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Trade-offs between bycatch and target catches in static versus dynamic fishery closures Pons, Maite, Jordan T. Watson, Daniel Ovando, Sandra Andraka, Stephanie Brodie, Andres Domingo, Mark Fitchett, Rodrigo Forselledo, Martin Hall, Elliott L. Hazen, Jason E. Jannot, Miguel Herrera, Sebastian Jimenez, David M. Kaplan, Sven Kerwath, Jon Lopez, Jon McVeigh, Lucas Pacheco, Liliana Rendon, Kate Richerson, Rodrigo Sant'Ana, Rishi Sharma, James A. Smith, Kayleigh Somers, and Ray Hilborn Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119(4):e2114508119 (11 p.)

Decline and recovery of pelagic acoustic backscatter following El Nino events in the Gulf of California, Mexico Portner, Elan J., Kelly J. Benoit-Bird, Elliott L. Hazen, Chad M. Waluk, Carlos J. Robinson, Jaime Gomez-Gutierrez, and William F. Gilly Progress in Oceanography 206:102823 (11 p.)

Pacific bluefin tuna, Thunnus orientalis, exhibits a flexible feeding ecology in the Southern California Bight Portner, Elan J., Owyn Snodgrass, and Heidi Dewar PLoS ONE 17(8):e0272048 (20 p.)

ClimateWEST: A climate science activity Pozo Buil, Mercedes, Hope Ianiri, Gemma Carroll, and Robin Trayler In: Scott Seagroves et al. (eds.), Leaders in effective and inclusive STEM: Twenty years of the Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators, p. 291-304. University of California Santa Cruz, Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7ch3f7zz

Kinship genomics approach to study mating systems in a depleted sea turtle rookery Prakash, Shritika S., Monal M. Lal, Peter H. Dutton, Ciro Rico, and Susanna Piovano Regional Studies in Marine Science 51:102174 (9 p.)

Editorial: Assessment approaches to support bycatch management for marine mammals Punt, Andre E., Tessa B. Francis, Jeffrey E. Moore, and Randall R. Reeves Frontiers in Marine Science 9:928127 (3 p.)

Applications of GIS and remote sensing in public participation and stakeholder engagement for watershed management Quinn, Nigel W.T., Vamsi Sridharan, John Ramirez-Avila, Sanaz Imen, Huilin Gao, Rocky Talchabhadel, Saurav Kumar, and Walter McDonald Socio-Environmental Systems Modelling 4(4):18149 (27 p.)

Foraging ecology of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Peru: relationships with ontogeny and environmental variability Quinones, Javier, Evelyn Paredes-Coral, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Marine Biology 169:139 (16 p.)

Hedonic price functions and market structure: An analysis of supply-motivated submarkets for salmon in California Ray, Kevin D., Daniel K. Lew, and Rosemary Kosaka Marine Resource Economics 37(2):135-154

Report on the Summer 2021 California Current Ecosystem Survey (CCES) (2107RL), 6 July to 15 October 2021, conducted aboard NOAA ship Reuben Lasker, Mexican research vessel Dr. Jorge Carranza Fraser, fishing vessels Lisa Marie and Long Beach Carnage, and uncrewed surface vehicles Renfree, Josiah S., Noelle M. Bowlin, Brad E. Erisman, Ramon Isaac Rojas-Gonzalez, Gabriel E. Johnson, Scott A. Mau, David W. Murfin, Brittany D. Schwartzkopf, Thomas S. Sessions, Kevin L. Stierhoff, Juan Roberto F. Vallarta-Zarate, Lanora Vasquez, William Watson, Juan P. Zwolinski, and David A. Demer U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-669. 47 p.

