NOAA FISHERIES

Marine mammals of the world: a comprehensive guide to their identification Jefferson, Thomas A., Marc A. Webber, and Robert L. Pitman Academic Press / Elsevier. 573 p.

Diversity, relative abundance, new locality records and population structure of Antarctic demersal fishes from the northern Scotia Arc islands and Bouvetoya Jones, Christopher D., M. Eric Anderson, Arcady V. Balushkin, Guy Duhamel, Richard R. Eakin, Joseph T. Eastman, Kristen L. Kuhn, Guillaume Lecointre, Thomas J. Near, Anthony W. North, David L. Stein, Marino Vacchi, and H. William Detrich III Polar Biology 31(12):1481-1497

Prevalence of the commensal barnacle Xenobalanus globicipitis on cetacean species in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, and a review of global occurrence Kane, Emily A., Paula A. Olson, Tim Gerrodette, and Paul C. Fiedler Fishery Bulletin 106(4):395-404

The 2007 assessment of blue rockfish (Sebastes mystinus) in California Key, Meisha, Alec D. MacCall, John Field, Debbie Aseltine-Neilson, and Kirk Lynn In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2008, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 155 p.

Hybridization between spring- and fall-run Chinook salmon returning to the Trinity River, California Kinziger, Andrew P., Eric J. Loudenslager, David G. Hankin, Eric C. Anderson, and John Carlos Garza North American Journal of Fisheries Management 28(5):1426-1438

Ocean abundance projections and prospective harvest levels for Klamath River fall Chinook, 2008 season Klamath River Technical Advisory Team Klamath River Technical Advisory Team. 28 p.

Klamath River fall Chinook age-specific escapement, river harvest, and run size estimates, 2007 run Klamath River Technical Advisory Team Klamath River Technical Advisory Team. 17 p.

Pelagic habitat characterization of loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, in the North Pacific Ocean (1997-2006): insights from satellite tag tracking and remotely sensed data Kobayashi, D.R., J.J. Polovina, D.M. Parker, N. Kamezaki, I.-J. Cheng, I. Uchida, P.H. Dutton, and G.H. Balazs Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 356:96-114

The biology of the spiny icefish Chaenodraco wilsoni Regan, 1914 Kock, Karl-Hermann, Leonid Pshenichnov, Christopher D. Jones, Joachim Groger, and Rudiger Riehl Polar Biology 31(3):381-393

2008 Billfish Newsletter: 2006 and 2007 Surveys:Trends in angler catch rates [2006 and 2007 International Billfish Angler Survey], 2006 and 2007 Billfish tagging and recoveries [2006 and 2007 Billfish Tagging Program], Top anglers and captains acknowledged, Successful catch and release, Billfish "Take Along" ID and tagging guide, Pacific striped marlin stock status update. Kohin, Suzanne, and James Wraith U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 16p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags;

Use of chemical tracers to assess diet and persistent organic pollutants in Antarctic Type C killer whales Krahn, Margaret M., Robert L. Pitman, Douglas G. Burrows, David P. Herman, and Ronald W. Pearce Marine Mammal Science 24(3):643-663

Identification, description, and daily growth of pelagic larval and juvenile squarespot rockfish, Sebastes hopkinsi (Family Sebastidae) Laidig, Thomas E., Keith M. Sakuma, John R. Hyde, William Watson, and Cynthia Taylor Lawley CalCOFI Reports 49:212-221

Fish and invertebrate bycatch estimates for the California drift gillnet fishery targeting swordfish and thresher shark, 1990-2006 Larese, Jason P., and Atilio L. Coan Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-426. 53 p.

Age estimates for female eastern and whitebelly spinner dolphins (Stenella longirostris) incidentally killed in the eastern tropical Pacific tuna purse-seine fishery from 1973-82 Larese, Jason P., and Susan J. Chivers Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 10(2):169-177

Mitochondrial genetic variation in bowhead whales in the western Arctic LeDuc, R.G., K.K. Martien, P.A. Morin, N. Hedrick, K.M. Robertson, B.L. Taylor, N.S. Mugue, R.G. Borodin, D.A. Zelenina, D. Litovka, and J.C. George Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 10(2):93-97

Mitochondrial sequence divergence among Antarctic killer whale ecotypes is consistent with multiple species LeDuc, Richard, Kelly M. Robertson, and Robert L. Pitman Biology Letters 4(4):426-429

Marine migration of North American green sturgeon Lindley, S.T., M.L. Moser, D.F. Erickson, M. Belchik, D. Welch, E. Rechiski, J.T. Kelly, J. Heublein, and A.P. Klimley Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:182-194

Impact of freshwater and terrestrial ecosystem conditions on estuarine dependent and anadromous fish Lindley, Steve, Steve Ralston, and Eric Danner Report to NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program, Project 07-06. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 1 p.

