NOAA FISHERIES

Will American consumers pay more for eco-friendly labeled canned tuna? Estimating US consumer demand for canned tuna varieties using scanner data Sun, Chin-Hwa Jenny, Fu-Sung Chiang, Matthew Owens, and Dale Squires Marine Policy 79:62-69

Meta-analysis of north Pacific albacore tuna natural mortality: an update Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/07. 11 p.

Catch and size composition time series of the US and Mexico surface fishery for the 2017 north Pacific albacore tuna assessment Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/08. 18 p.

Relative abundance indices of juvenile albacore tuna for the US surface fishery in the north Pacific Ocean Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/09. 15 p.

Catch and size composition time series of the US pelagic longline fleets for the 2017 north Pacific albacore tuna assessment Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/10. 13 p.

Relative abundance indices of adult albacore tuna for the US pelagic longline fishery in the north Pacific Ocean Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (11-19 April 2017, La Jolla, California). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/17/ALBWG/11. 15 p.

Larval abundances of rockfishes that were historically targeted by fishing increased over 16 years in association with a large marine protected area Thompson, Andrew R., Dustin C. Chen, Lian W. Guo, John R. Hyde, and William Watson Royal Society Open Science 4:170639 (13 p.)

Correcting for bias in CalCOFI ichthyoplankton abundance estimates associated with the 1977 transition from ring to bongo net sampling Thompson, Andrew R., Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, and Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody CalCOFI Reports 58:113-123

Oceanographic influences on the distribution and relative abundance of market squid paralarvae (Doryteuthis opalescens) off the Southern and Central California coast Van Noord, Joel E., and Emmanis Dorval Marine Ecology 38(3):e12433 (11 p.)

State of the California Current 2016-17: Still anything but "normal" in the north Wells, Brian K., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Andrew Leising, Nathan Mantua, Jarrod A. Santora, Jennifer Fisher, William T. Peterson, Eric Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Francisco P. Chavez, Ralf Goericke, Raphael Kudela, Clarissa Anderson, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Jose Gomez-Valdes, Richard D. Brodeur, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Toby D. Auth, John C. Field, Keith Sakuma, Sam McClatchie, Andrew R. Thompson, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Robert M. Suryan, Julia Parrish, Jane Dolliver, Stephanie Loredo, Jessica M. Porquez, Jeannette E. Zamon, Stephanie R. Schneider, Richard T. Golightly, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, Jaime Jahncke, William Sydeman, Sharon R. Melin, John A. Hildebrand, Amanda J. Debich, and Bruce Thayre CalCOFI Reports 58:1-55

Age validation of the blue shark (Prionace glauca) in the eastern Pacific Ocean Wells, R.J. David, Natalie Spear, and Suzanne Kohin Marine and Freshwater Research 68(6):1130-1136

Influence of fronts on the spatial distribution of albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) in the Northeast Pacific over the past 30 years (1982-2011) Xu, Yi, Karen Nieto, Steven L.H. Teo, Sam McClatchie, and John Holmes Progress in Oceanography 150:72-78

Acoustic trawl surveys in the California Current during 2016: preliminary results and research needs [abstract] Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Beverly J. Macewicz, George R. Cutter Jr., Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Kevin L. Stierhoff 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. 45. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-17-03.

Distribution, biomass and demography of the central-stock of northern anchovy during summer 2016, estimated from acoustic-trawl sampling Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Beverly J. Macewicz, Scott Mau, David Murfin, Danial Palance, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Kevin Stierhoff U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-572. 18 p.

Feasibility and patient acceptance of emergency department-based influenza vaccination in a military medical center Arkin Hilger, Keren, James R. Hilger, Shannon D. Putnam, Shaun D. Carstairs, and Ryan C. Maves Military Medicine 181(8):883-886

Climate science strategy of the US National Marine Fisheries Service Busch, D. Shallin, Roger Griffis, Jason Link, Karen Abrams, Jason Baker, Russell E. Brainard, Michael Ford, Jonathan A. Hare, Amber Himes-Cornell, Anne Hollowed, Nathan J. Mantua, Sam McClatchie, Michelle McClure, Mark W. Nelson, Kenric Osgood, Jay O. Peterson, Michael Rust, Vincent Saba, Michael F. Sigler, Seth Sykora-Bodie, Christopher Toole, Eric Thunberg, Robin S. Waples, and Richard Merrick Marine Policy 74:58-67

