NOAA FISHERIES

Leveraging the legacy of the CalCOFI monitoring program: A summary for west coast fishery and ocean resource managers Engeman, Laura, Erin Satterthwaite, Andrew Thompson, Natalya Gallo, Noelle Bowlin, Ralf Goericke, Briana Brady, Travis Buck, and Brice Semmens U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-21-02. 16 p.

Proceedings of the 2019 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (December 5-6, 2019, La Jolla, California, USA) Flores, Stephanie (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-20-01. 37 p.

A new maximum size for the family Nomeidae and the third record of a longfin cigarfish, Cubiceps paradoxus (Stromateoidei: Nomeidae) from California, USA Frable, Benjamin W., Merit H. Mccrea, Milton S. Love, and Matthew T. Craig Journal of Fish Biology 97(5):1573-1575

Characterizing deepwater oxygen variability and seafloor community responses using a novel autonomous lander Gallo, Natalya D., Kevin Hardy, Nicholas C. Wegner, Ashley Nicoll, Haleigh Yang, and Lisa A. Levin Biogeosciences 17(14):3943-3960

Metabolic measurements and parameter estimations for bioenergetics modelling of Pacific Chub Mackerel Scomber japonicus Guo, Chenying, Shin-ichi Ito, Nicholas C. Wegner, Laura N. Frank, Emmanis Forval, Kathryn A. Dickson, and Dane H. Klinger Fisheries Oceanography 29(3):215-226

Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2019-2020: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA) Harvey, Chris, Newell (Toby) Garfield, Gregory Williams, Nick Tolimieri, Kelly Andrews, Katie Barnas, Eric Bjorkstedt, Steven Bograd, Jerry Borchert, Caren Braby, Richard Brodeur, Brian Burke, Jason Cope, Audrey Coyne, David Demer, Lynn deWitt, John Field, Jennifer Fisher, Peter Frey, Thomas Good, Christina Grant, Correigh Greene, Elliott Hazen, Daniel Holland, Matthew Hunter, Kym Jacobson, Michael Jacox, Jaime Jahncke, Christy Juhasz, Isaac Kaplan, Stephen Kasperski, Su Kim, Dan Lawson, Andrew Leising, Alex Manderson, Nate Mantua, Sharon Melin, Rebecca Miller, Stephanie Moore, Cheryl Morgan, Barbara Muhling, Stuart Munsch, Karma Norman, Julia Parrish, Amanda Phillips, Roxanne Robertson, Dan Rudnick, Keith Sakuma, Jameal Samhouri, Jarrod Santora, Isaac Schroeder, Samantha Siedlecki, Kayleigh Somers, Beckye Stanton, Kevin Stierhoff, William Sydeman, Andrew Thompson, Nick Tolimieri, Duy Trong, Pete Warzybok, Curt Whitmire, Brian Wells, Margaret Williams, Thomas Williams, Jeannette Zamon, Samantha Zeman, Vanessa Zubkousky-White, and Juan Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-160. 80 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): California Current Ecosystem status report, 2020 Harvey, Chris, Toby Garfield, Greg Williams, and Nick Tolimieri (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 77 p.

Seasonal-to-interannual prediction of North American coastal marine ecosystems: Forecast methods, mechanisms of predictability, and priority developments Jacox, Michael G., Michael A. Alexander, Samantha Siedlecki, Ke Chen, Young-Oh Kwon, Stephanie Brodie, Ivonne Ortiz, Desiree Tommasi, Matthew J. Widlansky, Daniel Barrie, Antonietta Capotondi, Wei Cheng, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Christopher Edwards, Jerome Fiechter, Paula Fratantoni, Elliott L. Hazen, Albert J. Hermann, Arun Kumar, Arthur J. Miller, Douglas Pirhalla, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Sulagna Ray, Scott C. Sheridan, Aneesh Subramanian, Philip Thompson, Lesley Thorne, Hariharasubramanian Annamalai, Kerim Aydin, Steven J. Bograd, Roger B. Griffis, Kelly Kearney, Hyemi Kim, Annarita Mariotti, Mark Merrifield, and Ryan Rykaczewski Progress in Oceanography 183:102307 (23 p.)