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off U.S. in 2008 Lo, Nancy C.H., Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Richard L. Charter U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-430. 33 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - SPAWNING BIOMASS - UNITED STATES

Biogeographic patterns of benthic invertebrate megafauna on shelf areas within the Southern Ocean Atlantic sector. Lockhart, S.J., and C.D. Jones CCAMLR Science 15:167-192

Diet selection by immature green turtles (Chelonia mydas) at Bahia Magdalena foraging ground in the Pacific Coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico Lopez-Mendilaharsu, Milagros, Susan C. Gardner, Rafael Riosmena-Rodriguez, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 88(3):641-647

Habitat characteristics of juvenile cowcod, Sebastes levis (Scorpaenidae), in Southern California Love, Milton S., and Mary Yoklavich Environmental Biology of Fishes 82(2):195-202

Pacific harbor seal census in California during May-July 2002 and 2004 Lowry, Mark S., James V. Carretta, and Karin A. Forney California Fish and Game 94(4):180-193

Bocaccio rebuilding analysis for 2007 MacCall, Alec D. In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2008, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 13 p.

Status of bocaccio off California in 2007 MacCall, Alec D. In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2008, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 67 p.

Coho and Chinook salmon decline in California during the spawning seasons of 2007/08 MacFarlane, R.B., S. Hayes, and B. Wells 4 p.

GuiLiner: a configurable and extensible graphical user interface for scientific analysis and simulation software Manoukis, Nicholas C., and Eric C. Anderson arXiv:0806.0314v1 [cs.HC], 4 p. URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.0314v1

Patterns and controls of chlorophyll-a and primary productivity cycles in the Southern California Bight Mantyla, Arnold W., Steven J. Bograd, and Elizabeth L. Venrick Journal of Marine Systems 73(1-2):48-60

Comparative performance testing of spatially explicit genetic analytical methods Martien, Karen K., and David P. Gregovich Paper SC/60/SD4 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008). 10 p.

TOSSM: an R package for assessing performance of genetic analytical methods in a management context Martien, Karen K., Dave Gregovich, Mark V. Bravington, Andre E. Punt, Allan E. Strand, David A. Tallmon, and Barbara L. Taylor Paper SC/60/SD2 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008). 5 p.

Evaluating the performance of the CLA when population structure is not correctly identified Martien, Karen K., David P. Gregovich, and Andre E. Punt Paper SC/60/SD3 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008). 10 p.

The state of the California Current, 2007-2008: La Niña conditions and their effects on the ecosystem McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, J. Anthony Koslow, Franklin B. Schwing, Steven J. Bograd, Richard Charter, William Watson, Nancy Lo, Kevin Hill, Jon Gottschalck, Michelle l'Heureux, Yan Xue, William T. Peterson, Robert Emmett, Curtis Collins, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Reginaldo Durazo, Mati Kahru, B. Greg Mitchell, K. David Hyrenbach, W.J. Sydeman, R.W. Bradley, P. Warzybok, and Eric Bjorkstedt CalCOFI Reports 49:39-76

Evolutionary consequences of habitat loss for Pacific anadromous salmonids McClure, Michelle M., Stephanie M. Carlson, Timothy J. Beechie, George R. Pess, Jeffrey C. Jorgensen, Susan M. Sogard, Sonia E. Sultan, Damon M. Holzer, Joseph Travis, Beth L. Sanderson, Mary E. Power, and Richard W. Carmichael Evolutionary Applications 1(2):300-318

Growth rates of wild green turtles, Chelonia mydas, at a temperate foraging habitat in the northern Gulf of Mexico: assessing short-term effects of cold-stunning on growth McMichael, Erin, Jeffrey Seminoff, and Raymond Carthy Journal of Natural History 42(43-44):2793-2807

Chinstrap penguins alter foraging and diving behavior in response to the size of their principle prey, Antarctic krill Miller, Aileen K., and Wayne Z. Trivelpiece Marine Biology 154(2):201-208

A template for quality control and reporting of genetic data used in management Morin, Phillip A., Karen K. Martien, Frederick I. Archer, Frank Cipriano, and Barbara L. Taylor Paper SC/60/SD1 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008)

Differentiating salmon populations at broad and fine geographical scales with microsatellites and single nucleotide polymorphisms Narum, S. R., M. Banks, T. D. Beacham, M. R. Bellinger, M. R. Campbell, J. Dekoning, A. Elz, C. M. Guthrie III, C. Kozfkay, K. M. Miller, P. Moran, R. Phillips, L. W. Seeb, C. T. Smith, K. Warheit, S. F. Young, and J. C. Garza Molecular Ecology 17(15):3464-3477

Physical oceanography and underway environmental observations Needham, Derek, Marcel van den Berg, and Johan Kritzinger In: Amy M. Van Cise (ed.), AMLR 2007/2008 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions, p. 12-28. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-427.

