NOAA FISHERIES

The political biogeography of migratory marine predators Harrison, Autumn-Lynn, Daniel P. Costa, Arliss J. Winship, Scott R. Benson, Steven J. Bograd, Michelle Antolos, Aaron B. Carlisle, Heidi Dewar, Peter H. Dutton, Salvador J. Jorgensen, Suzanne Kohin, Bruce R. Mate, Patrick W. Robinson, Kurt M. Schaefer, Scott A. Shaffer, George L. Shillinger, Samantha E. Simmons, Kevin C. Weng, Kristina M. Gjerde, and Barbara A. Block Nature Ecology and Evolution 2:1571-1578

Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2018: 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, Elliott Hazen, Kelly Andrews, Katie Barnas, Steven Bograd, Richard Brodeur, Brian Burke, Jason Cope, Lynn deWitt, John Field, Jennifer Fisher, Thomas Good, Correigh Greene, Daniel Holland, Mary Hunsicker, Michael Jacox, Stephen Kasperski, Su Kim, Andrew Leising, Sharon Melin, Cheryl Morgan, Barbara Muhling, Stuart Munsch, Karma Norman, William Peterson, Melissa Poe, Jameal Samhouri, William Sydeman, Julie Thayer, Andrew Thompson, Desiree Tommasi, Anna Varney, Brian Wells, Thomas Williams, Jeannette Zamon, Dan Lawson, Sean Anderson, Jin Gao, Mike Litzow, Sam McClatchie, Eric Ward, and Stephani Zador U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-145. 69 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): California Current Ecosystem status report, 2018 Harvey, Chris, Toby Garfield, Greg Williams, Nick Tolimieri, and Elliott Hazen (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 70 p.

A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries Hazen, Elliott L., Kylie L. Scales, Sara M. Maxwell, Dana K. Briscoe, Heather Welch, Steven J. Bograd, Helen Bailey, Scott R. Benson, Tomo Eguchi, Heidi Dewar, Suzy Kohin, Daniel P. Costa, Larry B. Crowder, and Rebecca L. Lewison Science Advances 4(5):eaar3001 (7 p.)

Krill and other plankton Hewitt, Roger P., and Jessica D. Lipsky In: Bernd Wursig, J.G.M. Thewissen, and Kit M. Kovacs (eds.), Encyclopedia of marine mammals (3rd ed.), p. 537-543. Academic Press.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2018 for U.S.A. management in 2018-2019 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, and Juan P. Zwolinski In: 2018 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, November 12-14, 2018), p. 12-19. Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas Av. Instituto Politecnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2018 for U.S. management in 2018-19 Hill, Kevin, Paul Crone, and Juan Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-600. 125 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Future research directions on the "elusive" white shark Huveneers, Charlie, Kirin Apps, Edgar E. Becerril-Garcia, Barry Bruce, Paul A. Butcher, Aaron B. Carlisle, Taylor K. Chapple, Heather M. Christiansen, Geremy Cliff, Tobey H. Curtis, Toby S. Daly-Engel, Heidi Dewar, Matt L. Dicken, Michael L. Domeier, Clinton A.J. Duffy, Richard Ford, Malcolm P. Francis, Georgia C.A. French, Felipe Galvan-Magana, Emiliano Garcia-Rodriguez, Enrico Gennari, Brittany Graham, Barry Hayden, Edgar Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla, Nigel E. Hussey, Oliver J.D. Jewell, Salvador J. Jorgensen, Alison A. Kock, Christopher G. Lowe, Kady Lyons, Lauren Meyer, Gregg Oelofse, Erick C. Onate-Gonzalez, Herman Oosthuizen, John B. O'Sullivan, Kristopher Ramm, Gregory Skomal, Seal Sloan, Malcolm J. Smale, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Emilio Sperone, Elena Tamburin, Alison V. Towner, Michelle A. Wcisel, Kevin C. Weng, and Jonathan M. Werry Frontiers in Marine Science 5:455 (15 p.)

