NOAA FISHERIES

Preseason report II: Analysis of proposed regulatory options for 2000 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Preseason report III: Analysis of council adopted management measures for 2000 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Review of 1999 ocean salmon fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

STT recommendations for hooking mortality rates in 2000 recreational ocean chinook and coho fisheries Pacific Fishery Management Council (Salmon Technical Team) STT Report B.2 (Final). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 18 p.

Management of Pacific rockfish. Parker, S. J., S. A. Berkeley, J. T. Golden, D. R. Gunderson, J. Heifetz, M. A. Hixon, R. Larson, B. M. Leaman, M. S. Love, J. A. Musick, V. M. O'Connell, S. Ralston, H. J. Weeks, and M. M. Yoklavich. Fisheries 25(3):22-30. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - PACIFIC ROCKFISH - MANAGEMENT

Identifying diurnal foraging habitat of endangered Hawaiian monk seals using a seal-mounted video camera. Parrish, F. A., M. P. Craig, T. J. Ragen, G. J. Marshall, and B. M. Buhleier. Marine Mammal Science 16(2):392-412. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL - ENDANGERED SPECIES - DIURNAL FORAGING HABITAT - SEAL-MOUNTED VIDEO CAMERA

Mid-latitude and wind stress: the energy source for climatic shifts in the North Pacific Ocean. Parrish, R. H., F. B. Schwing, and R. Mendelssohn. Fisheries Oceanography 9(3):224-238. OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM - NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN - PRODUCTIVITY - EL NINO - LA NINA - EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION - ENSO - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE SHIFTS - INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY - REGIME SHIFTS - WIND STRESS

Monterey sardine story Parrish, Richard H. Maritime Museum of Monterey (California), J.B. Phillips Historical Fisheries Report 1(1):2-4

Yield versus forage consideration in the regime-dependent Pacific sardine fishery: a comparison of results from management and migration/forage models Parrish, Richard H. P.M. Mace (ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth NMFS National Stock Assessment Workshop: Incorporating ecosystem considerations into stock assessments and management advice: What are the pros and cons of going beyond single species? (Seattle, Washington, March 28-30, 2000), p. 40. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-46

Osteological variation in the spectacled porpoise (Phocoena dioptrica). Perrin, W. F., R. N. P. Goodall, and M. A. Cozzuol. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 2(3):211-215. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PORPOISES - SPECTACLED PORPOISE - OSTEOLOGY - OSTEOLOGICAL VARIATION - BONES - SKELETON

Overcapitalization in the west coast groundfish fishery: background, issues and solutions [draft report for review] PFMC Economic Subcommittee Prepared for the Pacific Fishery Management Council by the Scientific and Statistical Committee, Economic Subcommittee. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon, 116 p.

Turtles on the edge: movement of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) along oceanic fronts, spanning longline fishing grounds in the central North Pacific, 1997-1998. Polovina, J. J., D. R. Kobayashi, D. M. Parker, M. P. Seki, G. H. Balazs. Fisheries Oceanography 9(1):71-82. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - LOGGERHEAD - MOVEMENTS - OCEANIC FRONT - LONGLINE FISHERIES - FISHING GROUNDS - CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC

The lobster fishery in the North-western Hawaiian Islands Polovina, J.J In: B.F. Phillips and J. Kittaka (eds.), Spiny lobsters: fisheries and culture (2nd ed.), p. 98-104. Blackwell Science, Fishing News Books.

Sensors detect biological change in mid-latitude North Pacific Polovina, Jeffrey J., Michael P. Seki, and Evan Howell Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 81(44):519

Special section: Better policy and management decisions through explicit analysis of uncertainty: new approaches from marine conservation. Introduction. Ralls, Katherine, and Barbara L. Taylor Conservation Biology 14(5):1240-1242

West coast groundfish harvest rate policy workshop: Panel report Ralston, Stephen, James R. Bence, William G. Clark, Ramon J. Conser, Thomas Jagielo, and Terrance J. Quinn II In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 2000 and recommended acceptable biological catches for 2001: stock assessment and fishery evaluation (special section, 10 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

