NOAA FISHERIES

Report on the Spring 2021 Coastal Pelagic Species (CPS) Survey (2103RL), 20 March to 13 April 2021, conducted aboard NOAA ship Reuben Lasker and fishing vessel Long Beach Carnage Zwolinski, Juan P., Noelle M. Bowlin, Brad E. Erisman, Kelsey C. James, Gabriel E. Johnson, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Josiah S. Renfree, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, William Watson, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-674. 30 p.

Diving in the vertical dimension of elasmobranch movement ecology Andrzejaczek, Samantha, Tim C.D. Lucas, Maurice C. Goodman, Nigel E. Hussey, Amelia J. Armstrong, Aaron Carlisle, Daniel M. Coffey, Adrian C. Gleiss, Charlie Huveneers, David M.P. Jacoby, Mark G. Meekan, Johann Mourier, Lauren R. Peel, Katya Abrantes, Andre S. Afonso, Matthew J. Ajemian, Brooke N. Anderson, Scot D. Anderson, Gonzalo Araujo, Asi O. Armstrong, Pascal Bach, Adam Barnett, Mike B. Bennett, Natalia A. Bezerra, Ramon Bonfil, Andre M. Boustany, Heather D. Bowlby, Ilka Branco, Camrin D. Braun, Edward J. Brooks, Judith Brown, Patrick J. Burke, Paul Butcher, Michael Castleton, Taylor K. Chapple, Olivier Chateau, Maurice Clarke, Rui Coelho, Enric Cortes, Lydie I.E. Couturier, Paul D. Cowley, Donald A. Croll, Juan M. Cuevas, Tobey H. Curtis, Laurent Dagorn, Jonathan J. Dale, Ryan Daly, Heidi Dewar, Philip D. Doherty, Andres Domingo, Alistair D.M. Dove, Michael Drew, Christine L. Dudgeon, Clinton A.J. Duffy, Riley G. Elliott, Jim R. Ellis, Mark V. Erdmann, Thomas J. Farrugia, Luciana C. Ferreira, Francesco Ferretti, John D. Filmalter, Brittany Finucci, Chris Fischer, Richard Fitzpatrick, Fabien Forget, Kerstin Forsberg, Malcolm P. Francis, Bryan R. Franks, Austin J. Gallagher, Felipe Galvan-Magana, Mirta L. Garcia, Troy F. Gaston, Bronwyn M. Gillanders, Matthew J. Gollock, Jonathan R. Green, Sofia Green, Christopher A. Griffiths, Neil Hammerschlag, Abdi Hasan, Lucy A. Hawkes, Fabio Hazin, Matthew Heard, Alex Hearn, Kevin J. Hedges, Suzanne M. Henderson, John Holdsworth, Kim N. Holland, Lucy A. Howey, Robert E. Hueter, Nicholas E. Humphries, Melanie Hutchinson, Fabrice R.A. Jaine, Salvador J. Jorgensen, Paul E. Kanive, Jessica Labaja, Fernanda O. Lana, Hugo Lassauce, Rebecca S. Lipscombe, Fiona Llewellyn, Bruno C.L. Macena, Ronald Mambrasar, Jaime D. McAllister, Sophy R. McCully Phillips, Frazer McGregor, Matthew N. McMillan, Lianne M. McNaughton, Sibele A. Mendonca, Carl G. Meyer, Megan Meyers, John A. Mohan, John C. Montgomery, Gonzalo Mucientes, Michael K. Musyl, Nicole Nasby-Lucas, Lisa J. Natanson, John B. O'Sullivan, Paulo Oliveira, Yannis P. Papastamtiou, Toby A. Patterson, Simon J. Pierce, Nuno Queiroz, Craig A. Radford, Andy J. Richardson, Anthony J. Richardson, David Righton, Christoph A. Rohner, Mark A. Royer, Ryan A. Saunders, Matthias Schaber, Robert J. Schallert, Michael C. Scholl, Andrew C. Seitz, Jayson M. Semmens, Edy Setyawan, Brendan D. Shea, Rafid A. Shidqi, George L. Shillinger, Oliver N. Shipley, Mahmood S. Shivji, Abraham B. Sianipar, Joana F. Silva, David W. Sims, Gregory B. Skomal, Lara L. Sousa, Emily J. Southall, Julia L.Y. Spaet, Kilian M. Stehfest, Guy Stevens, Joshua D. Stewart, James A. Sulikowski, Ismail Syakurachman, Simon R. Thorrold, Michele Thums, David Tickler, Mariana T. Tolloti, Kathy A. Townsend, Paulo Travassos, John P. Tyminski, Jeremy J. Vaudo, Drausio Veras, Laurent Wantiez, Sam B. Weber, R.J. David Wells, Kevin C. Weng, Bradley M. Wetherbee, Jane E. Williamson, Matthew J. Witt, Serena Wright, Kelly Zilliacus, Barbara A. Block, and David J. Curnick Science Advances 8(33):eabo1754 (19 p.)