Common thresher shark Alopias vulpinus movement: Bayesian inference on a data-limited species Kinney, Michael J., Dovi Kacev, Tim Sippel, Heidi Dewar, and Tomaharu Eguchi Marine Ecology Progress Series 639:155-167

Variability in age of a Southern Ocean myctophid (Gymnoscopelus nicholsi) derived from scat-recovered otoliths Klemmedson, Angela D., Christian S. Reiss, Michael E. Goebel, Ronald S. Kaufmann, Emmanis Dorval, Tomasz B. Linkowski, and Renato Borras-Chavez Marine Ecology Progress Series 633:55-69

Identification of shared spatial dynamics in temperature, salinity, and ichthyoplankton community diversity in the California Current System with empirical dynamic modeling Kuriyama, Peter T., George Sugihara, Andrew R. Thompson, and Brice X. Semmens Frontiers in Marine Science 7:557940 (17 p.)

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2020 for U.S. management in 2020-2021 Kuriyama, Peter T., Juan P. Zwolinski, Kevin T. Hill, and Paul R. Crone U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-628. 171 p.

Mechanisms of acid-base regulation following respiratory alkalosis in red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) Lonthair, Joshua, Angelina M. Dichiera, and Andrew J. Esbaugh Compartive Biochemistry and Physiology A 250:110779

The economic contribution of marine angler expenditures on fishing trips in the United States 2017 Lovell, Sabrina J., James Hilger, Emily Rollins, Noelle A. Olsen, and Scott Steinback NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-201

Assessing the population-level impacts of North Pacific loggerhead and western Pacific leatherback turtle interactions in the Hawaii-based shallow-set longline fishery Martin, Summer L., Zachary Siders, Tomoharu Eguchi, Brian Langseth, Annie Yau, Jason Baker, Robet Ahrens, and T. Todd Jones U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-95. 172 p.

The need for spatio-temporal modeling to determine catch-per-unit effort based on indices of abundance and associated composition data for inclusion in stock assessment models Maunder, Mark N., James T. Thorson, Haikun Xu, Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos, Simon D. Hoyle, Laura Tremblay-Boyer, Hui Hua Lee, Mikihiko Kai, Shui-Kai Chang, Toshihide Kitakado, Christoffer M. Albertsen, Carolina V. Minte-Vera, Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody, Alexandre M. Aires-da-Silva, and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 229:105594

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Monk, Melissa (ed.), John Field, Tom Laidig, Nick Wegner, and William Watson In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee, p. 279-294. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Defining the stock structures of key commercial tunas in the Pacific Ocean II: Sampling considerations and future directions Moore, Bradley R., Tim Adams, Valerie Allain, Johann D. Bell, Mark Bigler, Don Bromhead, Sangaa Clark, Campbell Davies, Karen Evans, Ueta Faasili Jr., Jessica Farley, Mark Fitchett, Peter M. Grewe, John Hampton, John Hyde, Bruno Leroy, Antony Lewis, Anne Lorrain, Jed I. Macdonald, Amandine D. Marie, Carolina Minte-Vera, Janice Natasha, Simon Nicol, Pablo Obregon, Thomas Peatman, Carlo Pecoraro, N. Bradley Phillip Jr., Graham M. Pilling, Ciro Rico, Caroline Sanchez, Robert Scott, Joe Scutt Phillips, Brian Stockwell, Laura Tremblay-Boyer, Thomas Usu, Ashley J. Williams, and Neville Smith Fisheries Research 230:105524 (17 p.)

Tunas and billfishes of the world: Bruce Collette, and John Graves, with illustrations by Val Kells. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland, 2019. [book review] Muhling, Barbara Fisheries 45(2):107

Predictability of species distributions deteriorates under novel environmental conditions in the California Current System Muhling, Barbara A., Stephanie Brodie, James A. Smith, Desiree Tommasi, Carlos F. Gaitan, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Toby D. Auth, and Richard D. Brodeur Frontiers in Marine Science 7:589 (22 p.)

Managing bigeye tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean Post, Valerie, and Dale Squires Frontiers in Marine Science 7:619 (8 p.)

