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Multiple distant origins for green sea turtles aggregating off Gorgona Island in the Columbian eastern Pacific Amorocho, Diego F., F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Peter H. Dutton, and Richard D. Reina PLoS ONE 7(2):e31486 (12 p.)

Large-scale parentage inference with SNPs: an efficient algorithm for statistical confidence of parent pair allocations Anderson, Eric C. Statistical Applications in Genetics and Molecular Biology 11(5):12 (26 p.)

Toward an ocean acidification data stewardship system Arzayus, Krisa, Hernan E. Garcia, Steve Hankin, Elizabeth Jewett, and Roy Mendelssohn Earth System Monitor 19(1):5

Population structure of melon-headed whales (Peponocephala electra) in the Hawaiian Archipelago: Evidence of multiple populations based on photo identification Aschettino, Jessica M., Robin W. Baird, Daniel J. McSweeney, Daniel L. Webster, Gregory S. Schorr, Jessica L. Huggins, Karen K. Martien, Sabre D. Mahaffy, and Kristi L. West Marine Mammal Science 28(4):666-689

Does large-scale ocean circulation structure life history connectivity in Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)? Ashford, J., M. Dinniman, C. Brooks, A. Andrews, E. Hofmann, G. Cailliet, C. Jones, and N. Ramanna CCAMLR Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (Hobart, Australia, 8-19 October 2012), Document no. WG-FSA-12/P02.

Does large-scale ocean circulation structure life history connectivity in Antarctic toothfish (Dissostichus mawsoni)? Ashford, Julian, Michael Dinniman, Cassandra Brooks, Allen H. Andrews, Eileen Hofmann, Gregor Cailliet, Christopher Jones, and Nakul Ramanna Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 69(12):1903-1919

Fitting Euphausia superba into Southern Ocean food-web models: a review of data sources and their limitations Atkinson, A., S. Nicol, S. Kawaguchi, E. Pakhomov, L. Quetin, R. Ross, S. Hill, C. Reiss, V. Siegel, and G. Tarling CCAMLR Science 19:219-245

Hybridization of Southern Hemisphere blue whale subspecies and a sympatric area off Antarctica: impacts of whaling or climate change? Attard, Catherine R.M., Luciano B. Beheregaray, K. Curt S. Jenner, Peter C. Gill, Micheline-Nicole Jenner, Margaret G. Morrice, Kelly M. Robertson, and Luciana M. Moller Molecular Ecology 21(23):5715-5727

Movement patterns for a critically endangered species, the leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), linked to foraging success and population status Bailey, Helen, Sabrina Fossette, Steven J. Bograd, George L. Shillinger, Alan M. Swithenbank, Jean-Yves Georges, Philippe Gaspar, K.H. Patrik Stromberg, Frank V. Paladino, James R. Spotila, Barbara A. Block, and Graeme C. Hays PLoS ONE 7(5):e36401 (8 p.)

Identification of distinct movement patterns in Pacific leatherback turtle populations influenced by ocean conditions 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, and James R. Spotila Ecological Applications 22(3):735-747

Report of the Symposium and Workshop on Living Whales in the Southern Ocean (Puerto Varas, Chile, 27-29 March 2012) Baker, C. Scott, Barbara Galletti, Simon Childerhouse, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Ari Friedlaender, Nick Gales, Alisa Hall, Jen Jackson, Russell Leaper, Wayne Perryman, Debbie Steel, Luciano Valenzuela, and Alex Zerbini Paper SC/64/O14 (revised) presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC64 meeting, Panama City, Panama, 2012). 40 p.

Passive acoustic monitoring of cetaceans, by Walter M.X. Zimmer [book review] Barlow, Jay Marine Mammal Science 28(4):782-784

Road surface erosion on the Jackson Demonstration State Forest: results of a pilot study Barrett, Brian, Rosemary Kosaka, and David Tomberlin In: Proceedings of the Coast Redwood Forests in a Changing California: a symposium for scientists and managers, p. 13-21. U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, General Technical Report PSW-GTR-238.

Spatio-temporal patterns of beaked whale echolocation signals in the North Pacific Baumann-Pickering, Simone, Anne E. Simonis, Marie A. Roch, Mark A. McDonald, Alba Solsona-Berga, Erin M. Oleson, Sean M. Wiggins, Robert L. Brownell Jr., and John A. Hildebrand Paper SC/64/SM21 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC64 meeting, Panama City, Panama, 2012). 21 p.

Forecasting cetacean abundance patterns to enhance management decisions Becker, E.A., D.G. Foley, K.A. Forney, J. Barlow, J.V. Redfern, and C.L. Gentemann Endangered Species Research 16(2):97-112

Density and spatial distribution patterns of cetaceans in the Central North Pacific based on habitat models Becker, Elizabeth A., Karin A. Forney, D.G. Foley, and Jay Barlow U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-490. 34 p.

Predictive modeling of cetacean densities in the California Current ecosystem based on summer/fall ship surveys in 1991-2008 Becker, Elizabeth A., Karin A. Forney, Megan C. Ferguson, Jay Barlow, and Jessica V. Redfern U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-499. 45 p.

Joint projections of North Pacific sea surface temperature from different global climate models Beltran, Francisco, Bruno Sanso, Ricardo T. Lemos, and Roy Mendelssohn Environmetrics 23(5):451-465

Incidental captures of sea turtles in the driftnet and longline fisehries in northwestern Morocco Benhardouze, Wafae, Mustapha Aksissou, and Manjula Tiwari Fisheries Research 127-128:125-132

Sea turtles of the U.S. West Coast: life in the higher latitudes Benson, Scott R., and Peter H. Dutton In: Jeffrey A. Seminoff and Bryan P. Wallace (eds.), Sea turtles of the eastern Pacific: advances in research and conservation, p. 88-110. University of Arizona Press.

Ricker model Bjorkstedt, Eric P. In: Alan Hastings and Louis J. Gross (eds.), Encyclopedia of theoretical ecology, p. 632-636. University of California Press.

State of the California Current 2011-2012: Ecosystems respond to local forcing as La Nina wavers and wanes Bjorkstedt, Eric P., Ralf Goericke, Sam McClatchie, Ed Weber, William Watson, Nancy Lo, William T. Peterson, Richard D. Brodeur, Toby Auth, Jennifer Fisher, Cheryl Morgan, Jay Peterson, John Largier, Steven J. Bograd, Reginaldo Durazo, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Bertha Lavaniegos, Francisco P. Chavez, Curtis A. Collins, Bob Hannah, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Will Satterthwaite, Michael O'Farrell, Sean Hayes, Jeff Harding, William J. Sydeman, Sarah Ann Thompson, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, Jaime Jahncke, Richard T. Golightly, Stephanie R. Schneider, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Cheryl A. Horton, Sung Yong Kim, Sharon R. Melin, Robert L. DeLong, and Jeffrey Abell CalCOFI Reports 53:41-76

Regional habitat assessment prioritization for California stocks Blackhart, Kristan, Stephen K. Brown, Bryant Chesney, E.J. Dick, Kirsten Larsen, Michael O'Farrell, Korie Schaeffer, Brian Spence, Kevin Stierhoff, Dale Sweetnam, and Mary Yoklavich Report of the Southwest Regional Habitat Assessment Prioritization Working Group. U.S. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service. 36 p.

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