Persistent toxicity of marine microplankton in the Southern California Bight [abstract] Javor, Barbara In: 2018 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico, November 12-14, 2018), p. 28. Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas Av. Instituto Politecnico Nacional (CICIMAR-IPN), La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.

Seasonal distribution of late larval and juvenile rockfish (Sebastes spp.) and associated environmental conditions off Oregon and Washington: new insights based on genetics Johansson, Mattias L., Marisa N.C. Litz, Richard D. Brodeur, Tristan A. Britt, Camilo A. Vanegas, John R. Hyde, and Michael A. Banks Fishery Bulletin 116(3-4):266-280

An inconvenient monophyly: An update on the taxonomy of the groupers (Epinephelidae) Ma, Ka Yan, and Matthew T. Craig Copeia 106(3):443-456

Mercury stable isotopes reveal influence of foraging depth on mercury concentrations and growth in Pacific bluefin tuna Madigan, Daniel J., Miling Li, Runshen Yin, Hannes Baumann, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, David P. Krabbenhoft, Zofia Baumann, Nicholas S. Fisher, Prentiss Balcom, and Elsie M. Sunderland Environmental Science & Technology 52(11):6256-6264

From migrants to mossbacks: tracer- and tag-inferred habitat shifts in the California yellowtail Seriola dorsalis Madigan, Daniel J., Owyn E. Snodgrass, and Nicholas S. Fisher Marine Ecology Progress Series 597:221-230

Isotopic insights into migration patterns of Pacific bluefin tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean Madigan, Daniel J., Zofia Baumann, Aaron B. Carlisle, Owyn Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, and Nicholas S. Fisher Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75(2):260-270

Forage fish, small pelagic fisheries and recovering predators: managing expectations McClatchie, S., R.D. Vetter, and I.L. Hendy Animal Conservation 21(6):445-447

Interannual and secular variability of larvae of mesopelagic and forage fishes in the southern California Current System McClatchie, Sam, Jin Gao, Elizabeth J. Drenkard, Andrew R. Thompson, William Watson, Lorenzo Ciannelli, Steven J. Bograd, and James T. Thorson Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 123(9):6277-6295

Translating the terrestrial mitigation hierarchy to marine megafauna by-catch Milner-Gulland, E.J., Serge Garcia, William Arlidge, Joseph Bull, Anthony Charles, Laurent Dagorn, Sonya Fordham, Joshua Gradd Zivin, Martin Hall, Jeffrey Shrader, Niels Vestergaard, Chris Wilcox, and Dale Squires Fish and Fisheries 19(3):547-561

KatharoSeq enables high-throughput microbiome analysis from low-biomass samples Minich, Jeremiah J., Qiyun Zhu, Stefan Janssen, Ryan Hendrickson, Amnon Amir, Russ Vetter, John Hyde, Megan M. Doty, Kristina Stillwell, James Bernardini, Jae H. Kim, Eric E. Allen, Kasthuri Venkateswaran, and Rob Knight mSystems 3(3):e00218-17 (16 p.)

Elements of time and place: manganese and barium in shark vertebrae reflect age and upwelling histories Mohan, John A., Nathan R. Miller, Sharon Z. Herzka, Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki, Suzanne Kohin, Heidi Dewar, Michael Kinney, Owyn Snodgrass, and R.J. David Wells Proceedings of the Royal Society B 285(1890):20181760 (8 p.)

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, Aaron Mamula, Nick Wegner, and William Watson In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 59th annual meeting of the TSC (April 24-25, 2018, Santa Cruz, California), p. 354-373. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Regional-scale surface temperature variability allows prediction of Pacific bluefin tuna recruitment Muhling, Barbara A., Desiree Tommasi, Seiji Ohshimo, Michael A. Alexander, and Gerard DiNardo ICES Journal of Marine Science 75(4):1341-1352

A status review of pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) along the west coast of North America: interpreting trends, addressing uncertainty, and addressing risk for a wide-ranging marine invertebrate Neuman, Melissa J., Susan Wang, Shallin Busch, Carolyn Friedman, Kristen Gruenthal, Rick Gustafson, David Kushner, Kevin Stierhoff, Glenn VanBlaricom, and Sadie Wright Journal of Shellfish Research 37(4):869-910