The role of dispersal and disturbance in deteriming spatial heterogeneity in sedentary organisms Reed, Daniel C., Peter T. Raimondi, Mark H Carr, and Lloyd Goldwasser Ecology 81(7):2011-2026

Molecular identification and description of pelagic young of the rockfishes Sebastes constellatus and Sebastes ensifer. Rocha-Olivares, A., H. G. Moser, and J. Stannard. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 98:353-363. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - PELAGIC YOUNG - MOLECULAR IDENTIFICATION - DESCRIPTION - DNA - GENETICS

World-wide genetic differentiation of Eubalaena: questioning the number of right whale species Rosenbaum, H.C., R.L. Brownell Jr., M.W. Brown, C. Schaeff, V. Portway, B.N. White, S. Malik, L.A. Pastene, N.J. Patenaude, C.S. Baker, M. Goto, P.B. Best, P.J. Clapham, P. Hamilton, M. Moore, R. Payne, V. Rowntree, C.T. Tynan, J.L. Bannister, and R. DeSalle Molecular Ecology 9(11):1793-1802

Utility of North Atlantic right whale museum specimens for assessing changes in genetic diversity Rosenbaum, Howard C., Mary G. Egan, Phillip J. Clapham, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Sobia Malik, Moira W. Brown, Bradley N. White, Peter Walsh, and Rob DeSalle Conservation Biology 14(6):1837-1842

IDENTIFICATION MANUAL FOR DIETARY VEGETATION OF THE HAWAIIAN GREEN TURTLE, CHELONIA MYDAS RUSSELL, DENNIS J., AND GEORGE H. BALAZS U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-294. 49 p. REPTILES - SEA TURTLES - GREEN - HAWAII - DIET - IDENTIFICATION MANUAL - VEGETATION

The impact of FAD innovation on the performance of US tuna purse seine operations in the Pacific Ocean. Sakagawa, G.T. J.Y. Le Gall, P. Cayré, and M. Taquet (editors), Pêches thonière et dispositifs de concentration de poissons (Tuna fishing and fish concentration devices). French Institute for Research and Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), Plouzané, France. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - TUNA - PACIFIC OCEAN - PURSE SEINE FISHERY - FAD INNOVATION - IMPACT

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE CALIFORNIA COAST DURING MAY-JUNE, 1998: A SUMMARY OF CTD DATA FROM PELAGIC JUVENILE ROCKFISH SURVEYS SAKUMA, KEITH M., FRANKLIN B. SCHWING, MARK H. PICKETT, DALE ROBERTS, STEPHEN V. RALSTON U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-297. 78 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - PHYSICAL - CALIFORNIA - CTD - ROCKFISH - PELAGIC - JUVENILES - SURVEYS

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST DURING MARCH-APRIL AND MAY-JUNE, 1990: A SUMMARY OF CTD DATA FROM PELAGIC JUVENILE ROCKFISH SURVEYS SAKUMA, KEITH M., FRANKLIN B. SCHWING, MARK H. PICKETT, STEPHEN V. RALSTON U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-299. 80 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - PHYSICAL - CALIFORNIA - CTD - ROCKFISH - PELAGIC - JUVENILES - SURVEYS

ICHTHYOPLANKTON AND STATION DATA FOR SURFACE TOWS TAKEN DURING THE 1990 EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC COMMON DOLPHIN SURVEY ON THE RESEARCH VESSELS David Starr Jordan AND McArthur SANDKNOP, ELAINE M., RICHARD L. CHARTER, H. GEOFFREY MOSER, STEPHEN B. REILLY. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-290. 46 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - SURFACE TOWS - MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC - ETP - SURVEYS - NOAA R/V - MCARTHUR - DAVID STARR JORDAN

Shape, volume, and resonance frequency of the swimbladder of yellowfin tuna, Thunnus albacares. Schaefer, K. M., and C. W. Oliver. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 98:364-374. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - YELLOWFIN TUNA - PHYSIOLOGY - SWIMBLADDER - SHAPE - VOLUME - RESONANCE FREQUENCY