Spiral valve parasites of blue and common thresher sharks as indicators of shark feeding behaviour and ecology Preti, Antonella, Ken MacKenzie, Kate A. Spivey, Leslie R. Noble, Catherine S. Jones, Ralph G. Appy, and Graham J. Pierce Journal of Fish Biology 97(2):354-361

Paired estimates of metabolic rate and gill surface area in the horn shark (Heterodontus francisci) [abstract] Prinzing, T.S., B.S. Bigman, Z. Skelton, N.C. Wegner, and N.K. Dulvy Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(supp.1):E190

Effects of sphere suspension on echosounder calibrations Renfree, Josiah S., Lars N. Andersen, Gavin Macaulay, Thomas S. Sessions, and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 77(7-8):2945-2953

Valuable but vulnerable: Over-fishing and under-management continue to threaten groupers so what now? Sadovy de Mitcheson, Yvonne J., Christi Linardich, Joao Pedro Barreiros, Gina M. Ralph, Alfonso Aguilar-Perera, Pedro Afonso, Brad E. Erisman, David A. Pollard, Sean T. Fennessy, Athila A. Bertoncini, Rekha J. Nair, Kevin L. Rhodes, Patrice Francour, Thierry Brule, Melita A. Samoilys, Beatrice P. Ferreira, and Matthew T. Craig Marine Policy 116:103909 (10 p.)

Comparison of temperature preference and Q10 between two juvenile shark species [abstract] Skelton, Z.R., N.C. Wegner, T.S. Prinzing, and P.A. Hastings Integrative and Comparative Biology 60(supp.1):e419

Lost opportunity: Quantifying the dynamic economic impact of time-area fishery closures Smith, James A., Desiree Tommasi, Jonathan Sweeney, Stephanie Brodie, Heather Welch, Elliott L. Hazen, Barbara Muhling, Steven M. Stohs, and Michael G. Jacox Journal of Applied Ecology 57(3):502-513

2020 highly migratory species annual report Southwest Fisheries Science Center U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-21-01. 31 p.

Distribution, biomass, and demography of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2019 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-626. 80 p.

Report on the Summer 2019 California Current Ecosystem Survey (1907RL), 13 June to 9 September 2019, conducted aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, fishing vessels Lisa Marie and Long Beach Carnage, and three unmanned sailboats Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, Gabriel E. Johnson, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Thomas S. Sessions, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-625. 47 p.

Transcriptomic response to decreased pH in adult, larval and juvenile red king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, and interactive effects of pH and temperature on juveniles Stillman, Jonathon H., Scott A. Fay, Syed M. Ahmad, Katherine M. Swiney, and Robert J. Foy Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 100(2):251-265

Errors associated with compound-specific d15N analysis of amino acids in preserved fish samples purified by high-pressure liquid chromatography Swalethorp, Rasmus, Lihini Aluwihare, Andrew R. Thompson, Mark D. Ohman, and Michael R. Landry Limnology and Oceanography Methods 18(6):259-270

The final Southwest Fisheries Science Center 2020 billfish newsletter: research, news, tagging, photos SWFSC Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center. 27 p.

Dynamic spawning patterns in the California market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) inferred through paralarval observation in the Southern California Bight, 2012-2019 Van Noord, Joel E. Marine Ecology 41(4):e12598 (14 p.)

Field surveying of marine recreational fisheries in Norway using a novel spatial sampling frame reveals striking under-coverage of alternative sampling frames Volstad, Jon Helge, Mary Christman, Keno Ferter, Alf Ring Kleiven, Hakon Ottera, Oystein Aas, Robert Arlinghaus, Trude Borch, Jonathan Colman, Bruce Hartill, Thrond O. Haugen, Kieran Hyder, Jeremy M. Lyle, Martin Junker Ohldieck, Christian Skov, Harry V. Strehlow, Dave van Voorhees, Marc Simon Weltersbach, and Edward D. Weber ICES Journal of Marine Science 77(6):2192-2205

Unusual occurrences of fishes in the Southern California Current System during the warm water period of 2014-2018 Walker, H.J. Jr., Philip A. Hastings, John R. Hyde, Robert N. Lea, Owyn E. Snodgrass, and Lyall F. Bellquist Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 236:106634 (10 p.)