Decadal regime shifts in southern California's ichthyoplankton assemblage Peabody, Clare E., Andrew R. Thompson, Dov F. Sax, Ryan E. Morse, and Charles T. Perretti Marine Ecology Progress Series 607:71-83

Climate change impacts on fisheries and aquaculture of the United States Peterson, Jay, Roger Griffis, Stephani G. Zador, Michael F. Sigler, John E. Joyce, Mary Hunsicker, Steven Bograd, Lisa G. Crozier, Sam McClatchie, James A. Morris Jr., William T. Peterson, Carol Price, Phoebe A. Woodworth-Jefcoats, Mandy Karnauskas, Roldan Munoz, Amy Schueller, J. Kevin Craig, Nathan Bacheler, Michael L. Burton, Karla Gore, Todd Kellison, Jonathan A. Hare, Kevin Friedland, and Timothy J. Miller In: Bruce F. Phillips and Monica Perez-Ramirez (eds.), Climate change impacts on fisheries and aquaculture: a global analysis, p.159-218. Wiley Blackwell.

Bias in estimates of growth when selectivity in models includes effects of gear and availability of fish Piner, Kevin R., Hui-Hua Lee, and Lennon R. Thomas Fishery Bulletin 116(1):75-80

Evaluation of the influence of age and length on Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) maturation and characterization of its temporal variability Piner, Kevin, Jenny McDaniel, Hui-Hua Lee, Kevin Hill, and Beverly Macewicz CalCOFI Reports 59:67-78

Insights into teleost sex determination from the Seriola dorsalis genome assembly Purcell, Catherine M., Arun S. Seetharam, Owyn Snodgrass, Sofia Ortega-Garcia, John R. Hyde, and Andrew J. Severin BMC Genomics 19:31 (11 p.)

Predicting market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) landings from pre-recruit abundance Ralston, Stephen, Emmanis Dorval, Laura Ryley, Keith M. Sakuma, and John C. Field Fisheries Research 199:12-18

De novo hepatic transcriptome assembly and systems level analysis of three species of dietary fish, Sardinops sagax, Scomber japonicus, and Pleuronichthys verticalis Richards, Dylan J., Ludivine Renaud, Nisha Agarwal, E. Starr Hazard, John Hyde, and Gary Hardiman Genes 9(11):521 (14 p.)

Swim bladder inflation failure affects energy allocation, growth, and feed conversion of California Yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) in aquaculture Schwebel, Laura N., Kevin Stuart, Mary Sue Lowery, Nicholas C. Wegner Aquaculture 497:117-124

Movements and behaviors of swordfish Xiphias gladius in the United States Pacific Leatherback Conservation Area Sepulveda, Chugey A., Scott A. Aalbers, Craig Heberer, Suzy Kohin, and Heidi Dewar Fisheries Oceanography 27(4):381-394

A database of marine larval fish assemblages in Australian temperate and subtropical waters Smith, James A., Anthony G. Miskiewicz, Lynnath E. Beckley, Jason D. Everett, Valquiria Garcia, Charles A. Gray, David Holliday, Alan R. Jordan, John Keane, Ana Lara-Lopez, Jeffrey M. Leis, Paloma A. Matis, Barbara A. Muhling, Francisco J. Neira, Anthony J. Richardson, Kimberley A. Smith, Kerrie M. Swadling, Augy Syahailatua, Matthew D. Taylor, Paul D. van Ruth, Tim M. Ward, and Iain M. Suthers Scientific Data 5:180207 (8 p.)

The least-cost biodiversity impact mitigation hierarchy with a focus on marine fisheries and bycatch issues Squires, Dale, and Serge Garcia Conservation Biology 32(5):989-997

Fisheries bycatch reduction within the least-cost biodiversity mitigation hierarchy: Conservatory offsets with an application to sea turtles Squires, Dale, Victor Restrepo, Serge Garcia, and Peter Dutton Marine Policy 93:55-61

Report on the collection of data during the Summer 2017 California Current Ecosystem Survey (1706RL), 19 June to 11 August 2017, conducted aboard the Fisheries Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-593. 30 p.