Worldwide phylogeography of rough-toothed dolphins (Steno bredanensis) provides evidence for subspecies delimitation Albertson, G. Renee, Alana Alexander, Frederick I. Archer, Susana Caballero, Karen K. Martien, Lenaig G. Hemery, Robin W. Baird, Marc Oremus, M. Michael Poole, Deborah A. Duffield, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Dan Kerem, Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, and C. Scott Baker Marine Mammal Science 38(4):1371-1397

Subseasonal-to-seasonal forecast skill in the California Current System and its connection to coastal Kelvin waves Amaya, Dillon J., Michael G. Jacox, Juliana Dias, Michael A. Alexander, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, James D. Scott, and Maria Gehne Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 127(1):e2021JC017892 (16 p.)

CKMRpop: Forward-in-time simulation and tabulation of pairwise kin relationships in age-structured populations Anderson, Eric C. Molecular Ecology Resources 22(3):1190-1199

Effects of survey response mode, purported topic, and incentives on response rates in human dimensions of fisheries and wildlife research Anderson, Leif, Matt Jans, Adam Lee, Christopher Doyle, Heather Driscoll, and James Hilger Human Dimensions of Wildlife 27(3):201-219

Stepping stones towards Antarctica: Switch to southern spawning grounds explains an abrupt range shift in krill Atkinson, Angus, Simeon L. Hill, Christian S. Reiss, Evgeny A. Pakhomov, Gregory Beaugrand, Geraint A. Tarling, Guang Yang, Deborah K. Steinberg, Katrin Schmidt, Martin Edwards, Emilce Rombola, and Frances A. Perry Global Change Biology 28(4):1359-1375

Genetic assignment of fisheries bycatch reveals disproportionate mortality among Alaska Northern Fulmar breeding colonies Baetscher Diana S., Jessie Beck, Eric C. Anderson, Kristen Ruegg, Andrew M. Ramey, Scott Hatch, Hannah Nevins, Shannon M. Fitzgerald, and John Carlos Garza Evolutionary Applications 15(3):447-458

Unique morphological and acoustic characteristics of beaked whales (Mesoplodon sp.) off the west coast of Baja California, Mexico Barlow, Jay, Gustavo Cardenas-Hinojosa, E. Elizabeth Henderson, Dawn Breese, Diana Lopez-Arzate, Eva Hidalgo Pla, and Barbara L. Taylor Marine Mammal Science 38(1):383-390

Acoustic-based estimates of Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) density and abundance along the U.S. West Coast from drifting hydrophone recorders Barlow, Jay, Jeffrey E. Moore, Jennifer L.K. McCullough, and Emily T. Griffiths Marine Mammal Science 38(2):517-538

Spatial heterogeneity in prey availability, feeding success, and dietary selectivity for the threatened longfin smelt Barros, Arthur, James A. Hobbs, Malte Willmes, Christina M. Parker, Micah Bisson, Nann A. Fangue, Andrew L. Rypel, and Levi S. Lewis Estuaries and Coasts 45(6):1766-1779

Dynamic habitat models reflect interannual movement of cetaceans within the California Current Ecosystem Becker, Elizabeth A., Karin A. Forney, David L. Miller, Jay Barlow, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Jore Urban R., and Jeff E. Moore Frontiers in Marine Science 9:829523 (21 p.)

Recurrent neural networks for partially observed dynamical systems Bhat, Uttam, and Stephan B. Munch Physical Review E 105(4):042205 (9 p.)

