NOAA FISHERIES

Bathymetric demography and niche separation of thornyhead rockfish: Sebastolobus alascanus and Sebastolobus altivelis. Jacobson, L. D., and R. D. Vetter. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53:600-609. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - THORNYHEAD - NICHES - NICHE SEPARATION - BATHYMETRIC DEMOGRAPHY - POPULATIONS

Acoustic methods of reducing or eliminating marine mammal-fishery interactions: do they work? Jefferson, Thomas A., and Barbara E. Curry Ocean and Coastal Management 31(1):41-70

HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL IN THE NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, 1994 JOHANOS, THEA C., AND TIMOTHY J. RAGEN U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-229. 111 p. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN MONK SEALS

HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL IN THE NORTHWESTERN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, 1993 JOHANOS, THEA C., TIMOTHY J. RAGEN U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-227. 140 p. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN MONK SEALS

Sex ratios of green turtles stranded in the Hawaiian Islands. Koga, S. K., and G. H. Balazs. J. A. Keinath, D. E. Barnard, J. A. Musick, and B. A. Bell (compilers), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation (February 22-25, 1995, Hilton Head, South Carolina), p. 78-79. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NMFS-SEFSC-387 REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN ISLANDS - STRANDINGS - SEX RATIOS

Description of pelagic larval and juvenile Sebastes saxicola (family Scorpaenidae), with an examination of larval growth. Laidig, T. E., K. M. Sakuma, and M. Nishimoto. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 94:289-299. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - STRIPED ROCKFISH - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - GROWTH - LARVAE - JUVENILES - DESCRIPTION

Egg production and spawning biomass of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) in 1994, determined by the daily egg production method. Lo, N. C. H., Y. A. Green Ruiz, M. J. Cervantes, H. G. Moser, and R. J. Lynn. CalCOFI Reports 37:160-174. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC SARDINE - SPAWNING BIOMASS - EGGS - EGG PRODUCTION - DAILY EGG PRODUCTION METHOD - DEPM

Counts of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) from large-format aerial photographs taken at rookeries in southern California during the breeding season. Lowry, M. S., W. L. Perryman, M. S. Lynn, and R. Westlake. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 94:176-185. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - NORTHERN ELEPHANT SEAL - ROOKERIES - BREEDING SEASON - COUNTS - AERIAL SURVEYS - PHOTOGRAPHS

Observations of the California Current during the 1991-1993 ENSO Lynn, R.J., F.B. Schwing, and T.L. Hayward Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 76(3):182

Patterns of low-frequency variability in fish populations of the California Current. MacCall, A. D. CalCOFI Reports 37:100-110. MARINE FISHES - CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM - FISH POPULATIONS - VARIABILITY - PATTERNS

Too little, too late: treating the problem of inaction MacCall, Alec D. Ecological Applications 6(2):368-369

Adult reproductive parameters of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) during 1994. Macewicz, B. J., J. J. Castro-Gonzalez, C. E. Cotero Altamirano, and J. R. Hunter. CalCOFI Reports 37:140-151. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC SARDINE - REPRODUCTIVE PARAMETERS - REPRODUCTION -

Lipid and protein changes during embryo development in the viviparous genus Sebastes: application to the assessment of reproductive success. MacFarlane, R. B., and E. C. Norton. D. MacKinlay and M. Eldridge (eds.), The fish egg: its biology and culture, p. 95-102. International Congress on the Biology of Fishes, American Fisheries Society, Physiology Section, July 14-18, 1996, San Francisco State University. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - LIVE BEARING - VIVIPAROUS - EMBRYOS - DEVELOPMENT - LIPID AND PROTEIN CHANGES - REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS - ASSESSMENT - SUSTAINABILITY

The fish egg: its biology and culture. MacKinlay, D., and M. Eldridge (eds.). International Congress on the Biology of Fishes, American Fisheries Society, Physiology Section, July 14-18, 1996, San Francisco State University, 192 p. MARINE FISHES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - EGGS - BIOLOGY - CULTURE

