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Identifying social clusters of endangered main Hawaiian Islands false killer whales Mahaffy, Sabre D., Robin W. Baird, Annette E. Harnish, Tori Cullins, Stephanie H. Stack, Jens J. Currie, Amanda L. Bradford, Dan R. Salden, and Karen K. Martien Endangered Species Research 51:249-268

Recent trends in marine and terrestrial environments and their likely influence on Pacific salmonids in California and Southern Oregon Mantua, Nate J., Lisa G. Crozier, and Laurie A. Weitkamp In: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 9-24. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-686.

Image analysis approach to estimate fecundity of live-bearer rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) along the California Coast Mapes, Hayley, Sabrina G. Beyer, Jessica Choi, Emma Saas, Suzanne H. Alonzo, and John C. Field Environmental Biology of Fishes 106(8):1715-1732

The migratory whale herd concept: A novel unit to conserve under the ecological paradigm Martien, Karen K., Barbara L. Taylor, Aimee R. Lang, Phillip J. Clapham, David W. Weller, Frederick I. Archer, and John Calambokidis Marine Mammal Science 39(4):1267-1292

Exploring the demography and conservation needs of hawksbill sea turtles Eretmochelys imbricata in north-west Mexico Martinez-Estevez, Lourdes, Abelino Angulo Angulo, Mayra Estrella Astorga, Cosme Damian Becerra, Nazario Campana Leyva, Felipe Cuevas Amador, Jual Pablo Cuevas Amador, Tania de la Vega Carvajal, Anely Fernandez Robledo, Alexander R. Gaos, Catherine E. Hart, Amy Hudson Weaver, Jose Luis Lopez, Jesus Lucero, Israel Llamas, Agnese Mancini, Karen Oceguera, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Bernie R. Tershy, Ingrid L. Yanez, Alan Zavala-Norzagaray, and Donald A. Croll Oryx 57(3):392-400

Linking knowledge and action for climate-ready fisheries: Emerging best practices across the US Mason, Julia G., Sarah J. Weisberg, Janelle L. Morano, Richard J. Bell, Mark Fitchett, Roger B. Griffis, Elliott L. Hazen, William D. Heyman, Kirstin Holsman, Kristin M. Kleisner, Katie Westfall, Michele K. Conrad, Margaret Daly, Abigail S. Golden, Chris J. Harvey, Lisa A. Kerr, Gway Kirchner, Arielle Levine, Rebecca L. Lewison, Sean M. Lucey, Wendy Morrison, Brandon Muffley, Jameal F. Samhouri, Matthew Seeley, S. Kalei Shotwell, and Diana L. Stram Marine Policy 155:105758 (17 p.)

A review of estimation methods for natural mortality and their performance in the context of fishery stock assessment Maunder, Mark N., Owen S. Hamel, Hui-Hua Lee, Kevin R. Piner, Jason M. Cope, Andre E. Punt, James N. Ianelli, Claudio Castillo-Jordan, Maia S. Kapur, and Richard D. Methot Fisheries Research 257:106489 (19 p.)

Vulnerability to climate change of managed stocks in the California Current large marine ecosystem McClure, Michelle M., Melissa A. Haltuch, Ellen Willis-Norton, David D. Huff, Elliott L. Hazen, Lisa G. Crozier, Michael G. Jacox, Mark W. Nelson, Kelly S. Andrews, Lewis A.K. Barnett, Aaron M. Berger, Sabrina Beyer, Joe Bizzarro, David Boughton, Jason M. Cope, Mark Carr, Heidi Dewar, Edward Dick, Emmanis Dorval, Jason Dunham, Vladlena Gertseva, Correigh M. Greene, Richard G. Gustafson, Owen S. Hamel, Chris J. Harvey, Mark J. Henderson, Chris E. Jordan, Isaac C. Kaplan, Steven T. Lindley, Nathan J. Mantua, Sean E. Matson, Melissa H. Monk, Peter Moyle, Colin Nicol, John Pohl, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Jameal F. Samhouri, Susan Sogard, Nick Tolimieri, John Wallace, Chantel Wetzel, and Steven J. Bograd Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1103767 (21 p.)

Identification catalog and field guide for transient (Bigg's) killer whales of Monterey Bay and California waters McInnes, Josh D., Chelsea R. Mathieson, Peggy J. West-Stap, Stephanie L. Marcos, Victoria L. Wade, Jeffrey E. Moore, Sarah L. Mesnick, and Lawrence M. Dill U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 134 p.

