacore tuna for the US pelagic longline fishery in the north Pacific Ocean Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/11. 15 p.

Last call: Passive acoustic monitoring shows continued rapid decline of critically endangered vaquita Thomas, Len, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, Edwyna Nieto-Garcia, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Jay M. Ver Hoef, Jeffery Moore, Barbara Taylor, Jay Barlow, and Nicholas Tregenza Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142:EL512-EL517

Larval abundances of rockfishes that were historically targeted by fishing increased over 16 years in association with a large marine protected area Thompson, Andrew R., Dustin C. Chen, Lian W. Guo, John R. Hyde, and William Watson Royal Society Open Science 4:170639 (13 p.)

Correcting for bias in CalCOFI ichthyoplankton abundance estimates associated with the 1977 transition from ring to bongo net sampling Thompson, Andrew R., Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, and Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody CalCOFI Reports 58:113-123

Estimating partial regulation in spatiotemporal models of community dynamics Thorson, James T., Stephan B. Munch, and Douglas P. Swain Ecology 98(5):1277-1289

Predicting life history parameters for all fishes worldwide Thorson, James T., Stephan B. Munch, Jason M. Cope, and Jin Gao Ecological Applications 27(8):2262-2276

Managing living marine resources in a dynamic environment: The role of seasonal to decadal climate forecasts Tommasi, Desiree, Charles A. Stock, Alistair J. Hobday, Rick Method, Isaac C. Kaplan, J. Paige Eveson, Kirstin Holsman, Timothy J. Miller, Sarah Gaichas, Marion Gehlen, Andrew Pershing, Gabriel A. Vecchi, Rym Msadek, Tom Delworth, C. Mark Eakin, Melissa A. Haltuch, Roland Seferian, Claire M. Spillman, Jason R. Hartog, Samantha Siedlecki, Jameal F. Samhouri, Barbara Muhling, Rebecca G. Asch, Malin L. Pinsky, Vincent S. Saba, Sarah B. Kapnick, Carlos F. Gaitan, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Michael A. Alexander, Yan Xue, Kathleen V. Pegion, Patrick Lynch, Mark R. Payne, Trond Kristiansen, Patrick Lehodey, and Francisco E. Werner Progress in Oceanography 152:15-49

Seasonal forecasts of ocean conditions in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Tommasi, Desiree, Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, Samantha Siedlecki, Francisco E. Werner, Charles A. Stock, and Nicholas A. Bond US CLIVAR Variations 15(1):41-46

San Diego County mammal atlas Tremor, Scott, Drew Stokes, Wayne Spencer, Jay Diffendorfer, Howard Thomas, Susan Chivers, and Philip Unitt (eds.) San Diego Natural History Museum. 432 p.

Stable isotope discrimination factors and between-tissue isotope comparisons for bone and skin from captive and wild green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Mike Price, and Carolyn M. Kurle Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry 31(22):1903-1914

Intrapopulation variability in the timing of ontogenetic habitat shifts in sea turtles revealed using δ15N values from bone growth rings Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Jeffrey A. Seminoff, S. Hoyt Peckham, Larisa Avens, and Carolyn M. Kurle Journal of Animal Ecology 86(3):694-704

Familial social structure and socially driven genetic differentiation in Hawaiian short-finned pilot whales Van Cise, Amy M., Karen K. Martien, Sabre D. Mahaffy, Robin W. Baird, Daniel L. Webster, James H. Fowler, Erin M. Oleson, and Phillip A. Morin Molecular Ecology 26(23):6730-6741

Acoustic differentiation of Shiho- and Naisa-type short-finned pilot whales in the Pacific Ocean Van Cise, Amy M., Marie A. Roch, Robin W. Baird, T. Aran Mooney, and Jay Barlow Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 141(2):737-748

Oceanographic influences on the distribution and relative abundance of market squid paralarvae (Doryteuthis opalescens) off the Southern and Central California coast Van Noord, Joel E., and Emmanis Dorval Marine Ecology 38(3):e12433 (11 p.)

Filling the gaps in sea turtle research and conservation in the region where it began: Latin America Velez-Zuazo, Ximena, Jeffrey C. Mangel, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Bryan P. Wallace, and Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research 45(3):501-505

Genetic and life-history consequences of extreme climate events Vincenzi, Simone, Marc Mangel, Dusan Jesensek, John Carlos Garza, and Alain J. Crivelli Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284(1848):20162118 (8 p.)