Movements and distribution of juvenile common thresher sharks Alopias vulpinus in Pacific coast waters of the USA and Mexico Cartamil, D., J. Wraith, N.C. Wegner, D. Kacev, C.H. Lam, O. Santana-Morales, O. Sosa-Nishizaki, M. Escobedo-Olvera, S. Kohin, J.B. Graham, and P. Hastings Marine Ecology Progress Series 548:153-163

Direct estimates of gear selectivity for the North Pacific blue shark using catch-at-length data: implications for stock assessment Carvalho, Felipe, and Tim Sippel Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (14-21 November 2016, Busan, South Korea). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/SHARKWG-1/13. 10 p.

Population status assessment and restoration modeling of white abalone Haliotis sorenseni in California Catton, Cynthia A., Kevin L. Stierhoff, and Laura Rogers-Bennett Journal of Shellfish Research 35(3):593-599

Populations structure of blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, in the Pacific and eastern Indian Oceans Chen, Hui, Chia-Hao Chang, Chi-Lu Sun, Kwang-Tsao Shao, Su-Zan Yeh, and Gerard DiNardo Zoological Studies 55:33 (15 p.)

Review of the splendid perches, Callanthias (Percoidei: Callanthiidae), by William D. Anderson, Jr, G. David Johnson and Carole C. Baldwin [book review] Craig, Matthew T. Marine Biology Research 12(2):210

Vulnerabilities and fisheries impacts: the uncertain future of manta and devil rays Croll, Donald A., Heidi Dewar, Nicholas K. Dulvy, Daniel Fernando, Malcolm P. Francis, Felipe Galvan-Magana, Martin Hall, Shawn Heinrichs, Andrea Marshall, Douglas McCauley, Kelly M. Newton, Giuseppe Notarbartolo-di-Sciara, Mary O'Malley, John O'Sullivan, Marloes Poortvliet, Marlon Roman, Guy Stevens, Bernie R. Tershy, and William T. White Aquatic Conservation 26(3):562-575

Toward a typology of interactions between small-scale fisheries and global seafood trade Crona, Beatrice I., Xavier Basurto, Dale Squires, Stefan Gelcich, Tim M. Daw, Ahmed Khan, Elizabeth Havice, Victoria Chomo, Max Troell, Eny A. Buchary, and Edward H. Allison Marine Policy 65:1-10

Remote sensing of habitat characteristics using echo metrics and image-based seabed classes Cutter, George R. Jr., Kevin L. Stierhoff, and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(8):1965-1974

Development of underwater recorders to quantify predation of juvenile Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) in a river environment Demetras, Nicholas J., David D. Huff, Cyril J. Michel, Joseph M. Smith, George R. Cutter, Sean A. Hayes, and Steven T. Lindley Fishery Bulletin 114(2):179-185

Surgeons and suture zones: Hybridization among four surgeonfish species in the Indo-Pacific with variable evolutionary outcomes DiBattista, Joseph D., Jonathan Whitney, Matthew T. Craig, Jean-Paul A. Hobbs, Luiz A. Rocha, Kevin A. Feldhein, Michael L. Berumen, and Brian W. Bowen Molecular Phylogenetics and Evoluation 101:203-215

Spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) estimated from the daily egg production method off California in 2015 Dorval, Emmanis, Beverly J. Macewicz, David A. Griffith, and Yuhong Gu U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-560. 41 p.

California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA): State of the California Current report, 2016 Garfield, Toby, and Chris Harvey (eds.) A report of the NOAA CCIEA Team to the Pacific Fishery Management Council. 45 p.

Modeling variable phanerozoic oxygen effects on physiology and evolution Graham, Jeffrey B., Corey J. Jew, Nicholas C. Wegner In: Robert C. Roach, Peter D. Wagner, and Peter H. Hackett (eds.), Hypoxia: translation in progress, p. 409-426. Springer.