Collecting adult coastal pelagic fish using the Nordic 264 rope trawl: a guide to deployment and sample processing NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Resources Division, La Jolla, California. 12 p.

Hitching a ride: the formation locomotion strategy of dolphin calves Noren, S.R., G. Biedenbach, J.V. Redfern, and E.F. Edwards Functional Ecology 22(2):278-283

Risk factors for an outbreak of leptospirosis in California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) in California, 2004 Norman, Stephanie A., Ronald F. DiGiacomo, Frances M.D. Gulland, John Scott Meschke, and Mark S. Lowry Journal of Wildlife Diseases 44(4):837-844

Climate change and the molecular ecology of arctic marine mammals O'Corry-Crowe, Gregory Ecological Applications 18(2, suppl.):S56-S76

Status of blue whale photo-identification from IWC IDCR/SOWER cruises 1987-1988 to 2007-2008 Olson, Paula A. Paper SC/60/SH29 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008). 7 p.

Killer whales of the eastern tropical Pacific: a catalog of photo-identified individuals Olson, Paula A., and Tim Gerrodette U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-428. 120 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - KILLER WHALES - ETP - PHOTO IDENTIFICATION

Assessment of factors affecting natural area escapement shortfall of Klamath River fall Chinook salmon in 2004-2006 Pacific Fishery Management Council (Klamath River Fall Chinook Assessment Workgroup) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 76 p.

Preseason report I: Stock abundance analysis for 2008 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 101 p.

Preseason report II: Analysis of proposed regulatory options for 2008 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 54 p.

Preseason report III: Analysis of Council adopted management measures for 2008 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 35 p.

Review of 2007 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 326 p.

A Fregetta storm-petrel off western Mexico Pagen, Rich, Peter Pyle, and Lisa T. Ballance Western Birds 39(4):225-227

Cetacean abundance on the western side of the Galápagos Islands during April 2000 Palacios, D.M., and K.A. Forney Paper SC/60/SM7 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008)

Distribution and relative abundance of oceanic cetaceans in Colombia's Pacific EEZ from survey cruises and platforms of opportunity Palacios, Daniel M., Tim Gerrodette, Carolina Garcia, Isabel C. Avila, German A. Soler, Sandra Bessudo, and Fernando Trujillo Paper SC/60/SM4 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008)

Historical baseline for genetic monitoring of coastal California steelhead, Oncorhynchus mykiss Pearse, Devon, and John Carlos Garza Final report to California Department of Fish and Game, Fisheries Restoration Grant Program, Grant #P0510530. NOAA Fisheries Service, Santa Cruz, California. 31 p.

Reliability of California's groundfish landing estimates from 1969-2006 Pearson, Donald E., Brenda Erwin, and Meisha Key U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-431. 133 p. MARINE FISHES - GROUNDFISHES - CALIFORNIA - LANDINGS - ESTIMATES

In search of peer reviewers Perrin, William F. Science 319(5859):32

Diet of the striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba, in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean Perrin, William F., Kelly M. Robertson, and William A. Walker U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-418. 26 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - STRIPED DOLPHIN - DIET - EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC - ETP

Killer snowballs Pitman, Robert L. Natural History 117(10):56

Transition to independence and evidence of extended parental care in the gentoo penguin (Pygoscelis papua) Polito, Michael J., and Wayne Z. Trivelpiece Marine Biology 154(2):231-240

Santa Cruz Harbor commercial fishing community profile: California Fishing Communities Project Pomeroy, Caroline, and Melissa M. Stevens California Sea Grant, Publication no. T-066. 34 p.

Feeding habits of the bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) sampled from the California-based drift gillnet fishery Preti, Antonella, Suzanne Kohin, Heidi Dewar, and Darlene Ramon CalCOFI Reports 49:202-211

Spatial variation in fishing intensity and its effect on yield Ralston, Stephen, and Michael R. O'Farrell Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65(4):588-599

Canary rockfish STAR Panel report Ralston, Steve, Patrick Cordue, Devorah Hart, Jim Ianelli, and Paul Medley In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2008, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 16 p.