Using choice models to inform large marine protected area design Wallmo, Kristy, and Rosemary Kosaka Marine Policy 83:111-117

Applications of satellite ocean color products Wang, Menghua, and Cara Wilson In: 2017 IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium: Proceedings (July 23-28, 2017, Fort Worth, Texas, USA), p. 2794-2797. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers).

Purging putative siblings from population genetic data sets: a cautionary view Waples, Robin S., and Eric C. Anderson Molecular Ecology 26(5):1211-1224

Gray whale Weller, David W. Manta Publications, 8 p. [fold-out field guide]

Common bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus Weller, David W., Aimee R. Lang, and Richard H. Defran In: Scott Tremor et al. (eds.), San Diego County mammal atlas, p. 382-385. San Diego Natural History Museum.

Collaborative Large Whale Survey 2015: Gray whale photo-identification catalog Weller, David W., James V. Carretta, Susan J. Chivers, John K.B. Ford, Alexa K. Kownacki, Aimee R. Lang, Sergio Martinez-Aguilar, Brenda K. Rone, and Alisa Schulman-Janiger U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-584. 140 p.

State of the California Current 2016-17: Still anything but "normal" in the north Wells, Brian K., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Nathan Mantua, Jarrod A. Santora, Jennifer Fisher, William T. Peterson, Eric Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Francisco P. Chavez, Ralf Goericke, Raphael Kudela, Clarissa Anderson, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Jose Gomez-Valdes, Richard D. Brodeur, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Toby D. Auth, John C. Field, Keith Sakuma, Sam McClatchie, Andrew R. Thompson, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Robert M. Suryan, Julia Parrish, Jane Dolliver, Stephanie Loredo, Jessica M. Porquez, Jeannette E. Zamon, Stephanie R. Schneider, Richard T. Golightly, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, Jaime Jahncke, William Sydeman, Sharon R. Melin, John A. Hildebrand, Amanda J. Debich, and Bruce Thayre CalCOFI Reports 58:1-55

Environmental conditions and prey-switching by a seabird predator impact juvenile salmon survival Wells, Brian K., Jarrod A. Santora, Mark J. Henderson, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, Russell W. Bradley, David D. Huff, Isaac D. Schroeder, Peter Nelson, John C. Field, and David G. Ainley Journal of Marine Systems 174:54-63

Age validation of the blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the eastern Pacific Ocean Wells, R.J. David, Natalie Spear, and Suzanne Kohin Marine and Freshwater Research 68(6):1130-1136

Animal Counting Toolkit: a practical guide to small-boat surveys for estimating abundance of coastal marine mammals Williams, Rob, Erin Ashe, Katie Gaut, Rowenna Gryba, Jeffrey E. Moore, Eric Rexstad, Doug Sandilands, Justin Steventon, and Randall R. Reeves Endangered Species Research 34:149-165

Scientific framework for assessing factors influencing endangered Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) across the life cycle Windell, Sean, Patricia L. Brandes, J. Louise Conrad, John W. Ferguson, Pascale A.L. Goertler, Brett N. Harvey, Joseph Heublein, Joshua A. Israel, Daniel W. Kratville, Joseph E. Kirsch, Russell W. Perry, Joseph Pisciotto, William R. Poytress, Kevin Reece, Brycen G. Swart, and Rachel C. Johnson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-586. 49 p.

parallelnewhybrid: an R package for the parallelization of hybrid detection using NewHybrids Wringe, Brendan F., Ryan R.E. Stanley, Nicholas W. Jeffery, Eric C. Anderson, and Ian R. Bradbury Molecular Ecology Resources 17(1):91-95

hybriddetective: A workflow and package to facilitate the detection of hybridization using genomic data in R Wringe, Brendan F., Ryan R.E. Stanley, Nicholas W. Jeffery, Eric C. Anderson, and Ian R. Bradbury Molecular Ecology Resources 17(6):e275-e284

Influence of fronts on the spatial distribution of albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) in the Northeast Pacific over the past 30 years (1982-2011) Xu, Yi, Karen Nieto, Steven L.H. Teo, Sam McClatchie, and John Holmes Progress in Oceanography 150:72-78

Limited trophic partitioning among sympatric delphinids off a tropical oceanic atoll Young, Hillary, Katherine Nigro, Douglas J. McCauley, Lisa T. Ballance, Erin M. Oleson, and Simone Baumann-Pickering PLoS ONE 12(8):e0181526 (16 p.)