Record coastal upwelling in the California Current in 1999. Schwing, F., C. S. Moore, and S. Ralston, and K. S. Sakuma. CalCOFI Reports 41:148-160. OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT - NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN - COASTAL UPWELLING - PRODUCTIVITY - EL NINO - LA NINA - EL NINO SOUTHERN OSCILLATION - ENSO - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE SHIFTS - INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY - REGIME SHIFTS - MARINE POPULATIONS

A year without summer for California, or a harbinger of a climate shift? Schwing, Frank, and Chris Moore Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 81(27):301-305

Pacific billfishes and the assessment process. Skillman, R. A. K. Hinman (ed.), Getting ahead of the curve: conserving the Pacific Ocean's tunas, swordfish, billfishes and sharks, p. 31-34. Marine Fisheries Symposium no. 16, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey, California, November 4-6, 1996. National Coalition for Marine Conservation, Leesburg, Virginia. MARINE FISHES - BILLFISHES - BILLFISH - PACIFIC - STOCK ASSESSMENT

Accounting for uncertainty in risk assessment: case study of Hector's dolphin mortality due to gillnet entanglement Slooten, Elisabeth, David Fletcher, and Barbara L. Taylor Conservation Biology 14(5):1264-1270

Pelagic fish early life history: CalCOFI overview Smith, P.E. In: Paul J. Harrison and Timothy R. Parsons (eds.), Fisheries oceanography: an integrative approach to fisheries ecology and management, p. 8-23. Blackwell Science. MARINE FISHES - PELAGIC FISHES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - CALCOFI - OVERVIEW

The circulation and water masses in the Gulf of the Farallones. Steger, J. M., F. B. Schwing, C. A. Collins, L. K. Rosenfeld, N. Garfield, and E. Gezgin. Deep-Sea Research II 47:907-946. OCEANOGRAPHY - GULF OF THE FARALLONES - UPPER OCEAN CIRCULATION - WATER MASSES - EDDIES - ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER - ADCP - CTD - SHIP SURVEYS - SLOPE COUNTERCURRENT - SCC

Incorporating uncertainty into management models for marine mammals. Taylor, B. L., P. R. Wade, D. P. DeMaster, and J. Barlow. Conservation Biology 14(5):1243-1252. MARINE MAMMALS - MANAGEMENT - MODELS - UNCERTAINTY

Genetic population structure in the western North Pacific minke whale: an analysis of mtDNA data Taylor, Barbara L. Paper SC/F2K/J6 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (JARPN Review Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, February 2000). 4 p.

"Best" abundance estimates and best management: why they are not the same Taylor, Barbara L., and Paul R. Wade In: S. Ferson and M. Burgman (eds.), Quantitative methods for conservation biology, p. 96-108. Springer.

Evaluating the performance of different statistics to detect population subdivision Taylor, Barbara L., and Susan J. Chivers Paper SC/F2K/J5 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (JARPN Review Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, February 2000). 10 p.

An example of the calculation of the statistical power to detect population sub-division in North Pacific minke whales Taylor, Barbara L., and Susan J. Chivers Paper SC/F2K/J7 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (JARPN Review Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, February 2000). 12 p.

Estimating the statistical power to detect population subdivision using mitochondrial DNA Taylor, Barbara L., Susan J. Chivers, and Andrew E. Dizon Paper SC/F2K/J4 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (JARPN Review Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, February 2000). 13 p.

Evaluating dispersal estimates using mtDNA data: comparing analytical and simulation approaches Taylor, Barbara L., Susan J. Chivers, Stephanie Sexton, and Andrew E. Dizon Conservation Biology 14(5):1287-1297

Frequency beamforming of dolphin whistles using a sparse three-element towed array. Thode, A., T. Norris, and J. Barlow. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 107(6):3581-3584. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - DOLPHIN - WHISTLES - SONAR - TOWED ARRAY - FREQUENCY BEAM FORMING

Director's report to the 51st Tuna Conference on tuna and tuna-related activities at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center for the period May 1, 1999 to April 30, 2000 Tillman, Michael F. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-00-05. 24 p.