Natal origin of Pacific bluefin tuna from the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem Wells, R.J. David, John A. Mohan, Heidi Dewar, Jay R. Rooker, Yosuke Tanaka, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Suzanne Kohin, Nathan R. Miller, and Seiji Ohshimo Biology Letters 16:20190878 (5 p.)

Length-based risk analysis for assessing sustainability of data-limited tropical reef fisheries Ault, Jerald S., Steven G. Smith, James A. Bohnsack, Jiangang Luo, Molly H. Stevens, Gerard T. DiNardo, Matthew W. Johnson, and David R. Bryan ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(1):165-180

Effectiveness of descending devices to mitigate the effects of barotrauma among rockfishes (Sebastes spp.) in California recreational fisheries Bellquist, Lyall, Sabrina Beyer, Morgan Arrington, Jordan Maeding, Alayna Siddall, Paul Fischer, John Hyde, and Nicholas C. Wegner Fisheries Research 215:44-52

Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area [abstract] Bigman, J.S., S.A. Pardo, T.S. Prinzing, N.C. Wegner, and N.K. Dulvy Integrative and Comparative Biology 59(supp.1):e18

The neglected complexities of shark fisheries, and priorities for holistic risk-based management Booth, Hollie, Dale Squires, and E.J. Milner-Gulland Ocean and Coastal Management 182:104994 (15 p.)

Good practices for including environmental data to inform spawner-recruit dynamics in integrated stock assessments: Small pelagic species case study Crone, Paul R., Mark N. Maunder, HuiHua Lee, and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 217:122-132

Rearing and inducing spawning in captive Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) Dorval, Emmanis, Patrick Appel, Megan H. Human, Beverly J. Macewicz, and William Watson CalCOFI Reports 60:123-134

Modeling the dynamic habitats of mobile pelagic predators (Makaira nirgricans and Istiompax indica) in the eastern Pacific Ocean Farchadi, Nima, Michael G. Hinton, Andrew R. Thompson, and Zhi-Yong Yin Marine Ecology Progress Series 622:157-176

Endothermy in the smalleye opah (Lampris incognitus): A potential role for the uncoupling protein sarcolipin Franck, Jens P.C., Eva Slight-Simcoe, and Nicholas C. Wegner Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology A 233:48-52

Bridging from monitoring to solutions-based thinking: Lessons from CalCOFI for understanding and adapting to marine climate change impacts Gallo, Natalya D., Elizabeth Drenkard, Andrew R. Thompson, Edward D. Weber, Deb Wilson-Vandenberg, Sam McClatchie, J. Anthony Koslow, and Brice X. Semmens Frontiers in Marine Science 6:695 (21 p.)

Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2019: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA) Harvey, Chris, Newell Garfield, Gregory Williams, Nick Tolimieri, Isaac Schroeder, Kelly Andrews, Katie Barnas, Eric Bjorkstedt, Steven Bograd, Richard Brodeur, Brian Burke, Jason Cope, Audrey Coyne, Lynn deWitt, Judy Dowell, John Field, Jennifer Fisher, Peter Frey, Thomas Good, Correigh Greene, Elliott Hazen, Daniel Holland, Matthew Hunter, Kym Jacobson, Michael Jacox, Christy Juhasz, Isaac Kaplan, Stephen Kasperski, Dan Lawson, Andrew Leising, Alex Manderson, Sharon Melin, Stephanie Moore, Chery Morgan, Barbara Muhling, Stuart Munsch, Karma Norman, Roxanne Robertson, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Keith Sakuma, Jameal Samhouri, Rebecca Selden, Samantha Siedlecki, Kayleigh Somers, William Sydeman, Andrew Thompson, Jim Thorson, Desiree Tommasi, Vera Trainer, Anna Varney, Brian Wells, Curt Whitmire, Margaret Williams, Thomas Williams, Jeannette Zamon, and Samantha Zeman U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-149. 87 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): California Current Ecosystem status report, 2019 Harvey, Chris, Toby Garfield, Greg Williams, and Nick Tolimieri (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 66 p.

