NOAA FISHERIES

SNP development from RNA-seq data in a nonmodel fish: how many individuals are needed for accurate allele frequency prediction? Schunter C., J.C. Garza, E. Macpherson, and M. Pascual Molecular Ecology Resources 14(1):157-165

Kinship analyses identify fish dispersal events on a temperate coastline Schunter, C., M. Pascual, J.C. Garza, N. Raventos, and E. Macpherson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281(1785):20140556 (7 p.)

Bycatch and ship strikes of gray whales in U.S. and Canadian waters, 2008-2012 Scordino, Jonathan J., Jim Carretta, and Paul Cottrell Paper SC/65b/BRG21 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65b meeting, Bled, Slovenia, 2014). 19 p.

Loggerhead sea turtle abundance at a foraging hotspot in the eastern Pacific Ocean: implications for at-sea conservation Seminoff, Jeffrey A., Tomoharu Eguchi, Jim Carretta, Camryn D. Allen, Dan Prosperi, Rodrigo Rangel, James W. Gilpatrick Jr., Karin Forney, and S. Hoyt Peckham Endangered Species Research 24(3):207-220

Bycatch and directed harvest drive high green turtle mortality at Baja California Sur, Mexico Senko, Jesse, Agnese Mancini, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Volker Koch Biological Conservation 169:24-30

Geographic patterns of genetic variation in a broadly distributed marine vertebrate: new insights into loggerhead turtle stock structure from expanded mitochondrial DNA sequences Shamblin, Brian M., Alan B. Bolten, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Karen A. Bjorndal, Luis Cardona, Carlos Carreras, Marcel Clusa, Catalina Monzon-Arguello, Campbell J. Nairn, Janne T. Nielsen, Ronel Nel, Luciano S. Soares, Kelly R. Stewart, Sibelle T. Vilaca, Oguz Turkozan, Can Yilmaz, and Peter H. Dutton PLoS ONE 9(1):e85956 (12 p.)

Will a catch share for whales improve social welfare? Smith, Martin D., Frank Asche, Lori S. Bennear, Elizabeth Havice, Andrew J. Read, and Dale Squires Ecological Applications 24(1):15-23

Prediction of fishing effort distributions using boosted regression trees Soykan, Candan U., Tomoharu Eguchi, Suzanne Kohin, and Heidi Dewar Ecological Applications 24(1):71-83

Port level fishing dynamics: assessing changes in the distribution of fishing activity over time Speir, Cameron, Caroline Pomeroy, and Jon G. Sutinen Marine Policy 46:171-191

Geographic variation in environmental factors regulating outmigration timing of coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) smolts Spence, Brian C., and E.J. Dick Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 71(1):56-69

Linking Northeast Pacific recruitment synchrony to environmental variability Stachura, Megan M., Timothy E. Essington, Nathan J. Mantua, Anne B. Hollowed, Melissa A. Haltuch, Paul D. Spencer, Trevor A. Branch, and Miriam J. Doyle Fisheries Oceanography 23(5):389-408

Maternal influence on timing of parturition, fedundity, and larval quality in three shelf rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) Stafford, David M., Susan M. Sogard, and Steven A. Berkeley Aquatic Biology 21(1):11-24

Genetic pedigree inference of coho salmon: a powerful tool for guiding the management of an ESA-listed species Starks, Hilary A. Master's thesis, University of California, Santa Cruz. 141 p.

Combined climate- and prey-mediated range expansion of Humboldt squid (Dosidicus gigas), a large marine predator in the California Current System Stewart, Julia S., Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Jarrette E.K. Byrnes, David G. Foley, William F. Gilly, Bruce H. Robison, and John C. Field Global Change Biology 20(6):1832-1843

Breeding sex ratios in adult leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) may compensate for female-biased hatchling sex ratios Stewart, Kelly R., and Peter H. Dutton PLoS ONE 9(2):e88138 (5 p.)

