NOAA FISHERIES

Application of a method for estimating effective population size and admixture using diagnostic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): implications for conservation of threatened Paiute cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii seleniris) in Silver King Creek, California Finger, Amanda J., Eric C. Anderson, Molly R. Stephens, and Bernard P. May Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68(8):1369-1386

Daily egg production, spawning biomass and recruitment for the central subpopulation of northern anchovy 1981-2009 Fissel, Benjamin E., Nancy C.H. Lo, and Samuel F. Herrick Jr. CalCOFI Reports 52:116-135

Global review of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) Fleming, Alyson, and Jennifer Jackson U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-474. 206 p.

Genetic differentiation among North Atlantic killer whale populations Foote, Andrew D., Julia T. Vilstrup, Renaud de Stephanis, Philippe Verborgh, Sandra C. Abel Nielsen, Robert Deaville, Lars Kleivane, Vidal Martin, Patrick J.O. Miller, Nils Oien, Monica Perez-Gil, Morten Rasmussen, Robert J. Reid, Kelly M. Robertson, Emer Rogan, Tiu Simila, Maria L. Tejedor, Heike Vester, Gisli A. Vikingsson, Eske Willerslev, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, and Stuart B. Piertney Molecular Ecology 20(3):629-641

Out of the Pacific and back again: Insights into the matrilineal history of Pacific killer whale ecotypes Foote, Andrew D., Phillip A. Morin, John W. Durban, Eske Willerslev, Ludovic Orlando, and M. Thomas P. Gilbert PLoS ONE 6(9):e24980 (7 p.)

Positive selection on the killer whale mitogenome Foote, Andrew D., Phillip A. Morin, John W. Durban, Robert L. Pitman, Paul Wade, Eske Willerslev, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, and Rute R. da Fonseca Biology Letters 7(1):116-118

What's the catch? Patterns of cetacean bycatch and depredation in Hawaii-based pelagic longline fisheries Forney, Karin A., Donald R. Kobayashi, David W. Johnston, Jamie A. Marchetti, and Michael G. Marsik Marine Ecology 32(3):380-391

Effects of myxozoa disease on population dynamics of Klamath fall Chinook salmon [abstract] Fujiwara, M., A. Greenberg, and M.S. Mohr In: Lyman Thorsteinson, Scott VanderKooi, and Walter Duffy (eds.), Proceedings of the Klamath Basin Science Conference (Medford, Oregon, February 1-5, 2010), p. 236. U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 2011-1196.

Effects of ceratomyxosis on population dynamics of Klamath fall-run Chinook salmon Fujiwara, Masami, Michael S. Mohr, Aaron Greenberg, J. Scott Foott, and Jerri L. Bartholomew Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140(5):1380-1391

Human influence on the spatial structure of threatened Pacific salmon metapopulations Fullerton, Aimee H., Steven T. Lindley, George R. Pess, Blake E. Feist, E. Ashley Steel, and Paul McElhany Conservation Biology 25(5):932-944

Chilean blue whales off Isla Grande de Chiloe, 2004-2010: distribution, photo-identification and behavior Galletti Vernazzani, Barbara, Carole A. Carlson, Elsa Cabrera, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/63/SH6 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC63 meeting, Tromso, Norway, 2011). 11 p.

Sightings of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off Chile and Peru from 1975 to 2010 Galletti Vernazzani, Barbara, Jose L. Brito, Elsa Cabrera, Juan C. Cardenas, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/S11/RW22 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (IWC Workshop on the Assessment of Southern Right Whales, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2011). 12 p.

Inference without significance: measuring support for hypotheses rather than rejecting them Gerrodette, Tim Marine Ecology 32(3):404-418

Estimating the success of protected areas for the vaquita, Phocoena sinus Gerrodette, Tim, and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho Marine Mammal Science 27(2):E101-E125

Precautionary design of a marine protected area based on a habitat model Gerrodette, Tim, and Tomoharu Eguchi Endangered Species Research 15(2):159-166

A combined visual and acoustic estimate of 2008 abundance, and change in abundance since 1997, for the vaquita, Phocoena sinus Gerrodette, Tim, Barbara L. Taylor, Rene Swift, Shannon Rankin, Armando M. Jaramillo-Legorreta, and Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho Marine Mammal Science 27(2):E79-E100