Principles for the conservation of wild living resources Mangel, Marc, Lee M. Talbot, Gary K. Meffe, M. Tundi Agardy, Dayton L. Alverson, Jay Barlow, Daniel B. Botkin, Gerardo Budowski, Tim Clark, Justin Cooke, Ross H. Crozier, Paul K. Dayton, Danny L. Elder, Charles W. Fowler, Silvio Funtowicz, Jarl Giske, Robert J. Hofman, Sidney J. Holt, Stephen R. Kellert, Lee A. Kimball, Donald Ludgwig, Kjartan Magnusson, Ben S. Malayang III, Charles Mann, Elliott A. Norse, Simon P. Northridge, William F. Perrin, Charles Perrings, Randall M. Peterman, George B. Rabb, Henry A. Regier, John E. Reynolds III, Kenneth Sherman, Michael P. Sissenwine, Tim D. Smith, Anthony Starfield, Robert J. Taylor, Michael F. Tillman, Catherine Toft, John R. Twiss Jr., James Wilen, and Truman P. Young Ecological Applications 6(2):338-362

COMPREHENSIVE OCEAN DATASET EXTRACTION --USER'S GUIDE--: THE "CEOS" PROGRAM MENDELSSOHN, ROY O., AND CLAUDE ROY U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-228. 67 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - CLIMATE - OCEAN DATASET GUIDE - CLIMATE AND EASTERN OCEAN SYSTEMS (CEOS)

Effects of character weighting and species sampling on phylogeny reconstruction: a case study based on DNA sequence data in cetaceans. Milinkovitch, M. C., R. G. LeDuc, J. Adachi, F. Farnir, M. Georges, and M. Hasegawa. Genetics 144:1817-1833. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - GENETICS - DNA SEQUENCE DATA - PHYLOGENY RECONSTRUCTION - SPECIES - SAMPLING - CHARACTER WEIGHTING - CASE STUDIES

Habitat and life history of juvenile Hawaiian pink snapper, Pristipomoides filamentosus. Moffit, R. B., and F. A. Parrish. Pacific Science 50(4):371-381. MARINE FISHES - SNAPPERS - HAWAIIAN PINK SNAPPER - HAWAII - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - JUVENILES - HABITAT

The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. Moser, H. G. (ed.). CalCOFI Atlas 33, 1505 p. MARINE FISHES - CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - EGGS - LARVAE - JUVENILES - STAGES - AHLSTROM SYMPOSIUM

Bramidae: pomfrets. Moser, H. G., and B. C. Mundy. H. G. Moser (ed.), The early stages of fishes in the California Current region, p. 964-971. California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Atlas 33, 1505 p. MARINE FISHES - POMFRETS - DESCRIPTION - JUVENILES - EARLY LIFE HISTORY - STAGES - CALIFORNIA CURRENT

Lissodelphis peronii. Newcombe, M. W., T. A. Jefferson, and R. L. Brownell Jr. Mammalian Species 531:1-5. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - SOUTHERN RIGHT-WHALE DOLPHIN - SPECIES - DESCRIPTION - CHARACTERISTICS - DISTRIBUTION - ECOLOGY - BEHAVIOR - ONTOGENY - REPRODUCTION

Interannual variability in the PFEG coastal upwelling indices. Parker, H. C. M. Isaacs and V. L. Tharp (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop. Interagency Ecological Studies Program for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary, p. 63-99. Technical Report 46. OCEANOGRAPHY - COASTAL UPWELLING INDICES - INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY - CALIFORNIA - PACIFIC FISHERIES ENVIRONMENTAL GROUP - PFEG

Variations in coastal circulation off central California, spring-summer of 1993, 1994, 1995 Parker, Heather A. Master's thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. 71 p.

Timing of hyaline-zone formation as related to sex, location, and year of capture in otoliths of the widow rockfish, Sebastes entomelas Pearson, Donald E. Fishery Bulletin 94(1):190-197

A mixture model for estimating bycatch from data with many zero observations: tuna discards in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Perkins, P. C., and E. F. Edwards. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 94:330-340. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - TUNA - FISHERY INTERACTIONS - ESTIMATING BYCATCH - DISCARDS - MIXTURE MODEL - MODELS - MODELING - EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC - ETP

Almost atoll. Pitman, R. L. Natural History 105:60-64. BIRDS - SEABIRDS - MARINE BIRDS - MASKED BOOBIES - BROWN BOOBIES - BREEDING COLONY - PACIFIC OCEAN - CLIPPERTON ISLAND - EROSION

Marine mammals of Rocas Alijos. Pitman, R. L. R.W. Schmieder (ed.), Rocas Alijos. Scientific results from the Cordell Expeditions, p. 363-364. Kluwer Academic Publishers, London. MARINE MAMMALS - MEXICO - ROCAS ALIJOS - ALIJOS ROCKS - VOLCANIC ISLETS

Decadal variation in the trans-Pacific migration of northern bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) coherent with climate-induced change in prey abundance. Polovina, J.J. Fisheries Oceanography 5:114-119. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - NORTHERN BLUEFIN TUNA - TRANS-PACIFIC MIGRATION - DECADAL VARIATION - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE CHANGE - PREY ABUNDANCE

Marine mammals of West and Central Africa: a report on distribution and status. Powell, J.A., T.A. Jefferson, B.E. Curry, S. Leatherwood, and S. Pankhurst Report to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Nairobi, Kenya.