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), Aaron Mamula, Susan Sogard, William Watson, Nick Wegner, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 57th annual meeting of the TSC (April 26-27, 2016, Newport, Oregon), p. 308-326. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

2016 Billfish Newsletter: 2015 Survey Trends [2015 International Billfish Angler Survey], 2015 Billfish tagging and recoveries [2015 Billfish Tagging Program], 2015 Top anglers and captains, Billfish habitat in a changing environment:Black marlin off eastern Australia. Heberer, Liana U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 26p. Billfish Tagging Program; Cooperative Billfish Tagging Program; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging; tags; Fish Catch, Photo, Release (FishCPR mobile phone);

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2016 for U.S.A. management in 2016-17 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Emmanis Dorval, and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-562. 184 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Stability of trace elements in otoliths of juvenile Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax Javor, Barbara J., and Emmanis Dorval CalCOFI Reports 57:109-123

Oxytetracycline age validation of an adult shortfin mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus after 6 years at liberty Kinney, M.J., R.J.D. Wells, and S. Kohin Journal of Fish Biology 89(3):1828-1833

Meta-analysis of north Pacific albacore tuna natural mortality Kinney, Michael John, and Steven L.H. Teo Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (8-14 November 2016, Nanaimo, British Columbia). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/ALBWG-02/07. 10 p.

Catch and size of blue sharks caught in U.S. fisheries in the North Pacific Kohin, Suzanne, Tim Sippel, and Felipe Carvalho Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (14-21 November 2016, Busan, South Korea). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/SHARKWG-1/15. 18 p.

The economic contribution of marine angler expenditures on durable goods in the United States, 2014 Lovell, Sabrina J., James Hilger, Scott Steinback, and Clifford Hutt NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-165. 72 p.

The historical biogeography of groupers: Clade diversification patterns and processes Ma, Ka Yan, Matthew Thomas Craig, John Howard Choat, and Lynne van Herwerden Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 100:21-30

Growth: Theory, estimation, and application in fishery stock assessment models Maunder, Mark N., Paul R. Crone, Andre E. Punt, Juan L. Valero, and Brice X. Semmens Fisheries Research 180:1-3

The influence of Pacific equatorial water on fish diversity in the southern California Current System McClatchie, Sam, Andrew R. Thompson, Simone R. Alin, Samantha Siedlecki, William Watson, and Steven J. Bograd Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 121(8):6121-6136

Food limitation of sea lion pups and the decline of forage off central and southern California McClatchie, Sam, John Field, Andrew R. Thompson, Tim Gerrodette, Mark Lowry, Paul C. Fiedler, William Watson, Karen M. Nieto, and Russell D. Vetter Royal Society Open Science 3(3):150628 (9 p.)

State of the California Current 2015-16: Comparisons with the 1997-98 El Nino McClatchie, Sam, Ralf Goericke, Andrew Leising, Toby D. Auth, Eric Bjorkstedt, Roxanne R. Robertson, Richard D. Brodeur, Xiuning Du, Elizabeth A. Daly, Cheryl A. Morgan, Francisco P. Chavez, Amanda J. Debich, John Hildebrand, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Michael G. Jacox, Mati Kahru, Raphael Kudela, Clarissa Anderson, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Jose Gomez-Valdes, S. Patricia A. Jimenez-Rosenberg, Ryan McCabe, Sharon R. Melin, Mark D. Ohman, Linsey M. Sala, Bill Peterson, Jennifer Fisher, Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Stephanie R. Schneider, Richard T. Golightly, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Stephanie Loredo, Jessica M. Porquez, Andrew R. Thompson, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Vera Trainer, Pete Warzybok, Russell Bradley, and Jaime Jahncke CalCOFI Reports 57:5-61

Evidence that the migration of the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off the west coast of the United States is age-based McDaniel, Jenny, Kevin Piner, Hui-Hua Lee, and Kevin Hill PLoS ONE 11(11):0166780 (16 p.)

Western Regional Action Plan (WRAP), NOAA Fisheries Climate Science Strategy NOAA NW/SW Fisheries Science Centers U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-565. 75 p.