The critically endangered vaquita is not doomed to extinction by inbreeding depression Robinson, Jacqueline A. Robinson, Christopher C. Kyriazis, Sergio F. Nigenda-Morales, Annabel C. Beichman, Lorenzo Rojas-Bracho, Kelly M. Robertson, Michael C. Fontaine, Robert K. Wayne, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Barbara L. Taylor, and Phillip A. Morin Science 376(6593):635-639

Chaos is not rare in natural ecosystems Rogers, Tanya L., Bethany J. Johnson, and Stephan B. Munch Nature Ecology and Evolution 6:1105-1111

More vaquita porpoises survive than expected Rojas-Bracho, Lorenzo, Barbara Taylor, Cormac Booth, Len Thomas, Armando Jaramillo-Legorreta, Edwyna Nieto-Garcia, Gustavo Cardenas Hinojosa, Jay Barlow, Sarah L. Mesnick, Tim Gerrodette, Paula Olson, Annette Henry, Henoch Rizo, Eva Hidalgo-Pla, Andrea Bonilla-Garzon Endangered Species Research 48:225-234

Are US wild salmon products affected by farmed salmon? A cointegration analysis Roll, Kristin H., Rune Nygaard, Benjamin Fissel, and James Hilger Marine Resource Economics 37(3):283-303

High mercury concentrations in steelhead/rainbow trout, sculpin, and terrestrial invertebrates in a stream-riparian food web in coastal California Rundio, David E., Roberto Rivera, and Peter S. Weiss-Penzias Ecotoxicology 31:1506-1519

Project report: Rockfish Recruitment and Ecosystem Assessment (NOAA Ship Reuben Lasker, RL-22-02, April 28 - June 16, 2022) Sakuma, Keith NOAA Fisheries, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Fisheries Ecology Division, Santa Cruz, California. 17 p.

Utilizing equitable and inclusive design principles to promote STEM identity of community college transfer students Santiago, Nicholas A., Carolyn Gee, Shanna L. Howard, Jocelyn M. Macho, and Mercedes Pozo Buil In: Scott Seagroves et al. (eds.), Leaders in effective and inclusive STEM: Twenty years of the Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators, p. 91-114. University of California Santa Cruz, Institute for Scientist and Engineer Educators. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2kz8h9s7

Strontium isotopes in otoliths reveal a diversity of natal origins for Tarek (Alburnus tarichi) in Lake Van, Turkey Saygin, Semra, Nazmi Polat, Malte Willmes, Levi S. Lewis, James A. Hobbs, Ataman Altug Atici, and Mahmut Elp Fisheries Research 255:106441 (9 p.)

Habitat compression indices for monitoring ocean conditions and ecosystem impacts within coastal upwelling systems Schroeder, Isaac D., Jarrod A. Santora, Nate Mantua, John C. Field, Brian K. Wells, Elliott L. Hazen, Michael Jacox, Steven J. Bograd Ecological Indicators 144:109520 (12 p.)

Genetic stock structure and differentiation of green turtle, Chelonia mydas, rookeries oon St. Croix, US Virgin Islands Schultz, Emma A., Erin L. LaCasella, Kemit-Amon Lewis, Dionne L. Hoskins-Brown, and Peter H. Dutton Chelonian Conservation and Biology 21(1):106-111

A summary report of life history information on the central subpopulation of Northern Anchovy (Engraulis mordax) for the 2021 stock assessment Schwartzkopf, Brittany D., Emmanis Dorval, Kelsey C. James, Jonathan M. Walker, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Dianna L. Porzio, and Brad E. Erisman U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC 659. 76 p.

High-frequency and long-term observations of eDNA from imperiled salmonids in a coastal stream: Temporal dynamics, relationships with environmental factors, and comparisons with conventional observations Searcy, Ryan T., Alexandria B. Boehm, Chloe Weinstock, Christina M. Preston, Scott Jensen, Brent Roman, James M. Birch, Christopher A. Scholin, Kyle S. Van Houtan, Joseph D. Kiernan, and Kevan M. Yamahara Environmental DNA 4(4):776-789

Revenue loss due to whale entanglement mitigation and fishery closures Seary, Rachel, Jarrod A. Santora, Desiree Tommasi, Andrew Thompson, Steven J. Bograd, Kate Richerson, Stephanie Brodie, and Dan Holland Scientific Reports 12:21554 (13 p.)