Increased nesting, good survival and variable site fidelity for leatherback turtles in Florida, USA Stewart, Kelly R., Kelly J. Martin, Chris Johnson, Nicole Desjardin, Scott A. Eckert, and Larry B. Crowder Biological Conservation 176:117-125

White abalone at San Clemente Island: population estimates and management recommendations Stierhoff, Kevin L., Melissa Neuman, Scott A. Mau, and David W. Murfin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-527. 26 p.

Climate change and wind intensification in coastal upwelling ecosystems Sydeman, W.J., M. Garcia-Reyes, D.S. Schoeman, R.R. Rykaczewski, S.A. Thompson, B.A. Black, and S.J. Bograd Science 345(6192):77-80

Changes in California Chinook salmon diet over the past 50 years: relevance to the recent population crash Thayer, Julie A., John C. Field, and William J. Sydeman Marine Ecology Progress Series 498:249-261

Dynamics of larval fish assemblages in the California Current System: a comparative study between Oregon and southern California Thompson, Andrew R., Toby D. Auth, Richard D. Brodeur, Noelle M. Bowlin, and William Watson Marine Ecology Progress Series 506:193-212

A Bayesian approach to identifying and compensating for model misspecification in population models Thorson, James T., Kotaro Ono, and Stephan B. Munch Ecology 95(2):329-341

Sexual dimorphism and developmental patterns in the external morphology of the vaquita, Phocoena sinus Torre, Jorge, Omar Vidal, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Marine Mammal Science 30(4):1285-1296

Blue whale population structure along the eastern South Pacific Ocean: evidence of more than one population Torres-Florez, J.P., R. Hucke-Gaete, R. LeDuc, A. Lang, B. Taylor, L.E. Pimper, L. Bedrinana-Romano, H.C. Rosembaum, and C.C. Figueroa Molecular Ecology 23(24):5998-6010

Report of the 3rd National Ecosystem Modeling Workshop (NEMoW 3): Mingling models for marine resource management – Multiple model inference Townsend, H.M., C. Harvey, K.Y. Aydin, R. Gamble, A. Gruss, P.S. Levin, J.S. Link, K.E. Osgood, J. Polovina, M.J. Schirripa, and B. Wells (eds.) NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-149. 93 p.

Seabird research at Admiralty Bay, King George Island, Antarctica Trivelpiece, Susan G., Alexis Will, Kristen Boysen, Penelope Chilton, and Wayne Z. Trivelpiece In: Jennifer G. Walsh (ed.), AMLR 2010-2011 field season report, p. 40-45. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-524.

Foraging site fidelity and stable isotope values of loggerhead turtles tracked in the Gulf of Mexico and northwest Caribbean Tucker, Anton D., Bradley D. MacDonald, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Ecology Progress Series 502:267-279

Whale research by Roy Chapman Andrews in Japan and Korea, and retracing his footsteps around Japan in 1909-1910 Uni, Yoshikazu, Robert L. Brownell Jr., and Hayato Sakurai Japan Cetology 24:33-61

Inferring past demographic changes in a critically endangered marine fish after fishery collapse Valenzuela-Quinonez, Fausto, John Carlos Garza, Juan A. De-Anda-Montanez, and Francisco J. Garcia-de-Leon ICES Journal of Marine Science 71(7):1619-1628

A comparison of the Pac-X trans-Pacific Wave Glider data and satellite data (MODIS, Aquarius, TRMM and VIIRS) Villareal, Tracy A., and Cara Wilson PLoS ONE 9(3):e92280 (18 p.)

Eco-evolutionary dynamics induced by massive mortality events Vincenzi, S., A.J. Crivelli, W.H. Satterthwaite, and M. Mangel Journal of Fish Biology 85(1):8-30

Rapid estimation of potential yield for data-poor Tapes philippinarum fisheries in North Adriatic coastal lagoons Vincenzi, Simone, Giulio A. De Leo, Cristina Munari, and Michele Mistri Hydrobiologia 724(1):267-277

Determining individual variation in growth and its implication for life-history and population processes using the Empirical Bayes method Vincenzi, Simone, Marc Mangel, Alain J. Crivelli, Stephan Munch, and Hans J. Skaug PLoS Computational Biology 10(9):e1003828 (16 p.)