A novel diagnostic SNP panel for fishery management of green abalone (Haliotis fulgens) Mejia-Ruiz, Paulina, Ricardo Perez-Enriquez, Andrew Severin, Raul Octavio Martinez-Rincon, John Carlos Garza, Jorge Alberto Mares-Mayagoitia, and Fausto Valenzuela-Quinonez Fisheries Research 266:106786 (9 p.)

Integrating human dimensions in decadal-scale prediction for marine social-ecological systems: lighting the grey zone Melbourne-Thomas, Jess, Desiree Tommasi, Marion Gehlen, Eugene J. Murphy, Jennifer Beckensteiner, Francisco Bravo, Tyler D. Eddy, Mibu Fischer, Elizabeth Fulton, Mayya Gogina, Eileen Hofmann, Maysa Ito, Sara Mynott, Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Anna N. Osiecka, Mark R. Payne, Romeo Saldivar-Lucio, and Kim J.N. Scherrer ICES Journal of Marine Science 80(1):16-30

Cetacean sociality, reproduction, and conservation Mesnick, Sarah L., Randall R. Reeves, Paul R. Wade, Philippa Brakes, and Taylor A. Hersh In: Bernd Wursig and Dara N. Orbach (eds.), Sex in cetaceans: morphology, behavior, and the evolution of sexual strategies, p. 571-602. Springer.

Sea turtle strandings along the Northwestern Moroccan coast: Spatio-temporal distribution and main threats Mghili, Bilal, Wafae Benhardouze, Mustapha Aksissou, and Manjula Tiwari Ocean and Coastal Management 237:106539 (9 p.)

Discharge-mediated temperature management in a large regulated river, with implications for management of endangered fish Michel, C.J., M.E. Daniels, and E.M. Danner Water Resources Research 59(9):e2023WR035077 (18 p.)

Skillful multi-month predictions of ecosystem stressors in the surface and subsurface ocean Mogen, Samuel C., Nicole S. Lovenduski, Stephen Yeager, Lydia Keppler, Jonathan Sharp, Steven J. Bograd, Nathali Cordero Quiros, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, and Mercedes Pozo Buil Earth's Future 11(11):e2023EF003605 (15 p.)

Estimates of the probability of striking a western North Pacific gray whale during the proposed Makah hunt: 2023 update Moore, Jeffrey E., David W. Weller, and Aimée R. Lang U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-682. 11 p.

Guidelines and quantitative standards for improved cetacean taxonomy using full mitochondrial genomes Morin, Phillip A., Karen K. Martien, Aimee R. Lang, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Victoria L. Pease, Kelly M. Robertson, Maya Sattler, Elizabeth Slikas, Patricia E. Rosel, C. Scott Baker, Barbara L. Taylor, and Frederick I. Archer Journal of Heredity 114(6):612-624

Recent developments in empirical dynamic modelling Munch, Stephan B., Tanya L. Rogers, and George Sugihara Methods in Ecology and Evolution 14(3):732-745

Constraining nonlinear time series modeling with the metabolic theory of ecology Munch, Stephan B., Tanya L. Rogers, Celia C. Symons, David Anderson, and Frank Pennekamp Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120(12):e2211758120 (9 p.)

Juvenile Albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) foraging ecology varies with environmental conditions in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Nickels, Catherine F., Elan J. Portner, Owyn Snodgrass, Barbara Muhling, and Heidi Dewar Fisheries Oceanography 32(5):431-447

The genomic footprint of whaling and isolation in fin whale populations Nigenda-Morales, Sergio F., Meixi Lin, Paulina G. Nunez-Valencia, Christopher C. Kyriazis, Annabel C. Beichman, Jacqueline A. Robinson, Aaron P. Ragsdale, Jore Urban R., Frederick I. Archer, Lorena Viloria-Gomora, Maria Jose Perez-Alvarez, Elie Poulin, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Andres Moreno-Estrada, and Robert K. Wayne Nature Communications 14:5465 (18 p.)

Revisiting the status, data, and feasibility of alternative fishery management strategies for California Coastal Chinook salmon O’Farrell, Michael R., William H. Satterthwaite, Brian C. Spence, and Alexander J. Jensen U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-681. 38 p.

Field report: The state of California Chinook salmon populations O'Farrell, Michael, Nate Mantua, and Steve Lindley The Osprey 105:10-11

Flexible-pass-through antennas for half-duplex passive integrated transponder tags in medium to large rivers used to study size-selective reservoir passage Ohms, Haley A., J. Vincent Tranquilli, Gabriel Brooks, and David A. Boughton North American Journal of Fisheries Management 43(3):687-694

Developing a management area for Hawai'i pelagic false killer whales Oleson, Erin M., Amanda L. Bradford, and Karen K. Martien U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-150 (19 p.)