Diversity in habitat use by White Sturgeon revealed using fin ray geochemistry Sellheim, Kirsten, Malte Willmes, Levi S. Lewis, Jamie Sweeney, Joseph Merz, and James A. Hobbs Frontiers in Marine Science 9:859038 (18 p.)

Chelonian Conservation and Biology, Volume 21, Issue 1: Covid, Chelonians, and a new "normal" Seminoff, Jeffrey A. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 21(1):1

Global decline in ocean memory over the 21st century Shi, Hui, Fei-Fei Jin, Robert C.J. Wills, Michael G. Jacox, Dillon J. Amaya, Bryan A. Black, Ryan R. Rykaczewski, Steven J. Bograd, Marisol Garcia-Reyes, and William J. Sydeman Science Advances 8(18):eabm3468 (9 p.)

Synthesizing integrated ecosystem research to create informed stock-specific indicators for next generation stock assessments Shotwell, S.K., J.L. Pirtle, J.T. Watson, A.L. Deary, M.J. Doyle, S.J. Barbeaux, M.W. Dorn, G.A. Gibson, E.D. Goldstein, D.H. Hanselman, A.J. Hermann, P.J.F. Hulson, B.J. Laurel, J.H. Moss, O.A. Ormseth, D. Robinson, L.A. Rogers, C.N. Rooper, I. Spies, W.W. Strasburger, R.M. Suryan, and J.J. Vollenweider Deep Sea Research II 198:105070 (28 p.)

mmrefpoints: Projecting long-term marine mammal abundance with bycatch Siple, Margaret C., Andre E. Punt, Tessa B. Francis, Philip S. Hammond, Dennis Heinemann, Kristy J. Long, Jeffrey Moore, Maritza Sepulveda, Randall R. Reeves, Gudjon Mar Sigurdsson, Gisli Vikingsson, Paul R. Wade, Rob Williams, and Alexandre N. Zerbini Journal of Open Source Software 7(71):3888 (4 p.)

Rapid recovery of depleted abalone in Isla Natividad, Baja California, Mexico Smith, Alexandra, Juan Domingo Aguilar, Charles Boch, Giulio De Leo, Arturo Hernandez-Velasco, Stephanie Houck, Ramon Martinez, Stephen Monismith, Jorge Torre, C. Brock Woodson, and Fiorenza Micheli Ecosphere 13(3):e4002 (10 p.)

Projected novelty in the climate envelope of the California Current at multiple spatial-temporal scales Smith, James A., Mercedes Poso Buil, Jerome Fiechter, Desiree Tommasi, and Michael G. Jacox PLoS Climate 1(4):e0000022 (19 p.)

New management unit for conservation of the Endangered green turtle Chelonia mydas at the Xisha (Paracel) Islands, South China Sea Song, Jia-hao, Bai-an Lin, Yu-yan Jia, Peter H. Dutton, Bin Kang, George H. Balazs, and Min Liu Endangered Species Research 47:145-154

2022 highly migratory species annual report Southwest Fisheries Science Center U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-22-02. 25 p.

Can remote sensing fill the United States' monitoring gap for watershed management? Sridharan, Vamsi Krishna, Saurav Kumar, and Swetha Madhur Kumar Water 14(13):1985 (16 p.)

Assessing marine endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the critically endangered California condor: implications for reintroduction to coastal environments Stack, Margaret E., Jennifer M. Cossaboon, Christopher W. Tubbs, L. Ignacio Vilchis, Rachel G. Felton, Jade L. Johnson, Kerri Danil, Gisela Heckel, Eunha Hoh, and Nathan G. Dodder Environmental Science and Technology 56(12):7800-7809

Larger females have more calves: influence of maternal body length on fecundity in North Atlantic right whales Stewart, Joshua D., John W. Durban, Hollis Europe, Holly Fearnbach, Philip K. Hamilton, Amy R. Knowlton, Morgan S. Lynn, Carolyn A. Miller, Wayne L. Perryman, Brandon W.H. Tao, and Michael J. Moore Marine Ecology Progress Series 689:179-189