Circumpolar analysis of the Adelie Penguin reveals the importance of environmental variability in phenological mismatch Youngflesh, Casey, Stephanie Jenouvrier, Yun Li, Rubao Ji, David G. Ainley, Grant Ballard, Christophe Barbraud, Karine Delord, Katie M. Dugger, Louise M. Emmerson, William R. Fraser, Jefferson T. Hinke, Phil O'B. Lyver, Silvia Olmastroni, Colin J. Southwell, Susan G. Trivelpiece, Wayne Z. Trivelpiece, and Heather J. Lynch Ecology 98(4):940-951

Point process models for spatio-temporal distance sampling data from a large-scale survey of blue whales Yuan, Yuan, Fabian E. Bachl, Finn Lindgren, David L. Borchers, Janine B. Illian, Stephen T. Buckland, Havard Rue, and Tim Gerrodette Annals of Applied Statistics 11(4):2270-2297

Genomic divergence across ecological gradients in the Central African rainforest songbird (Andropadus virens) Zhen, Ying, Ryan J. Harrigan, Kristen C. Ruegg, Eric C. Anderson, Thomas C. Ng, Sirena Lao, Kirk E. Lohmueller, and Thomas B. Smith Molecular Ecology 26(19):4966-4977

Using stable isotopes to investigate foraging variation and habitat use of sperm whales from northern Peru Zupcic-Moore, Jessica R., R. Iliana Ruiz-Cooley, Obla Paliza, Paul L. Koch, and Matthew D. McCarthy Marine Ecology Progress Series 579:201-212

Acoustic trawl surveys in the California Current during 2016: preliminary results and research needs [abstract] Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Beverly J. Macewicz, George R. Cutter Jr., Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Kevin L. Stierhoff In: Stephanie Flores and Gerard DiNardo (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Trinational Sardine & Small Pelagics Forum (La Jolla, California, United States of America, December 8-9, 2016), p. 45. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

Distribution, biomass and demography of the central-stock of northern anchovy during summer 2016, estimated from acoustic-trawl sampling Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Beverly J. Macewicz, Scott Mau, David Murfin, Danial Palance, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Kevin Stierhoff U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-572. 18 p.

Population genetic structure and ancestry of steelhead/rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) at the extreme southern edge of their range in North America Abadia-Cardoso, Alicia, Devon E. Pearse, Sandra Jacobson, Jack Marshall, Dale Dalrymple, Frank Kawasaki, Gorgonio Ruiz-Campos, and John Carlos Garza Conservation Genetics 17(3):675-689

Historia evolutiva y biodiversidad genetica de las truchas de la Sierra Madre Occidental Abadia-Cardoso, Alicia, Francisco Javier Garcia-De Leon, and John Carlos Garza In: Arturo Ruiz-Luna and Francisco Javier Garcia-De Leon (eds), La trucha dorada Mexicana, p. 29-38. Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo (CIAD); Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT); Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste (CIB).

Primerias gestiones para el cultivo de trucha nativa de la Sierra Madre Occidental: recolecta, determinacion de identidad genetica y reproduccion Abadia-Cardoso, Alicia, Jose Luis Damas-Aguilar, Jose Luis Falcon-Rodriguez, Francisco Javier Garcia-De Leon, John Carlos Garza, and Genoveva Ingle de la Mora In: Arturo Ruiz-Luna and Francisco Javier Garcia-De Leon (eds), La trucha dorada Mexicana, p. 153-171. Centro de Investigacion en Alimentacion y Desarrollo (CIAD); Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (CONACYT); Centro de Investigaciones Biologicas del Noroeste (CIB).

