NOAA FISHERIES

Post-nesting movements and feeding grounds of a resident East Pacific green turtle Chelonia mydas population from Costa Rica Blanco, Gabriela S., Stephen J. Morreale, Helen Bailey, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Frank V. Paladino, and James R. Spotila Endangered Species Research 18(3):233-245

Twins or not? Genetic analysis of putative twins in Antarctic fur seals, Arctocephalus gazella, on the South Shetland Islands Bonin, Carolina A., Michael E. Goebel, Gregory M. O'Corry-Crowe, and Ronald S. Burton Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 412:13-19

Natural intrusions of hypoxic, low pH water into nearshore marine environments on the California coast Booth, J. Ashley T., Erika E. McPhee-Shaw, Paul Chua, Eric Kingsley, Mark Denny, Roger Phillips, Steven J. Bograd, Louis D. Zeidberg, and William F. Gilly Continental Shelf Research 45:108-115

Identifying distinct thermal components of a creek Boughton, David A., Christine Hatch, and Ethan Mora Water Resources Research 48: W09506 (13 p.)

Leaner leviathans: body condition variation in a critically endangered whale population Bradford, Amanda L., David W. Weller, Andre E. Punt, Yulia V. Ivashchenko, Alexander M. Burdin, Glenn R. VanBlaricom, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Journal of Mammalogy 93(1):251-266

Line-transect abundance estimates of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in the pelagic region of the Hawaiian Exclusive Economic Zone and in the waters of the northwestern Hawaiian Islands Bradford, Amanda L., Karin A. Forney, Erin M. Oleson, and Jay Barlow U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report H-12-02. 23 p.

Review of Perrin's beaked whale Mesoplodon perrini and suggestions for future research Brownell, R.L. Jr., and R.L. Pitman Paper SC/64/SM31 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC64 meeting, Panama City, Panama, 2012). 3 p.

Comparative population genetic analysis of bocaccio rockfish Sebastes paucispinis using anonymous and gene-associated simple sequence repeat loci Buonaccorsi, Vincent P., Carol A. Kimbrell, Eric A. Lynn, and John R. Hyde Journal of Heredity 103(3):391-399

Marine Mammal response to interannual variability in Monterey Bay, California Burrows, Julia A., James T. Harvey, Kelly M. Newton, Donald A. Croll, and Scott R. Benson Marine Ecology Progress Series 461:257-271

A guide to the rockfishes, thornyheads, and scorpionfishes of the northeast Pacific Butler, John L., Milton S. Love, and Tom E. Laidig University of California Press. 185 p.

Application of multiplex PCR approaches for shark molecular identification: feasibility and applications for fisheries management and conservation in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Caballero, S., D. Cardenosa, G. Soler, and J. Hyde Molecular Ecology Resources 12(2):233-237

California Hatchery Review Report California Hatchery Scientific Review Group Prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. 102 p. Appendices available at http://cahatcheryreview.com/reports/

Development and evaluation of 200 novel SNP assays for population genetic studies of westslope cutthroat trout and genetic identification of related taxa Campbell, N.R., S.J. Amish, V.L. Pritchard, K.S. McKelvey, M.K. Young, M.K. Schwartz, J.C. Garza, G. Luikart, and S.R. Narum Molecular Ecology Resources 12(5):942-949

Pelage coloration in pinnipeds: functional considerations Caro, Tim, Theodore Stankowich, Sarah L. Mesnick, Daniel P. Costa, and Karrie Beeman Behavioral Ecology 23(4):765-774

Marine mammal and seabird bycatch in California gillnet fisheries in 2011 Carretta, James V., and Lyle Enriquez U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-500. 14 p.

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2011 Carretta, James V., Karin A. Forney, Erin Oleson, Karen Martien, Marcia M. Muto, Mark S. Lowry, Jay Barlow, Jason Baker, Brad Hanson, Deanna Lynch, Lilian Carswell, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Jooke Robbins, David K. Mattila, Katherine Ralls, and Marie C. Hill U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-488. 356 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - PACIFIC - SURVEYS - STOCKS - ASSESSMENTS

Management rules for marine mammal populations: A response to Lonergan Cooke, Justin, Russell Leaper, Paul Wade, David Lavigne, and Barbara Taylor Marine Policy 36(2):389-392

Semi-empirical acoustic estimates of krill biomass derived from simulated commercial fishery data based on single-frequency acoustics Cossio, A.M., G.W. Watters. C.S. Reiss, J. Hinke, and D. Kinzey CCAMLR Subgroup on Acoustic Survey and Analysis Methods (Bergen, Norway, 17 -20 April 2012), Document no. SG-ASAM-12/04.