Small angle x-ray scattering and x-ray diffraction of shark mineralized tissue [abstract] Stock, Stuart, Jun-Sang Park, Jonathan Almer, Kelsey James, Michelle Passerotti, and Lisa Natanson Abstracts of the 2022 American Crystallographic Association Meeting (Portland, Oregon, 29 July - 3 August 2022. Acta Crystallographica A 78(supp.):a60

Bayesian prediction of fishery biological impacts from limited data: A deep-set buoy gear case study Stohs, Stephen M., and Karter M. Harmon Fisheries Research 249:106228 (13 p.)

Floodplain trophic subsidies in a modified river network: managed foodscapes of the future? Sturrock, Anna M., Mollie Ogaz, Kelly Neal, Nicholas J. Corline, Ryan Peek, Dana Myers, Sierra Schluep, Marissa Levinson, Rachel C. Johnson, and Carson A. Jeffres Landscape Ecology 37(12):2991-3009

Temperature and upwelling dynamics drive market squid (Doryteuthis opalescens) distribution and abundance in the California Current Suca, Justin J., Jarrod A. Santora, John C. Field, K. Alexandra Curtis, Barbara A. Muhling, Megan A. Cimino, Elliott L. Hazen, and Steven J. Bograd ICES Journal of Marine Science 79(9):2489-2509

Larval transport pathways from three prominent sand lance habitats in the Gulf of Maine Suca, Justin J., Rubao Ji, Hannes Baumann, Kent Pham, Tammy L. Silva, David N. Wiley, Zhixuan Feng, and Joel K. Llopiz Fisheries Oceanography 31(3):333-352

State of the California Current Ecosystem in 2021: Winter is coming? Thompson, Andrew R., Eric P. Bjorkstedt, Steven J. Bograd, Jennifer L. Fisher, Elliott L. Hazen, Andrew Leising, Jarrod A. Santora, Erin V. Satterthwaite, William J. Sydeman, Michaela Alksne, Toby D. Auth, Simone Baumann-Pickering, Noelle M. Bowlin, Brian J. Burke, Elizabeth A. Daly, Heidi Dewar, John C. Field, Newell T. Garfield, Ashlyn Giddings, Ralf Goericke, John Hildebrand, Cheryl A. Horton, Kym C. Jacobson, Michael G. Jacox, Jaime Jahncke, Michael Johns, Joshua Jones, Raphe M. Kudela, Sharon R. Melin, Cheryl A. Morgan, Catherine F. Nickels, Rachael A. Orben, Jessica M. Porquez, Elan J. Portner, Antonella Preti, Roxanne R. Robertson, Daniel L. Rudnick, Keith M. Sakuma, Isaac D. Schroeder, Owyn E. Snodgrass, Sarah Ann Thompson, Jennifer S. Trickey, Pete Warzybok, William Watson, and Edward D. Weber Frontiers in Marine Science 9:958727 (23 p.)

Putting the Pacific marine heatwave into perspective: The response of larval fish off southern California to unprecedented warming in 2014-2016 relative to the previous 65 years Thompson, Andrew R., Noah J. Ben-Aderet, Noelle M. Bowlin, Dovi Kacev, Rasmus Swalethorp, and William Watson Global Change Biology 28(5):1766-1785

Mixed-stock aging analysis reveals variable sea turtle maturity rates in a recovering population Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Larisa Avens, Erin L. LaCasella, Tomoharu Eguchi, Peter H. Dutton, Robin A. LeRoux, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Journal of Wildlife Management 86(4):e22217 (17 p.)