Detecting and forecasting complex nonlinear dynamics in spatially structured catch-per-unit-effort time series for North Pacific albacore (Thunnus alalunga) Glaser, Sarah M., Hao Ye, Mark Maunder, Alec MacCall, Michael Fogarty, and George Sugihara Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68(3):400–412

Pacific Ocean-wide profile of CYP1A1 expression, stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios, and organic contaminant burden in sperm whale skin biopsies Godard-Codding, Celine A.J., Rebecca Clark, Maria Cristina Fossi, Letizia Marsili, Silvia Maltese, Adam G. West, Luciano Valenzuela, Victoria Rowntree, Ildiko Polyak, John C. Cannon, Kim Pinkerton, Nadia Rubio-Cisneros, Sarah L. Mesnick, Stephen B. Cox, Iain Kerr, Roger Payne, and John J. Stegeman Environmental Health Perspectives 119(3):337-343

Pinniped research at Cape Shirreff, Livingston Island, Antarctica Goebel, Michael E., Ryan Burner, Ray Buchheit, Nicola Pussini, Douglas Krause, Carolina Bonin, Raul Vasquez del Mercado, and Amy Van Cise In: Amy Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2009/2010 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 28-35. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-470.

Regional estimates of biomass of Pacific sardine in 2010 and recent years [abstract] Green-Ruiz, Yanira, Tim Baumgartner, Martin E. Hernandez-Rivas, Sanda McFarlane, Jake Schweigert, Vanessa Hodes, Robert Emmett, John Ferguson, Ryan Kapp, Tom Jagielo, Ryan Howe, Dave Demer, Juan Zwolinski, Beverly Macewicz, David Griffith, and Nancy C.H. Lo In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 32. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Regional and seasonal patterns of epipelagic fish assemblages from the central California Current Harding, Jeffrey A., Arnold J. Ammann, and R. Bruce MacFarlane Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 109(3):261-281

Comparative health assessment of western Pacific leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) foraging off the coast of California, 2005-2007 Harris, Heather S., Scott R. Benson, Kirsten V. Gilardi, Robert H. Poppenga, Thierry M. Work, Peter H. Dutton, and Jonna A.K. Mazet Journal of Wildlife Diseases 47(2):321-337

Modeling growth and reproduction of chilipepper rockfish under variable environmental conditions Harvey, Chris J., John C. Field, Sabrina G. Beyer, and Susan M. Sogard Fisheries Research 109(1):187-200

Down, up, down and "smolting" twice? Seasonal movement patterns by juvenile steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) in coastal watershed with bar closing estuary Hayes, Sean A., Morgan H. Bond, Chad V. Hanson, Andrew W. Jones, Arnold J. Ammann, Jeffrey A. Harding, Alison L. Collins, Jeffrey Perez, and R. Bruce MacFarlane Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68(8):1341-1350

The relationship among oceanography, prey fields, and beaked whale foraging habitat in the Tongue of the Ocean Hazen, Elliott L., Douglas P. Nowacek, Louis St. Laurent, Patrick N. Halpin, and David J. Moretti PLoS ONE 6(4):e19269 (10 p.)

Status of the California Current Ecosystem: major EBM drivers and pressures Hazen, Elliott L., William J. Sydeman, Isaac D. Schroeder, Sarah A. Thompson, Brian K. Wells, Steven T. Lindley, Churchill B. Grimes, Steven J. Bograd, and Franklin B. Schwing In: Levin, Phillip S., and Franklin B. Schwing (eds.), Technical background for an Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the California Current: groundfish, salmon, green sturgeon, and ecosystem health, p. 99-110. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-109.

Status of the widow rockfish resource in 2011 He, Xi, Donald E. Pearson, E.J. Dick, John C. Field, Stephen Ralston, and Alec D. MacCall Report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 317 p.

Interactions of age-dependent mortality and selectivity functions in age-based stock assessment models He, Xi, Stephen Ralston, and Alec D. MacCall Fishery Bulletin 109(2)198-216

Conceptual design and approach for modeling fall-run Chinook production post dam removal [abstract] Hendrix, N., S. Lindley, J. Hamilton, J. Simondet, and C. Huntington In: Lyman Thorsteinson, Scott VanderKooi, and Walter Duffy (eds.), Proceedings of the Klamath Basin Science Conference (Medford, Oregon, February 1-5, 2010), p. 217-218. U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 2011-1196.