Killer whale predation on a pygmy sperm whale in an oceanic habitat Olson, Paula A., Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Jennifer L.K. McCullough, Marilyn Dahlheim, Alisa Schulman-Janiger, Nancy Black, Kelly Roberton, and Adam U Marine Mammal Science 39(1):281-288

Sexual anatomy of female cetaceans: art and science contribute insights into functionality Orbach, Dara N., Uko Gorter, and Sarah Mesnick In: Bernd Wursig and Dara N. Orbach (eds.), Sex in cetaceans: morphology, behavior, and the evolution of sexual strategies, p. 85-102. Springer.

Review of 2022 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. 356 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis and environmental assessment Part 1 for 2023 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 137 p.

Preseason report II: Proposed alternatives and environmental assessment Part 2 for 2023 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 70 p.

Preseason report III: Council adopted management measures and environmental assessment Part 3 for 2023 ocean salmon fishery regulations Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 52 p.

A surplus no more? Variation in krill availability impacts reproductive rates of Antarctic baleen whales Pallin, Logan J., Nick M. Kellar, Debbie Steel, Natalia Botero-Acosta, C. Scott Baker, Jack A. Conroy, Daniel P. Costa, Chris M. Johnson, David W. Johnston, Ross C. Nichols, Doug P. Nowacek, Andrew J. Read, Oksana Savenko, Oscar M. Schofield, Sharon E. Stammerjohn, Deborah K. Steinberg, and Ari S. Friedlaender Global Change Biology 29(8):2108-2121

Evidence of resident coastal population(s) of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in northern Australian waters Palmer, Carol, Karen K. Martien, Holly Raudino, Kelly M. Robertson, Alan Withers, Emma Withers, Robert Risk, Dylan Cooper, Ellen D'Cruz, Edmund Jungine, Daniel Barrow, Nick Cuff, Adrian Lane, Daniel Keynes, Kelly Waples, Allyson Malpartida, and Sam Banks Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1067660 (11 p.)

Investigation of machine learning algorithms for taxonomic classification of marine metagenomes Park, Helen, Shen Jean Lim, Jonathan Cosme, Kyle O'Connell, Jilla Sandeep, Felimon Gayanilo, George R. Cutter Jr., Enrique Montes, Chotinan Nitikitpaiboon, Sam Fisher, Hassan Moustahfid, and Luke R. Thompson Microbiology Spectrum 11(5):e05237-22 (17 p.)

Strategic nest site selection in one of the world's largest loggerhead turtle nesting colonies, on Maio Island, Cabo Verde Patino-Martinez, Juan, Leno Dos Passos, Raquel Amador, Arnau Teixidor, Sergio Cardoso, Adolfo Marco, Franziska Koenen, Amanda Dutra, Christophe Eizaguirre, Elisa G. Dierickx, Manjula Tiwari, Tamas Szekeley, and Rocio Moreno Oryx 57(2):152-159

Identifying social thresholds and measuring social achievement in social-ecological systems: A cross-regional comparison of fisheries in the United States Perng, Lansing Y., John Walden, Kirsten M. Leong, Geret S. DePiper, Cameron Speir, Suzana Black, Karma Norman, Stephen Kasperski, Mariska Weijerman, and Kirsten L.L. Oleson Marine Policy 152:105595 (17 p.)

Climate spaces and cliffs: A novel bovine thermodynamic and mass balances model Porter, Warren P., Alexa E. Bertz, Paul D. Mathewson, Luis C. Solorzano, Peter N. Dudley, Riccardo Bonazza, and Kifle G. Gebremedhin Animals 13(19):3043 (31 p.)

Evaluation of different bias correction methods for dynamical downscaled future projections of the California Current upwelling system Pozo Buil, Mercedes, Jerome Fiechter, Michael G. Jacox, Steven J. Bograd, and Michael A. Alexander Earth and Space Science 10(12):e2023EA003121 (21 p.)

Assisted gene flow from outcrossing shows the potential for genetic rescue in an endangered salmon population Pregler, Kasey C., Mariska Obedzinski, Elizabeth A. Gilbert-Horvath, Benjamin White, Stephanie M. Carlson, and John Carlos Garza Conservation Letters 16(2):e12934 (12 p.)