Age-specific growth and maturity estimates for the flatback sea turtle (Natator depressus) by skeletochronology Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Larisa Avens, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Colin J. Limpus, Nancy N. FitzSimmons, Michael L. Guinea, Kellie L. Pendoley, Paul A. Whittock, Anna Vitenbergs, Scott D. Whiting, and Anton D. Tucker PLoS ONE 17(7):e0271048

Tracking movements and growth of post-hatchling to adult hawksbill sea turtles using skeleto+iso Turner Tomaszewicz, Calandra N., Michael J. Liles, Larisa Avens, and Jeffrey A. Seminoff Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 10:983260 (17 p.)

When are bacteria really gazelles? Comparing patchy ecologies with dimensionless numbers Urmy, Samuel S., Alli N. Cramer, Tanya L. Rogers, Jenna Sullivan-Stack, Marian Schmidt, Simon D. Stewart, and Celia C. Symons Ecology Letters 25(5):1323-1341

A review of leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) births and pups using a standardised age-class classification system van der Linde, Krista, Ingrid N. Visser, Rick Bout, Douglas J. Krause, Jaume Forcada, Donald Siniff, Sheridan Stone, Jim Fyfe, Nicolas Fernandez-Ferrada, Kathryne Macallan, Oksana Savenko, and Tracy E. Cooper Polar Biology 45(7):1193-1209

Identifying seasonal distribution patterns of fin whales across the Scotia Sea and the Antarctic Peninsula region using a novel approach combining habitat suitability models and ensemble learning methods Viquerat, Sacha, Claire M. Waluda, Amy S. Kennedy, Jennifer A. Jackson, Marta Hevia, Emma L. Carroll, Danielle L. Buss, Elke Burkhardt, Scott Thain, Patrick Smith, Eduardo R. Secchi, Jarrod A. Santora, Christian Reiss, Ulf Lindstrom, Bjorn A. Krafft, George Gittins, Luciano Dalla Rosa, Martin Biuw, and Helena Herr Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1040512 (19 p.)

Implications of large-effect loci for conservation: A review and case study with Pacific salmon Waples, Robin S., Michael J. Ford, Krista Nichols, Marty Kardos, Jim Myers, Tasha Q. Thompson, Eric C. Anderson, Ilana J. Koch, Garrett McKinney, Michael R. Miller, Kerry Naish, Shawn R. Narum, Kathleen G. O'Malley, Devon E. Pearse, George R. Pess, Thomas P. Quinn, Todd R. Seamons, Adrian Spidle, Kenneth I. Warheit, and Stuart C. Willis Journal of Heredity 113(2):121-144

Using seabird and whale distribution models to estimate spatial consumption of krill to inform fishery management Warwick-Evans, V., N. Kelly, L. Dalla Rosa, A. Friedlaender, J.T. Hinke, J.H. Kim, N. Kokubun, J.A. Santora, E.R. Secchi, E. Seyboth, and P.N. Trathan Ecosphere 13(6):e4083 (24 p.)

Estimating the average distribution of Antarctic krill Euphausia superba at the northern Antarctic Peninsula during austral summer and winter Warwick-Evans, V., S. Fielding, C.S. Reiss, G.M. Watters, and P.N. Trathan Polar Biology 45(5):857-871

Predator life history and prey ontogeny limit natural selection on the major armour gene, Eda, in threespine stickleback Wasserman, Ben A., Kerry Reid, Olivia M. Arredondo, Ann-Marie K. Osterback, Cynthia H. Kern, Joseph D. Kiernan, and Eric P. Palkovacs Ecology of Freshwater Fish 31(2):291-299

Applying empirical dynamic modeling to distinguish abiotic and biotic drivers of population fluctuations in sympatric fishes Wasserman, Ben A., Tanya L. Rogers, Stephan B. Munch, and Eric P. Palkovacs Limnology and Oceanography 67(S1):S403-S415

A biogeographical assessment of deep-sea coral assemblages from coastwide visual surveys off California Watters, Diana L., Thomas E. Laidig, and Mary M. Yoklavich Deep Sea Research I 185:103773 (16 p.)

Conservation in the Scotia Sea in light of expiring regulations and disrupted negotiations Watters, George M., and Jefferson T. Hinke Conservation Biology 36(5):e13925 (4 p.)