Resightings of humpback whales in Hawaiian waters over spans of 10-32 years: Site fidelity, sex ratios, calving rates, female demographics, and the dynamics of social and behavioral roles of individuals Herman, Louis M., Adam A. Pack, Kathryn Rose, Alison Craig, Elia Y.K. Herman, Siri Hakala, and Aliza Milette Marine Mammal Science 27(4):736-768

The effect of the environment on California's commercial fisheries [abstract] Herrick, Samuel F. Jr., Jerrold Norton, and Rognvaldur Hannesson In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 38. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

A steep genetic cline in yellowtail rockfish, Sebastes flavidus, suggests regional isolation across the Cape Mendocino faunal break Hess, Jon E., Russell D. Vetter, and Paul Moran Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68(1):89-104

Expert opinion and the demand for experience goods: an experimental approach in the retail wine market Hilger, James, Greg Rafert, and Sofia Villas-Boas Review of Economics and Statistics 93(4):1289-1296

Regional biomass report: United States: Coastwide Assessment Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Paul R. Crone, and Roberto Felix-Uraga In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 9-12. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2010 for U.S. management in 2011 [abstract] Hill, Kevin T., Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Paul R. Crone, and Roberto Felix-Uraga In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 30-31. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2011 for U.S. management in 2012 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Nancy C.H. Lo, Beverly J. Macewicz, Emmanis Dorval, Jennifer D. McDaniel, and Yuhong Gu U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-487. 16 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Comparing CEMP indices to inform feedback management of the Antarctic krill fishery Hinke, J.T., and G.M. Watters CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Busan, Republic of Korea, 11-22 July 2011), Document no. WG-EMM-11/25.

Daily activity and minimum food requirements during winter for gentoo penguins (Pygoscelis papua) in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Hinke, Jefferson T., and Wayne Z. Trivelpiece Polar Biology 34(10):1579-1590

Green sturgeon physical habitat use in the coastal Pacific Ocean Huff, David D., Steven T. Lindley, Polly S. Rankin, and Ethan A. Mora PLoS ONE 6(9):e25156 (12 p.)

Error in Pacific sardine assessment arising from spatial assumptions [abstract] Hurtado-Ferro, Felipe, Andre E. Punt, and Kevin T. Hill In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 33-34. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Implementation of an acoustic monitoring scheme for vaquita, design and pilot test phases and a review of the Recovery Plan Jaramillo-Legorreta, Armando M., Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Barb Taylor, Jay Barlow, and Nick Tregenza Paper SC/63/SM22 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC63 meeting, Tromso, Norway, 2011). 6 p.

Otolith morphometrics and population structure of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) along the west coast of North America Javor, Barbara, Nancy Lo, and Russ Vetter Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 109(4):402-415.

What drives island-associated tropical dolphins to form mixed-species associations in the southwest Indian Ocean? Jeremy Kiszka, William F. Perrin, Claire Pusineri, and Vincent Ridoux Journal of Mammalogy 92(5):1105-1111

Fin whale acoustics as a tool to assess stock structure in the North Pacific Jones, Benjamin, Shannon Rankin, and Eric Archer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-485. 23 p.

The Ross Sea toothfish fishery: proposal for conditional transition of classification from exploratory to established Jones, C., and S. Hanchet CCAMLR Working Group on Fish Stock Assessment (Hobart, Australia, 10-21 October 2011), Document no. WG-FSA-11/32.

Detecting vulnerable marine ecosystems in the Southern Ocean using research trawls and underwater imagery Jones, Christopher D., and Susanne J. Lockhart Marine Policy 35(5):732-736

Dense stalked crinoid dominated assemblages on Admiralty Seamount in the northern Ross Sea (Subarea 88.1G): two potential VMEs Jones, Christopher D., David A. Bowden, and Stefano Schiaparelli CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Busan, Republic of Korea, 11-22 July 2011), Document no. WG-EMM-11/10.

Determining transmitter drag and best-practice attachment procedures for sea turtle biotelemetry Jones, T. Todd, Brian Bostrom, Michael Carey, Brittany Imlach, Jon Mikkelsen, Peter Ostafichuk, Scott Eckert, Patrick Opay, Yonat Swimmer, Jeffrey Seminoff, and David R. Jones U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-480. 58 p.

The partnership between gobiid fishes and burrowing alpheid shrimps Karplus, Ilan, and Andrew Richard Thompson In: Robert Patzner et al. (eds.), The biology of gobies, p. 559-607. Science Publishers / CRC Press.