Arrowtooth flounder STAR Panel report Ralston, Steve, Patrick Cordue, Devorah Hart, Jim Ianelli, and Paul Medley In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2008, stock assessment and fishery evaluation: Stock assessments, STAR Panel reports, and rebuilding analyses. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 12 p.

An assessment of the accuracy and precision of localization of a stationary sound source using a two-element towed hydrophone array Rankin, Shannon, Jay Barlow, and Julie Oswald U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-416. 29 p.

Acoustic studies of marine mammals during seven years of combined visual and acoustic line-transect surveys for cetaceans in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean Rankin, Shannon, Jay Barlow, Julie Oswald, and Lisa Ballance U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-429. 58 p.

Acoustic behavior of dolphins in the Pacific Ocean: implications for using passive acoustic methods for population studies Rankin, Shannon, Julie N. Oswald, and Jay Barlow Canadian Acoustics 36(1):88-92

Absence of scale dependence in dolphin-habitat models for the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean Redfern, J.V., J. Barlow, L.T. Ballance, T. Gerrodette, and E.A. Becker Marine Ecology Progress Series 363:1-14

Variations in the biomass of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) around the South Shetland Islands, 1996-2006. Reiss, Christian S., Anthony M. Cossio, Valerie Loeb, and David A. Demer. ICES Journal of Marine Science 65(4): 497-508.

Remotely sensed spawning habitat of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) and Northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax) within the California Current. Reiss, Christian S., David M. Checkley Jr, and Steven J. Bograd. Fisheries Oceanography 17(2):126-136.

Development and characterization of nine polymorphic microsatellite markers for Mexican spadefoot toads (Spea multiplicata) with cross-amplification in Plains spadefoot toads (S. bobmifrons) Rice, A.M., D.E. Pearse, T. Becker, R.A. Newman, C. Lebonville, G.R. Harper, and K.S. Pfennig Molecular Ecology Resources 8(6):1386-1389

Reproductive biology of bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix) along the East Coast of the United States. Robillard, Eric, Christian S. Reiss, and Cynthia M. Jones. Fisheries Research 90(1-3):198-208.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for April to June 2008 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 15 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for July to September 2008 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 14 p.

Climatic and ecological conditions in the California Current LME for October to December 2008 Runcie, Rosa (comp.) PaCOOS quarterly report. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California. 23 p.

Seasonal patterns of terrestrial and aquatic prey abundance and use by Oncorhynchus mykiss in a California coastal basin with a Mediterranean climate Rundio, David E., and Steven T. Lindley Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137(2):467-480

Kilo Nalu: physical/biogeochemical dynamics above and within permeable sediments Sansone, Francis J., Geno Pawlak, Timothy P. Stanton, Margaret A. McManus, Brian T. Glazer, Eric H. DeCarlo, Marion Bandet, Jeffrey Sevadjian, Kevin Stierhoff, Christopher Colgrove, Andres B. Hebert, and In Chieh Chen Oceanography 21(4):173-178

Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: a review of the process, the pitfalls, and novel assessment approaches Seminoff, Jeffrey A., and Kartik Shanker Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 356(1-2):52-68

Persistent leatherback turtle migrations present opportunities for conservation Shillinger, George L., Daniel M. Palacios, Helen Bailey, Steven J. Bograd, Alan M. Swithenbank, Philippe Gaspar, Bryan P. Wallace, James R. Spotila, Frank V. Paladino, Rotney Piedra, Scott A. Eckert, and Barbara A. Block PLoS Biology 6(7):e171 (p. 1408-1416)

NOAA Fisheries Service: What have we done for you lately? Our long-term commitment to conserving marine resources Shoffler, Sarah, Meghan Donohue, and Sarah Mesnick Mains'l Haul 44(1-2):80-91

Intrinsic rates of increase in pelagic elasmobranchs Smith, Susan E., David W. Au, and Christina Show Camhi, Merry D., Ellen K. Pikitch, and Elizabeth A. Babcock (eds.), Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation, p. 288-297. Blackwell Science, Ames, Iowa.

The biology and ecology of thresher sharks (Alopiidae) Smith, Susan E., Randall C. Rasmussen, Darlene A. Ramon, and Gregor M. Cailliet In: Camhi, Merry D., Ellen K. Pikitch, and Elizabeth A. Babcock (eds.), Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation, p. 60-68. Blackwell Science, Ames, Iowa.