Coalescent and biophysical models of stepping-stone gene flow in neritid snails Crandall, Eric D., Eric A. Treml, and Paul H. Barber Molecular Ecology 21(22):5579-5598

Biophysical factors affecting the distribution of demersal fish around the head of a submarine canyon off the Bonney Coast, South Australia Currie, David R., Sam McClatchie, John F. Middleton, and Sasi Nayar PLoS ONE 7(1):e30138 (16 p.)

A newly recognised beaked whale (Ziphiidae) in the tropical Indo-Pacific: Mesoplodon hotaulu or M. ginkgodens hotaula Dalebout, Merel L., C. Scott Baker, Debbie Steel, Kirsten Thompson, Kelly M. Robertson, Susan J. Chivers, William F. Perrin, Manori Goonatilake, R. Charles Anderson, James G. Mead, Charles W. Potter, Tadasu K. Yamada, Lisa Thompson, and Danielle Jupiter Paper SC/64/SM3 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC64 meeting, Panama City, Panama, 2012). 16 p.

River temperature forecasting: a coupled-modeling framework for management of river habitat Danner, Eric M., Forrest S. Melton, Andrew Pike, Hirofumi Hashimoto, Andrew Michaelis, Balaji Rajagopalan, Jason Caldwell, Lynn DeWitt, Steven Lindley, and Ramakrishna R. Nemani IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 5(6):1752-1760

2003 survey of rockfishes in the Southern California Bight using the collaborative optical-acoustic survey technique Demer, David A. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-496. 82 p.

2004 survey of rockfishes in the Southern California Bight using the collaborative optical-acoustic survey technique Demer, David A. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-497. 96 p.

2007 survey of rockfishes in the Southern California Bight using the collaborative optical-acoustic survey technique Demer, David A. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-498. 110 p.

Reply to MacCall et al.: Acoustic-trawl survey results provide unique insight to sardine stock decline Demer, David A., and Juan P. Zwolinski Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 109(19):E1132-E1133

Prediction and confirmation of seasonal migration of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) in the California Current Ecosystem Demer, David A., Juan P. Zwolinski, Kyle A. Byers, George R. Cutter, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Beverly J. Macewicz Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 110(1):52-70

Sub-Antarctic and high Antarctic Notothenioid fishes: ecology and adaptational biology revealed by the ICEFISH 2004 cruise of RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer Detrich, H. William III, Bradley A. Buckley, Daniel F. Doolittle, Christopher D. Jones, and Susanne J. Lockhart Oceanography 25(3):184-187

Exploration of Bayesian stock reduction analysis for assessment of West Coast groundfish Dick, E.J., Alec MacCall, Braden Soper, and Maria DeYorio Report submitted to the Review Panel Meeting on Assessment Methods for Data-Moderate Stocks (26-29 June 2012, Seattle, Washington). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 27 p.

The northeastern Pacific white shark Shared Offshore Foraging Area (SOFA): A first examination and description from ship observations and remote sensing Domeier, Michael L., Nicole Nasby-Lucas, and Daniel M. Palacios In: Michael L. Domeier (ed.), Global perspectives on the biology and life history of the white shark, p. 147-158. CRC Press.

Marine turtle mitogenome phylogenetics and evolution Duchene, Sebastian, Amy Frey, Alonzo Alfaro-Nunez, Peter H. Dutton, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, and Phillip A. Morin Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(1):241-250

Antarctic killer whales make rapid, round-trip movements to subtropical waters: evidence for physiological maintenance migrations? Durban, J.W., and R.L. Pitman Biology Letters 8(2):274-277

Morphology and growth rates of the green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) in a northern-most temperate foraging ground Eguchi, Tomoharu, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Robin A. LeRoux, Dan Prosperi, Donna L. Dutton, and Peter H. Dutton Herpetologica 68(1):76-87

Austral fall-winter transition of mesozooplankton assemblages and krill aggregations in an embayment west of the Antarctic Peninsula Espinasse, Boris, Meng Zhou, Yiwu Zhu, Elliott L. Hazen, Ari S. Friedlaender, Douglas P. Nowacek, Dezhang Chu, and Francois Carlotti Marine Ecology Progress Series 452:63-80

Photographic mark-recapture analysis of local dynamics within an open population of dolphins Fearnbach, H., J. Durban, K. Parsons, and D. Claridge Ecological Applications 22(5):1689-1700

Winter observations of a group of female and immature sperm whales in the high-latitude waters near the Aleutian Islands, Alaska Fearnbach, Holly, John W. Durban, Sally A. Mizroch, Steve Barbeaux, and Paul R. Wade Marine Biodiversity Records 5:e13 (4 p.)