Evaluation of using random-at-length observations and an equilibrium approximation of the population age structure in fitting the von Bertalanffy growth function Piner, Kevin R., Hui-Hua Lee, and Mark N. Maunder Fisheries Research 180:128-137

Defining an ideal temperature range for the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine, Sardinops sagax caeruleus Pribyl, Alena L., John R. Hyde, Larry Robertson, and Russell Vetter Environmental Biology of Fishes 99(2):275-291

Optimizing transmit interval and logging range while avoiding aliased seabed echoes Renfree, Josiah S., and David A. Demer ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(8):1955-1964

A fishery-independent survey of juvenile shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) and blue (Prionace glauca) sharks in the Southern California Bight, 1994-2013 Runcie, Rosa, David Holts, James Wraith, Yi Xu, Darlene Ramon, Rand Rasmussen, and Suzanne Kohin Fisheries Research 183:233-243

The DNA of coral reef biodiversity: predicting and protecting genetic diversity of reef assemblages Selkoe, Kimberly A., Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Eric A. Treml, Johanna L.K. Wren, Mary K. Donovan, Hawai'i Reef Connectivity Consortium, and Robert J. Toonen Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 283(1829):20160354 (10 p.)

Size and sex structure of blue sharks in the North Pacific Ocean Sippel, Tim, Yasuko Semba, Ko Shiozaki, Felipe Carvalho, Jose Leonardo Castillo-Geniz, Wen-Pei Tsai, Kwang-Ming Liu, Youjung Kwon, Yan Chen, and Suzanne Kohin Submitted to the ISC Shark Working Group Workshop (14-21 November 2016, Busan, South Korea). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/SHARKWG-1/14. 47 p.

Firm behavior under quantity controls: The theory of virtual quantities Squires, Dale Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 79:70-86

Putting economics into maximum economic yield Squires, Dale, and Niels Vestergaard Marine Resource Economics 31(1):101-116

Improving the estimations of transect length and width for underwater visual surveys of targets on or near the seabed Stierhoff, Kevin L., David W. Murfin, David A. Demer, Scott A. Mau, and Deanna R. Pinkard-Meier ICES Journal of Marine Science 73(10):2729-2736

Regulatory impacts of recreational fishery management alternatives for North Pacific bluefin tuna Stohs, Stephen M. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-567. 27 p.

Early life of an inshore population of West Greenlandic cod Gadus morhua: spatial and temporal aspects of growth and survival Swalethorp, Rasmus, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Andrew R. Thompson, Malene Mohl, and Peter Monk Marine Ecology Progress Series 555:185-202

Spatiotemporal definitions of the US albacore longline fleets in the North Pacific for the 2017 assessment Teo, Steven L.H. Submitted to the ISC Albacore Working Group Intercessional Workshop (8-14 November 2016, Nanaimo, British Columbia). ISC (International Scientific Committee for Tuna and Tuna-like Species in the North Pacific Ocean), Working Paper ISC/16/ALBWG-02/08. 19 p.

Status of common thresher sharks, Alopias vulpinus, along the west coast of North America Teo, Steven L.H., Emiliano Garcia Rodriguez, and Oscar Sosa-Nishizaki U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-557. 196 p.

Rockfish assemblage structure and spawning locations in southern California identified through larval sampling Thompson, Andrew R., John R. Hyde, William Watson, Dustin C. Chen, and Lian W. Guo Marine Ecology Progress Series 547:177-192

A new species of grouper (Epinephelus; Epinephelidae) from the Indo-Pacific Tucker, Sarah J., Eka M. Kurniasih, and Matthew T. Craig Copeia 104(3):658-662

From sunrise to sunset in the California drift gillnet fishery: An examination of the effects of time and area closures on the catch and catch rates of pelagic species Urbisci, Laura C., Stephen M. Stohs, and Kevin R. Piner Marine Fisheries Review 78(3-4):1-11

Drifting to oblivion? Rapid genetic differentiation in an endangered lizard following habitat fragmentation and drought Vandergast, Amy G., Dustin A. Wood, Andrew R. Thompson, Mark Fisher, Cameron W. Barrows, and Tyler J. Grant Diversity and Distributions 22(3):344-357

Closed-loop tracking-by-detection for ROV-based multiple fish tracking Wang, Gaoang, Jenq-Neng Hwang, Kresimir Williams, and George Cutter In: Alexandra Branzan Albu and Maia Hoeberechts (eds.), Proceedings, 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision for Analysis of Underwater Imagery: CVAUI 2016 (4 December 2016, Cancun, Mexico), p. 7-12. IEEE Computer Society.

Early larvae of the swordspine rockfish (Sebastes ensifer) identified by molecular methods Watson, William, Sharon R. Charter, and Cynthia A. Taylor-Lawley Fishery Bulletin 114(2):135-143

Elasmobranch gill structure Wegner, Nicholas C. In: Robert E. Shadwick, Anthony P. Farrell, and Colin J. Brauner (eds.), Physiology of elasmobranch fishes: structure and interaction with environment, p. 101-151. Elsevier / Academic Press.