Diurnal variation in thermal environment experienced by salmonids in the North Pacific as indicated by data storage tags. Walker, R. V., K. W. Myers, N. D. Davis, K. Y. Aydin, K. D. Friedland, H. R. Carlson, G. W. Boehlert, S. Urawa, Y. Ueno, and G. Anma. Fisheries Oceanography 9(2):171-186. ANADROMOUS FISHES - SALMONIDS - SALMON - NORTH PACIFIC - DIURNAL VARIATION - THERMAL ENVIRONMENT - DATA STORAGE TAGS - TAGGING

Champsodontidae, Blenniidae, Schindleriidae. Watson, W. J. M. Leis and B. M. Carson-Ewart (eds.), The larvae of Indo-Pacific coastal fishes (Fauna Malesiana Handbooks 2). Brill Academic Publishers, Boston. 850 p. MARINE FISHES - BLENNIES - BENTTOOTHS - GAPERS - INFANTFISHES - DESCRIPTION - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - CHARACTERISTICS - TAXONOMY

Ogcocephalidae. Watson, W., and M. G. Bradbury. J. M. Leis and B. M. Carson-Ewart (eds.), The larvae of Indo-Pacific coastal fishes (Fauna Malesiana Handbooks 2). Brill Academic Publishers, Boston. 850 p. MARINE FISHES - ANGLERFISHES - BATFISHES - DESCRIPTION - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - CHARACTERISTICS - TAXONOMY

Antennariidae. Watson, W., J. M. Leis, and T. Trnski. J. M. Leis and B. M. Carson-Ewart (eds.), The larvae of Indo-Pacific coastal fishes: An identification guide to marine fish larvae (Fauna Malesiana Handbooks 2). Brill Academic Publishers, Boston. 850 p. MARINE FISHES - ANGLERFISHES - FROGFISHES - DESCRIPTION - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - CHARACTERISTICS - TAXONOMY

ICHTHYOPLANKTON AND STATION DATA FOR SURFACE TOWS TAKEN DURING THE 1992 EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC COMMON DOLPHIN SURVEY ON THE RESEARCH VESSELS David Starr Jordan AND McArthur WATSON, WILLIAM, RICHARD L. CHARTER, H. GEOFFREY MOSER, AND STEPHEN B. REILLY U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-291. 50 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - SURFACE TOWS - DOLPHINS - EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC - ETP

An empirical genetic assessment of the severity of the northern elephant seal population bottleneck. Weber, D. S., B. S. Stewart, J. C. Garza, N. Lehman. Current Biology 10:1287-1290. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL - POPULATIONS - GENETICS - ASSESSMENT

Eschrichtius robustus (Asian or Northwest Pacific stock) Weller, D., and R.L. Brownell, Jr. In: 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Preliminary findings on the occurrence and site fidelity of photo-identified sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the northern Gulf of Mexico Weller, David W., Bernd Wursig, Spencer K. Lynn, and Andrew J. Schiro Gulf of Mexico Science 18(1):35-39

Status of the widow rockfish resource in Y2K. Williams, E. H., A. D. MacCall, S. V. Ralston, and D. E. Pearson. Status of the Pacific Coast Groundfish Fishery Through 2000 and Recommended Acceptable Biological Catches for 2001, Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation, Appendix. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - WIDOW ROCKFISH - STATUS

Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, recruitment in the Bering Sea and north-east Pacific Ocean, I: relationships among different populations Williams, Erik H., and Terrance J. Quinn, II Fisheries Oceanography 9(4):285-299

Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, recruitment in the Bering Sea and north-east Pacific Ocean, II: relationships to environmental variables and implications for forecasting Williams, Erik H., and Terrance J. Quinn, II Fisheries Oceanography 9(4):300-315

Assessing humoral and cell-mediated immune response in Hawaiian green turtles, Chelonia mydas. Work, T. M., G. H. Balazs, R. A. Rameyer, S. P. Chang, and J. Berestecky. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology 74:179-194. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - HAWAII - FIBROPAPILLOMATOSIS - IMMUNE RESPONSE - HUMORAL - CELL-MEDIATED