Oceanographic and climatic variation drive top-down/bottom-up coupling in the Galapagos intertidal meta-ecosystem Vinueza, Luis R., Bruce A. Menge, Diego Ruiz, and Daniel M. Palacios Ecological Monographs 84(3):411-434

Productivity change in U.S. catch share fisheries Walden, John, Juan Agar, Ron Felthoven, Abigail Harley, Stephen Kasperski, Jean Lee, Todd Lee, Aaron Mamula, Jessica Stephen, Andy Strelcheck, and Eric Thunberg U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-146. 137 p.

Biological and environmental influences on the trophic ecology of leatherback turtles in the northwest Atlantic Ocean Wallace, Bryan P., Joel Schumacher, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Michael C. James Marine Biology 161(8):1711-1724

Public preferences for marine protected areas off the U.S. west coast: The significance of restrictions and size on economic value Wallmo, K., and R. Kosaka NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-144. 96 p.

AMLR 2010-2011 field season report Walsh, Jennifer G. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-524. 72 p. ANTARCTICA - POLAR - ANTARCTIC MARINE LIVING RESOURCES (AMLR) - FIELD SEASON REPORT

Evaluation of virgin recruitment profiling as a diagnostic for selectivity curve structure in integrated stock assessment models Wang, Sheng-Ping, Mark N. Maunder, Kevin R. Piner, Alexandre Aires-da-Silva, and Hui-Hua Lee Fisheries Research 158:158-164

Bottom side-roll feeding by humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae) in the southern Gulf of Maine, U.S.A. Ware, Colin, David N. Wiley, Ari S. Friedlaender, Mason Weinrich, Elliott L. Hazen, Alessandro Bocconcelli, Susan E. Parks, Alison K. Stimpert, Mike A. Thompson, and Kyler Abernathy Marine Mammal Science 30(2):494-511

On the risks of salmon fishing trap-nets to gray whales summering off Sakhalin Island, Russia Weller, David W., Olga A. Sychenko, Alexander M. Burdin, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/65b/BRG16 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65b meeting, Bled, Slovenia, 2014). 5 p.

Ecosystem modeling efforts at the NOAA/NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center Wells, Brian In: H.M. Townsend et al. (eds.), Report of the 3rd National Ecosystem Modeling Workshop (NEMoW 3): Mingling models for marine resource management – Multiple model inference, p. 28-33. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-149.

Coastal pelagic and forage fishes Wells, Brian K., Richard D. Brodeur, John C. Field, Ed Weber, Andrew R. Thompson, Sam McClatchie, Paul R. Crone, Kevin T. Hill, and Caren Barcelo In: C.J. Harvey et al. (eds.), The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment: Phase III report. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

Pacific salmon Wells, Brian, Tom Wainwright, Cynthia Thomson, Thomas Williams, Nathan Mantua, Lisa Crozier, Sara Breslow, and Kurt Fresh In: C.J. Harvey et al. (eds.), The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment: Phase III report. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

So, you want to use next-generation sequencing in marine systems? Insight from the Pan-Pacific Advanced Studies Institute Willette, D.A., F.W. Allendorf, P.H. Barber, D.J. Barshis, K.E. Carpenter, E.D. Crandall, W.A. Cresko, I. Fernandez-Silva, M.V. Matz, E. Meyer, M.D. Santos, L.W. Seeb, and J.E. Seeb Bulletin of Marine Science 90(1):79-122

Ecological intregrity Williams, Gregory D., Kelly S. Andrews, Jameal F. Samhouri, Nick Tolimieri, Caren Barcelo, Richard D. Brodeur, John Field, Bill Peterson, and Andrew Thompson In: C.J. Harvey et al. (eds.), The California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment: Phase III report. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service.

Fisheries Wilson, Cara In: Eni G. Njoku (ed.), Encyclopedia of remote sensing, p. 202-210. Springer.