Current and future patterns of global marine mammal biodiversity Kaschner, Kristin, Derek P. Tittensor, Jonathan Ready, Tim Gerrodette, and Boris Worm PLoS ONE 6(5):e19653 (13 p.)

Research standards for exploratory fisheries Kinzey, D. CCAMLR Working Group on Statistics, Assessments and Modelling (Busan, Republic of Korea, 11-15 July 2011), Document no. WG-SAM-11/15 (Rev. 1).

Modeling Antarctic krill: scale, movement and age-structure Kinzey, Doug, George Watters, and Christian Reiss CCAMLR Working Group on Ecosystem Monitoring and Management (Busan, Republic of Korea, 11-22 July 2011), Document no. WG-EMM-11/43 (Rev. 1)

Small founding number and low genetic diversity in an introduced species exhibiting limited invasion success (speckled dace, Rhinichthys osculus) Kinziger, Andrew P., Rodney J. Nakamoto, Eric C. Anderson, and Bret C. Harvey Ecology and Evolution 1(1):73-84

Klamath River fall Chinook salmon age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2010 run Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 21 p.

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2011 season Klamath River Technical Team Klamath River Technical Team. 37 p.

Pollutants and the health of green sea turtles resident to an urbanized estuary in San Diego, CA Komoroske, Lisa M., Rebecca L. Lewison, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Dimitri D. Deheyn, and Peter H. Dutton Chemosphere 84(5):544-552

Impact of declining intermediate-water oxygen on deepwater fishes in the California Current Koslow, J. Anthony, Ralf Goericke, Ana Lara-Lopez, and William Watson Marine Ecology Progress Series 436:207-218

Peter Johannes Hendrikus van Bree, 1927-2011 Kreb, Danielle, William F. Perrin, Pieter't Hart, Harun Guclusoy, and Koen Van Waerebeek Marine Mammal Science 27(3):665-670

Variational assimilation of satellite observations in a coastal ocean model off Oregon Kurapov, A.L., D. Foley, P.T. Strub, G.D. Egbert, and J.S. Allen Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 116(C5):C05006 (19 p.)

Integrated management and visualization of electronic tag data with Tagbase Lam, Chi Hin, and Vardis M. Tsontos PLoS ONE 6(7):e21810 (10 p.)

Assessment of stock structure among gray whales utilizing feeding grounds in the Eastern North Pacific Lang, A.R., B.L. Taylor, J.C. Calambokidis, V.L. Pease, A. Klimek, J. Scordino, K.M. Robertson, D. Litovka, V. Burkanov, P. Gearin, J.C. George, and B. Mate Paper SC/M11/AWMP4 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (AWMP Workshop, La Jolla, California, March-April 2011). 22 p.

Genetic analysis of stock structure and movements of gray whales in the eastern and western North Pacific Lang, A.R., D.W. Weller, R. LeDuc, A.M. Burdin, V.L. Pease, D. Litovka, V. Burkanov, and R.L. Brownell Jr. Paper SC/63/BRG10 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC63 meeting, Tromso, Norway 2011). 20 p.

Trophic ecology of green sea turtles in a highly urbanized bay: Insights from stable isotopes and mixing models Lemons, Garrett, Rebecca Lewison, Lisa Komoroske, Alexander Gaos, Chun-Ta Lai, Peter Dutton, Tomoharu Eguchi, Robin LeRoux, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 405(1-2):25-32

Introduction: An incremental approach to the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Levin, Phillip S., and Franklin B. Schwing In: Levin, Phillip S., and Franklin B. Schwing (eds.), Technical background for an Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the California Current: groundfish, salmon, green sturgeon, and ecosystem health, p. 1-6. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-109.

Technical background for an Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the California Current: groundfish, salmon, green sturgeon, and ecosystem health Levin, Phillip S., and Franklin B. Schwing (eds.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-109 (330 p.)