Habitat associations of deep-water rockfishes in a submarine canyon: an example of a natural refuge. Yoklavich, M., H.G. Greene, G. Cailliet, D. Sullivan, R. Lea, and M. Love. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 98:625-641. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - DEEP-WATER - SUBMARINE CANYONS - HABITAT ASSOCIATIONS - NATURAL REFUGE

Laser safety thresholds for cetaceans and pinnipeds. Zorn, H. M., J. H. Churnside, and C. W. Oliver. Marine Mammal Science 16(1):186-200. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - LASER SAFETY THRESHOLDS

Southern lingcod stock assessment in 1999 Adams, Peter B., Erik H. Williams, Kelly R. Silberberg, and Thomas E. Laidig In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 1999 and recommended acceptable biological catches for 2000: stock assessment and fishery evaluation, appendix (78 p.). Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon.

Pathology of fibropapillomatosis in olive ridley turtles Lepidochelys olivacea nesting in Costa Rica. Aguirre, A. A., T. R. Spraker, A. Chaves, L. Du Toit, W. Eure, and G. H. Balazs. Journal of Aquatic Animal Health 11:283-289. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - OLIVE RIDLEY - COSTA RICA - NESTING - NESTS - FIBROPAPILLOMATOSIS - PATHOLOGY

HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL EPIDEMIOLOGY PLAN: HEALTH ASSESSMENT AND DISEASE STATUS STUDIES AGUIRRE, A. ALONSO, JOHN S. REIF, AND GEORGE A. ANTONELIS U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-280. 63 p. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN MONK SEALS - EPIDEMIOLOGY

Hydromedusae: daylight, night and seasonal bathymetric abundance off California and Baja California, and study of the species in the eastern Pacific and other regions. Alvariño, A. Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía 34(1):1-90 (in Spanish). INVERTEBRATES - HYDROIDS - HYDROMEDUSAE - SPECIES - DAYLIGHT - NIGHT - SEASONAL BATHYMETRIC ABUNDANCE - EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC - ETP - CALIFORNIA - MEXICO - BAJA CALIFORNIA

ICHTHYOPLANKTON AND STATION DATA FOR CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS SURVEY CRUISES IN 1985 AMBROSE, DAVID A., RICHARD L. CHARTER, H. GEOFFREY MOSER U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-266. 79 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

ICHTHYOPLANKTON AND STATION DATA FOR CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS SURVEY CRUISES IN 1989 AMBROSE, DAVID A., RICHARD L. CHARTER, H. GEOFFREY MOSER U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-270. 87 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

ICHTHYOPLANKTON AND STATION DATA FOR CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS SURVEY CRUISES IN 1993 AMBROSE, DAVID A., RICHARD L. CHARTER, H. GEOFFREY MOSER U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-274. 88 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

ICHTHYOPLANKTON AND STATION DATA FOR CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS SURVEY CRUISES IN 1997 AMBROSE, DAVID A., RICHARD L. CHARTER, H. GEOFFREY MOSER U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-278. 86 p. ICHTHYOPLANKTON DATA - STATION DATA - CALCOFI - SURVEYS - CRUISES

Nearshore fisheries Anderson, Emory D., Ted Creaser, Clyde L. MacKenzie, Jr., Joshua Bennett, Douglas A. Woodby, Loh-Lee Low, Susan E. Smith, and David C. Hamm In: Our living oceans: Report on the status of U.S. living marine resources, 1999, p. 213-227. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-F/SPO-41.

Stenella coeruleoalba. Archer, F. I. II, and W. F. Perrin. Mammalian Species 603, 9 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - STRIPED DOLPHIN - SPECIES - DESCRIPTION - CHARACTERISTICS - TAXONOMY - CLASSIFICATION

Feeding ecology of tropical seabirds Ballance, L.T., and R.L. Pitman In: N. Adams and R. Slotow (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Ornithological Congress (16-22 August 1998, Durban, South Africa) (CD-ROM). BirdLife South Africa.