A simple model of the blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, spawning migration in Chesapeake Bay. Prager, M. H. Bulletin of Marine Science 58(2):421-428. INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - CRABS - BLUE CRAB - MODELS - MODELING - SPAWNING - MIGRATION - CHESAPEAKE BAY

Application of a surplus production model to a swordfish-like simulated stock with time-changing gear selectivity. Prager, M. H., C. P. Goodyear, and G. P. Scott. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 125:729-740. FISHERIES SCIENCE - STOCKS - STOCK ASSESSMENT MODELS - MODELING - SURPLUS PRODUCTION MODEL - SIMULATION - APPLICATION - GEAR SELECTIVITY - TECHNOLOGY - MARINE FISHES - BILLFISHES - BILLFISH - SWORDFISH

Status of bocaccio in the Conception/Monterey/Eureka INPFC areas in 1996 and recommendations for management in 1997. Ralston, S., J. N. Ianelli, R. A. Miller, D. E. Pearson, D. Thomas, and M. E. Wilkins. Status of the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery through 1996 and recommended acceptable biological catches for 1997, Appendix B. Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - STATUS - MANAGEMENT - INPFC

Accuracy of age estimates for larval Sebastes jordani Ralston, Stephen, Edward B. Brothers, Dale A. Roberts, and Keith M. Sakuma Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 94(1):89-97 MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - SHORTBELLY ROCKFISH - LARVAE - AGE ESTIMATES - ACCURACY - STAGES

Spawning seasonality of albacore, Thunnus alalunga, in the South Pacific Ocean. Ramon, D., and K. Bailey. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 94:725-733. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - ALBACORE TUNA - SOUTH PACIFIC - SPAWNING - SEASONALITY

Circulation within Monterey submarine canyon Rosenfeld, L., M. Noble, C. Pilskaln, and F. Schwing Office of Naval Research Annual Program Report ONR 32196-14, p.189-200

Western Pacific Yellowfin Tuna Research Group findings on tuna fisheries interactions. Sakagawa, G. T. R.S. Shomura, J. Majkowski, and R. F. Harman (eds.), Status of interactions of Pacific tuna fisheries in 1995: Proceedings of the Second FAO Expert Consultation on Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries (Shimuzu, Japan, 22-31 January 1995), p. 306-313. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 365. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - YELLOWFIN TUNA FISHERIES - INTERACTIONS - FINDINGS - WESTERN PACIFIC YELLOWFIN TUNA RESEARCH GROUP

PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY OFF THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST DURING MAY-JUNE 1995: SUMMARY OF CTD DATA FROM LARVAL AND PELAGIC JUVENILE ROCKFISH SURVEYS SAKUMA, KEITH M., FRANKLIN B. SCHWING, KENNETH BALTZ, DALE ROBERTS, HEATHER A. PARKER, STEPHEN V. RALSTON U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-232. 144 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - PHYSICAL - CALIFORNIA - CTD - ROCKFISH - LARVAE - PELAGIC - JUVENILES - SURVEYS

Interdecadal variability in the spatial structure of wind and SST in the California Current System. Schwing, F. B., R. Mendelssohn, and R. H. Parrish. C. M. Isaacs and V. L. Tharp (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Pacific Climate (PACLIM) Workshop. Interagency Ecological Studies Program for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary, p. 53-61. Technical Report 46. OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE - INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY - SPATIAL STRUCTURE - WIND - SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES - SST

Regional differences in the climate change signal in the California Current System Schwing, F.B., R. Parrish, and R. Mendelssohn Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 76(3):181

COASTAL UPWELLING INDICES, WEST COAST OF NORTH AMERICA 1946-1995 SCHWING, FRANKLIN B., MICHAEL O'FARRELL, JOHN STEGER, KENNETH BALTZ U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-231. 207 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - WEST COAST (NORTH AMERICA) - UPWELLING - COASTAL - INDICES

Seasonal and interannual variability in the circulation off the Gulf of the Farallones Steger, J.M. Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union 76(3):199

The need to estimate power to link genetics and demography for conservation. Taylor, B. L., and A. E. Dizon. Conservation Biology 10(2):661-664. CONSERVATION BIOLOGY - GENETICS - DEMOGRAPHY - ESTIMATION