Molecular systematics of flyingfishes (Teleostei: Exocoetidae): evolution in the epipelagic zone Lewallen, Eric A., Robert L. Pitman, Shawna L. Kjartanson, and Nathan R. Lovejoy Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 102(1):161-174

Ingredients for addressing the challenges of fisheries bycatch Lewison, R.L., C.U. Soykan, T. Cox, H. Peckham, N. Pilcher, N. LeBoeuf, S. McDonald, J. Moore, C. Safina, and L.B. Crowder Bulletin of Marine Science 87(2):235-250

Hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata in El Salvador: nesting distribution and mortality at the largest remaining nesting aggregation in the eastern Pacific Ocean Liles, Michael J., Mauricio V. Jandres, Wilfredo A. Lopez, Georgina I. Mariona, Carlos R. Hasbun, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Endangered Species Research 14(1):23-30

Electronic tagging of green sturgeon reveals population structure and movement among estuaries Lindley, Steven T., Daniel L. Erickson, Mary L. Moser, Greg Williams, Olaf P. Langness, Barry W. McCovey Jr., Michael Belchik, Dave Vogel, William Pinnix, John T. Kelly, Joseph C. Heublein, and A. Peter Klimley Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140(1):108-122

Migration of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the west coast of United States in 2003-2005 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and David A. Griffith Bulletin of Marine Science 87(3):395-412

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off U.S. in 2011 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, and David A. Griffith U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-486. 38 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES

Photographic catalog of California marine fish otoliths: prey of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) Lowry, Mark S. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-483. 250 p.

Foreword MacCall, Alec D. In: A. Belgrano and C.W. Fowler (eds.), Ecosystem-based management for marine fisheries: an evolving perspective, p. xiii-xvi. Cambridge University Press.

The sardine-anchovy puzzle MacCall, Alec D. In: Jeremy B.C. Jackson, Karen E. Alexander, and Enric Sala (eds.), Shifting baselines: the past and future of ocean fisheries, p. 47-57. Island Press.

Exploration of a hybrid stock synthesis-VPA model of Pacific bluefin tuna to distinguish between trends in recruitment and changes in fishing intensity on young fish MacCall, Alec D., and Steven L.H. Teo Working document submitted to the ISC Pacific bluefin tuna Working Group, International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-Like Species in the North Pacific Ocean (ISC), 6-13 January 2011, Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. ISC document no. ISC/11-1/PBFWG/01. 12 p.

Data-poor models for assessing gulf curvina and evaluating management alternatives MacCall, Alec, Brad Erisman, Ashley Apel, and Rod Fujita Report supporting a presentation at Ensenada, BCN, on 11 May, 2011. 10 p.

The 2010 California Current Ecosystem Survey, summary and comparison to Pacific sardine caught in 2006 and 2008 spring coastwide surveys [abstract] Macewicz, Beverly J., and David A. Griffith In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 34. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

To poach or not to poach an endangered species: elucidating the conomic and social drivers behind illegal sea turtle hunting in Baja California Sur, Mexico Mancini, Agnese, Jesse Senko, Ricardo Borquez-Reyes, Juan Guzman Poo, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Volker Koch Human Ecology 39(6):743-756

Post-capture movements of loggerhead turtles in the southeastern Pacific Ocean assessed by satellite tracking Mangel, Jeffrey C., Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, Matthew J. Witt, Peter H. Dutton, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Brendan J. Godley Marine Ecology Progress Series 433:261-272

A microsatellite genome screen identifies chromosomal regions under differential selection in steelhead and rainbow trout Martinez, Andres, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 140(3):829-842

Killer whales in Alaskan waters Matkin, Craig, and John Durban Special issue: Killer whale: The top, top predator. Whalewatcher 40(1):24-29

A note on the detection of the neurotoxin domoic acid in beach-stranded Dosidicus gigas in the Southern California Bight Mazzillo, Fernanda F.M., John C. Field, Danna J. Staaf, Melissa L. Carter, and Mark D. Ohman CalCOFI Reports 52:109-115

Re-assessment of the stock-recruit and temperature-recruit relationships for Pacific sardine [abstract] McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, Guillermo Auad, and Kevin Hill In: L. Flostrand, J. Detering, and J. Schweigert (eds.), Proceedings of the 2010 Trinational Pacific Sardine Forum, p. 36. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 2970.

Can information from marine protected areas be used to inform control-rule-based management of small-scale, data-poor stocks? McGilliard, Carey R., Ray Hilborn, Alec MacCall, Andre E. Punt, and John C. Field ICES Journal of Marine Science 68(1):201-211

The STAMP software for state space models Mendelssohn, Roy Journal of Statistical Software 41(2):1-18