Feeding ecology of broadbill swordfish (Xiphias gladius) in the California current Preti, Antonella, Stephen M. Stohs, Gerard T. DiNardo, Camilo Saavedra, Ken MacKenzie, Leslie R. Noble, Catherine S. Jones, and Graham J. Pierce PLoS ONE 18(2):e0258011 (29 p.)

A little bit of Sargassum goes a long way: seafloor observations of Sargassum fluitans and Sargassum natans in the Western Atlantic Ocean Pries, Ashley, Amanda N. Netburn, Heidi Batchelor, and Victoria R. Hermanson Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1250150 (13 p.)

The allometric scaling of oxygen supply and demand in the California horn shark, Heterodontus francisci Prinzing, Tanya S., Jennifer S. Bigman, Zachary R. Skelton, Nicholas K. Dulvy, and Nicholas C. Wegner Journal of Experimental Biology 226(15):jeb246054 (10 p.)

Report from the Future Seas stakeholder engagement workshop, November 2022 Quezada, Felipe, Robert Wildermuth, Desiree Tommasi, Isaac Kaplan, Barbara Muhling, Stephen Stohs, Tim Frawley, Pierre-Yves Hernvann, Stefan Koenigstein, and Peter Kuriyama U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 25 p.

Projected cross-shore changes in upwelling induced by offshore wind farm development along the California coast Raghukumar, Kaustubha, Timothy Nelson, Michael Jacox, Christopher Chartrand, Jerome Fiechter, Grance Chang, Lawrence Cheung, and Jesse Roberts Communications Earth and Environment 4:116 (12 p.)

A random coefficients model of seafood demand: Implications for consumer preferences and substitution patterns Ray, Kevin D., Daniel K. Lew, and Rosemary Kosaka Marine Resource Economics 38(2):113-133

Spatial and temporal genetic stock composition of river herring bycatch in southern New England Atlantic herring and mackerel fisheries Reid, Kerry, Jennifer A. Hoey, Benjamin I. Gahagan, Bradley P. Schondelmeier, Daniel J. Hasselman, Alison A. Bowden, Michael P. Armstrong, John Carlos Garza, and Eric P. Palkovacs Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80(2):360-374

Reading the biomineralized book of life: expanding otolith biogeochemical research and applications for fisheries and ecosystem-based management Reis-Santos, Patrick, Bronwyn M. Gillanders, Anna M. Sturrock, Christopher Izzo, Dion S. Oxman, Jessica A. Lueders-Dumont, Karin Hussy, Susanne E. Tanner, Troy Rogers, Zoe A. Doubleday, Allen H. Andrews, Clive Trueman, Deirdre Brophy, Jason D. Thiem, Lee J. Baumgartner, Malte Willmes, Ming-Tsung Chung, Patrick Charapata, Rachel C. Johnson, Stephen Trumble, Yvette Heimbrand, Karin E. Limburg, and Benjamin D. Walther Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 33(2):411-449

Estimating pregnancy rate from blubber progesterone levels of a blindly biopsied beluga population poses methodological, analytical and statistical challenges Renaud, L.-A., X. Bordeleau, N.M. Kellar, G. Pigeon, R. Michaud, Y. Morin, S. Lair, A. Therien, and V. Lesage Conservation Physiology 11(1):coad075 (18 p.)

Report on the Summer 2022 California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (2207RL), 27 June to 30 September 2022, conducted aboard NOAA ship Reuben Lasker, fishing vessels Lisa Marie and Long Beach Carnage, and uncrewed surface vehicles Renfree, Josiah S., Alice Beittel, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brad E. Erisman, Kelsey James, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, Lanora Vasquez, William Watson, Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-678. 42 p.

Retrospective analysis of measures to reduce large whale entanglements in a lucrative commercial fishery Riekkola, Leena, Owen R. Liu, Blake E. Feist, Karin A. Forney, Briana Abrahms, Elliott L. Hazen, and Jameal F. Samhouri Biological Conservation 278:109880 (14 p.)

Limited, asymmetric hybridization between coastal cutthroat trout and steelhead in a Northern California river Rizza, Samuel F., Margaret A. Wilzbach, Andrew P. Kinziger, Eric C. Anderson, and John Carlos Garza Journal of Heredity 114(3):219-230

Population structure of Pacific green turtles: a new perspective from microsatellite DNA variation Roden, Suzanne E., John B. Horne, Michael P. Jensen, Nancy N. FitzSimmons, George H. Balazs, Richard Farman, Jennifer Cruce Horeg, Jessy Hapdei, Maike Heidemeyer, T. Todd Jones, Lisa M. Komoroske, Colin J. Limpus, Shawn Murakawa, Rotney Piedra, Laura Sarti-Martinez, Tammy Summers, Miri Tatarata, Elizabeth Velez, Patricia Zarate, and Peter H. Dutton Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1116941 (16 p.)