Report on the collection of data during the Summer 2016 California Current Ecosystem Survey (1606RL), 28 June to 22 September 2016, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, Scott A. Mau, Danial G. Palance, Thomas S. Sessions, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-604. 28 p.

Report on the SWFSC’s collection of data during the 2015 Joint U.S.-Canada Integrated Acoustic and Trawl Survey of Pacific Hake and Coastal Pelagic Species (SaKe 2015; 1507SH) within the California Current Ecosystem, 15 June to 10 September 2015, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Bell M. Shimada Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-603. 33 p.

Status of common thresher sharks, Alopias vulpinus, along the west coast of North America: updated stock assessment based on alternative life history Teo, Steven L.H., Emiliano Garcia Rodriguez, and Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-595. 284 p.

State of the California Current 2017-18: Still not quite normal in the north and getting interesting in the south Thompson, Andrew R., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Brian K. Wells, John L. Largier, Jennifer L. Fisher, Kym Jacobson, Samantha Zeman, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Francisco P. Chavez, Mati Kahru, Ralf Goericke, Sam McClatchie, Clare E. Peabody, Timothy R. Baumgartner, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Jose Gomez-Valdes, Richard D. Brodeur, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Toby D. Auth, Brian J. Burke, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Julia Coates, Ryan Schoenbaum, Laura Rogers-Bennett, Robert M. Suryan, Jane Dolliver, Stephanie Loredo, Jeannette E. Zamon, Stephanie R. Schneider, Richard T. Golightly, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, Jarrod A. Santora, Sarah Ann Thompson, William Sydeman, and Sharon R. Melin CalCOFI Reports 59:1-66

A taxonomic review of Lampris guttatus (Brunnich 1788) (Lampridiformes; Lampridae) with descriptions of three new species Underkoffler, Karen E., Meagan A. Luers, John R. Hyde, and Matthew T. Craig Zootaxa 4413(3):551-565

Spring spawning distribution of Pacific sardine in US and Mexican waters Valencia-Gasti, J.A., R. Durazo, E.D. Weber, S. McClatchie, T. Baumgartner, and C.E. Lennert-Cody CalCOFI Reports 59:79-85

Performance of fish-habitat classifiers based on derived predictors from a coupled biophysical model Weber, Edward D., Yi Chao, and Fei Chai Journal of Marine Systems 186:105-114

Reduced swimming and metabolic fitness of aquaculture-reared California Yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) in comparison to wild-caught conspecifics Wegner, Nicholas C., Mark A. Drawbridge, and John R. Hyde Aquaculture 486:51-56

Effects of the Blob on settlement of spotted sand bass, Paralabrax maculatofasciatus, to Mission Bay, San Diego, CA Basilio, Anthony, Steven Searcy, and Andrew R. Thompson PLoS ONE 12(11):e0188449 (15 p.)

Body temperature, cerebral vasculature, and the potential for brain warming in cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonuses) [abstract] Bedore, C.N., and N.C. Wegner Integrative and Comparative Biology 57(supp.1):e11

Impacts of recently implemented recreational fisheries regulations on the Commercial Passenger Fishing Vessel fishery for Paralabrax sp. in California Bellquist, Lyall, Brice Semmens, Stephen Stohs, and Alayna Siddall Marine Policy 86:134-143

Can diagnostic tests help identify model misspecification in integrated stock assessments? Carvalho, Felipe, Andre E. Punt, Yi-Jay Chang, Mark N. Maunder, and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 192:28-40

Stock assessment for blue shark in the North Pacific using stock synthesis Carvalho, Felipe, Mikihiko Kai, Tim Sippel, and Kevin Piner Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (17-24 March 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/SHARKWG-1/5. 52 p.