Impact of climate change on Antarctic krill Flores, H., A. Atkinson, S. Kawaguchi, B.A. Krafft, G. Milinevsky, S. Nicol, C. Reiss, G.A. Tarling, R. Werner, E. Bravo Rebolledo, V. Cirelli, J. Cuzin-Roudy, S. Fielding, J.J. Groeneveld, M. Haraldsson, A. Lombana, E. Marschoff, B. Meyer, E.A. Pakhomov, E. Rombola, K. Schmidt, V. Siegel, M. Teschke, H. Tonkes, J.Y. Toullec, P.N. Trathan, N. Tremblay, A.P. Van de Putte, J.A. van Franeker, and T. Werner Marine Ecology Progress Series 458:1-19

Ancient DNA from marine mammals: Studying long-lived species over ecology and evolutionary timescales Foote, Andrew D., Michael Hofreiter, Phillip A. Morin Annals of Anatomy 194(1):112-120

Habitat-based spatial models of cetacean density in the eastern Pacific Ocean Forney, Karin A., Megan C. Ferguson, Elizabeth A. Becker, Paul C. Fiedler, Jessica V. Redfern, Jay Barlow, Ignacio L. Vilchis, and Lisa T. Ballance Endangered Species Research 16(2):113-133

Growth and rapid early development of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) Fortune, Sarah M.E., Andrew W. Trites, Wayne L. Perryman, Michael J. Moore, Heather M. Pettis, and Morgan S. Lynn Journal of Mammalogy 93(5):1342-1354

Assessing avian predation on juvenile salmonids using passive integrated transponder tag recoveries and mark-recapture methods Frechette, Danielle, Anne-Marie K. Osterback, Sean A. Hayes, Morgan H. Bond, Jonathan W. Moore, Scott A. Shaffer, and James T. Harvey North American Journal of Fisheries Management 32(6):1237-1250

Progress of between region comparison under Southern Hemisphere Blue Whale Catalogue (SHBWC) Galletti Vernazzani, Barbara, and Paula Olson Paper SC/64/SH20 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC64 meeting, Panama City, Panama, 2012). 4 p.

Chilean blue whales off Isla Grande de Chiloe, 2004-2010: distribution, site-fidelity and behavior Galletti Vernazzani, Barbara, Carole A. Carlson, Elsa Cabrera, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 12(3):353-360

Update on 2012 blue whale field season in Chile Galletti Vernazzani, Barbara, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Elsa Cabrera, Carole Carlson, and Mariano Sironi Paper SC/64/SH18 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC64 meeting, Panama City, Panama, 2012). 8 p.

Spatial ecology of critically endangered hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata: implications for management and conservation Gaos, Alexander R., Rebecca L. Lewison, Bryan P. Wallace, Ingrid L. Yanez, Michael J. Liles, Wallace J. Nichols, Andres Baquero, Carlos R. Hasbun, Mauricio Vasquez, Jose Urteaga, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Ecology Progress Series 450:181-194

Shifting the life-history paradigm: discovery of novel habitat use by hawksbill turtles Gaos, Alexander R., Rebecca L. Lewison, Ingrid L. Yanez, Bryan P. Wallace, Michael J. Liles, Wallace J. Nichols, Andres Baquero, Carlos R. Hasbun, Mauricio Vasquez, Jose Urteaga, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Biology Letters 8(1):54-56

Dive behaviour of adult hawksbills (Eretmochelys imbricata, Linnaeus 1766) in the eastern Pacific Ocean highlights shallow depth use by the species Gaos, Alexander R., Rebecca R. Lewison, Bryan P. Wallace, Ingrid L. Yanez, Michael J. Liles, Andres Baquero, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 432-433:171-178