Fishery and hatchery effects on an endangered salmon population with low productivity Winship, Arliss J., Michael R. O'Farrell, and Michael S. Mohr Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143(4):957-971

2014 Billfish Newsletter: [2013 International Billfish Angler Survey], [2013 Billfish Tagging Program] Wraith, James, and Suzanne Kohin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 16p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

Minke whale genome and aquatic adaptation in cetaceans Yim, Hyung-Soon, Yun Sung Cho, Xuanmin Guang, Sung Gyun Kang, Jae-Yeon Jeong, Sun-Shin Cha, Hyun-Myung Oh, Jae-Hak Lee, Eun Chan Yang, Kae Kyoung Kwon, Yun Jae Kim, Tae Wan Kim, Wonduck Kim, Jeong Ho Jeon, Sang-Jin Kim, Dong Han Choi, Sungwoong Jho, Hak-Min Kim, Junsu Ko, Hyunmin Kim, Young-Ah Shin, Hyun-Ju Jung, Yuan Zheng, Zhuo Wang, Yan Chen, Ming Chen, Awei Jiang, Erli Li, Shu Zhang, Haolong Hou, Tae Hyung Kim, Lili Yu, Sha Liu, Kung Ahn, Jesse Cooper, Sin-Gi Park, Chang Pyo Hong, Wook Jin, Heui-Soo Kim, Chankyu Park, Kyooyeol Lee, Sung Chun, Phillip A. Morin, Stephen J. O'Brien, Hang Lee, Jumpei Kimura, Dae Yeon Moon, Andrea Manica, Jeremy Edwards, Byung Chul Kim, Sangsoo Kim, Jun Wang, Jong Bhak, Hyun Sook Lee, and Jung-Hyun Lee Nature Genetics 46(1):88-92

Human-occupied submersibles Yoklavich, Mary In: Undersea Imaging Workshop (Red Bank, New Jersey, January 14-15, 2014): workshop report, p. 30-32. New Jersey Sea Grant.

NOAA Fisheries SWFSC Habitat Ecology Team Yoklavich, Mary, Tom Laidig, Diana Watters, Lisa Krigsman, Andrew Taylor, and David Huff In: Visual Survey Methods Workshop (April 8-9, 2014, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington): Project profiles of workshop participants, p. 40-41. Canada-United States Groundfish Committee, Technical Sub-Committee.

A study on relationships between large-scale climate indices and estimates of North Pacific albacore tuna productivity Zhang, Zane, John Holmes, and Steven L.H. Teo Fisheries Oceanography 23(5):409-416

Environmental and parental control of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) recruitment Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 71(8):2198-2207

Building on fisheries acoustics for marine ecosystem surveys Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, George R. Cutter Jr., Kevin Stierhoff, and Beverly J. Macewicz Oceanography 27(4):68-79

Large-scale parentage analysis reveals reproductive patterns and heritability of spawn timing in a hatchery population of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Abadia-Cardoso, Alicia, Eric C. Anderson, Devon E. Pearse and John Carlos Garza Molecular Ecology 22(18):4733-4746

Pronounced genetic structure in a highly mobile coral reef fish, Caesio cuning, in the Coral Triangle Ackiss, Amanda S., Shinta Pardede, Eric D. Crandall, Ma. Carmen A. Ablan-Lagman, Ambariyanto, November Romena, Paul H. Barber, and Kent E. Carpenter Marine Ecology Progress Series 480:185-197

Stable isotope analysis reveals migratory origin of loggerhead turtles in the Southern California Bight Allen, Camryn D., Garrett E. Lemons, Tomoharu Eguchi, Robin A. LeRoux, Christina C. Fahy, Peter H. Dutton, S. Hoyt Peckham, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Ecology Progress Series 472:275-285

Assessment of sex ratio and reproductive status of a foraging green turtle population in San Diego Bay, California [abstract] Allen, Camryn D., Michelle N. Robbins, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Dave W. Owens, Nick M. Kellar, and Peter H. Dutton In: Tony Tucker et al. (compilers), Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation (5-8 February 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, USA), p. 213-214. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-645.

Sample size recommendations for estimating stock composition using genetic stock identification (GSI) Allen-Moran, Shanae D., Wiliiam H. Satterthwaite, and Michael S. Mohr U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-513. 26 p.