Intermittent instability is widespread in plankton communities Rogers, Tanya L., Stephan B. Munch, Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki, and Celia C. Symons Ecology Letters 26(3):470-481

Local ecological knowledge and perception of the causes, impacts and effects of Sargassum massive influxes: a binational approach Rosellon-Druker, Judith, Laura McAdam-Otto, Justin J. Suca, Rachel Seary, Adriana Gaytan-Caballero, Elva Escobar-Briones, Elliott L. Hazen, and Frank Muller-Karger Ecosystems and People 19(1):2253317 (19 p.)

Long-distance migration is a major factor driving local adaptation at continental scale in Coho salmon Rougemont, Quentin, Amanda Xuereb, Xavier Dallaire, Jean-Sebastien Moore, Eric Normandeau, Alysse Perreault-Payette, Berenice Bougas, Eric B. Rondeau, Ruth E. Withler, Donald M. Van Doornik, Penelope A. Crane, Kerry A. Naish, John Carlos Garza, Terry D. Beacham, Ben F. Koop, and Louis Bernatchez Molecular Ecology 32(3):542-559

Machine learning in marine ecology: an overview of techniques and applications Rubbens, Peter, Stephanie Brodie, Tristan Cordier, Diogo Destro Barcellos, Paul Devos, Jose A. Fernandes-Salvador, Jennifer I. Fincham, Alessandra Gomes, Nils Olav Handegard, Kerry Howell, Cedric Jamet, Kyrre Heldal Kartveit, Hassan Moustahfid, Clea Parcerisas, Dimitris Politikos, Raphaelle Sauzede, Maria Sokolova, Laura Uusitalo, Laure Van den Bulcke, Aloysius T.M. van Helmond, Jordan T. Watson, Heather Welch, Oscar Beltran-Perez, Samuel Chaffron, David S. Greenberg, Bernhard Kuhn, Rainer Kiko, Madiop Lo, Rubens M. Lopes, Klas Ove Moller, William Michaels, Ahmet Pala, Jean-Baptiste Romagnan, Pia Schuchert, Vahid Seydi, Sebastian Villasante, Ketil Malde, and Jean-Olivier Irisson ICES Journal of Marine Science 80(7):1829-1853

National Marine Sanctuaries capture enhanced abundance and diversity of the California Current Ecosystem avifauna Russell, Tamara M, Angela R. Szesciorka, Trevor W. Joyce, David G. Ainley, and Lisa T. Ballance Journal of Marine Systems 240:103887 (16 p.)

Toward identifying the critical ecological habitat of larval fishes: An environmental DNA window into fisheries management Satterthwaite, Erin V., Andrew E. Allen, Robert H. Lampe, Zachary Gold, Andrew R. Thompson, Noelle Bowlin, Rasmus Swalethorp, Kelly D. Goodwin, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie A. Matthews, and Brice X. Semmens Oceanography 36(1):90-93

Harmonizing U.S. West Coast ecosystem reports: The CalCOFI State of the California Current Ecosystem report (SOTCC) and California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Ecosystem Status Report (CCIEA ESR) workshop (June 28-29, 2023, La Jolla, California) Satterthwaite, Erin, Noelle Bowlin, Andrew Thompson, Ed Weber, Andrew Leising, Greg Williams, Rasmus Swalethorp, Elliott Hazen, Toby Garfield, Steven Bograd, Chris Harvey, Brice Semmens, Julia Coates, Briana Brady, Jameal Samhouri, and Nick Tolimieri Synthesis report. CalCOFI and U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. 34 p.

An approach to defining a Sacramento River Fall Chinook escapement objective considering natural production, hatcheries, and risk tolerance Satterthwaite, William H. San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 21(3):art3 (21 p.)

The reproducibility crisis meets stock assessment science: Sources of inadvertent bias in the stock assessment prioritization and review process Satterthwaite, William H. Fisheries Research 266:106763 (10 p.)

Methods for assessing and responding to bias and uncertainty in U.S. West Coast salmon abundance forecasts Satterthwaite, William H., and Andrew Olaf Shelton Fisheries Research 257:106502 (14 p.)

Comparing fishery impacts and maturation schedules of hatchery-origin vs. natural-origin fish from a threatened Chinook salmon stock Satterthwaite, William H., Emily K. Chen, Tracy R. McReynolds, Audrey E. Dean, Shanae D. Allen, and Michael R. O'Farrell San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science 21(4):art3 (26 p.)