Oceanic dispersal of juvenile leatherback turtles: going beyond passive drift modeling Gaspar, Philippe, Scott R. Benson, Peter H. Dutton, Adrien Reveillere, Guillaume Jacob, Cherina Meetoo, Amaury Dehecq, and Sabrina Fossette Marine Ecology Progress Series 457:265-284

Inference from limited data: A response to Lonergan Gerrodette, Tim, and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho Marine Mammal Science 28(4):790-796

Ecological metrics of biomass removed by three methods of purse-seine fishing for tunas in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean Gerrodette, Tim, Robert Olson, Stephen Reilly, George Watters, and William Perrin Conservation Biology 26(2):248-256

Conservation status of eulachon in the California Current Gustafson, Richard G., Michael J. Ford, Peter B. Adams, Jonathan S. Drake, Robert L. Emmett, Kurt L. Fresh, Mindy Rowse, Elizabeth A.K. Spangler, Robert E. Spangler, David J. Teel, and Matthew T. Wilson Fish and Fisheries 13(2):121-138

Local feed fish supplies and possible offshore aquaculture in California Hannesson, Rognvaldur, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. Aquaculture Research 44(1):1-7

Should I stay or should I go? The influence of genetic origin on emigration behavior and physiology of resident and anadromous juvenile Oncorhynchus mykiss Hayes, Sean A., Chad V. Hanson, Devon E. Pearse, Morgan H. Bond, John Carlos Garza, and R. Bruce MacFarlane North American Journal of Fisheries Management 32(4):772-780

Using archival tags to infer habitat use of Central California steelhead and coho salmon Hayes, Sean A., Morgan H. Bond, Brian K. Wells, Chad V. Hanson, Andrew W. Jones, R. Bruce MacFarlane In: Advances in fish tagging and marking technology. American Fisheries Society Symposium 76:471-492.

Ontogeny in marine tagging and tracking science: technologies and data gaps Hazen, Elliott L., Sara M. Maxwell, Helen Bailey, Steven J. Bograd, Mark Hamann, Philippe Gaspar, Brendan J. Godley, and George L. Shillinger Marine Ecology Progress Series 457:221-240

Fisheries Ecology Hazen, Elliott Lee, and Larry B. Crowder In: Alan Hastings and Louis J. Gross (eds.), Encyclopedia of theoretical ecology, p. 280-287. University of California Press.

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), E.J. Dick, John Hyde, Janet Mason, Andrew Thompson, Cindy Thomson, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 53rd annual meeting of the TSC (May 1-2, 2012, Newport Beach, California), p. 249-268. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Cruise report for the Vaquita Expedition in 2008 conducted aboard NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan, R/V Koipai Yu-Xa, and the Vaquita Express Henry, Annette, Barbara Taylor, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Shannon Rankin, Armando Jaramillo-Legoretta, Tom Akamatsu, Jay Barlow, Tim Gerrodette, Candice Hall, Alan Jackson, Jessica Redfern, Rene Swift, and Nick Tregenza U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-495. 41 p.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2012 for U.S. management in 2013 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Nancy C.H. Lo, David A. Demer, Juan P. Zwolinski, and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-501. 157 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Synopsis of data from satellite telemetry of foraging trips and migration routes of penguins and pinnipeds from the South Shetland Islands, 1997/98 to present Hinke, J., G. Watters, W. Trivelpiece, and M. Goebel CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 2-13 July 2012), Document no. WG-EMM-12/37.

Flexible reproductive timing can buffer reproductive success of Pygoscelis spp. penguins in the Antarctic Peninsula region Hinke, Jefferson T., Michael J. Polito, Christian S. Reiss, Susan G. Trivelpiece, and Wayne Z. Trivelpiece Marine Ecology Progress Series 454:91-104

Larvae define spawning habitat of bocaccio rockfish Sebastes paucispinis within and around a large southern California marine reserve Hitchman, Sean M., Nathalie B. Reyns, and Andrew R. Thompson Marine Ecology Progress Series 465:227-242

On North Pacific circulation and associated marine debris concentration Howell, Evan A., Steven J. Bograd, Carey Morishige, Michael P. Seki, and Jeffrey J. Polovina Marine Pollution Bulletin 65(1-3):16-22

Stable isotope analyses reveal individual variability in the trophic ecology of a top marine predator, the southern elephant seal Huckstadt, L.A., P.L. Koch, B.I McDonald, M.E. Goebel, D.E. Crocker, and D.P. Costa Oecologia 169(2):395-406

Green sturgeon distribution in the Pacific Ocean estimated from modeled oceanographic features and migration behavior Huff, David D., Steven T. Lindley, Brian K. Wells, and Fei Chai PLoS ONE 7(9):e45852 (12 p.)