Are the diets of sympatric Pygoscelid penguins more similar than previously thought? Wawrzynek-Borejko, Justyna, Anna Panasiuk, Jefferson T. Hinke, and Malgorzata Korczak-Abshire Polar Biology 45:1559-1569

Hot spots of unseen fishing vessels Welch, Heather, Tyler Clavelle, Timothy D. White, Megan A. Cimino, Jennifer Van Osdel, Timothy Hochberg, David Kroodsma, and Elliott L. Hazen Science Advances 8(44):eabq2109 (10 p.)

Sperm whale acoustic abundance and dive behaviour in the western North Atlantic Westell, Annabel, Taiki Sakai, Robert Valtierra, Sofie M. Van Parijs, Danielle Cholewiak, and Annamaria DeAngelis Scientific Reports 12:16821 (13 p.)

Multistressor global change drivers reduce hatch and viability of Lingcod embryos, a benthic egg layer in the California Current System Willis-Norton, Ellen, Mark H. Carr, Elliott L. Hazen, and Kristy J. Kroeker Scientific Reports 12:21987 (14 p.)

Satellite monitoring of sea surface temperature and chlorophyll for sustainable fishing Wilson, Cara, and Dale Robinson In: IGARSS 2022 - 2022 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium: Proceedings (17-22 July, 2022, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia), p. 4776-4778. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Myctobase, a circumpolar database of mesopelagic fishes for new insights into deep pelagic prey fields Woods, Briannyn, Rowan Trebilco, Andrea Walters, Mark Hindell, Guy Duhamel, Hauke Flores, Masato Moteki, Patrice Pruvost, Christian Reiss, Ryan A. Saunders, Caroline Sutton, Yi-Ming Gan, and Anton Van de Putte Scientific Data 9:404 (9 p.)

Spies in the deep: Ocean landers explore the deep sea Yang, Haleigh T., Kevin Hardy, Nicholas C. Wegner, Ashley Nicoll, Lisa A. Levin, and Natalya D. Gallo Frontiers for Young Minds 10:612101

Eye lenses reveal ontogenetic trophic and habitat shifts in an imperiled fish, Clear Lake hitch (Lavinia exilicauda chi) Young, Matthew J., Veronica Larwood, Justin K. Clause, Miranda Bell-Tilcock, George Whitman, Rachel Johnson, and Frederick Feyrer Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 79(1):21-30

Ocean connectivity drives trophic support for consumers in an intermittently closed coastal lagoon Young, Matthew, Frederick Feyrer, Darren Fong, Rachel Johnson, Tamara Kraus, Veronica Larwood, Elizabeth Stumpner, and Megan Young Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 264:107665 (12 p.)

Estimating abundance of an elusive cetacean in a complex environment: Harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in inland waters of Southeast Alaska Zerbini, Alexandre N., Kimberly T. Goetz, Karin A. Forney, and Charlotte Boyd Frontiers in Marine Science 9:966489 (13 p.)

Population genetics and species distribution modeling highlight conservation needs of the endemic trout from the Northern Sierra Madre Occidental Abadia-Cardoso, A., R. Hernandez-Guzman, A. Varela-Romero, J.C. Garza, and F.J. Garcia-De Leon Conservation Genetics 22:629-643

Are long-term changes in mixed layer depth influencing North Pacific marine heatwaves? Amaya, Dillon J., Michael A. Alexander, Antonietta Capotondi, Clara Deser, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Arthur J. Miller, and Nathan J. Mantua Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 102(1):S59-S66

Social and economic outcomes of fisheries certification: Characterizing pathways of change in canned fish markets Anderson, Christopher M., Amber Himes-Cornell, Cristina Pita, Ashleigh Arton, Margaux Favret, Dan Averill, Stephen Stohs, and Catherine Sarah Longo Frontiers in Marine Science 8:791085 (16 p.)