Modeling somatic and otolith growth of the central subpopulation of northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) by incorporating seasonality Schwartzkopf, Brittany D., Emmanis Dorval, Dianna L. Porzio, Jonathan M. Walker, Kelsey C. James, and Brad E. Erisman Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 121(4):172-187

United States Gulf of Mexico waters provide important nursery habitat for Mexico's green turtle nesting populations Shamblin, Brian M., Kristen M. Hart, Margaret M. Lamont, Donna J. Shaver, Peter H. Dutton, Ericn L. LaCasella, and Campbell J. Nairn Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1035834 (14 p.)

Future change of summer hypoxia in coastal California Current Shi, Hui, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Steven J. Bograd, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, Michael G. Jacox, Bryan A. Black, William J. Sydeman, and Ryan R. Rykaczewski Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1205536 (11 p.)

Somatic growth and maturity for four species of River Cooter including Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis, P. nelsoni, P. peninsularis, and P. texana Siders, Zachary A., Theresa A. Stratmann, Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Andrew D. Walde, and Eric C. Munscher Biology 12(7):965 (19 p.)

Daily stream temperature predictions for free-flowing streams in the Pacific Northwest, USA Siegel, Jared E., Aimee H. Fullerton, Alyssa M. FitzGerald, Damon Holzer, and Chris E. Jordan PLOS Water 2(8):e0000119 (27 p.)

Laboratory-based measures of temperature preference and metabolic thermal sensitivity provide insight into the habitat utilisation of juvenile California horn shark (Heterodontus francisci) and leopard shark (Triakis semifasciata) Skelton, Zachary R., Tanya S. Prinzing, Philip A. Hastings, and Nicholas C. Wegner Journal of Fish Biology 102(4):829-843

Projecting climate change impacts from physics to fisheries: A view from three California Current fisheries Smith, James A., Mercedes Pozo Buil, Barbara Muhling, Desiree Tommasi, Stephanie Brodie, Timothy H. Frawley, Jerome Fiechter, Stefan Koenigstein, Amber Himes-Cornell, Michael A. Alexander, Steven J. Bograd, Nathali Cordero Quiros, Larry B. Crowder, Enrique Curchitser, Stephanie J. Green, Natasha A. Hardy, Alan C. Haynie, Elliott L. Hazen, Kirstin Holsman, Gwendal Le Fol, Nerea Lezama-Ochoa, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Charles A. Stock, Stephen Stohs, Jonathan Sweeney, Heather Welch, and Michael G. Jacox Progress in Oceanography 211:102973 (22 p.)

A summary report of life history information on Pacific Mackerel (Scomber japonicus) for the 2023 benchmark stock assessment Snodgrass, Owyn E., Emmanis Dorval, Kelsey C. James, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Jonathan M. Walker, Dianna L. Porzio, Beverly J. Macewicz, and Brad E. Erisman U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-689. 24 p.

Prediction-based approach for quantifying phenological mismatch across landscapes under climate change Song, Yiluan, Stephan B. Munch, and Kai Zhu Landscape Ecology 38(3):821-845

Behavioural responses of fin whales to military mid-frequency active sonar Southall, Brandon L., Ann N. Allen, John Calambokidis, Caroline Casey, Stacy L. DeRuiter, Selene Fregosi, Ari S. Friedlaender, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Catriona M. Harris, Elliott L. Hazen, Valentin Popov, and Alison K. Stimpert Royal Society Open Science 10(12):231775 (18 p.)

Data collection and analysis methods to evaluate potential impacts of seismic surveys and other marine industrial activities on baleen whales Southall, Brandon L., Gregory P. Donovan, Roberto Racca, Randall R. Reeves, Alexander I. Vedenev, David W. Weller, and Douglas P. Nowacek Ocean and Coastal Management 245:106799 (14 p.)

Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest Southwest Fisheries Science Center U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-686. 263 p.

Southwest Fisheries Science Center decadal strategy for Pacific salmon recovery science Southwest Fisheries Science Center U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 11 p.

A measure of port-level resilience to shocks in commercial fisheries Speir, Cameron, Amanda Phillips, Aaron Mamula, and Karma Norman Marine Policy 151:105575 (12 p.)

North-Central California Coast Recovery Domain Spence, Brian C. In: Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Viability assessment for Pacific salmon and steelhead listed under the Endangered Species Act: Southwest, p. 56-136. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-686.