Thermal reaction norms for growth vary among cohorts of Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) Hurst, Thomas P., Stephan B. Munch, and Kate A. Lavelle Marine Biology 159(10):2173-2183

The effects of a lanthanide metal alloy on shark catch rates Hutchinson, Melanie, John H. Wang, Yonat Swimmer, Kim Holland, Suzanne Kohin, Heidi Dewar, James Wraith, Russ Vetter, Craig Heberer, and Jimmy Martinez Fisheries Research 131-133:45-51

A description of the tuna-porpoise observer data collected by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service from 1971 to 1990 Jackson, Alan R. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-493. 406 p.

Life history of the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin in the Pearl River Estuary, southern China Jefferson, Thomas A., Samuel K. Hung, Kelly M. Robertson, and Frederick I. Archer Marine Mammal Science 28(1):84-104

Waterbird mortality in hypersaline environments: the Wyoming trona ponds Jehl, Joseph R. Jr., Annette E. Henry, and Judy St. Leger Hydrobiologia 697(1):23-29

Managed metapopulations: Do salmon hatchery 'sources' lead to in-river 'sinks' in conservation? Johnson, Rachel C., Peter K. Weber, John D. Wikert, Michelle L. Workman, R. Bruce MacFarlane, Marty J. Grove, and Alex K. Schmitt PLoS ONE 7(2):e28880 (11 p.)

The reproductive behaviour of Pogonophryne scotti confirms widespread egg-guarding parental care among Antarctic notothenioids Jones, C.D., and T.J. Near Journal of Fish Biology 80(7):2629-2635

Evaluation of rockfish abundance in untrawlable habitat: combining acoustic and complementary sampling tools Jones, Darin T., Christopher D. Wilson, Alex De Robertis, Christopher N. Rooper, Thomas C. Weber, and John L. Butler Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 110(3):332-343

Perfluoroalkyl contaminants in plasma of five sea turtle species: comparisons in concentration and potential helath risks Keller, Jennifer M., Lily Ngai, Joanne Braun McNeill, Lawrence D. Wood, Kelly R. Stewart, Steven G. O'Connell, and John R. Kucklick Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 31(6):1223-1230

Flows, droughts, and aliens: factors affecting the fish assemblage in a Sierra Nevada, California, stream Kiernan, Joseph D., and Peter B. Moyle Ecological Applications 22(4):1146-1161

Restoring native fish assemblages to a regulated California stream using the natural flow regime concept Kiernan, Joseph D., Peter B. Moyle, and Patrick K. Crain Ecological Applications 22(5):1472-1482

Leatherback turtle nesting in the autonomous region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Kinch, Jeff, Scott Benson, Paul Anderson, and Kevin Anana Marine Turtle Newsletter 132:15-17

Effects of recruitment variability and natural mortality on Generalised Yield Model projections and the CCAMLR Decision Rules for Antarctic krill Kinzey, D., G. Watters, and C. Reiss CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 2-13 July 2012), Document no. WG-EMM-12/26.

An integrated assessment model for Antarctic krill: progress update Kinzey, D., G. Watters, and C. Reiss CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 2-13 July 2012), Document no. WG-EMM-12/27.

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2012 season Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 29 p.

Klamath River fall Chinook salmon age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2011 run Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 19 p.

The composition, abundance and reproductive characteristics of the demersal fish fauna in the Elephant Island - South Shetland Islands region and at the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (CCAMLR Subarea 8.1) in March-early April 2012 Kock, K.-H., and C.D. Jones CCAMLR Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (Hobart, Australia, 8-19 October 2012), Document no. WG-FSA-12/10.

Has Notothenia rossii around Elephant Islands and the lower South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1) recovered from exploitation? Kock, K.-H., and C.D. Jones CCAMLR Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (Hobart, Australia, 8-19 October 2012), Document no. WG-FSA-12/???.