A Bayesian approach to classification criteria for Spectacled Eiders Taylor, B.L., P.R. Wade, R.A. Stehn, and J.F. Cochrane Ecological Applications 6(4):1077-1089

FIXED COSTS AND JOINT COST ALLOCATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PACIFIC WHITING - A WORKSHOP REPORT TERRY, JOE, GILBERT SYLVIA, DALE SQUIRES, WES SILVERTHORNE, GORDON MUNRO, RICHARD MARASCO, DOUGLAS LARSON, JAMES KIRKLEY, LARRY D. JACOBSON, SAMUEL F. HERRICK, JR., John Gauvin, Amy Buss Gautam, Steven Freese, and Rebecca Baldwin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-234. 29 p. MARINE FISHES - PACIFIC WHITING - MANAGEMENT - FIXED COSTS - JOINT COST ALLOCATION

Cadmium in the California Current system: tracer of past and present upwelling. Van Geen, A., and D. M. Husby. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 101(C2):3489-3507 OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM - UPWELLING - TRACERS - CADMIUM

By-catch of fishes captured by the krill fishing vessel Chiyo Maru No. 2 in statistical area 58 (January to March 1995). Watters, G. CCAMLR Science 3:111-123. MARINE FISHES - BYCATCH - INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - ANTARCTIC KRILL - FISHING VESSEL - F/V CHIYO MARU

Morphological differences in hind flippers of hatchling green turtles from the Hawaiian Islands and Florida, USA. Wyneken, J., and G. H. Balazs. J. A. Keinath, D. E. Barnard, J. A. Musick, and B. A. Bell (compilers), Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation (February 22-25, 1995, Hilton Head, South Carolina), p. 348-349. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NMFS-SEFSC-387 REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - HAWAII - FLORIDA - HATCHLINGS - MORPHOLOGY - MORPHOLOGICAL DIFFERENCES - HIND FLIPPERS

AGE DETERMINATION IN PACIFIC SARDINE, Sardinops sagax YAREMKO, MARCI L. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-223. 18+15 p. MARINE FISHES - SARDINES - PACIFIC - AGE DETERMINATION - OTOLITHS

Nearshore assemblages of larval rockfishes and their physical environment off central California during an extended El Nino event, 1991 1993. Yoklavich, M., V. Loeb, M. Nishimoto, and B. Daly. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 94:766-782. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - ROCKFISH - LARVAE - NEARSHORE ASSEMBLAGES - PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT - HABITAT - CALIFORNIA

Acoustic characterization of the three-dimensional prey field of foraging chinstrap penguins. Zamon, J. E., C. H. Greene, E. Meir, D. A. Demer, R. P. Hewitt, and S. Sexton. Marine Ecology Progress Series 131:1-10. BIRDS - SEABIRDS - MARINE BIRDS - PENGUINS - CHINSTRAP PENGUIN - PREY FIELD - FORAGING - ACOUSTICS - ACOUSTIC CHARACTERIZATION

Population estimates of Pacific coast groundfishes from video transects and swept-area trawls. Adams, P. B., J. H. Butler, C. H. Baxter, T. E. Laidig, K. Dahlin, and W. W. Wakefield. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 93:446-455. MARINE FISHES - GROUNDFISH - WEST COAST - PACIFIC COAST - POPULATION ESTIMATION - POPULATIONS - VIDEO TRANSECTS - TRAWLS

Adrenal and hematological responses to stress in juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas) with and without fibropapillomas Aguirre, A. Alonso, George H. Balazs, Terry R. Spraker, and Timothy S. Gross Physiological Zoology 68(5):831-854

Upper trophic level predators indicate interannual negative and positive anomalies in the California Current food web. Ainley, D. G., W. J. Sydeman, and J. Norton. Marine Ecology Progress Series 118:69-79. OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEM - FOOD WEBS - PREDATORS - UPPER TROPHIC LEVEL PREDATORS - INTERANNUAL ANOMALIES

Regional vital rates and movements. Alvardo, R., V. Arenas, R. Felix-Uraga, R. Fletcher, L. Jacobson, F. Lachica-Bonilla, B. L. Perezgómez, J. P. Pertierra, C. Robinson, and K. V. Shust. J. R. Hunter and J. Alheit (eds.). International GLOBEC Small Pelagic Fishes and Climate Change program. Report of the First Planning Meeting, La Paz, Mexico, June 20-24, 1994. GLOBEC Report 8, p. 42-52. MARINE FISHES - SMALL PELAGIC FISHES - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE CHANGE - GLOBEC - INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM - REGIONAL VITAL RATES - MOVEMENTS