Gill morphology, movements, and in vivo temperature measurements of an endothermic fish, the opah, Lampris guttatus [abstract] Wright, A.J., J.R. Hyde, and N.C. Wegner Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2016 annual meeting abstracts (January 3-7, 2016, Portland, Oregon). Integrative and Comparative Biology 56(supp.1):e397

Using an approximate length-conditional approach to estimate von Bertalanffy growth parameters of North Pacific albacore (Thunnus alalunga) Xu, Yi, Steven L.H. Teo, Kevin R. Piner, Kuo-Shu Chen, R.J. David Wells Fisheries Research 180:138-146

Acoustic-trawl estimates of northern-stock Pacific sardine biomass during 2015 Zwolinski, Juan P., David A. Demer, Beverly J. Macewicz, George R. Cutter, Brian Elliot, Scott Mau, David Murfin, Josiah S. Renfree, Thomas S. Sessions, and Kevin Stierhoff U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-559. 15 p.

New abbreviated calculation for measuring intrinsic rebound potential in exploited fish populations — example for sharks Au, David W., Susan E. Smith, and Christina Show Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 72(5):767-773

Combining otolith microstructure and trace elemental analyses to infer the arrival of juvenile Pacific bluefin tuna in the California current ecosystem Baumann, Hannes, R.J.D. Wells, Jay R. Rooker, Saijin Zhang, Zofia Baumann, Daniel J. Madigan, Heidi Dewar, Owyn E. Snodgrass, and Nicholas S. Fisher ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(7):2128-2138

Proceedings of the 2014 NOAA Economics of Protected Resources Workshop (September 9-11, 2014, La Jolla, California) Bisack, Kathryn D., Dale E. Squires, Douglas W. Lipton, James R. Hilger, Daniel S. Holland, Denise H. Johnson, Min-Yang Lee, Rebecca Lent, Daniel K. Lew, Gisele Magnusson, Minling Pan, Lew E. Queirolo, Stephen Stohs, Cameron L. Speir, and Kristy A. Wallmo, with contributions from Lisa Ballance and Sarah Mesnick NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-233. 179 p.

Lepadichthys bilineatus, a new species of clingfish from Oman (Teleostei: Gobiesocidae), with a redescription of Lepadichthys erythraeus Briggs and Link from the Red Sea Craig, Matthew T., Sergey V. Bogorodsky, John E. Randall, and Ahmad O. Mal Zootaxa 3990(1):113-122

Automated detection of rockfish in unconstrained underwater videos using Haar cascades and a new image dataset: labeled fishes in the wild Cutter, George, Kevin Stierhoff, and Jiaming Zeng In: Proceedings, 2015 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops (5-9 January 2015, Waikoloa Beach, Hawaii), p. 57-62. IEEE Computer Society, Conference Publishing Services.

Two-million-liter tank expands the boundaries of marine technology innovation: National resource available for advancing marine science Demer, David A., George Randall Cutter Jr., Kevin L. Stierhoff, Josiah S. Renfree Marine Technology Society Journal 49(2):87-98

Calibration of acoustic instruments Demer, David A., Laurent Berger, Matteo Bernasconi, Eckhard Bethke, Kevin Boswell, Dezhang Chu, Reka Domokos, Adam Dunford, Sascha Fassler, Stephane Gauthier, Lawrence T. Hufnagle, J. Michael Jech, Naigle Bouffant, Anne Lebourges-Dhaussy, Xavier Lurton, Gavin J. Macaulay, Yannick Perrot, Tim Ryan, Sandra Parker-Stetter, Sarah Stienessen, Thomas Weber, and Neal Williamson ICES Cooperative Research Report no. 326. 133 p.