Sperm whale population structure in the eastern and central North Pacific inferred by the use of single-nucleotide polymorphisms, microsatellites and mitrochondrial DNA Mesnick, Sarah L., Barbara L. Taylor, Frederick I. Archer, Karen K. Martien, Sergio Escorza Trevino, Brittany L. Hancock-Hanser, Sandra Carolina Moreno Medina, Victoria L. Pease, Kelly M. Robertson, Janice M. Straley, Robin W. Baird, John Calambokidis, Gregory S. Schorr, Paul Wade, Vladimir Burkanov, Chris R. Lunsford, Luke Rendell, and Phillip A. Morin Molecular Ecology Resources 11(suppl.1):278-298

The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) 4-dimensional variational data assimilation systems: Part II - Performance and application to the California Current System Moore, Andrew M., Hernan G. Arango, Gregoire Broquet, Chris Edwards, Milena Veneziani, Brian Powell, Dave Foley, James D. Doyle, Dan Costa, and Patrick Robinson Progress in Oceanography 91(1):50-73

The Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) 4-dimensional variational data assimilation systems: Part III - Observation impact and observation sensitivity in the California Current System Moore, Andrew M., Hernan G. Arango, Gregoire Broquet, Chris Edwards, Milena Veneziani, Brian Powell, Dave Foley, James D. Doyle, Dan Costa, and Patrick Robinson Progress in Oceanography 91(1):74-94

Bayesian state-space model of fin whale abundance trends from a 1991-2008 time series of line-transect surveys in the California Current Moore, Jeffrey E., and Jay Barlow Journal of Applied Ecology 48(5):1195-1205

Guidelines for assessing marine mammal stocks: Report of the GAMMS III Workshop (February 15-18, 2011, La Jolla, California) Moore, Jeffrey E., and Richard Merrick (eds.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-47. 95 p.

Partitioning variance components and reporting rates to estimate historical bycatch: an example for minke whales in Japan Moore, Jeffrey E., and Russell Leaper Paper SC/63/BC1 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC63 meeting, Tromso, Norway, 2011). 11 p.

Nutrient fluxes and the recent collapse of coastal California salmon populations Moore, Jonathan W., Sean A. Hayes, Walter Duffy, Sean Gallagher, Cyril J. Michel, and David Wright Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 68(7):1161-1170

Myctophiformes Moser, H. Geoffrey, and William Watson In: Arthur W. Kendall Jr. (ed.), Identification of eggs and larvae of marine fishes, p. 95-112. National Museum of Nature and Science (Japan); Tokai University Press.

Toward a national Animal Telemetry Observing Network (ATN) for our oceans, coasts and great lakes: workshop synthesis report (U.S. IOOS workshop, March 2011, Santa Cruz, California) Moustahfid, Hassan, Churchill Grimes, John Kocik, Barbara Block, Kim Holland, John Payne, Dewayne Fox, Andrew Seitz, and Charles Alexander U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-482. 51 p.

Physical oceanography and underway environmental observations Needham, Derek, Andre du Randt, Andre Hoek, and Mike Soule In: Amy Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2009/2010 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 1-7. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-470.

Coastal Ocean Mammal and Bird Education and Research Surveys (BeachCOMBERS), 1997-2007: Ten years of monitoring beached marine birds and mammals in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Nevins, Hannahrose M., Scott R. Benson, Elizabeth M. Phillips, Jean de Marignac, Andrew P. DeVogelaere, Jack A. Ames, and James T. Harvey U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA National Ocean Service, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Silver Spring, Maryland. 63 p.

Infant position in mother-calf dolphin pairs: formation locomotion with hydrodynamic benefits Noren, S.R., and E.F. Edwards Marine Ecology Progress Series 424:229-236

Pregnancy is a drag: hydrodynamics, kinematics and performance in pre- and post-parturition bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) Noren, Shawn R., Jessica V. Redfern, and Elizabeth F. Edwards Journal of Experimental Biology 214(24):4151-4159

Super-aggregations of krill and humpback whales in Wilhelmina Bay, Antarctic Peninsula Nowacek, Douglas P., Ari S. Friedlaender, Patrick N. Halpin, Elliott L. Hazen, David W. Johnston, Andrew J. Read, Boris Espinasse, Meng Zhou, and Yiwu Zhu PLoS ONE 6(4):e19173 (5 p.)

Where the wild things are: predicting hotspots of seabird aggregations in the California Current System Nur, Nadav, Jaime Jahncke, Mark P. Herzog, Julie Howar, K. David Hyrenbach, Jeannette E. Zamon, David G. Ainley, John A. Wiens, Ken Morgan, Lisa T. Ballance, and Diana Stralberg Ecological Applications 21(6):2241-2257