Enrichment and Concentration Processes. Antezana, T., W. García, J. Hunter, J. Largier, Y. Matsuura, J. Moisan, S. Painting, P. Schlittenhardt, and J. R. Torres. J. R. Hunter and J. Alheit (eds.). International GLOBEC Small Pelagic Fishes and Climate Change program. Report of the First Planning Meeting, La Paz, Mexico, June 20-24, 1994. GLOBEC Report 8, p. 21-30. MARINE FISHES - SMALL PELAGIC FISHES - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE CHANGE - GLOBEC - INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM - ENRICHMENT - CONCENTRATIONS - PROCESSES

Innovative techniques to facilitate field studies of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas. Balazs, G. H. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NMFS-SEFSC-361:158-161. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - FIELD STUDIES - INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES - FOOD - DIET - ORAL EXAMINATION - MARKING - IDENTIFICATION - SIGHTING REPORT CARD - WEIGHING

Ecological aspects of green turtles nesting at Scilly Atoll in French Polynesia. Balazs, G. H., P. Siu, and J. P. Landret. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS, NMFS-SEFSC-361:7-10. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - FRENCH POLYNESIA - SCILLY ATOLL - NESTING - NESTS - ECOLOGY - ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS

GUIDELINES FOR HANDLING MARINE TURTLES HOOKED OR ENTANGLED IN THE HAWAII LONGLINE FISHERY: RESULTS OF AN EXPERT WORKSHOP HELD IN HONOLULU, HAWAII MARCH 15-17, 1995 BALAZS, GEORGE H., SAMUEL G. POOLEY, AND SHAWN K.K. MURAKAWA U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-222. 41 p. REPTILES - SEA TURTLES - HAWAII - LONGLINE FISHERY - HOOKING MORTALITY - GUIDELINES - EXPERT WORKSHOP

Flight energetics of free-ranging Red-footed Boobies, Sula sula. Ballance, L. T. Physiological Zoology 68(5):887-914. BIRDS - SEABIRDS - MARINE BIRDS - RED-FOOTED BOOBIES - FREE RANGING - FLIGHT ENERGETICS

An assessment of the status of harbor porpoise populations in California. Barlow, J. and D. Hanan. Report of the International Whaling Commission, Special Issue 16:123-140. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PORPOISES - HARBOR PORPOISE - STATUS - ASSESSMENT - POPULATIONS - CALIFORNIA

The abundance of cetaceans in California waters. Part I: Ship surveys in summer and fall of 1991. Barlow, Jay Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 93:1-14. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - ABUNDANCE - CALIFORNIA - COASTAL WATERS - POPULATIONS - SHIP SURVEYS

U.S. PACIFIC MARINE MAMMAL STOCK ASSESSMENTS BARLOW, JAY, ROBERT BROWNELL, JR., DOUGLAS P. DEMASTER, KARIN A. FORNEY, MARK S. LOWRY, STEVEN OSMEK, TIMOTHY J. RAGEN, RANDALL R. REEVES, ROBERT J. SMALL with contributions from John Calambokidis, Joseph G. Cordaro, Robert L. DeLong, Meghan A. Donahue, Patrick J. Gearin, Doyle A. Hanan, Harriet R. Huber, Thomas A. Jefferson, Eugene T. Nitta and Joe Scordino U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-219. 162 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - PACIFIC - SURVEYS - STOCKS - ASSESSMENTS

U.S. marine mammal stock assessments: guidelines for preparation, background, and a summary of the 1995 assessments Barlow, Jay, Steven L. Swartz, Thomas C. Eagle, and Paul R. Wade U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-OPR-95-6. 76 p.

THE HAWAIIAN MONK SEAL ON LAYSAN ISLAND, 1991 BECKER, BRENDA L., KRISTEN E. O'BRIEN, KAREN B. LOMBARD, LEONA P. LANIAWE U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-214. 16 p. MARINE MAMMALS - PINNIPEDS - SEALS - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN MONK SEALS - LAYSAN ISLAND

Analysis of short time series: correcting for autocorrelation Bence, James R. Ecology 76(2):628-639

The standard metabolic rate of dolphin fish. Benetti, D. D., R. W. Brill, and S. A. Kraul, Jr. Journal of Fish Biology 46(6):987-996. MARINE FISHES - DOLPHINFISH - MAHI MAHI - METABOLISM - METABOLIC RATE - ENERGETICS