Genomic signatures of divergent selection are associated with social behaviour for spinner dolphin ecotytpes Andrews, Kimberly R., Brendan Epstein, Matthew S. Leslie, Paul Fiedler, Phillip A. Morin, and A. Rus Hoelzel Molecular Ecology 30(9):1993-2008

Alternative migratory strategies are widespread in subyearling Chinook salmon Apgar, Travis M., Joseph E. Merz, Benjamin T. Martin, and Eric P. Palkovacs Ecology of Freshwater Fish 30(1):125-139

Assessing information-sharing networks within small-scale fisheries and the implications for conservation interventions Arlidge, William N.S., Josh A. Firth, Joanna Alfaro-Shigueto, Bruno Ibanez-Erquiaga, Jeffrey C. Mangel, Dale Squires, and E.J. Milner-Gulland Royal Society Open Science 8(11):211240 (16 p.)

Keeping close to the river, shore and surface: the first marine migration of brown trout (Salmo trutta) and Arctic charr (Salvelinus alpinus) post-smolts Atencio, Benjamin J., Eva B. Thorstad, Augun H. Rikardsen, and Jenny L.A. Jensen Journal of Fish Biology 99(2):462-471

Maternal environment drives larval rockfish gene expression patterns [abstract] Baker, J.B., K.V. Saksa, N.S. Kashef, D.M. Stafford, S.M. Sogard, S.L. Hamilton, and C.A. Logan Integrative and Comparative Biology 61(supp.1):e36-e37

A history of the tuna-dolphin problem: successes, failures, and lessons learned Ballance, Lisa T., Tim Gerrodette, Cleridy E. Lennert-Cody, Robert L. Pitman, and Dale Squires Frontiers in Marine Science 8:754755 (17 p.)

Species and population specific gene expression in blood transcriptomes of marine turtles Banerjee, Shreya M., Jamie Adkins Stoll, Camryn D. Allen, Jennifer M. Lynch, Heather S. Harris, Lauren Kenyon, Richard E. Connon, Eleanor J. Sterling, Eugenia Naro-Maciel, Kathryn McFadden, Margaret M. Lamont, James Benge, Nadia B. Fernandez, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Scott R. Benson, Rebecca L. Lewison, Tomoharu Eguchi, Tammy M. Summers, Jessy R. Hapdei, Marc R. Rice, Summer Martin, T. Todd Jones, Peter H. Dutton, George H. Balazs, and Lisa M. Komoroske BMC Genomics 22:346 (16 p.)

Design of a flooded housing for a towed autonomous hydrophone recording system Barlow, Jay U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-647. 12 p.

Recommended snapshot length for acoustic point-transect surveys of intermittently available Cuvier's beaked whales Barlow, Jay, Jennifer S. Trickey, Gregory S. Schorr, Shannon Rankin, and Jeffrey E. Moore Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149:3830-3840

Acoustic detection range and population density of Cuvier's beaked whales estimated from near-surface hydrophones Barlow, Jay, Selene Fregosi, Len Thomas, Danielle Harris, and Emily T. Griffiths Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149(1):111-125

Acoustic detections of beaked whales, narrow-band high-frequency pulses and other odontocete cetaceans in the Southern Ocean using an autonomous towed hydrophone recorder Barlow, Jay, Ted Cheeseman, and Jennifer S. Trickey Deep Sea Research II 193:104973 (11 p.)

Improving the IEA approach using principles of open data science Bastille, Kimberly, Sean Hardison, Lynn deWitt, Jennifer Brown, Jameal Samhouri, Sarah Gaichas, Sean Lucey, Kelly Kearney, Ben Best, Scott Cross, Scott Large, and Ellen Spooner Coastal Management 49(1):72-89

Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment Bates, Amanda E., et al. Biological Conservation 263:109175 (18 p.)

Habitat-based density estimates for cetaceans within the waters of the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone around the Hawaiian Archipelago Becker, Elizabeth A. Karin A. Forney, Erin M. Oleson, Amanda L. Bradford, Jeff E. Moore, and Jay Barlow U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-116. 32 p.