Land-dependent marine species face climate-driven impacts on land and at sea Blondin, Hannah E., Katrina C. Armstrong, Elliott L. Hazen, William K. Oestreich, Bianca S. Santos, Danielle E. Haulsee, Chloe S. Mikles, Christopher J. Knight, Audrey E. Bennett, and Larry B. Crowder Marine Ecology Progress Series 699:181-198

Assessing the size spectra of marine fish communities with hydroacoustics: examining the challenges of abundant schools, diverse assemblages, and variable orientations Bolser, Derek G., Jack P. Egerton, Philip M. Souza Jr., Kevin M. Boswell, and Brad E. Erisman Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79(8): 1255-1268

Spatiotemporal variability in environmental conditions influences the performance and behavior of juvenile steelhead in a coastal California lagoon Bond, Rosealea M., Joseph D. Kiernan, Ann-Marie K. Osterback, Cynthia H. Kern, Alexander E. Hay, Joshua M. Meko, Miles E. Daniels, and Jeffrey M. Perez Estuaries and Coasts 45(6):1749-1765

Quantitative scenarios for reintroduction of spring-run Chinook salmon to Tuolumne River Boughton, David A. NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California. 31 p.

Response of a threatened steelhead trout population to water-provisioning scenarios for the Carmel River, California Boughton, David A., and Haley A. Ohms NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Santa Cruz, California. 38 p.

Capacity of two Sierra Nevada rivers for reintroduction of anadromous salmonids: insights from a high-resolution view Boughton, David A., Lee R. Harrison, Sara N. John, Rosealea M. Bond, Colin L. Nicol, Carl J. Legleiter, and Ryan T. Richardson Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 151(1):13-41

Integration of steelhead viability monitoring, recovery plans and fisheries management in the southern coastal area Boughton, David, Jennifer Nelson, and Michael K. Lacy California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Fish Bulletin 182. 116 p.

Recommendations for quantifying and reducing uncertainty in climate projections of species distributions Brodie, Stephanie, James A. Smith, Barbara A. Muhling, Lewis A.K. Barnett, Gemma Carroll, Paul Fiedler, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, Kelly S. Andrews, Cheryl L. Barnes, Lisa G. Crozier, Jerome Fiechter, Alexa Fredston, Melissa A. Haltuch, Chris J. Harvey, Elizabeth Holmes, Melissa A. Karp, Owen R. Liu, Michael J. Malick Mercedes Pozo Buil, Kate Richerson, Christopher N. Rooper, Jameal Samhouri, Rachel Seary, Rebecca L. Selden, Andrew R. Thompson, Desiree Tommasi, Eric J. Ward, and Isaac C. Kaplan Global Change Biology 28(22):6586-6601

Rapid range expansion of a marine ectotherm reveals the demographic and ecological consequences of short-term variability in seawater temperature and dissolved oxygen Burford, Benjamin P., Lauren A. Wild, Richard Schwarz, Ellen M. Chenoweth, Ashwin Sreenivasan, Robin Elahi, Nicholas Carey, Henk-Jan T. Hoving, Jan M. Straley, and Mark W. Denny American Naturalist 199(4):523-550

The limits of convergence in the collective behavior of competing marine taxa Burford, Benjamin P., R. Russell Williams, Nicholas J. Demetras, Nicholas Carey, Jeremy Goldbogen, William F. Gilly, Jeffrey Harding, Mark W. Denny Ecology and Evolution 12(3):e8747 (14 p.)

Polygenic discrimination of migratory phenotypes in an estuarine forage fish Campbell, Matthew A., Shannon E.K. Joslin, Alisha M. Goodbla, Malte Willmes, James A. Hobbs, Levi S. Lewis, and Amanda J. Finger G3 Genes Genomes Genetics 12(8):jkac133 (10 p.)

Estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in the California large-mesh drift gillnet fishery: 1990-2020 Carretta, James V. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-666. 72 p.

Estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in the California large-mesh drift gillnet fishery: 1990-2021 Carretta, James V. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-671. 68 p.

Risk assessment of whale entanglement and vessel strike injuries from case narratives and classification trees Carretta, James V., and Allison G. Henry Frontiers in Marine Science 9:863070 (11 p.)

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2021 Carretta, James V., Erin M. Oleson, Karin A. Forney, Marcia M. Muto, David W. Weller, Aimee R. Lang, Jason Baker, Brad Hanson, Anthony J. Orr, Jay Barlow, Jeffrey E. Moore, and Robert L. Brownell Jr. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-663. 389 p.

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific west coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2016-2020 Carretta, James V., Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, Lauren Saez, Dan Lawson, and Justin Viezbicke U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-670. 246 p.

Comments on identifying causal relationships in nonlinear dynamical systems via empirical mode decomposition Chang, Chun-Wei, Stephan B. Munch, and Chih-hao Hsieh Nature Communications 13:2860 (4 p.)