Trace metals in an urbanized estuarine sea turtle food web in San Diego Bay, CA Komoroske, Lisa M., Rebecca L. Lewison, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Douglas D. Deustchman, and Dimitri D. Deheyn Science of the Total Environment 417-418:108-116

Report of the CalCOFI Committee 2011 Koslow, Tony, Laura Rogers-Bennett, and Sam McClatchie CalCOFI Reports 53:5-11

Increased kinetic efficiency for silicic acid uptake as a driver of summer diatom blooms in the North Pacific subtropical gyre Krause, Jeffrey W., Mark A. Brzezinski, Tracy A. Villareal, and Cara Wilson Limnology and Oceanography 57(4):1084-1098

Models and maps: predicting the distribution of corals and other benthic macro-invertebrates in shelf habitats Krigsman, Lisa M., Mary M. Yoklavich, E.J. Dick, and Guy R. Cochrane Ecosphere 3(1):art3 (16 p.)

Age and growth of the Antarctic dragonfish Parachaenichthys charcoti (Pisces, Bathydraconidae) from the southern Scotia Arc La Mesa, Mario, Barbara Catalano, Karl-Hermann Kock, and Christopher D. Jones Polar Biology 35(10):1545-1553

Evaluating buccal and cloacal swabs for ease of collection and use in genetic analyses of marine turtles Lanci, Amy K.J., Suzanne E. Roden, Amanda Bowman, Erin L. LaCasella, Amy Frey, and Peter H. Dutton Chelonian Conservation and Biology 11(1):144-148

Update on the use of a simulation-based approach to evaluate plausible levels of recruitment into the Pacific Coast Feeding Group of gray whales Lang, A.R., and K.K. Martien Paper SC/64/AWMP4 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC64 meeting, Panama City, Panama, 2012). 34 p.

Using a simulation-based approach to evaluate plausible levels of recruitment into the Pacific Coast Feeding Group of gray whales: Progress report and preliminary results Lang, A.R., and K.K. Martien Paper SC/M12/AWMP4 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (AWMP Workshop, La Jolla, California, March 2012). 22 p.

Genetic analysis of right whales in the eastern North Pacific confirms sever extirpation risk LeDuc, R.G., B.L. Taylor, K.K. Martien, K.M. Robertson, R.L. Pitman, J.C. Salinas, A.M. Burdin, A.S. Kennedy, P.R. Wade, P.J. Clapham, and R.L. Brownell Jr. Endangered Species Research 18(2):163-167

Effects of blood anticoagulants on stable isotope values of sea turtle blood tissue Lemons, Garrett E., Tomoharu Eguchi, Boyd N. Lyon, Robin LeRoux, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Aquatic Biology 14(3):201-206

Conditionally linear models for non-homogeneous spatial random fields Lemos, Ricardo T., and Bruno Sanso Statistical Methodology 9(1-2):275-284

Re-examination of population structure and phylogeography of hawksbill turtles in the Wider Caribbean using longer mtDNA sequences LeRoux, Robin A., Peter H. Dutton, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Cynthia J. Lagueux, Cathi L. Campbell, Eric Delcroix, Johan Chevalier, Julia A. Horrocks, Zandy Hillis-Starr, Sebastian Troeng, Emma Harrison, and Seth Stapleton Journal of Heredity 103(6):806-820

Phylogeography and bindin evolution in Arbacia, a sea urchin genus with an unusual distribution Lessios, H.A., S. Lockhart, R. Collin, G. Sotil, P. Sanchez-Jerez, K.S. Zigler, A.F. Perez, M.J. Garrido, L.B. Geyer, G. Bernardi, V.D. Vacquier, R. Haroun, and B.D. Kessing Molecular Ecology 21(1):130-144

Dealing with uncertainty in ecosystem models: The paradox of use for living marine resource management Link, J.S., T.F. Ihde, C.J. Harvey, S.K. Gaichas, J.C. Field, J.K.T. Brodziak, H.M. Townsend, and R.M. Peterman Progress in Oceanography 102:102-114

Potential VMEs around Elephant and the South Shetland Islands (Subarea 48.1) Lockhart, S.J., N. Wilson, and E. Lazo-Wasem CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 2-13 July 2012), Document no. WG-EMM-12/51.

Empirical standard mass equation for Salmo marmoratus Lorenzoni, M., D. Giannetto, G. Maio, E. Pizzul, L. Pompei, P. Turin, S. Vincenzi, and A. Crivelli Journal of Fish Biology 81(6):2086-2091

Data-limited management reference points to avoid collapse of stocks dependent on learned migration behaviour MacCall, Alec D. ICES Journal of Marine Science 69(2):267-270