Tuna species of the U.S. West Coast: a photographic identification guide Heberer, Liana N., Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, and David G. Itano U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-624. 16 p.

Measuring willingness to pay for environmental attributes in seafood Hilger, James, Eric Hallstein, Andrew W. Stevens, and Sofia B. Villas-Boas Environmental and Resource Economics 73(1):307-332

Marine angler expenditures for Southern California based trips to non-US waters, 2016 Hilger, James, Rachel Mahler, Sabrina J. Lovell, and Charles Villafana U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-611. 9 p.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2019 for U.S. management in 2019-20 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, and Juan P. Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-615. 130 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Movements and habitat use of juvenile silky sharks in the Pacific Ocean inform conservation strategies Hutchinson, Melanie, Daniel M. Coffey, Kim Holland, David Itano, Bruno Leroy, Suzanne Kohin, Russell Vetter, Ashley J. Williams, and Johanna Wren Fisheries Research 210:131-142

Predicting the evolution of the 2014-2016 California Current System marine heatwave from an ensemble of coupled global climate forecasts Jacox, Michael G., Desiree Tommasi, Michael A. Alexander, Gaelle Hervieux, and Charles A. Stock Frontiers in Marine Science 6:497 (13 p.)

Accounting for shifting distributions and changing productivity in the development of scientific advice for fishery management Karp, Melissa A., Jay O. Peterson, Patrick D. Lynch, Roger B. Griffis, Charles F. Adams, William S. Arnold, Lewis A.K. Barnett, Yvonne deReynier, Jane DiCosimo, Kari H. Fenske, Sarah K. Gaichas, Anne Hollowed, Kirstin Holsman, Mandy Karnauskas, Donald Kobayashi, Andrew Leising, John P. Manderson, Michelle McClure, Wendy E. Morrison, Erin Schnettler, Andrew Thompson, James T. Thorson, John F. Walter III, Annie J. Yau, Richard D. Methot, and Jason S. Link ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(5):1305-1315

The evolving response of mesopelagic fishes to declining midwater oxygen concentrations in the southern and central California Current Koslow, J. Anthony, Pete Davison, Erica Ferrer, S. Patricia A. Jimenez Rosenberg, Gerardo Aceves-Medina, and William Watson ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(3):626-638

Ontogenetic changes in cutaneous and branchial ionocytes and morphology in yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) larvae Kwan, Garfield T., Jeanne B. Wexler, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Martin Tresguerres Journal of Comparative Physiology B 189(1):81-95

Quantification of cutaneous ionocytes in small aquatic organisms Kwan, Garfield T., Shane H. Finnerty, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Martin Tresguerres Bio-protocol 9(9):e3227 (22 p.)

Climate sensitivities and uncertainties in food-web pathways supporting larval bluefin tuna in subtropical oligotrophic oceans Landry, Michael R., Lynnath E. Beckley, and Barbara A. Muhling ICES Journal of Marine Science 76(2):359-369

On the use of conditional age at length data as a likelihood component in integrated population dynamics models Lee, Huihua, Kevin R. Piner, Ian G. Taylor, and Toshihide Kitakado Fisheries Research 216:204-211

Bridging disciplines to advance elasmobranch conservation: applications of physiological ecology Lyons, K., J.S. Bigman, D. Kacev, C.G. Mull, A.B. Carlisle, J.L. Imhoff, J.M. Anderson, K.C. Weng, A.S. Galloway, E. Cave, T.R. Gunn, C.G. Lowe, R.W. Brill, and C.N. Bedore Conservation Physiology 7(1):coz011 (14 p.)

Organic contaminants as an ecological tool to explore niche partitioning: a case study using three pelagic shark species Lyons, Kady, Dovi Kacev, Antonella Preti, David Gillett, and Heidi Dewar Scientific Reports 9:12080 (7 p.)