Large and in charge: cortisol levels vary with sex, diet, and body mass in an Antarctic predator, the leopard seal Sperou, Emily S., Daniel E. Crocker, Renato Borras-Chavez, Daniel P. Costa, Michael E. Goebel, Shane B. Kanatous, Douglas J. Krause, Stephen J. Trumble, and Sarah S. Kienle Frontiers in Marine Science 10:1179236 (16 p.)

The ex-vessel market for tropical tuna in Manta, Ecuador: A new key player on the global tuna market Squires, Dale, Ramon Jimenez-Toribio, Patrice Guillotreau, and Jimmy Anastacio-Solis Fisheries Research 262:106646 (12 p.)

Diversity of mitochondrial DNA in 3 species of great whales before and after modern whaling Sremba, Angela L., Anthony R. Martin, Peter Wilson, Ana Lucia Cypriano-Souza, Danielle L. Buss, Tom Hart, Marcia H. Engel, Sandro L. Bonatto, Howard Rosenbaum, Tim Collins, Carlos Olavarria, Frederick I. Archer, Debbie Steel, Jennifer A. Jackson, and C. Scott Baker Journal of Heredity 114(6):587-597

Simulating the migration dynamics of juvenile salmonids through rivers and estuaries using a hydrodynamically driven enhanced particle tracking model Sridharan, Vamsi Krishna, Doug Jackson, Andrew M. Hein, Russell W. Perry, Adam C. Pope, Noble Hendrix, Eric M. Danner, and Steven T. Lindley Ecological Modelling 482:110393 (27 p.)

Boom-bust cycles in gray whales associated with dynamic and changing Arctic conditions Stewart, Joshua D., Trevor W. Joyce, John W. Durban, John Calambokidis, Deborah Fauquier, Holly Fearnbach, Jacqueline M. Grebmeier, Morgan Lynn, Manfredi Manizza, Wayle L. Perryman, M. Tim Tinker, and David W. Weller Science 382(6667):207-211

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2021 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Josiah S. Renfree, Ramon I. Rojas-Gonzalez, Juan R.F. Vallarta-Zarate, Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-676. 85 p.

Distribution, biomass, and demographics of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2022 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-683. 84 p.

Anchovy boom and bust linked to trophic shifts in larval diet Swalethorp, Rasmus, Michael R. Landry, Brice X. Semmens, Mark D. Ohman, Lihini Aluwihare, Dereka Chargualaf, and Andrew R. Thompson Nature Communications 14:7412 (12 p.)

Gray whale sex, reproductive behavior, and social strategies Swartz, Steven L., Aimee Lang, Alexander Burdin, John Calambokidis, Heloise Frouin-Mouy, Sergio Martinez-Aguilar, Fabian Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Ludovic Tenorio-Halle, Aaron Thode, Jorge Urban-Ramirez, and David W. Weller In: Bernd Wursig and Dara N. Orbach (eds.), Sex in cetaceans: morphology, behavior, and the evolution of sexual strategies, p. 499-520. Springer.

Multiscale relationships between humpback whales and forage species hotspots within a large marine ecosystem Szesciorka, Angela R., David A. Demer, Jarrod A. Santora, Karin A. Forney, and Jeff E. Moore Ecological Applications 33(2):e2794 (20 p.)

Anticipating fluctuations of bigeye tuna in the Pacific Ocean from three-dimensional ocean biogeochemistry Taboada, Fernando G., Jong-Yeon Park, Barbara A. Muhling, Desiree Tommasi, Kisei R. Tanaka, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Charles A. Stock, and Jorge L. Sarmiento Journal of Applied Ecology 60(3):463-479

Remote sensing for shellfish management: Efforts toward early warning, tool development, and training for harmful algal blooms in Chesapeake Bay [abstract] Tomlinson, Michelle C., Xin Yu, Elizabeth A. Staugler, Melanie Abecassis, Cara Wilson, Steve Morton, Jen Maucher Fuquay, and Richard P. Stumpf In: National Shellfisheries Association: Program and abstracts of the 115th annual meeting (March 26-30, 2023, Baltimore, Maryland), p. 159. National Shellfisheries Association.