Trackline detection probability for long-diving whales. Barlow, J. G. W. Garner et al. (eds.), Marine Mammal Survey and Assessment Methods. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 209-221. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - WHALE - LONG-DIVING - TRACKLINE DETECTION - BEHAVIOR

In vitro O2 fluxes compared with C14 production and other rate terms during the JGOFS Equatorial Pacific experiment Bender, Michael, Joe Orchardo, Mary-Lynn Dickson, Richard Barber, and Steven Lindley Deep Sea Research I 46:637-654

The pilot whales, Globicephala sp. Bernard, H. J., and S. B. Reilly. S.H. Ridgway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 6: The second book of dolphins and the porpoises, p. 245-279. Academic Press. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - PILOT WHALE - SPECIES - DESCRIPTION

Estimates of exploitation rates for north Pacific albacore, Thunnus alalunga, from tagging data. Bertignac, Michel, John Hampton, and Atilio L. Coan Jr. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 97(3):421-433 MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - ALBACORE TUNA - NORTH PACIFIC - EXPLOITATION RATES - ESTIMATES - TAGS - TAGGING - DATA

Environmental effects on swordfish and blue shark catch rates in the U.S. North Pacific longline fishery. Bigelow, K. A., C. H. Boggs, and X. He. Fisheries Oceanography 8(3):178-198. MARINE FISHES - SHARKS - BLUE SHARK - BILLFISHES - BILLFISH - SWORDFISH - CATCH RATES - NORTH PACIFIC LONGLINE FISHERY - ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS - IMPACTS

Twenty-six years of green turtle nesting at Tortuguero, Costa Rica: an encouraging trend. Bjorndal, K. A., J. A. Wetherall, A. B. Bolten, and J. A. Mortimer. Conservation Biology 13(1):126-134. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - COSTA RICA - NATAL HOMING - NESTS - NESTING - TRENDS

Instrumented elephant seals as oceanographic data collectors: the Autonomous Pinniped Environmental Sampler Project Boehlert, G.W., D.P. Costa, D.E. Crocker, S. Levitus, P. Green, J. Ganong, and T. O'Brien Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 80:151

Detecting and describing fronts in the northeastern Pacific using instrumented elephant seals Boehlert, G.W., D.P. Costa, P. Green, F.B. Schwing, and D.E. Crocker Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 80:183

Cephalopod paralarvae assemblages in Hawaiian Islands waters. Bower, J. R., M. P. Seki, R. E. Young, K. A. Bigelow, J. Hirota, and P. Flament. Marine Ecology Progress Series 185:203-212. INVERTEBRATES - CEPHALOPODS - PARALARVAE - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN ISLANDS - DISTRIBUTION - ASSEMBLAGES - PLANKTON - ZOOPLANKTON - SURVEYS

Concordance of interannual fluctuations in acoustically estimated densities of Antarctic krill around South Georgia and Elephant Islands: biological evidence of same-year teleconnections across the Scotia Sea. Brierly, A. S., D. A. Demer, J. L. Watkins, and R. P. Hewitt. Marine Biology 134:675-681. INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - KRILL - ANTARCTIC KRILL - ANTARCTICA - SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND - ELEPHANT ISLAND - SCOTIA SEA - INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY - FLUCTUATIONS - ACOUSTICS - ACOUSTICALLY ESTIMATED DENSITIES - ESTIMATES - DENSITY

Horizontal movements and depth distribution of large adult yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) near the Hawaiian islands, recorded using ultrasonic telemetry: implications for the physiological ecology of pelagic fishes. Brill, R. W., B. A. Block, C. H. Boggs, K. A. Bigelow, E. V. Freund, and D. J. Marcinek. Marine Biology 133:395-408. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - YELLOWFIN TUNA - PELAGIC FISH - ULTRASONIC TELEMETRY - SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING - HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS - DEPT DISTRIBUTION - PHYSIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY

THE KEWALO RESEARCH FACILITY - LEADING THE WAY FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS BRILL, RICHARD W. (EDITOR) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-281. 44 p. SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER - SWFSC - HAWAII - KEWALO RESEARCH FACILITY - HISTORY

Historical and current presence and absence of coho salmon, Oncorhynchus kisutch, in the northern California portion of the Southern Oregon-Northern California Evolutionary Significant Unit Brownell, Nels F., William M. Kier, and Michael L. Reber Prepared for the U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service, Southwest Fisheries Science Center pursuant to Service Order 40-ABNF-7-01479. Kier Associates, Sausalito, California. 49 p.