Species-specific characteristics influence contaminant accumulation trajectories and signatures across ontogeny in three pelagic shark species Lyons, Kady, Dovi Kacev, Antonella Preti, David Gillett, Heidi Dewar, and Suzanne Kohin Environmental Science and Technology 53(12):6997-7006

Community-level effects of spatial management in the California drift gillnet fishery Mason, Julia G., Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Heidi Dewar, and Larry B. Crowder Fisheries Research 214:175-182

An annotated genome for Haliotis rufescens (red abalone) and resequenced green, pink, pinto, black, and white abalone species Masonbrink, Rick E., Catherine M. Purcell, Sara E. Boles, Andrew Whitehead, John R. Hyde, Arun S. Seetharam, and Andrew J. Severin Genome Biology and Evolution 11(2):431-438

Seasonal spatial segregation in blue sharks (Prionace glauca) by sex and size class in the Northeast Pacific Ocean Maxwell, Sara M., Kylie L. Scales, Steven J. Bograd, Dana K. Briscoe, Heidi Dewar, Elliott L. Hazen, Rebecca L. Lewison, Heather Welch, and Larry B. Crowder Diversity and Distributions 25(8):1304-1317

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee Monk, Melissa (ed.), John Field, Tom Laidig, Nick Wegner, and William Watson In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 60th annual meeting of the TSC (April 23-24, 2019, Olympia, Washington), p. 341-354. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Dynamic habitat use of albacore and their primary prey species in the California Current System Muhling, Barbara, Stephanie Brodie, Owyn Snodgrass, Desiree Tommasi, Heidi Dewar, John Childers, Michael Jacox, Christopher A. Edwards, Yi Xu, and Stephanie Snyder CalCOFI Reports 60:79-93

Movements of electronically tagged shortfin mako sharks (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the eastern North Pacific Ocean Nasby-Lucas, Nicole, Heidi Dewar, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Cara Wilson, John R. Hyde, Russell D. Vetter, James Wraith, Barbara A. Block, Michael J. Kinney, Tim Sippel, David B. Holts, and Suzanne Kohin Animal Biotelemetry 7:12 (26 p.)

Movement ecology of young-of-the-year blue sharks Prionace glauca and shortfin makos Isurus oxyrinchus within a putative binational nursery area Nosal, A.P., D.P. Cartamil, N.C. Wegner, C.H. Lam, and P.A. Hastings Marine Ecology Progress Series 623:99-115

Length conversions and mass-length relationships of five forage-fish species in the California current ecosystem Palance, Danial G., Beverly J. Macewicz, Kevin Stierhoff, David A. Demer, and Juan P. Zwolinski Journal of Fish Biology 95(4):1116-1124

Seasonal-to-decadal prediction of marine ecosystems: opportunities, approaches, and applications Payne, Mark R., Alistair J. Hobday, Brian R. MacKenzie, and Desiree Tommasi Frontiers in Marine Science 6:100 (2 p.)

Transcriptomic analysis of short-term 17α-ethynylestradiol exposure in two Californian sentinel fish species sardine (Sardinops sagax) and mackerel (Scomber japonicus) Renaud, Ludivine, Nisha Agarwal, Dylan J. Richards, Silvia Falcinelli, E. Starr Hazard, Oliana Carnevali, John Hyde, and Gary Hardiman Environmental Pollution 244:926-937

Calibrations of wide-bandwidth tranceivers (WBT Mini) with dual-frequency transducers (ES38-18/200-18C) for Saildrone surveys of the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2018 Renfree, Josiah S., Thomas S. Sessions, David Murfin, Danial G. Palance, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-608. 27 p.

Genome to phenome: Improving animal health, production, and well-being -- A new USDA blueprint for animal genome research 2018-2027 Rexroad, Caird, Jeffrey Vallet, Lakshmi Kumar Matukumalli, James Reecy, Derek Bickhart, Harvey Blackburn, Mark Boggess, Hans Cheng, Archie Clutter, Noelle Cockett, Catherine Ernst, Janet E. Fulton, John Liu, Joan Lunney, Holly Neibergs, Catherine Purcell, Timothy P.L. Smith, Tad Sonstegard, Jerry Taylor, Bhanu Telugu, Alison Van Eenennaam, Curtis P. Van Tassell, and Kevin Wells on behalf of the Agricultural Animal Genomics Community Frontiers in Genetics 10:327 (29 p.)