Southern right whale (Eubalaena australis) population demographics at major calving ground Head of Bight, South Australia, 1991-2016 Charlton, Claire, Robert D. McCauley, Robert L. Brownell Jr., Rhianne Ward, John L. Bannister, Chandra Salgado Kent, and Stephen Burnell Aquatic Conservation 32(4):671-686

Evidence of temperature-driven shifts in market squid Doryteuthis opalescens densities and distribution in the California Current Ecosystem Chasco, Brandon E., Mary E. Hunsicker, Kym C. Jacobson, Owen T. Welch, Cheryl A. Morgan, Barbara A. Muhling, and Jeff A. Harding Marine and Coastal Fisheries 14(1):e10190 (13 p.)

Relative exposure to microplastics and prey for a pelagic forage fish Chavarry, J.M., K.L. Law, A.D. Barton, N.M. Bowlin, M.D. Ohman, C.A. Choy Environmental Research Letters 17(6):064038 (16 p.)

Marine mammal stranding patterns provide clues for identifying anomalies along the coastline of California’s Santa Barbara and Ventura counties Chivers, Susan J., and Justin T. Greenman U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-673. 45 p.

Western gull foraging behavior as an ecosystem state indicator in coastal California Cimino, Megan A., Scott A. Shaffer, Heather Welch, Jarrod A. Santora, Pete Warzybok, Jaime Jahncke, Isaac Schroeder, Elliott L. Hazen, and Steven J. Bograd Frontiers in Marine Science 8:790559 (14 p.)

Variation in juvenile salmon growth opportunities across a shifting habitat mosaic Coleman, Laura, Rachel Johnson, Flora Cordoleani, Corey Phillis, and Anna Sturrock San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Sciences 20(1):1 (18 p.)

Estimating population size when individuals are asynchronous: A model illustrated with northern elephant seal breeding colonies Condit, Richard, Sarah G. Allen, Daniel P. Costa, Sarah Codde, P. Dawn Goley, Burney J. Le Boeuf, Mark S. Lowry, and Patricia Morris PLoS ONE 17(1):e0262214 (12 p.)

Mismatches in scale between highly mobile marine megafauna and marine protected areas Conners, Melinda G., Nicholas B. Sisson, Pierre D. Agamboue, Philip W. Atkinson, Alastair M.M. Baylis, Scott R. Benson, Barbara A. Block, Steven J. Bograd, Pablo Bordino, W.D. Bowen, Paul Brickle, Ignacio M. Bruno, Victoria Gonzalez Carman, Cory D. Champagne, Daniel E. Crocker, Daniel P. Costa, Tiffany M. Dawson, Tomohiro Deguchi, Heidi Dewar, Philip D. Doherty, Tomo Eguchi, Angela Formia, Brendan J. Godley, Rachel T. Graham, Christian Gredzens, Kristen M. Hart, Lucy A. Hawkes, Suzanne Henderson, Robert William Henry III, Luis A. Huckstadt, Ladd M. Irvine, Sarah S. Kienle, Carey E. Kuhn, Damian Lidgard, Stephanie A. Loredo, Bruce R. Mate, Kristian Metcalfe, Jacob Nzegoue, Carmen K. Kouerey Oliwina, Rachael A. Orben, Kiyoaki Ozaki, Richard Parnell, Elizabeth P. Pike, Patrick W. Robinson, Howard C. Rosenbaum, Fumio Sato, Scott A. Shaffer, Donna J. Shaver, Samantha E. Simmons, Brian J. Smith, Guy-Philippe Sounguet, Robert M. Suryan, David R. Thompson, Megan Tierney, Dominic Tilley, Hillary S. Young, Victoria Warwick-Evans, Michael J. Weise, Randall S. Wells, Bradley P. Wilkinson, Matthew J. Witt, and Sarah M. Maxwell Frontiers in Marine Science 9:897104 (17 p.)

Spatiotemporal catch patterns and population distributions of bigeye Pacific opah (Lampris megalopsis) and smalleye Pacific opah (L. incognitus) in the eastern North Pacific Ocean Cooper, Ross, Heidi Dewar, Barbara A. Muhling, Steven L.H. Teo, John Hyde, and Keith Bigelow Fishery Bulletin 120(2):138-149

Future changes in eddy kinetic energy in the California Current System from dynamically downscaled climate projections Cordero Quiros, Nathali, Michael G. Jacox, Mercedes Pozo Buil, and Steven J. Bograd Geophysical Research Letters 49(21):e2022GL099042 (8 p.)