Blinded by the bright: a lack of congruence between colour morphs, phylogeography and taxonomy for a cosmopolitan Indo-Pacific butterflyfish, Chaetodon auriga DiBattista, Joseph D., Ellen Waldrop, Luiz A. Rocha, Matthew T. Craig, Michael L. Berumen, and Brian W. Bowen Journal of Biogeography 42(10):1919-1929

Changes in growth and maturation parameters of Pacific sardine Sardinops sagax collected off California during a period of stock recovery from 1994 to 2010 Dorval, E., J.D. McDaniel, B.J. Macewicz, and D.L. Porzio Journal of Fish Biology 87(2):286-310

NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center: Draft agency report to the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-U.S. Groundfish Committee He, Xi, and John Field (eds.), John Hyde, Susan Sogard, Cindy Thomson, William Watson, and Mary Yoklavich In: Report of the Technical Subcommittee of the Canada-United States Groundfish Committee: 56th annual meeting of the TSC (April 28-29, 2015, Sidney, British Columbia, Canada), p. 288-307. Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.

Assessment of the Pacific sardine resource in 2015 for U.S.A. management in 2015-16 Hill, Kevin T., Paul R. Crone, Emmanis Dorval, and Beverly J. Macewicz U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-546. 177 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - FISHERY MANAGEMENT - POPULATIONS - ABUNDANCE

Comparisons among ten models of acoustic backscattering used in aquatic ecosystem research Jech, J. Michael, John K. Horne, Dezhang Chu, David A. Demer, David T.I. Francis, Natalia Gorska, Benjamin Jones, Andone C. Lavery, Timothy K. Stanton, Gavin J. Macaulay, D. Benjamin Reeder, and Kouichi Sawada Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 138(6):3742-3764

State of the California Current 2014-15: Impacts of the warm-water "blob" Leising, Andrew W., Isaac D. Schroeder, Steven J. Bograd, Jeffrey Abell, Reginaldo Durazo, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Eric P. Bjorkstedt, John Field, Keith Sakuma, Roxanne R. Robertson, Ralf Goericke, William T. Peterson, Richard D. Brodeur, Caren Barcelo, Toby D. Auth, Elizabeth A. Daly, Robert M. Suryan, Amanda J. Gladics, Jessica M. Porquez, Sam McClatchie, Edward D. Weber, William Watson, Jarrod A. Santora, William J. Sydeman, Sharon R. Melin, Francisco P. Chavez, Richard T. Golightly, Stephanie R. Schneider, Jennifer Fisher, Cheryl Morgan, Russell Bradley, and Peter Warybok CalCOFI Reports 56:31-68

Insights into the life history and ecology of a large shortfin mako shark Isurus oxyrinchus captured in southern California Lyons, K., A. Preti, D.J. Madigan, R.J.D. Wells, M.E. Blasius, O.E. Snodgrass, D. Kacev, J.D. Harris, H. Dewar, S. Kohin, K. MacKenzie, and C.G. Lowe Journal of Fish Biology 87(1):200-211

Bayesian inference and assessment for rare-event bycatch in marine fisheries: a drift gillnet fishery case study Martin, Summer L., Stephen M. Stohs, and Jeffrey E. Moore Ecological Applications 25(2):416-429

A tale of three tails: Cryptic speciation in a globally distributed marine fish of the genus Seriola Martinez-Takeshita, Natalie, Catherine M. Purcell, Chris L. Chabot, Matthew T. Craig, Corinne N. Paterson, John R. Hyde, and Larry G. Allen Copeia 103(2):357-368

Contemporary fisheries stock assessment: many issues still remain Maunder, Mark N., and Kevin R. Piner ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(1):7-18

Dynamic ocean management: Defining and conceptualizing real-time management of the ocean Maxwell, Sara M., Elliott L. Hazen, Rebecca L. Lewison, Daniel C. Dunn, Helen Bailey, Steven J. Bograd, Dana K. Briscoe, Sabrina Fossette, Alistair J. Hobday, Meredith Bennett, Scott Benson, Margaret R. Caldwell, Daniel P. Costa, Heidi Dewar, Tomo Eguchi, Lucie Hazen, Suzanne Kohin, Tim Sippel, and Larry B. Crowder Marine Policy 58:42-50

Optimizing biological parameterization in the egg escapement model of the market squid, (Doryteuthis opalescens), population off California McDaniel, Jenny, Emmanis Dorval, Julianne Taylor, and Dianna Porzio U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-551. 23 p.