Estimation of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) growth rates from length-frequency analysis. Bjorndal, K. A., A. B. Bolten, A. L. Coan, Jr., and P. Kleiber. Copeia 1995(1):71-77. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - BAHAMAS - GREAT INAGUA - GROWTH RATES - LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS - COMPUTER PROGRAM MULIFAN - CAPTURE-RECAPTURE - AGE CLASSES - TAGS - TAGGING STUDIES

Retention and transportation processes. Botsford, L., J. P. Castello, G. Esqueda, J. Field, A. Garcia, Y. A. Green, H. Nakata, P. E. Smith, and P. T. Strub. J. R. Hunter and J. Alheit (eds.). International GLOBEC Small Pelagic Fishes and Climate Change program. Report of the First Planning Meeting, La Paz, Mexico, June 20-24, 1994. GLOBEC Report 8, p. 30-35. MARINE FISHES - SMALL PELAGIC FISHES - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE CHANGE - GLOBEC - INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM - RETENTION - TRANSPORTATION PROCESSES

Trans-Pacific migrations of the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) demonstrated with mitochondrial DNA markers. Bowen, B. W., F. A. Abreu-Grobois, G. H. Balazs, N. Kamezaki, C. J. Limpus, and R. J. Ferl. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 92:3731-3734. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - LOGGERHEAD - TRANS-PACIFIC MIGRATIONS - GENETICS - MITOCHONDRIAL DNA - MTDNA MARKERS

Daily movements, habitat use, and submergence intervals of normal and tumor-bearing juvenile green turtles (Chelonia mydas L.) within a foraging area in the Hawaiian islands. Brill, R. W., G. H. Balazs, K. N. Holland, R. K. C. Chang, S. Sullivan, and J. C. George. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 185:203-218. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN ISLANDS - JUVENILES - FIBROPAPILLOMAS - TUMORS - DAILY MOVEMENTS - HABITAT - SUBMERGENCE INTERVALS - BEHAVIOR - FORAGING

Japanese-Soviet exploitation of pygmy blue whales. Brownell, R.L., Jr. IBI Reports 5:25-29. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - PYGMY BLUE WHALE - EXPLOITATION - JAPAN - SOVIET RUSSIA - WHALING

Whaling error. Brownell, R.L., Jr. Nature 375:272. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - MINKE WHALE - WHALING - ERROR - NORWAY - COMMERCIAL WHALING - SCIENTIFIC WHALING - ABUNDANCE - ESTIMATIONS - INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION - IWC

Marine mammal biodiversity: three diverse orders encompass 119 species. Brownell, R.L., Jr., K. Ralls, and W.F. Perrin. Oceanus 38(2):30-33. MARINE MAMMALS - BIODIVERSITY - ORDERS - SPECIES

Modelling the spatio-temporal distribution of dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific Buckland, S.T., N.H. Augustin, D.L. Borchers, K.L. Cattanach, S.L. Cumberwoth, P.C. Fiedler, S.B. Reilly, and A.A. Anganuzzi Paper SC/47/SM37 presented to the IWC Scientific Committee. 30 p.

REPORT OF 1993-1994 MARINE MAMMAL AERIAL SURVEYS CONDUCTED WITHIN THE U.S. NAVY OUTER SEA TEST RANGE OFF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CARRETTA, JAMES V., KARIN A. FORNEY, AND JAY BARLOW U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-217. 90 p. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PINNIPEDS - SURVEYS - CALIFORNIA - AERIAL - U.S. NAVY

Book review: Studies of white whales (Delphinapterus leucas) and narwhals (Monodon monoceros) in Greenland and adjacent waters (E.W. Born, R. Dietz, and R.R. Reeves, eds.) Chivers, Susan J. Marine Mammal Science 11(2):257-259

Data report: In situ data from 1994 lidar cruise of R/V David Starr Jordan. Churnside, J. H., K. Bliss, R. Dotson, and R. Lynn. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Data Report, Boulder, Colorado, ERL-ETL-5, 53 p. OCEANOGRAPHY - LIDAR CRUISE - R/V DAVID STARR JORDAN - IN SITU DATA - DATA REPORT - SURVEYS - CRUISES

Moderate is better: exploring nonlinear climatic effects on the California northern anchovy (Engraulis mordax). Cury, P., C. Roy, R. Mendelssohn, A. Bakun, D. M. Husby, and R. H. Parrish. R. J. Beamish (ed.) Climate change and northern fish populations. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 121, p.417-424. MARINE FISHES - ANCHOVIES - CALIFORNIA NORTHERN ANCHOVY - CLIMATOLOGY - CLIMATE - CLIMATIC EFFECTS