Dusky dolphin Lagenorhynchus obscurus (Gray, 1828). Brownell, R. L. Jr., and F. Cipriano. S.H. Ridgway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 6: The second book of dolphins and the porpoises, p. 85-104. Academic Press. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - DUSKY DOLPHIN - SPECIES - DESCRIPTION - CHARACTERISTICS

Hourglass dolphin Lagenorhynchus cruciger (Quoy and Gaimard, 1824). Brownell, R. L. Jr., and M. A. Donahue. S.H. Ridgway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 6: The second book of dolphins and the porpoises, p. 121-136. Academic Press. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - HOURGLASS DOLPHIN - SPECIES - DESCRIPTION - CHARACTERISTICS

Burmeister’s porpoise Phocoena spinipinnis (Burmeister, 1865). Brownell, R. L. Jr., and P. J. Clapham. S.H. Ridgway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 6: The second book of dolphins and the porpoises, p. 393-410. Academic Press. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PORPOISES - BURMEISTER'S PORPOISE - SPECIES - DESCRIPTION - CHARACTERISTICS

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Pacific white-sided dolphin Lagenorhynchus obliquidens (Gill, 1865). Brownell, R. L. Jr., W. A. Walker, and K. A. Forney. S.H. Ridgway and R. Harrison (eds.), Handbook of marine mammals, Volume 6: The second book of dolphins and the porpoises, p. 57-84. Academic Press. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - PACIFIC WHITE-SIDED DOLPHIN - SPECIES - DESCRIPTION - CHARACTERISTICS

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Age and growth of market squid (Loligo opalescens) off California during 1998. Butler, J., D. Fuller, and M. Yaremko. CalCOFI Reports 40:191-195. INVERTEBRATES - CEPHALOPODS - SQUID - MARKET SQUID - CALIFORNIA - AGE - GROWTH

Stock assessment of cowcod Butler, John L., Larry D. Jacobson, J. Thomas Barnes, H. Geoffrey Moser, and Robson Collins In: Status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery through 1999 and recommended acceptable biological catches for 2000: Stock assessment and fishery evaluation, Appendix. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 113 p.

Preliminary estimates of cetacean mortality in the California gillnet fisheries for 1997 and 1998 Cameron, Grant A., and Karin A. Forney Paper SC/51/O4 presented to the International Whaling Commission, Scientific Committee (SC51 meeting, Grenada, May 1999). 15 p.

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Biological indices for monitoring population status of walrus evaluated with an individual-based model. Chivers, S. J. G. W. Garner et al. (eds.), Marine Mammal Survey and Assessment Methods. A. A. Balkema, Rotterdam, p. 239-247. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - WALRUS - POPULATION STATUS - MONITORING - BIOLOGICAL INDICES - INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODEL - MODELING - MODELS

Baleen whales: conservation issues and the status of the most endangered populations. Clapham, P. J., S. B. Young, and R. L. Brownell Jr. Mammal Review 29(1):35-60. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - BALEEN WHALE - ENDANGERED SPECIES - CONSERVATION ISSUES - STATUS - POPULATIONS

Management and conservation of temperate reef fishes in the grouper-snapper complex of the southeastern United States Coleman, Felicia C., Christopher C. Koenig, Anne-Marie Eklund, and Churchill B. Grimes In: J. A. Musick (ed.), Life in the slow lane: ecology and conservation of long-lived marine animals, p. 233-242. American Fisheries Society Symposium 23.

Elephant seals as a biological autonomous underwater sampling system Costa, Daniel P., Daniel E. Crocker, Burney J. LeBoeuf, James Ganong, and George Boehlert Oceanography 12(2):28-29

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