Predicting nonlinear dynamics of short-lived penaeid shrimp species in the Gulf of Mexico Tsai, Cheng-Han, Stephan B. Munch, Michelle D. Masi, and Adam G. Pollack Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 80(1):57-68

Scaling of activity space in marine organisms across latitudinal gradients Udyawer, Vinay, Charlie Huveneers, Fabrice Jaine, Russell C. Babcock, Stephanie Brodie, Marie-Jeanne Buscot, Hamish A. Campbell, Robert G. Harcourt, Xavier Hoenner, Elodie J.I. Ledee, Colin A. Simpfendorfer, Matthew D. Taylor, Asia Armstrong, Adam Barnett, Culum Brown, Barry Bruce, Paul A. Butcher, Gwenael Cadiou, Lydie I.E. Couturier, Leanne Currey-Randall, Michael Drew, Christine L. Dudgeon, Ross G. Dwyer, Mario Espinoza, Luciana C. Ferreira, Anthony Fowler, David Harasti, Alastair R. Harborne, Nathan A. Knott, Kate Lee, Matt Lloyd, Michael Lowry, Teagan Marzullo, Jordan Matley, Jaime D. McAllister, Rory McAuley, Frazer McGregor, Mark Meekan, Kade Mills, Bradley M. Norman, Beverly Oh, Nicholas L. Payne, Vic Peddemors, Toby Piddocke, Richard D. Pillans, Richard D. Reina, Paul Rogers, Jayson M. Semmens, Amy Smoothey, Conrad W. Speed, Dylan van der Meulen, and Michelle R. Heupel American Naturalist 201(4):586-602

Sequential scute growth layers reveal developmental histories of hawksbill sea turtles Van Houtan, Kyle S., T. Todd Jones, Molly E. Hagemann, Joel Schumacher, George Phocas, Alexander R. Gaos, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Biology 170(7):79 (12 p.)

Isotopic ecology of Hawaiian green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and reliability of δ13C, δ15N, and δ34S analyses of unprocessed bone samples for dietary studies Velasquez-Vacca, Adriana, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, T. Todd Jones, George H. Balazs, and Luis Cardona Marine Biology 170(7):81 (15 p.)

Natal origin and spatiotemporal distribution of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) strandings at a foraging hotspot in temperate waters of the southwest Atlantic Ocean Velez-Rubio, Gabriela M., Laura Prosdocimi, Milagros Lopez-Mendilaharsu, Maria Noel Caraccio, Alejandro Fallabrino, Erin L. LaCasella, and Peter H. Dutton Animals 13:1285 (17 p.)

Stage-specific drivers of Pacific hake (Merluccius productus) recruitment in the California Current Ecosystem Vestfals, Cathleen D. Vestfals, Kristin N. Marshall, Nick Tolimieri, Mary E. Hunsicker, Aaron M. Berger, Ian G. Taylor, Michael G. Jacox, and Brendan D. Turley Fisheries Oceanography 32(4):352-389

Marine turtle regional management units 2.0: an updated framework for conservation and research of wide-ranging megafauna species Wallace, Bryan P., Zachary A. Posnik, Brendan J. Hurley, Andrew D. DiMatteo, Ashleigh Bandimere, Isabel Rodriguez, Sara M. Maxwell, Lucy Meyer, Hannah Brenner, Michael P. Jensen, Erin LaCasella, Brian M. Shamblin, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Kelly R. Stewart, Peter H. Dutton, Hector Barrios-Garrido, Mayuel Dalleau, Florence Dell'amico, Karen L. Eckert, Nancy N. FitzSimmons, Marco Garcia-Cruz, Graeme C. Hays, Shaleyla Kelez, Cynthia J. Lagueux, Christine A. Madden Hof, Adolfo Marco, Samir L.T. Martins, Asghar Mobaraski, Jeanne A. Mortimer, Ronel Nel, Andrea D. Phillott, Nicolas J. Pilcher, Nathan F. Putman, Alan F. Rees, Juan M. Rguez-Baron, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Adhith Swaminathan, Oguz Turkozan, Sarah M. Vargas, Pedro D. Vernet, Sibelle Vilaca, Scott D. Whiting, Brian J. Hutchinson, Paolo Casale, and Roderic B. Mast Endangered Species Research 52:209-223

Extreme El Nino southern oscillation conditions have contrasting effects on the body condition of five euphausiid species around the northern Antarctic Peninsula during winter Walsh, Jennifer, and Christian Reiss Polar Biology 46(4):319-338

When to conduct, and when not to conduct, management strategy evaluations Walter, J.F. III, C.D. Peterson, K. Marshall, J.J. Deroba, S. Gaichas, B.C. Williams, S. Stohs, D. Tommasi, and R. Ahrens ICES Journal of Marine Science 80(4):719-727

The fish gill: where fish physiology begins Wegner, Nicholas C. In: Randall, David J., et al., The 50th anniversary issue of Fish Physiology: Physiological systems and development. Fish Physiology 40A:1-7