Zooplankton target strength: volumetric or areal dependence? Demer, D. A., and L. V. Martin. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 98(2):1111-1118. INVERTEBRATES - ZOOPLANKTON - TARGET STRENGTH - VOLUMETRIC - AREAL DEPENDENCE

Bias in acoustic biomass estimates of Euphausia superba due to diel vertical migration. Demer, D. A., and R. P. Hewitt. Deep-Sea Research I 42(4):455-475. INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - KRILL - ANTARCTIC KRILL - ANTARCTICA - ACOUSTIC BIOMASS ESTIMATES - ESTIMATION - BIAS - DIEL VERTICAL MIGRATION

Why statistical power is necessary to link analyses of molecular variation to decisions about population structure Dizon, A.E., B.L. Taylor, and G.M. O'Corry-Crowe In: J.L. Nielsen (ed.), Evolution and the aquatic ecosystem: defining unique units in population conservation, p. 288-294. American Fisheries Society Symposium 17.

An interim phylogenetic analysis of Sei and Bryde's whale mitochondrial DNA control region sequences. Dizon, A.E., C.A. Lux, R.G. LeDuc, J. Urbán Ramírez, M. Henshaw, and R.L. Brownell, Jr. Presented to the 47th Annual Meeting of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission, SC/47/NP23. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - SEI WHALE - BRYDE'S WHALE - GENETICS - PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSIS - MITOCHONDRIAL DNA CONTROL REGION SEQUENCES - MTDNA

Whaling dispute continues. Dizon, A.E., P.J. Clapham, W.F. Perrin, and R.L. Brownell Jr. Nature 377:282. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - WHALING - WHALE HUNTING - WHALE MEAT - GENETICS - MITOCHONDRIAL DNA - MTDNA SEQUENCES - WHALE PRODUCTS - JAPANESE MARKETS

Simple biopsy technique for sampling skin for DNA analysis of sea turtles. Dutton, P., and G. H. Balazs. Marine Turtle Newsletter 69:9-10. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - JUVENILES - LEATHERBACK - LOGGERBACK - GENETICS - DNA SAMPLING TECHNIQUES - BIOPSY - SKIN SAMPLES - CARAPACE - POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION - PCR

Temporal and spatial variations in fecundity of yellowtail rockfish. Eldridge, M. B., and B. M. Jarvis. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 124(1):16-25. MARINE FISHES - ROCKFISHES - YELLOWTAIL ROCKFISH - FECUNDITY - TEMPORAL VARIATIONS - SPATIAL VARIATIONS

Evaluation of a video camera technique for indexing abundances of juvenile pink snapper, Pristipomoides filamentosus, and other Hawaiian insular shelf fishes. Ellis, D. M., and E. E. DeMartini. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 93:67-77. MARINE FISHES - SNAPPERS - HAWAIIAN PINK SNAPPER - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN INSULAR SHELF FISHES - ABUNDANCE - INDEXING - VIDEO CAMERA TECHNIQUE EVALUATION

Precautionary approach to fisheries. Part 1: Guidelines on the precautionary approach to capture fisheries and species introductions. FAO Elaborated by the Technical Consultation on the Precautionary Approach to Capture Fisheries (Including Species Introductions), Lysekil, Sweden, 6-13 June 1995. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 350/1. 52 p. (Reissued with minor editing as FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries no. 2, 1996.)

A decline in the abundance of harbor porpoise, Phocoena phocoena, in nearshore waters off California, 1986-93. Forney, K. A. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 93:741-748. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - PORPOISES - HARBOR PORPOISE - ABUNDANCE - CALIFORNIA - NEARSHORE WATERS

The abundance of cetaceans in California waters. Part II: Aerial surveys in winter and spring of 1991 and 1992. Forney, Karin A., Jay Barlow, and James V. Carretta. Fishery Bulletin (U.S.) 93:15-26. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - ABUNDANCE - CALIFORNIA - COASTAL WATERS - POPULATIONS - AERIAL SURVEYS

Direct allocation of resources and cost-benefit analysis in fisheries. Freese, S., J. Glock, and D. Squires. Marine Policy 19(3):199-211. FISHERIES MANAGEMENT - ECONOMICS - COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS - DIRECT ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES

The ability of IDCR cruises to detect changes in blue whale population size. Gerrodette, T. Report of the International Whaling Commission 45:271-272. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - WHALES - BLUE WHALE - POPULATIONS - INTERNATIONAL DECADE FOR CETACEAN RESEARCH - IDCR - CRUISES - SURVEYS