What influences the worldwide genetic structure of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)? Alexander, Alana, Debbie Steel, Kendra Koekzema, Sarah L. Mesnick, Daniel Engelhaupt, Iain Kerr, Roger Payne, and C. Scott Baker Molecular Ecology 25(12):2754-2772

Bayesian pedigree inference with small numbers of single nucleotide polymorphisms via a factor-graph representation Anderson, Eric C., and Thomas C. Ng Theoretical Population Biology 107:39-51

Parallel evolution of the summer steelhead ecotype in multiple populations from Oregon and Northern California Arciniega, Martha, Anthony J. Clemento, Michael R. Miller, Matt Peterson, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Conservation Genetics 17(1):165-175

Feasibility and patient acceptance of emergency department-based influenza vaccination in a military medical center Arkin Hilger, Keren, James R. Hilger, Shannon D. Putnam, Shaun D. Carstairs, and Ryan C. Maves Military Medicine 181(8):883-886

Development and testing of two towed volumetric hydrophone array prototypes to improve localization accuracy during shipboard line-transect cetacean surveys Barkley, Yvonne, Jay Barlow, Shannon Rankin, Gerald D'Spain, and Erin Oleson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-49. 36 p.

Moving towards dynamic ocean management: How well do modeled ocean products predict species distributions? Becker, Elizabeth A., Karin A. Forney, Paul C. Fiedler, Jay Barlow, Susan J. Chivers, Christopher A. Edwards, Andrew M. Moore, and Jessica V. Redfern Remote Sensing 8(2):149 (26 p.)

A systematic survey of the integration of animal behavior into conservation Berger-Tal, Oded, Daniel T. Blumstein, Scott Carroll, Robert N. Fisher, Sarah L. Mesnick, Megan A. Owen, David Saltz, Colleen Cassady St. Claire, and Ronald R. Swaisgood Conservation Biology 30(4):744-753

Status review of the Sakhalin Bay-Amur River beluga whale (Delphinapterus leucas) under the Marine Mammal Protection Act Bettridge, Shannon, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Melissa Andersen Garcia, Rod C. Hobbs, Cheri L. McCarty, Richard D. Methot Jr., Debra L. Palka, Patricia E. Rosel, Kathryn S. Swails, and Barbara L. Taylor NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-51. 34 p.

Marine fisheries Bjorkstedt, Eric P., John C. Field, Milton Love, Laura Rogers-Bennett, and Rick Starr In: Harold Mooney and Erika Zavaleta (eds.), Ecosystems of California, p. 779-815. University of California Press.

Oceanography Bograd, Steven J., Andrew W. Leising, and Elliott L. Hazen In: Harold Mooney and Erika Zavaleta (eds.), Ecosystems of California, p. 95-106. University of California Press.

The offshore ecosystem Bograd, Steven J., Elliott L. Hazen, Sara M. Maxwell, Andrew W. Leising, Helen Bailey, and Richard D. Brodeur In: Harold Mooney and Erika Zavaleta (eds.), Ecosystems of California, p. 287-310. University of California Press.

Impacts of ecology and behavior on Antarctic fur seal remating and relatedness Bonin, Carolina A., Michael E. Goebel, Gregory M. O'Corry-Crowe, and Ronald S. Burton Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 476:72-77

South-Central/Southern California Coast Recovery Domain Boughton, David A. In: Thomas H. Williams et al. (eds.), Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 109-128. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-564.

Removing a dam and re-routing a river: Will expected benefits for steelhead be realized in Carmel River, California? Boughton, David A., Amy East, Larry Hampson, Joseph D. Kiernan, Sheldon Leiker, Nathan Mantua, Colin Nicol, Douglas Smith, Kevan Urquhart, Thomas H. Williams, and Lee R. Harrison U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-553. 85 p.

Injury determinations for marine mammals observed interacting with Hawaii and American Samoa longline fisheries during 2009-2013 Bradford, Amanda L., and Karin A. Forney NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-50. 27 p.

Close-kin mark-recapture Bravington, Mark V., Hans J. Skaug, and Eric C. Anderson Statistical Science 31(2):259-274

Multi-year tracking reveals extensive pelagic phase of juvenile loggerhead sea turtles in the North Pacific Briscoe, D.K., D.M. Parker, S. Bograd, E. Hazen, K. Scales, G.H. Balazs, M. Kurita, T. Saito, H. Okamoto, M. Rice, J.J. Polovina, and L.B. Crowder Movement Ecology 4:23 (12 p.)