Regions of genetic divergence in depth-separated Sebastes rockfish species pairs: Depth as a potential driver of speciation Behrens, Kristen A., Quinn L. Girasek, Alex Sickler, John Hyde, and Vincent P. Buonaccorsi Molecular Ecology 30(17):4259-4275

Cross-sectoral externalities related to natural resources and ecosystem services Bellanger, Manuel, Robert Fonner, Daniel S. Holland, Gary D. Libecap, Douglas W. Lipton, Pierre Scemama, Cameron Speir, and Olivier Thebaud Ecological Economics 184:106990 (10 p.)

Biogeochemical processes create distinct isotopic fingerprints to track floodplain rearing of juvenile salmon Bell-Tilcock, Miranda, Carson A. Jeffres, Andrew L. Rypel, Malte Willmes, Richard A. Armstrong, Peter Holden, Peter B. Moyle, Nann A. Fangue, Jacob V.E. Katz, Ted R. Sommer, J. Louise Conrad, and Rachel C. Johnson PLoS ONE 16(10):e0257444 (23 p.)

Advancing diet reconstruction in fish eye lenses Bell-Tilcock, Miranda, Carson A. Jeffres, Andrew L. Rypel, Ted R. Sommer, Jacob V.E. Katz, George Whitman, and Rachel C. Johnson Methods in Ecology and Evolution 12(3):449-457

Analysis of digestive tract contents from loggerhead sea turtles Caretta Caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) stranded along the northwest coast of Morocco Benhardouze, Wafae, Mustapha Aksissou, and Manjula Tiwari Cahiers de Biologie Marine 62(3):205-215

Data management and interactive visualizations for the evolving Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Benson, Abigail, Tylar Murray, Gabrielle Canonico, Enrique Montes, Frank E. Muller-Karger, Maria T. Kavanaugh, Joaquin Trinanes, and Lynn M. deWitt Oceanography 34(2):130-141

Stable isotope analysis reveals differences in domoic acid accumulation and feeding strategies of key vectors in a California hotspot for outbreaks Bernstein, Sophie, Rocio I. Ruiz-Cooley, Raphael Kudela, Clarissa R. Anderson, Robin Dunkin, and John C. Field Harmful Algae 110:102117 (13 p.)

Zero, one or more broods: reproductive plasticity in response to temperature, food, and body size in the live-bearing rosy rockfish Sebastes rosaceus Beyer, S.G., S.H. Alonzo, and S.M. Sogard Marine Ecology Progress Series 669:151-173

Trophic ecology of sympatric batoid species (Chondrichthyes: Batoidea) assessed by multiple biogeochemical tracers (δ13C, δ15N and total Hg) Bezerra, M.F., J.A. Seminoff, G.E. Lemons, D.G. Slotton, K. Watanabe, and C.T. Lai Environmental Research 199:111398 (12 p.)

Respiratory capacity is twice as important as temperature in explaining patterns of metabolic rate across the vertebrate tree of life Bigman, Jennifer S., Leithen K. M'Gonlgle, Nicholas C. Wegner, and Nicholas K. Dulvy Science Advances 7(19):eabe5163 (11 p.)

Training a generation of avid journal manuscript reviewers Bograd, Steven J., and Gayle Barbin Zydlewski Fisheries Oceanography 30(1):1-2

Quantifying ecosystem responses to environmental and human pressures in the marine ecosystem off the west coast of Vancouver Island Boldt, Jennifer L., Elliott L. Hazen, Mary E. Hunsicker, Caihong Fu, R. Ian Perry, Xiujuan Shan Ecological Indicators 132:108232 (13 p.)

Estimating economic losses to small-scale fishers from shark conservation: A hedonic price analysis Booth, Hollie, Dale Squires, Irfan Yulianto, Benaya Simeon, Muhsin, Luky Adrianto, and Eleanor Jane Milner-Gulland Conservation Science and Practice 3(9):e494 (17 p.)

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