Variability in foodscapes and fish growth across a habitat mosaic: Implications for management and ecosystem restoration Cordoleani, Flora, Eric Holmes, Miranda Bell-Tilcock, Rachel C. Johnson, and Carson Jeffres Ecological Indicators 136:108681 (11 p.)

The common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) ecotypes of the western North Atlantic revisited: an integrative taxonomic investigation supports the presence of distinct species Costa, Ana P.B., Wayne McFee, Lynsey A. Wilcox, Frederick I. Archer, and Patricia E. Rosel Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 196(4):1608-1636

Abundance of humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) wintering in Central America and southern Mexico from a one-dimensional spatial capture-recapture model Curtis, K. Alexandra, John Calambokidis, Katherina Audley, Melvin G. Castaneda, Joelle De Weerdt, Andrea Jacqueline Garcia Chavez, Frank Garita, Pamela Martinez-Loustalot, Jose D. Palacios-Alfaro, Betzi Perez, Ester Quintana-Rizzo, Raul Ramirez Barragan, Nicola Ransome, Kristin Rasmussen, Jorge Urban R., Francisco Villegas Zurita, Kiirsten Flynn, Ted Cheeseman, Jay Barlow, Debbie Steel, and Jeffrey Moore U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-661. 33 p.

Predicting prey recovery from scats of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) for novel prey species and sizes Curtis, K. Alexandra, Mark S. Lowry, Joelle M. Sweeney, Anthony J. Orr, and James T. Harvey ICES Journal of Marine Science 79(1):193-203

Antarctic krill biomass and flux measured using wideband echosounders and acoustic Doppler current profilers on submerged moorings Cutter, George R. Jr., Christian S. Reiss, Sven Nylund, and George M. Watters Frontiers in Marine Science 9:784469 (23 p.)

Benchmarking ultra-high molecular weight DNA preservation methods for long-read and long-range sequencing Dahn, Hollis A., Jacquelyn Mountcastle, Jennifer Balacco, Sylke Winkler, Iliana Bista, Anthony D. Schmitt, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Giulio Formenti, Karen Oliver, Michelle Smith, Wenhua Tan, Anne Kraus, Stephen Mac, Lisa M. Komoroske, Tanya Lama, Andrew J. Crawford, Robert W. Murphy, Samara Brown, Alan F. Scott, Phillip A. Morin, Erich D. Jarvis, and Olivier Fedrigo GigaScience 11:giac068 (13 p.)

Global habitat loss of a highly migratory predator, the blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) Dale, Jonathan J., Stephanie Brodie, Aaron B. Carlisle, Michael Castleton, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, and Barbara A. Block Diversity and Distributions 28(9):2020-2034

Forecasting in the face of ecological complexity: Number and strength of species interactions determine forecast skill in ecological communities Daugaard, Uriah, Stephan B. Munch, David Inauen, Frank Pennekamp, and Owen L. Petchey Ecology Letters 25(9):1974-1985

Long-term trend of Olive Ridley Sea Turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting in Brazil reveals one of the largest rookeries in the Atlantic de Castilhos, Jaqueline C., Bruno Giffoni, Luciana Medeiros, Alexsandro Santos, Frederico Tognin, Augusto Cesar Coelho Dias da Silva, Fabio Lira das Candeias Oliveira, Ederson Luiz Fonseca, Marilda Ines Weber, Ana Carolina Correa de Melo, Joao Artur Gonzalez de Abreu, Maria Angela Marcovaldi, and Manjula Tiwari Herpetological Conservation and Biology 17(3):593-601

Recent and historical data show no evidence of Pacific bluefin tuna reproduction in the southern California Current system Dewar, Heidi, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Barbara A. Muhling, and Kurt M. Schaefer PLoS ONE 17(5):e0269069 (10 p.)

Sampling methodology for estimating life history parameters of coastal pelagic species along the U.S. Pacific Coast Dorval, Emmanis, Dianna Porzio, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Kelsey C. James, Lanora Vasquez, and Brad Erisman U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-660. 46 p.