Coupled downscaled climate models and ecophysiological metrics forecast habitat compression for an endangered estuarine fish Brown, Larry R., Lisa M. Komoroske, R. Wayne Wagner, Tara Morgan-King, Jason T. May, Richard E. Connon, and Nann A. Fangue PLoS ONE 11(1):e0146724 (21 p.)

Climate science strategy of the US National Marine Fisheries Service Busch, D. Shallin, Roger Griffis, Jason Link, Karen Abrams, Jason Baker, Russell E. Brainard, Michael Ford, Jonathan A. Hare, Amber Himes-Cornell, Anne Hollowed, Nathan J. Mantua, Sam McClatchie, Michelle McClure, Mark W. Nelson, Kenric Osgood, Jay O. Peterson, Michael Rust, Vincent Saba, Michael F. Sigler, Seth Sykora-Bodie, Christopher Toole, Eric Thunberg, Robin S. Waples, and Richard Merrick Marine Policy 74:58-67

Why do larger mothers produce larger offspring? A test of classic theory Cameron, Hayley, Keyne Monro, Martino Malerba, Stephan Munch, and Dustin Marshall Ecology 97(12):3452-3459

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2015 Carretta, James V., Erin M. Oleson, Jason Baker, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Karin A. Forney, Marcia M. Muto, Brad Hanson, Anthony J. Orr, Harriet Huber, Mark S. Lowry, Jay Barlow, Jeffrey E. Moore, Deanna Lynch, Lilian Carswell, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-561. 419 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - PACIFIC - SURVEYS - STOCKS - ASSESSMENTS

Recovery rates of bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) carcasses estimated from stranding and survival rate data Carretta, James V., Kerri Danil, Susan J. Chivers, David W. Weller, David S. Janiger, Michelle Berman-Kowalewski, Keith M. Hernandez, James T. Harvey, Robin C. Dunkin, David R. Casper, Shelbi Stoudt, Maureen Flannery, Kristin Wilkinson, Jessie Huggins, and Dyanna M. Lambourn Marine Mammal Science 32(1):349-362

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific west coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2010-2014 Carretta, James V., Marcia M. Muto, Sarah Wilkin, Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Monica DeAngelis, Justin Viezbicke, and Jason Jannot U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-554. 101 p.

Movements and distribution of juvenile common thresher sharks Alopias vulpinus in Pacific coast waters of the USA and Mexico Cartamil, D., J. Wraith, N.C. Wegner, D. Kacev, C.H. Lam, O. Santana-Morales, O. Sosa-Nishizaki, M. Escobedo-Olvera, S. Kohin, J.B. Graham, and P. Hastings Marine Ecology Progress Series 548:153-163

GPS tracking reveals rafting behaviour of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus): implications for foraging ecology and conservation Carter, Matt I.D., Samantha L. Cox, Kylie L. Scales, Anthony W.J. Bicknell, Matthew D. Nicholson, Kelly M. Atkins, Greg Morgan, Lisa Morgan, W. James Grecian, Samantha C. Patrick, and Stephen C. Votier Bird Study 63(1):83-95

Direct estimates of gear selectivity for the North Pacific blue shark using catch-at-length data: implications for stock assessment Carvalho, Felipe, and Tim Sippel 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-1/13. 10 p.

Population status assessment and restoration modeling of white abalone Haliotis sorenseni in California Catton, Cynthia A., Kevin L. Stierhoff, and Laura Rogers-Bennett Journal of Shellfish Research 35(3):593-599

Status of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) within nations of the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles Chapman, Rebecca, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles (IAC), Technical Document CIT-CC13-2016-Tec.13. 46 p.

Populations structure of blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, in the Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans Chen, Hui, Chia-Hao Chang, Chi-Lu Sun, Kwang-Tsao Shao, Su-Zan Yeh, and Gerard DiNardo Zoological Studies 55:33 (15 p.)

Comparison of reproductive parameters for populations of eastern North Pacific common dolphins: Delphinus capensis and D. delphis Chivers, Susan J., Wayne L. Perryman, Morgan S. Lynn, Tim Gerrodette, Frederick I. Archer, Kerri Danil, Michelle Berman-Kowalewski, and James P. Dines Marine Mammal Science 32(1):57-85

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