Uses of genetic parentage analysis in cultured California yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) Craig, Matthew, Catherine Purcell, Kevin Stuart, Mark Drawbridge, and John Hyde In: Kristen Gruenthal, Clete Otoshi, Paul Olin, and Mike Rust (eds.), Genetics and breeding in aquaculture: Proceedings of the 44th U.S.-Japan Aquaculture Panel Symposium (NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, November 1, 2016), p. 58-62. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-175.

Status review report of Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) Craig, Matthew, Steven Bograd, Heidi Dewar, Michael Kinney, Hui-hua Lee, Barbara Muhling, and Barbara Taylor U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-587. 101 p.

Mobile acoustic sampling to map bathymetry and quantify the densities and distributions of salmonid smolt predators in the San Joaquin River Cutter, G.R. Jr., S.C. Manugian, J. Renfree, J. Smith, C. Michel, D. Huff, T.S. Sessions, B.E. Elliot, K. Stierhoff, S. Mau, D. Murfin, and D.A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-575. 134 p.

A method to consistently approach the target total fishing fraction of Pacific Sardine and other internationally exploited fish stocks Demer, David A., and Juan P. Zwolinski North American Journal of Fisheries Management 37(2):284-293

2016 USA–Norway EK80 Workshop Report: Evaluation of a wideband echosounder for fisheries and marine ecosystem science Demer, David A., Lars N. Andersen, Chris Bassett, Laurent Berger, Dezhang Chu, Jeff Condiotty, George R. Cutter Jr., Briony Hutton, Rolf Korneliussen, Naig Le Bouffant, Gavin Macaulay, William L. Michaels, David Murfin, Armin Pobitzer, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, and Charles H. Thompson ICES Cooperative Research Report no. 336. 70 p.

Pacific sardine spawning dynamics and egg production in the California Current Ecosystem during the Daily Egg Production Method survey in 2016 [abstract] Dorval, Emmanis, Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Yuhong Gu In: Stephanie Flores and Gerard DiNardo (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Trinational Sardine & Small Pelagics Forum (La Jolla, California, United States of America, December 8-9, 2016), p. 43. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

Coherent assessments of Europe's marine fishes show regional divergence and megafauna loss. Fernandes, Paul G., Gina M. Ralph, Ana Nieto, Mariana Garcia Criado, Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos, Christos D. Maravelias, Robin M. Cook, Riley A. Pollom, Marcelo Kovacic, David Pollard, Edward D. Farrell, Ann-Britt Florin, Beth A. Polidoro, Julia M. Lawson, Pascal Lorance, Franz Uiblein, Matthew Craig, David J. Allen, Sarah L. Fowler, Rachel H.L. Walls, Mia T. Comeros-Raynal, Michael S. Harvey, Manuel Dureuil, Manuel Biscoito, Caroline Pollock, Sophy R. McCully Phillips, Jim R. Ellis, Constantinos Papaconstantinou, Alen Soldo, Cetin Keskin, Steen Wilhelm Knudsen, Luis Gil de Sola, Fabrizio Serena, Bruce B. Collette, Kjell Nedreaas, Emilie Stump, Barry C. Russell, Silvia Garcia, Pedro Afonso, Armelle B.J. Jung, Helena Alvarez, Joao Delgado, Nicholas K. Dulvy, and Kent E. Carpenter Nature Ecology & Evolution 1:0170 (8 p.)

DNA sequencing as a tool to monitor marine ecological status Goodwin, Kelly D., Luke R. Thompson, Bernardo Duarte, Tim Kahlke, Andrew R. Thompson, Joao C. Marques, and Isabel Cacador Frontiers in Marine Science 4:107 (14 p.)