Otolith chemistry indicates age and region of settlement of immature shortspine thornyhead Sebastolobus alascanus in the eastern Pacific ocean Dorval, Emmanis, Richard D. Methot, Ian G. Taylor, and Kevin R. Piner Marine Ecology Progress Series 693:157-175

Global-scale environmental niche and habitat of blue shark (Prionace glauca) by size and sex: A pivotal step to improving stock management Druon, Jean-Noel, Steven Campana, Frederic Vandeperre, Fabio H.V. Hazin, Heather Bowlby, Rui Coelho, Nono Queiroz, Fabrizio Serena, Francisco Abascal, Dimitrios Damalas, Michael Musyl, Jon Lopez, Barbara Block, Pedro Afonso, Heidi Dewar, Philippe S. Sabarros, Brittany Finucci, Antonella Zanzi, Pascal Back, Inna Senina, Fulvio Garibaldi, David W. Sims, Joan Navarro, Pablo Cermeno, Agostino Leone, Guzman Diez, Maria Teresa Carreon Zapiain, Michele Deflorio, Evgeny V. Romanov, Armelle Jung, Matthieu Lapinski, Malcolm P. Francis, Humberto Hazin, and Paulo Travassos Frontiers in Marine Science 9:828412 (25 p.)

Using decades of spawning data and hydraulic models to construct a temperature-dependent resource selection function for management of an endangered salmonid Dudley, Peter N., Sara N. John, Miles E. Daniels, and Eric M. Danner Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 79(1):73-81

Integrating remote sensing methods during controlled exposure experiments to quantify group responses of dolphins to navy sonar Durban, J.W., B.L. Southall, J. Calambokidis, C. Casey, H. Fearnbach, T.W. Joyce, J.A. Fahlbusch, M.G. Oudejans, S. Fregosi, A.S. Friedlaender, N.M. Kellar, and F. Visser Marine Pollution Bulletin 174:113194 (9 p.)

Integrating local ecological knowledge, ecological monitoring, and computer simulation to evaluate conservation outcomes Early-Capistran, Michelle Maria, Elena Solana-Arellano, F. Alberto Abreu-Grobois, Gerardo Garibay-Melo, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Andrea Saenz-Arroyo, and Nemer E. Narchi Conservation Letters 15(6):e12921 (10 p.)

Eastern North Pacific gray whale calf production 1994-2022 Eguchi, Tomoharu, Aimée R. Lang, and David W. Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-667. 11 p.

Abundance and migratory phenology of eastern North Pacific gray whales 2021/2022 Eguchi, Tomoharu, Aimée R. Lang, and David W. Weller U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-668. 10 p.

Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) bones from a 5850 year old shell midden on San Miguel Island, California, USA Erlandson, Jon M., Robert L. DeLong, and Kelly M. Robertson Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 17(1):142-151

Blue whales increase feeding rates at fine-scale ocean features Fahlbusch, James A., Max F. Czapanskiy, John Calambokidis, David E. Cade, Briana Abrahms, Elliott L. Hazen, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289(1891):20221180 (12 p.)

Movements and residency of fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the California Current System Falcone, Erin A., Erin L. Keene, Eric M. Keen, Jay Barlow, James Stewart, Ted Cheeseman, Craig Hayslip, and Daniel M. Palacios Mammalian Biology 102(4):1445-1462

The distribution of manta rays in the western North Atlantic Ocean off the eastern United States Farmer, Nicholas A., Lance P. Garrison, Calusa Horn, Margaret Miller, Timothy Gowan, Robert D. Kenney, Michelle Vukovich, Julia Robinson Willmott, Jessica Pate, D. Harry Webb, Timothy J. Mullican, Joshua D. Stewart, Kim Bassos-Hull, Christian Jones, Delaney Adams, Nicole A. Pelletier, Jordan Waldron, and Stephen Kajiura Scientific Reports 12:6544 (20 p.)

Cytological and molecular approaches for ploidy determination: Results from a wild Walleye population Farrell, Collin J., Brett M. Johnson, Adam G. Hansen, Christopher A. Myrick, Eric C. Anderson, Thomas A. Delomas, Andrea D. Schreier, and Joel P. Van Eenennaam North American Journal of Fisheries Management 42(4):849-856

A decade of photo-identification reveals contrasting abundance and trends of Type B killer whales in the coastal waters of the Antarctic Peninsula Fearnbach, Holly, John W. Durban, David K. Ellifrit, Alyssa Paredes, Leigh S. Hickmott, and Robert L. Pitman Marine Mammal Science 38(1):58-72

Quantification of thermal impacts across freshwater life stages to improve temperature management for anadromous salmonids FitzGerald, Alyssa M., and Benjamin T. Martin Conservation Physiology 10(1):coac013 (17 p.)