Multiple paternity in viviparous kelp rockfish, Sebastes atrovirens Sogard, Susan M., Elizabeth Gilbert-Horvath, Eric C. Anderson, Rebecca Fisher, Steven A. Berkeley, and J. Carlos Garza Environmental Biology of Fishes 81(1):7-13

Maternal effects in rockfishes Sebastes spp.: a comparison among species Sogard, Susan M., Steven A. Berkeley, and Rebecca Fisher Marine Ecology Progress Series 360:227-236

A framework for assessing the viability of threatened and endangered salmon and steelhead in the North-Central California Coast Recovery Domain Spence, Brian C., Eric P. Bjorkstedt, John Carlos Garza, Jerry J. Smith, David G. Hankin, David Fuller, Weldon E. Jones, Rrichard Macedo, Thomas H. Williams, and Ethan Mora U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-423. 173 p.

Monitoring MPAs in deep water off central California: 2007 IMPACT submersible baseline survey Starr, Richard, Mary Yoklavich, et al. California Sea Grant College Program, Publication no. T-067. 21 p.

I. Building a framework for fisheries forecasting: understanding nonlinear couplings between fishing, climate change and variability in fish populations. II. A retrospective analysis of nonlinear forecast methods for fisheries ecosystems Sugihara, George, Roger Hewitt, Chih-Hao Hsieh, and Christian Anderson Report to NOAA Fisheries and the Environment (FATE) program, Project 06-17. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland. 3 p.

A statistical modeling method for estimating mortality and abundance of spawning salmon from a time series of counts Szerlong, R.G., and D.E. Rundio Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65:17-26

Habitat restoration cost references for salmon recovery planning Thomson, Cynthia J., and Corinne Pinkerton U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-425. 75 p.

AMLR 2007/2008 field season report: objectives, accomplishments and tentative conclusions Van Cise, Amy M. (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-427. 141 p. ANTARCTICA - POLAR - ANTARCTIC MARINE LIVING RESOURCES (AMLR) - FIELD SEASON REPORT

Allele ladder-based standardization of existing coho salmon microsatellite data and implementation in the GAPS database Van Doornik, Donald, Michael Banks, John Carlos Garza, Libby Gilbert, Todd Kassler, Eric LaHood, Cara Lewis, Paul Moran, Veronique Theriault, Ken Warheit, and John Wenburg Report to the Pacific Salmon Commission Southern Boundary Restoration & Enhancement Fund, Project SF-2008-I-4, 52 p.

Status of blue whales off Isla de Chiloe, Chile, during 2008 field season Vernazzani, B.G., C.A. Carlson, E. Cabrera, and R.L. Brownell Paper SC/60/SH24 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008)

Recent humpback whale sightings off Isla de Chiloe, 2006-2008 Vernazzani, B.G., C.A. Carlson, E. Cabrera, J. Capella, and R.L. Brownell Paper SC/60/SH26 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008). 4 p.

Sightings of right whales off Chile and Peru from 1976-2007 Vernazzani, B.G., R.L. Brownell, and E. Cabrera Paper SC/60/BRG22 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008)

Predatory interactions and niche overlap between mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, and jumbo squid, Dosidicus gigas, in the California Current Vetter, Russ, Suzanne Kohin, Antonella Preti, Sam McClatchie, and Heidi Dewar CalCOFI Reports 49:142-156

Genetic isolation and morphological divergence of Black Sea bottlenose dolphins Viaud-Martinez, Karine A., Robert L. Brownell Jr., Anastasia Komnenou, and Andrew J. Bohonak Biological Conservation 141(6):1600-1611

Population differences in the pigmentation of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins, Sousa chinensis, in Chinese waters Wang, John Y., Samuel K. Hung, Shih Chu Yang, Thomas A. Jefferson, and Eduardo R. Secchi Mammalia 72(4):302-308

Legal viability, societal values, and SPOIR: response to D'Elia et al. Waples, Robin S., Peter B. Adams, James Bohnsack, and Barbara L. Taylor Conservation Biology 22(4):1075-1077

Variation in the probability that male coho salmon will mature early: inferences from hierarchical models. Watters, G.M. and C. Bessey. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 137:70-95. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMON - COHO - MALES - GROWTH - MATURATION - MODELS - INFERENCES - VARIATION - PROBABILITY -

Range expansion of the Humboldt squid was not caused by tuna fishing Watters, George M., Robert J. Olson, John C. Field, and Timothy E. Essington Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 105(3):E5 INVERTEBRATES - CEPHALOPODS - SQUID - HUMBOLDT SQUID - PACIFIC - CALIFORNIA - RANGE - EXPANSION - MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - TUNA FISHERIES - FISHING

Calving intervals and sex ratio of western gray whales Weller, D.W., A.L. Bradford, A.R. Lang, A.M. Burdin, and R.L. Brownell Paper SC/60/BRG11 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC60 meeting, Santiago, Chile, 2008)