2016 Pacific Fishery Management Council report Griffin, Kerry, and Dale Sweetnam In: Stephanie Flores and Gerard DiNardo (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Trinational Sardine & Small Pelagics Forum (La Jolla, California, United States of America, December 8-9, 2016), p. 16. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

Local, regional and global markets: what drives the tuna fisheries Guillotreau, Patrice, Dale Squires, Jenny Sun, and Guillermo A. Compean Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 27(4):909-929

Oceanographic determinants of ocean sunfish (Mola mola) and bluefin tuna (Thunnus orientalis) bycatch patterns in the California large mesh drift gillnet fishery Hahlbeck, Nick, Kylie L. Scales, Heidi Dewar, Sara M. Maxwell, Steven J. Bograd, and Elliott L. Hazen Fisheries Research 191:154-163

The pelagic habitat analysis module for ecosystem-based fisheries science and management Harrison, Daniel P., Michael G. Hinton, Suzanne Kohin, Edward M. Armstrong, Stephanie Snyder, Frank O'Brien, and Dale K. Kiefer Fisheries Oceanography 26(3):316-335

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): California Current Ecosystem status report, 2017 Harvey, Chris, and Toby Garfield (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 63 p.

Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2017: a summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA) Harvey, Chris, Newell Garfield, Gregory Williams, Kelly Andrews, Caren Barcelo, Katie Barnas, Steven Bograd, Richard Brodeur, Brian Burke, Jason Cope, Lynn deWitt, John Field, Jennifer Fisher, Correigh Greene, Thomas Good, Elliott Hazen, Daniel Holland, Michael Jacox, Stephen Kasperski, Su Kim, Andrew Leising, Sharon Melin, Cheryl Morgan, Stuart Munsch, Karma Norman, William T. Peterson, Melissa Poe, Jameal Samhouri, Isaac Schroeder, William Sydeman, Julie Thayer, Andrew Thompson, Nick Tolimieri, Anna Varney, Brian Wells, Thomas Williams, and Jeannette Zamon U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-139. 52 p.

Testing the effects of manipulated predator densities and environmental variables on juvenile salmonid survival in the lower San Joaquin River Hayes, Sean, David Huff, David Demer, Cyril Michel, George (Randy) Cutter, Nick Demetras, Brendan Lehman, Suzanne Manugian, Steve Lindley, Joseph Smith, Thomas Quinn, Jacob McQuirk, Mike Cane, Marty Gingras, and Mike Harris Report prepared for California Department of Water Resources, Bay-Delta Office, Temporary Barriers and Lower San Joaquin, Agreement no. 4600010100. 266 p.

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), Aaron Mamula, Susan Sogard, Andrew Thompson, Nick Wegner, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 58th annual meeting of the TSC (April 25-26, 2017, Juneau, Alaska), p. 362-385. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

2017 Billfish Newsletter: Results and top-tagging captains and anglers of 2016 and 2017, Tagging Spotlight, Parasites in striped marlin in Baja California, Mexico; Tuna, shark, and Opah research, [2016 and 2017 International Billfish Angler Survey], [2016 and 2017 Billfish Tagging Program] Heberer, Liana U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 24p. Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

Can the United States have its fish and eat it too? Helvey, Mark, Caroline Pomeroy, Naresh C. Pradhan, Dale Squires, and Stephen Stohs Marine Policy 75:62-67

An economic profile of the charter fishing fleet in California Hilger, James, and Sabrina Lovell Marine Fisheries Review 79(3-4):26-33

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2017 for U.S. management in 2017-18 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, and Juan Zwolinski U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-576. 262 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2016 for U.S.A. management in 2016-2017 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Emmanis Dorval, and Beverly J. Macewicz In: Stephanie Flores and Gerard DiNardo (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Trinational Sardine & Small Pelagics Forum (La Jolla, California, United States of America, December 8-9, 2016), p. 17-25. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

Composition and interannual variability in trace element profiles of Pacific sardine otoliths Javor, Barbara J., and Emmanis Dorval CalCOFI Reports 58:95-104

Stock assessment for the North Pacific blue shark (Prionace glauca) using a Bayesian state-space surplus production model Kai, Mikihiko, Felipe Carvalho, Hiroki Yokoi, Minoru Kanaiwa, Norio Takahashi, Jon Brodziak, Tim Sippel, and Suzanne Kohin Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (17-24 March 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/SHARKWG-1/04. 47 p.