Physical and biological constraints on the capacity for life-history expression of anadromous salmonids: an Eel River, California, case study FitzGerald, Alyssa M., David A. Boughton, Joshua Fuller, Sara N. John, Benjamin T. Martin, Lee R. Harrison, and Nathan J. Mantua Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79(7):1023-1041

Proceedings of the 22nd annual Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum virtual event (May 2, 2022) Flores, Stephanie (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-22-01. 25 p.

Clustering of disaggregated fisheries data reveals functional longline fleets across the Pacific Frawley, Timothy H., Barbara Muhling, Heather Welch, Katherine L. Seto, Shui-Kai Chang, Francisco Blaha, Quentin Hanich, Myeonghwa Jung, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael G. Jacox, and Stephanie Brodie One Earth 5(9):1002-1018

Impacts of marine protected areas and the environment on larval rockfish species richness and assemblage structure in the Southern California Bight Freeman, Jessica B., Brice X. Semmens, and Andrew R. Thompson Marine Ecology Progress Series 698:125-137

Detection probability and density estimation of fin whales by a Seaglider Fregosi, Selene, Danielle V. Harris, Haruyoshi Matsumoto, David K. Mellinger, Stephen W. Martin, Brian Matsuyama, Jay Barlow, and Holger Klinck Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 152:2277-2291

Fisheries surveys are essential ocean observing programs in a time of global change: A synthesis of oceanographic and ecological data from U.S. West Coast fisheries surveys Gallo, Natalya D., Noelle M. Bowlin, Andrew R. Thompson, Erin V. Satterthwaite, Briana Brady, and Brice X. Semmens Frontiers in Marine Science 9:757124 (18 p.)

Evaluation of MPA designs that protect highly mobile megafauna now and under climate change scenarios Gilmour, M.E., J. Adams, B.A. Block, J.E. Caselle, A.M. Friedlander, E.T. Game, E.L. Hazen, N.D. Holmes, K.D. Lafferty, S.M. Maxwell, D.J. McCauley, E.M. Oleson, K. Pollock, S.A. Shaffer, N.H. Wolff, and A. Wegmann Global Ecology and Conservation 35:e02070 (19 p.)

First satellite-tracked movements of pygmy blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) in New Zealand waters Goetz, Kimberly T., Simon J. Childerhouse, David Paton, Mike Ogle, Krista van der Linde, Rochelle Constantine, Michael C. Double, Virginia Andrews-Goff, Alexandre N. Zerbini, and Paula A. Olson Marine Mammal Science 38(2):742-755

Loss of suitable ocean habitat and phenological shifts among grouper and snapper spawning aggregations in the Greater Caribbean under climate change Gokturk, Esra N., Brian S. Bartlett, Brad Erisman, William Heyman, and Rebecca G. Asch Marine Ecology Progress Series 699:91-115

Shifting fish distributions impact predation intensity in a sub-Arctic ecosystem Goodman, Maurice C., Gemma Carroll, Stephanie Brodie, Arnaud Gruss, James T. Thorson, Stan Kotwicki, Kirstin Holsman, Rebecca L. Selden, Elliott L. Hazen, and Giulio A. De Leo Ecography 2022(9):e06084 (13 p.)

Ocean warming alters the distributional range, migratory timing, and spatial protections of an apex predator, the tiger shark (Galeocerdo cuvier) Hammerschlag, Neil, Laura H. McDonnell, Mitchell J. Rider, Garrett M. Street, Elliott L. Hazen, Lisa J. Natanson, Camilla T. McCandless, Melanie R. Boudreau, Austin J. Gallagher, Malin L. Pinsky, and Ben Kirtman Global Change Biology 28(6):1990-2005

From drought to deluge: spatiotemporal variation in migration routing, survival, travel time and floodplain use of an endangered migratory fish Hance, Dalton J., Russell W. Perry, Adam C. Pope, Arnold J. Ammann, Jason L. Hassrick, and Gabriel Hansen Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79(3):410-428

Evaluating the sensitivity of multi-dimensional model predictions of salmon habitat to the source of remotely sensed river bathymetry Harrison, Lee R., Carl J. Legleiter, Vamsi K. Sridharan, Peter N. Dudley, and Miles E. Daniels Water Resources Research 58(12):e2022WR033097 (20 p.)

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