Distribution of the vaquita, Phocoena sinus, based on sightings from systematic surveys. Gerrodette, T., L. A. Fleischer, H. Pérez-Cortés, and B. Villa Ramírez. A. Bjorge and G.P Donovan (eds.), Report of the International Whaling Commission, Special Issue 16: Biology of the Phocoenids, p. 273-281. International Whaling Commission, Cambridge, England. MARINE MAMMALS - CETACEANS - DOLPHINS - DOLPHIN - VAQUITA - ENDANGERED SPECIES - DISTRIBUTION - SIGHTINGS - SYSTEMATIC SURVEYS

Detection by ELISA of circulating anti-blood fluke (Carettacola, Hapalotrema, and Learedius) immunoglobulins in Hawaiian green turtles (Chelonia mydas). Graczyk, T. K., A. A. Aguirre, and G. H. Balazs. Journal of Parasitology 81(3):416-421. REPTILES - TURTLES - SEA TURTLES - MARINE TURTLES - GREEN - HAWAII - HAWAIIAN ISLANDS - CIRCULATING ANTI-BLOOD FLUKE IMMUNOGLOBULINS - DETECTION - ELISA

A geophysical approach to classifying marine benthic habitats: Monterey Bay as a model Greene, H G., M.M. Yoklavich, D. Sullivan, and G.M. Cailliet In: Workshop proceedings: Applications of side-scan sonar and laser-line systems in fisheries research (Coast Bastion Inn, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, January 20, 1994), p. 15-30. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Commercial Fisheries Management and Development Division, Special Publication no. 9. OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA - MONTEREY BAY -BENTHIC HABITATS - CLASSIFICATION - GEOPHYSICS - GEOPHYSICAL APPROACH - MODEL

SEASONAL, VERTICAL, AND HORIZONTAL DISTRIBUTION OF FOUR SPECIES OF COPEPODS AROUND OAHU, HAWAII: DATA REPORT HASSETT, R. PATRICK, GEORGE W. BOEHLERT U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-215. 21 p. CRUSTACEANS - COPEPODS - HAWAII - DISTRIBUTION - DATA

The state of the California Current 1994-1995; a period of transition. Hayward, T., D. Cayan, P. Franks, R. Lynn, A. Mantyla, J. McGowan, P. Smith, and F. Schwing. CalCOFI Reports 36:19-39. OCEANOGRAPHY - CALIFORNIA CURRENT - STATE - PERIOD OF TRANSITION - REGIME SHIFTS

Simulation modeling and time series analysis of catch and CPUE in Hawaii's tuna fisheries. He, X., and C. H. Boggs. Pelagic Fisheries Research Program Review, Honolulu, Hawaii, November 28-30, 1995. MARINE FISHES - TUNAS - HAWAIIAN TUNA FISHERIES - HAWAII - CATCH - CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT - CPUE - ESTIMATION - COMMERCIAL FISHERIES DATA - SIMULATION MODELS - TIME SERIES ANALYSIS - MODELING

AMLR program: distribution of volume backscattering strength near Elephant Island in the 1995 austral summer. Hewitt, R. P., and D. A. Demer. Antarctic Journal of the United States 30(5):219-221. INVERTEBRATES - CRUSTACEANS - KRILL - ANTARCTIC KRILL - ANTARCTICA - ELEPHANT ISLAND - AUSTRAL SUMMER - ACOUSTICS - BIO-ACOUSTICS - SAMPLING - BIOMASS DISTRIBUTION - VOLUME BACKSCATTERING - MESOSCALE DISPERSION - ANTARCTIC MARINE LIVING RESOURCES - AMLR

Anomalous damage inflicted by Hurricane Iniki on a Hawaiian coral reef. Hobson, E. S., J. R. Chess, and D. F. Howard. Bulletin of Marine Science 57(2):495-500. CORAL REEFS - HAWAII - ANOMALOUS DAMAGE - HURRICANE INIKI

1995 Billfish Newsletter: Results of cooperative programs. Trends in 1993 Billfish angler catch rates, [1993 International Billfish Angler Survey]. 1994 Billfish tagging and recoveries [1994 Cooperative Marine Game Fish Tagging Program], Results of recent investigations. Holts, David B. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, CA. 12p. Cooperative Marine Game Fish Tagging Program; Pacific Billfish Angler Survey; International Billfish Angler Survey; marine recreational fisheries; catches; CPUE; tagging;