Predicting the spatio-temporal distributions of pelagic sharks in the western and central North Pacific Kai, Mikihiko, James T. Thorson, Kevin R. Piner, and Mark N. Maunder Fisheries Oceanography 26(5):569-582

Spatiotemporal variation in size-structured populations using fishery data: an application to shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Pacific Ocean Kai, Mikihiko, James T. Thorson, Kevin R. Piner, and Mark N. Maunder Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(11):1765-1780

An analytical approach to sparse telemetry data Kinney, Michael J., David Kacev, Suzanne Kohin, and Tomoharu Eguchi PLoS ONE 12(11):e0188660 (23 p.)

Influence of climate on the biodiversity and community structure of fishes in the southern California Current Koslow, J. Anthony, Helena McMonagle, and William Watson Marine Ecology Progress Series 571:193-206

Effects of age-based movement on the estimation of growth assuming random-at-age or random-at-length data Lee, H.H., L.R. Thomas, K.R. Piner, and M.N. Maunder Journal of Fish Biology 90(1):222-235

Evaluation of alternative modelling approaches to account for spatial effects due to age-based movement Lee, Hui-Hua, Kevin R. Piner, Mark N. Maunder, Ian G. Taylor, and Richard D. Methot Jr. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 74(11):1832-1844

Reducing marine mammal bycatch in global fisheries: An economics approach Lent, Rebecca, and Dale Squires Deep-Sea Research II 140:268-277

Assessing Fukushima-derived radiocesium in migratory Pacific predators Madigan, Daniel J., Zofia Baumann, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Heidi Dewar, Michelle Berman-Kowalewski, Kevin C. Weng, Jun Nishikawa, Peter H. Dutton, and Nicholas S. Fisher Environmental Science and Technology 51(16):8962-8971

Temporal resolutions in species distribution models of highly mobile marine animals: Recommendations for ecologists and managers Mannocci, Laura, Andre M. Boustany, Jason J. Roberts, Daniel M. Palacios, Daniel C. Dunn, Patrick N. Halpin, Shay Viehman, Jerry Moxley, Jesse Cleary, Helen Bailey, Steven J. Bograd, Elizabeth A. Becker, Beth Gardner, Jason R. Hartog, Elliott L. Hazen, Megan C. Ferguson, Karin A. Forney, Brian P. Kinlan, Matthew J. Oliver, Charles T. Perretti, Vincent Ridoux, Steven L.H. Teo, and Arliss J. Winship Diversity and Distributions 23(10):1098-1109

Population genomics reveals high gene flow in grass rockfish (Sebastes rastrelliger) Martinez, Edith, Vincent Buonaccorsi, John R. Hyde, and Andres Aguilar Marine Genomics 33:57-63

Quest for the Holy Grail: The stock-recruitment curve in fishery stock assessment Maunder, Mark N., and Kevin R. Piner In: Report of the Groundfish Productivity Workshop of the Pacific Fishery Management Council's Scientific and Statistical Committee (NOAA Fisheries, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, Washington, December 6-8, 2016), p. 3-6. March 2017 Briefing Book, Agenda item I.2, Attachment 2. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Dealing with data conflicts in statistical inference of population assessment models that integrate information from multiple diverse data sets Maunder, Mark N., and Kevin R. Piner Fisheries Research 192:16-27

Data conflict and weighting, likelihood functions and process error Maunder, Mark N., Paul R. Crone, Andre E. Punt, Juan L. Valero, and Brice X. Semmens Fisheries Research 192:1-4

Collapse and recovery of forage fish populations prior to commercial exploitation McClatchie, S., I.L. Hendy, A.R. Thompson, and W. Watson Geophysical Research Letters 44(4):1877-1885

Collapse and recovery of forage fish populations [abstract] McClatchie, Sam, Andrew R. Thompson, Ingrid L. Hendy, and William Watson In: Stephanie Flores and Gerard DiNardo (eds.), Proceedings of the 2016 Trinational Sardine & Small Pelagics Forum (La Jolla, California, United States of America, December 8-9, 2016), p. 41. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