A collaborative and adaptive strategy for rebuilding white abalone populations in Southern California [abstract] Neuman, Melissa, David Witting, Susan Wang, Kevin Stierhoff, and John Hyde In: Abstracts of technical papers presented at the 107th Annual Meeting, National Shellfisheries Association (Monterey, California, March 22-26, 2015). Journal of Shellfish Research 34(2):668

Digestive enzyme activities are higher in the shortfin mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, than in ectothermic sharks as a result of visceral endothermy Newton, Kyle C., James Wraith, and Kathryn A. Dickson Fish Physiology and Biochemistry 41(4):887-898

Close-kin mark recapture as a tool for estimation of spawning biomass in Pacific bluefin tuna: sampling design and sampling plan. Outcomes from a workshop on developing CKMR techniques for Pacific bluefin (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, May 27-29, 2015) NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California (23 p.)

Development of microsatellite markers for globally distributed populations of the threatened silky shark, Carcharhinus falciformis O'Brhyhim, J.R., J. Spaet, J.R. Hyde, K.L. Jones, D.H. Adams, and S.L. Lance Conservation Genetics Resources 7(2):463-465

Devloping a genetic baseline for the yellowtail amberjack species complex, Seriola lalandi sensu lato, to assess and preserve variation in wild populations of these globally important aquaculture species Purcell, Catherine M., Chris L. Chabot, Matthew T. Craig, Natalie Martinez-Takeshita, Larry G. Allen, and John R. Hyde Conservation Genetics 16(6):1475-1488

Demonstration of a fully-coupled end-to-end model for small pelagic fish using sardine and anchovy in the California Current Rose, Kenneth A., Jerome Fiechter, Enrique N. Curchitser, Kate Hedstrom, Miguel Bernal, Sean Creekmore, Alan Haynie, Shin-ichi Ito, Salvador Lluch-Cota, Bernard A. Megrey, Chris A. Edwards, Dave Checkley, Tony Koslow, Sam McClatchie, Francisco Werner, Alec MacCall, and Vera Agostini Progress in Oceanography 138(pt.B):348-380

End-to-end modeling of sardine and anchovy in the California Current system Rose, Kenneth A., Sean Creekmore, Jerome Fiechter, Enrique N. Curchitser, Kate Hedstrom, Miguel Bernal, Alan Haynie, Bernard A. Megrey, Shin-Ichi Ito, Salvador Lluch-Cota, Chris A. Edwards, Dave Checkley, Tony Koslow, Sam McClatchie, Francisco Werner, Alec McCall, and Vera Agostini CalCOFI Reports 56:78-79

Post-release survivorship studies on common thresher sharks (Alopias vulpinus) captured in the southern California recreational fishery Sepulveda, C.A., C. Heberer, S.A. Aalbers, N. Spear, M. Kinney, D. Bernal, and S. Kohin Fisheries Research 161:102-108

Using movement data from electronic tags in fisheries stock assessment: A review of models, technology and experimental design Sippel, Tim, J. Paige Eveson, Benjamin Galuardi, Chi Lam, Simon Hoyle, Mark Maunder, Pierre Kleiber, Felipe Carvalho, Vardis Tsontos, Steven L.H. Teo, Alexandre Aires-da-Silva, and Simon Nicol Fisheries Research 163:152-160

Comment on 'Scope and compatibility of measures in international fisheries agreements' by Finus and Schneider Squires, Dale, Lisa T. Ballance, Rick Deriso, James Ianelli, Mark Maunder, and Kurt Schaefer Oxford Economic Papers 67(4):889-894

Characterization and assessment of the Main Hawaiian Island Kona crab (Ranina ranina) fishery Thomas, Lennon R., Hui-Hua Lee, and Kevin Piner U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center. 35 p.

Symbiosis in fishes: The biology of interspecific partnerships, by Ilan Karplus [book review] Thompson, Andrew R. Quarterly Review of Biology 90(2):208-209

Ecology of the ocean sunfish, Mola mola, in the southern California Current System Thys, Tierney M., John P. Ryan, Heidi Dewar, Christopher R. Perle, Kady Lyons, John O'Sullivan, Charles Farwell, Michael J. Howard, Kevin C. Weng, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Gilberto Gaxiola-Castro, Luis Erasmo Miranda Bojorquez, Elliott L. Hazen, and Steven J. Bograd Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 471:64-76

Productivity change in commercial fisheries: An introduction to the special issue Walden, John, Ben Fissel, Dale Squires, and Niels Vestergaard Marine Policy 62:289-293