Environmental associations of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) catch in the California Current system Runcie, Rosa M., Barbara Muhling, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Toby Garfield, and Gerard DiNardo Fisheries Oceanography 28(4):372-388

Future ocean observations to connect climate, fisheries and marine ecosystems Schmidt, Jorn O., Steven J. Bograd, Haritz Arrizabalaga, Jose L. Azevedo, Steven J. Barbeaux, John A. Barth, Tim Boyer, Stephanie Brodie, Juan Jose Cardenas, Scott Cross, Jean-Noel Druon, Agneta Fransson, Jason Hartog, Elliott L. Hazen, Alistair Hobday, Michael Jacox, Johannes Karstensen, Sven Kupschus, Jon Lopez, Lauro A.S.-P. Madureira, Jose E. Martinelli Filho, Patricia Miloslavich, Catarina P. Santos, Kylie Scales, Sabrina Speich, Matthew B. Sullivan, Amber Szoboszlai, Desiree Tommasi, Douglas Wallace, Stephani Zador, and Paulo Antonio Zawislak Frontiers in Marine Science 6:550 (18 p.)

Distribution, biomass, and demography of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2018 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-613. 81 p.

Report of the 2018 California Current Ecosystem (CCE) Survey (1807RL), 26 June to 23 September 2018, conducted aboard NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Danial G. Palance, Josiah S. Renfree, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Thomas S. Sessions, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-609. 34 p.

Indicators of pelagic forage community shifts in the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem, 1998-2016 Thompson, Andrew R., Chris J. Harvey, William J. Sydeman, Caren Barcelo, Steven J. Bograd, Richard D. Brodeur, Jerome Fiechter, John C. Field, Newell Garfield, Thomas P. Good, Elliott L. Hazen, Mary E. Hunsicker, Kym Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Joshua Lindsay, Sharon R. Melin, Jarrod A. Santora, Isaac D. Schroeder, Julie A. Thayer, Brian K. Wells, and Gregory D. Williams Ecological Indicators 105:215-228

State of the California Current 2018-2019: A novel anchovy regime and a new marine heat wave? Thompson, Andrew R., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Brian K. Wells, John Largier, Jennifer L. Fisher, Kym C. Jacobson, Samantha M. Zeman, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Mati Kahru, Ralf Goericke, Clare E. Peabody, Timoth R. Baumgartner, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Luis E. Miranda, Eliana Gomez-Ocampo, Joes Gomez-Valdes, Toby D. Auth, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Brian J. Burke, John C. Field, Keith M. Sakuma, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Jessica M. Porquez, Jane Dolliver, Donald E. Lyons, Rachael A. Orben, Jeannette E. Zamon, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, Jarrod A. Santora, Sarah Ann Thompson, Brian Hoover, William Sydeman, and Sharon R. Melin CalCOFI Reports 60:1-65

Re-evaluation of the environmental dependence of Pacific sardine recruitment Zwolinski, Juan P., and David A. Demer Fisheries Research 216:120-125

Distribution, biomass, and demography of coastal pelagic fishes in the California Current Ecosystem during summer 2017 based on acoustic-trawl sampling Zwolinski, Juan P., Kevin L. Stierhoff, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-610. 74 p.

Towards fishery-independent biomass estimation for Hawaaian Islands deepwater snappers Ault, Jerald S., Steven G. Smith, Benjamin L. Richards, Annie J. Yau, Brian J. Langseth, Joseph M. O'Malley, Christofer H. Boggs, Michael P. Seki, and Gerard T. DiNardo Fisheries Research 208:321-328

Vertebrate-wide scaling of metabolic rate and respiratory surface area [abstract] Bigman, J.S., N.C. Wegner, and N.K. Dulvy Integrative and Comparative Biology 58(supp.1):e17

Ecological lifestyles and the scaling of shark gill surface area Bigman, Jennifer S., Sebastian A. Pardo, Tanya S. Prinzing, Marc Dando, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Journal of Morphology 279(12):1716-1724

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