How important are coastal fronts to albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) habitat in the Northeast Pacific Ocean? Nieto, Karen, Yi Xu, Steven L.H. Teo, Sam McClatchie, and John Holmes Progress in Oceanography 150:62-71

ENSO impacts on ecosystem indicators in the California Current System Ohman, Mark D., Nate Mantua, Julie Keister, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, and Sam McClatchie US CLIVAR Variations 15(1):8-15

Estimating fish abundance at spawning aggregations from courtship sound levels Rowell, Timothy J., David A. Demer, Octavio Aburto-Oropeza, Juan Jose Cota-Nieto, John R. Hyde, and Brad E. Erisman Scientific Reports 7:3340 (14 p.)

Lingcod Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report Sampson, David, Panayiota Apostolaki, Norman Hall, and Kevin Piner Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 35 p.

Pacific ocean perch Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report Sampson, David, Panayiota Apostolaki, Norman Hall, and Kevin Piner Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 25 p.

Fit to predict? Eco-informatics for predicting the catchability of a pelagic fish in near real time Scales, Kylie L., Elliott L. Hazen, Sara M. Maxwell, Heidi Dewar, Suzanne Kohin, Michael G. Jacox, Christopher A. Edwards, Dana K. Briscoe, Larry B. Crowder, Rebecca L. Lewison, and Steven J. Bograd Ecological Applications 27(8):2313-2329

Spatial patterns of Achoveta (Engraulis ringens) eggs and larvae in relation to pCO2 in the Peruvian upwelling system Shen, Sara G., Andrew R. Thompson, Jonathan Correa, Peer Fietzek, Patricia Ayon, and David M. Checkley Jr. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284(1855):20170509 (9 p.)

Searching for M: Is there more information about natural mortality in stock assessments than we realize? Sippel, Tim, Hui Hua Lee, Kevin Piner, and Steven L.H. Teo Fisheries Research 192:135-140

Crossing the line: Tunas actively exploit submesoscale fronts to enhance foraging success Snyder, Stephanie, Peter J.S. Franks, Lynne D. Talley, Yi Xu, and Suzanne Kohin Limnology and Oceanography Letters 2(5):187-194

Effort rights-based management Squires, Dale, Mark Maunder, Robin Allen, Peder Andersen, Kepa Astorkiza, Douglas Butterworth, Gonzalo Caballero, Raymond Clarke, Hans Ellefsen, Patrice Guillotreau, John Hampton, Rognvaldur Hannesson, Elizabeth Havice, Mark Helvey, Samuel Herrick Jr., Kjartan Hoydal, Vishwanie Maharaj, Rebecca Metzner, Iago Mosqueira, Ana Parma, Ivan Prieto-Bowen, Victor Restrepo, Shaufique Fahmi Sidique, Stein Ivar Steinsham, Eric Thunberg, Ikerne del Valle, and Niels Vestergaard Fish and Fisheries 18(3):440-465

Report on the collection of data during the Acoustic-Trawl and Daily Egg Production Methods survey of coastal pelagic fish species and krill (1504SH) within the California Current Ecosystem, 28 March to 1 May 2015, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Bell M. Shimada Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-580. 23 p.

Report on the collection of data during the Acoustic-Trawl and Daily Egg Production Methods survey of coastal pelagic fish species and krill (1604RL) within the California Current Ecosystem, 22 March to 22 April 2016, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-581. 24 p.

Report on the collection of data during the Acoustic-Trawl and Daily Egg Production Methods survey of coastal pelagic fish species and krill (1704RL) within the California Current Ecosystem, 21 March to 22 April 2017, conducted aboard Fisheries Survey Vessel Reuben Lasker Stierhoff, Kevin L., Juan P. Zwolinski, Josiah S. Renfree, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-582. 26 p.

Analysis of increasing the required VMS ping rate for the California drift gillnet fishery Stohs, Stephen M., and Tim Sippel U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-570. 18 p.