The effects of surgically implanted acoustic transmitters on laboratory growth, survival and tag retention in hatchery yearling Chinook salmon Ammann, Arnold J., Cyril J. Michel, and R. Bruce MacFarlane Environmental Biology of Fishes 96(2-3):135-143

Ocean habitat of juvenile Chinook salmon at the southern end of their range [abstract] Ammann, Arnold J., David D. Huff, Sean A. Hayes, Jeffrey A. Harding, and R. Bruce MacFarlane In: Nancy D. Davis and Claudia Chan (eds.), 3rd International Workshop on Migration and Survival Mechanisms of Juvenile Salmon and Steelhead in Ocean Ecosystems (Honolulu, Hawaii, April 25-26, 2013), p. 70. North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission, Technical Report 9.

Modeling the influence of flow on invertebrate drift across spatial scales using a 2D hydraulic model and a 1D population model Anderson, Kurt E., Lee R. Harrison, Roger M. Nisbet, and Allison Kolpas Ecological Modelling 265(10):207-220

The evolving male: spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) ecotypes are divergent at Y chromosome but not mtDNA or autosomal markers Andrews, Kimberly R., William F. Perrin, Marc Oremus, Leszek Karczmarski, Brian W. Bowen, Jonathan B. Puritz, and Robert J. Toonen Molecular Ecology 22(9):2408-2423

Satellite telemetry derived summer movements of Antarctic blue whales Andrews-Goff, Virginia, Paula A. Olson, Nicholas J. Gales, and Michael C. Double Paper SC/65a/SH03 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65a meeting, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2013). 10 p.

Mitogenomic phylogenetics of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus spp.): genetic evidence for revision of subspecies Archer, Frederick I., Phillip A. Morin, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Kelly M. Robertson, Matthew S. Leslie, Martine Berube, Simone Panigada, and Barbara L. Taylor PLoS ONE 8(5):e63396 (10 p.)

Complementary skeletochronology and stable isotope analyses offer new insight into juvenile loggerhead sea turtle oceanic state duration and growth dynamics Avens, Larisa, Lisa R. Goshe, Mariela Pajuelo, Karen A. Bjorndal, Bradley D. MacDonald, Garrett E. Lemons, Alan B. Bolten, Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Ecology Progress Series 491:235-251

Leatherback turtle movements and behavior in the Pacific Ocean: its application in predicting interactions with fisheries [abstract] Bailey, Helen, Scott R. Benson, George L. Shillinger, Steven J. Bograd, Peter H. Dutton, Scott A. Eckert, Stephen J. Morreale, Frank V. Paladino, Tomoharu Eguchi, David G. Foley, Barbara A. Block, Rotney Piedra, Creusa Hitipeuw, Ricardo F. Tapilatu, John H. Roe, Evan Howell, and James R. Spotila In: Tony Tucker et al. (compilers), Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation (5-8 February 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, USA), p. 88-89. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-645.

Evidence of an island-associated population of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Baird, Robin W., Erin M. Oleson, Jay Barlow, Allan D. Ligon, Antoinette M. Gorgone, and Sabre D. Mahaffy Pacific Science 67(4):513-521

Strong maternal fidelity and natal philopatry shape genetic structure in North Pacific humpback whales Baker, C. Scott, Debbie Steel, John Calambokidis, Erin Falcone, Ursula Gonzalez-Peral, Jay Barlow, Alexander M. Burdin, Phillip J. Clapham, John K.B. Ford, Christine M. Gabriele, David Mattila, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Janice M. Straley, Barbara L. Taylor, Jorge Urban, Paul R. Wade, David Weller, Briana H. Witteveen, and Manami Yamaguchi Marine Ecology Progress Series 494:291-306

Species identity and human consumption of beaked whales in the Gilbert Islands, Republic of Kiribati Baker, C.S., A. Hutt, K. Thompson, M.L. Dalebout, J. Robins, R.L. Brownell Jr., and G.S. Stone Animal Conservation 16(6):641-647

Inferring trackline detection probabilities from differences in apparent densities of beaked whales and dwarf & pygmy sperm whales in different survey conditions Barlow, Jay U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-508. 14 p.

Trackline and point detection probabilities for acoustic surveys of Cuvier's and Blainville's beaked whales Barlow, Jay, Peter L. Tyack, Mark P. Johnson, Robin W. Baird, Gregory S. Schorr, Russel D. Andrews, and Natacha Aguilar de Soto Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(3):2486-2496

Aleutian Islands beaked whale echolocation signals Baumann-Pickering, Simone, Anne E. Simonis, Sean M. Wiggins, Robert L. Brownell Jr., and John A. Hildebrand Marine Mammal Science 29(1):221-227

Species-specific beaked whale echolocation signals Baumann-Pickering, Simone, Mark A. McDonald, Anne E. Simonis, Alba Solsona Berga, Karlina P.B. Merkens, Erin M. Oleson, Marie A. Roch, Sean M. Wiggins, Shannon Rankin, Tina M. Yack, and John A. Hildebrand Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 134(3):2293-2301

Baird's beaked whale echolocation signals Baumann-Pickering, Simone, Tina M. Yack, Jay Barlow, Sean M. Wiggins, and John A. Hildebrand Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 133(6):4321-4331

Genetics and preliminary hormone analyses in western gray whale biopsy samples collected off Sakhalin Island in 2011 Bickham, John W., Jacqueline Doyle, J. Andrew DeWoody, Rebecca Pezdek, Kim Wooten, Nicholas Kellar, Marisa Trego, Jennifer Dupont, Todd O'Hara, and Celine A.J. Godard-Codding Paper SC/65a/BRG23 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65a meeting, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2013). 5 p.

Movements and diving behavior of internesting green turtles along Pacific Costa Rica Blanco, Gabriela S., Stephen J. Morreale, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Frank V. Paladino, Rotney Piedra, and James R. Spotila Integrative Zoology 8(3):293-306

Oxygen concentrations in the California Current Bograd, Steven In: Tamara Kadir, Linda Mazur, Carmen Milanes, and Karen Randles (eds.), Indicators of climate change in California, p. 115-118. California Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.

Floodplain rehabilitation as a hedge against hydroclimatic uncertainty in a migration corridor of threatened steelhead Boughton, David A., and Andrew S. Pike Conservation Biology 27(6):1158-1168

Inter-annual variation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in an Antarctic top predator Arctocephalus gazella Brault, Emily K., Michael E. Goebel, Heidi N. Geisz, Elizabeth A. Canuel, and Rebecca M. Dickhut Environmental Science and Technology 47(22):12744-12752

Status of small local populations of Indi-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the Japanese Archipelago Brownell, Robert L. Jr., and Naoko Funahashi Paper SC/65a/SM26 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65a meeting, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2013). 7 p.

Mass stranding of short-beaked common dolphins, Delphinus delphis, at Arraial do Cabo, Brazil: natural or human induced? Brownell, Robert L. Jr., Salvatore Siciliano, and Jailson F. de Moura Paper SC/65a/SM27 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65a meeting, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2013). 5 p.

A practical comparison of viability models used for management of endangered and threatened anadromous Pacific salmonids Busch, D. Shallin, David A. Boughton, Thomas Cooney, Peter Lawson, Steven T. Lindley, Michelle McClure, Mary H. Ruckelshaus, Norma Jean Sands, Brian C. Spence, Thomas C. Wainwright, Thomas H. Williams, and Paul McElhany North American Journal of Fisheries Management 33(6):1125-1141

Unexpected genetic differentiation between recently recolonized populations of a long-lived and highly vagile marine mammal Carolina A. Bonin, Michael E. Goebel, Jaume Forcada, Ronald S. Burton, and Joseph I. Hoffman Ecology and Evolution 3(11):3701-3712

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2012 Carretta, James V., Erin Oleson, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Karin A. Forney, Jason Baker, Brad Hanson, Karen Martien, Marcia M. Muto, Mark S. Lowry, Jay Barlow, Deanna Lynch, Lilian Carswell, Robert L. Brownell Jr., David K. Matilla, and Marie C. Hill U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-504. 378 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, 2007-2011 Carretta, James V., Sarah M. Wilkin, Marcia M. Muto, Kristin Wilkinson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-514. 83 p.

Genetic diversity, population structure, and demographic history of exploited sea urchin populations (Tripneustes gratilla) in the Philippines Casilagan, Inggat Laya N., Marie Antonette Juinio-Menez, and Eric D. Crandall Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 449:284-293

Predicting the distribution of a threatened albatross: The importance of competition, fisheries and annual variability Catry, P., R.T. Lemos, P. Brickle, R.A. Phillips, R. Matias, and J.P. Granadeiro Progress in Oceanography 110:1-10

Diel movements of out-migrating Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and steelhead trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) smolts in the Sacramento/San Joaquin watershed Chapman, Eric D., Alex R. Hearn, Cyril J. Michel, Arnold J. Ammann, Steven T. Lindley, Michael J. Thomas, Philip T. Sandstrom, Gabriel P. Singer, Matthew L. Peterson, R. Bruce MacFarlane, and A. Peter Klimley Environmental Biology of Fishes 96(2-3):273-286

Integrating multiple data sources to assess the distribution and abundance of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus in Scottish waters Cheney, Barbara, Paul M. Thompson, Simon N. Ingram, Philip S. Hammond, Peter T. Stevick, John W. Durban, Ross M. Culloch, Simon H. Elwen, Laura Mandleberg, Vincent M. Janik, Nicola J. Quick, Valentina Islas-Villanueva, Kevin P. Robinson, Marina Costa, Sonja M. Eisfeld, Alice Walters, Charlie Phillips, Caroline R. Weir, Peter G.H. Evans, Pia Anderwald, Robert J. Reid, James B. Reid, and Ben Wilson Mammal Review 43(1):71-88

Creation and utilization of novel genetic methods for studying and improving management of Chinook salmon populations Clemento, Anthony J. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Cruz. 160 p.

Cross-shore transport variability in the California Current: Ekman upwelling vs. eddy dynamics Combes, V., F. Chenillat, E. Di Lorenzo, P. Riviere, M.D. Ohman, and S.J. Bograd Progress in Oceanography 109:78-89

Genetic and phenotypic effects on reproductive outcomes for captively-reared coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch Conrad, J. Louise, Elizabeth A. Gilbert-Horvath, and John Carlos Garza Aquaculture 404-405:95-104

Population assessment of the Sakhalin gray whale aggregation Cooke, Justin G., David W. Weller, Amanda L. Bradford, Olya Sychenko, Alexander M. Burdin, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/65a/BRG27 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65a meeting, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2013). 12 p.

Selectivity: theory, estimation, and application in fishery stock assessment models Crone, Paul, Mark Maunder, Juan Valero, Jenny McDaniel, and Brice Semmens Center for the Advancement of Population Assessment Methodology (CAPAM), Workshop Series Report 1 (46 p.)

Prospects for captive breeding of poorly known small cetacean species Curry, Barbara E. Curry, Katherine Ralls, and Rober L. Brownell Jr. Endangered Species Research 19(3):223-243

Calculating reference points for anthropogenic mortality of marine turtles Curtis, K. Alexandra, and Jeffrey E. Moore Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 23(3):441-459

Carbon export mediated by mesopelagic fishes in the northeast Pacific Ocean Davison, P.C., D.M. Checkley Jr., J.A. Koslow, and J. Barlow Progress in Oceanography 116:14-30

Recent blue whale deaths due to ship strikes around Sri Lanka de Vos, A., T. Wu, and R.L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/65a/HIM03 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC65a meeting, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2013). 8 p.

Sampling selectivity in acoustic-trawl surveys of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) biomass and length distribution Demer, David A., Juan P. Zwolinski, George R. Cutter Jr., Kyle A. Byers, Beverly J. Macewicz, and Kevin T. Hill ICES Journal of Marine Science 70(7):1369-1377