NOAA FISHERIES

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.)

Bycatch levies could reconcile trade-offs between blue growth and biodiversity conservation Booth, Hollie, William N.S. Arlidge, Dale Squires, and E.J. Milner-Gulland Nature Ecology & Evolution 5:715-725

Current status and potential of genomic selection to improve selective breeding in the main aquaculture species of International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) member countries Boudry, Pierre, Francois Allal, Muhammad L. Aslam, Luca Bargelloni, Tim P. Bean, Sophie Brard-Fudulea, Marine S.O. Brieuc, Federica C.F. Calboli, John Gilbey, Pierrick Haffray, Jean-Baptiste Lamy, Romain Morvezen, Catherine Purcell, Paulo A. Prodohl, Marc Vandeputte, Geoffrey C. Waldbieser, Anna K. Sonesson, and Ross D. Houston Aquaculture Reports 20:100700 (14 p.)

Line-transect abundance estimates of cetaceans in U.S. waters around the Hawaiian Islands in 2002, 2010, and 2017 Bradford, Amanda L., Erin M. Oleson, Karin A. Forney, Jeff E. Moore, and Jay Barlow U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-PIFSC-115. 45 p.

A deepening understanding of animal culture suggests lessons for conservation Brakes, Philippa, Emma L. Carroll, Sasha R.X. Dalle, Sally A. Keith, Peter K. McGregor, Sarah L. Mesnick, Michael J. Noad, Luke Rendell, Martha M. Robbins, Christian Rutz, Alex Thornton, Andrew Whiten, Martin J. Whiting, Lucy M. Aplin, Stuart Bearhop, Paolo Ciucci, Vicki Fishlock, John K.B. Ford, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Mark P. Simmonds, Fernando Spina, Paul R. Wade, Hal Whitehead, James Williams, and Ellen C. Garland Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1949):20202718 (10 p.)

Taxonomic revision of the South Asian river dolphins (Platanista): Indus and Ganges River dolphins are separate species Braulik, Gill T., Frederick I. Archer, Uzma Khan, Mohammad Imran, Ravindra K. Sinha, Thomas A. Jefferson, Carl Donovan, and Jeff A. Graves Marine Mammal Science 37(3):1022-1059

Recent cetacean taxonomic changes and conservation action Braulik, Gill T., Randall R. Reeves, and Barbara L. Taylor Aquatic Conservation 31(10):3011-3012

A satellite-based mobile warning system to reduce interactions with an endangered species Breece, Matthew W., Matthew J. Oliver, Dewayne A. Fox, Edward A. Hale, Danielle E. Haulsee, Matthew Shatley, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott L. Hazen, and Heather Welch Ecological Applications 31(6):e02358 (16 p.)

Ecosystem based multi-species management using Empirical Dynamic Programming Brias, Antoine, and Stephan B. Munch Ecological Modelling 441:109423 (11 p.)

Dynamic thermal corridor may connect endangered loggerhead sea turtles across the Pacific Ocean Briscoe, Dana K., Calandra N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, Denise M. Parker, George H. Balazs, Jeffrey J. Polovina, Masanori Kurita, Hitoshi Okamoto, Tomomi Saito, Marc R. Rice, and Larry B. Crowder Frontiers in Marine Science 8:630590 (10 p.)

Equity in science: advocating for a new triple-blind review system Brodie, Stephanie, Andre Frainer, Maria Grazia Pennino, Shan Jiang, Laura Kaikkonen, Jon Lopez, Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Carl A. Peters, Samiya A. Selim, and Natasa Vaidianu Trends in Ecology and Evolution 36(11):957-959

Exploring timescales of predictability in species distributions Brodie, Stephanie, Briana Abrahms, Steven J. Bograd, Gemma Carroll, Elliott L. Hazen, Barbara A. Muhling, Mercedes Pozo Buil, James A. Smith, Heather Welch, and Michael G. Jacox Ecography 44(6):832-844

Sato's beaked whale: A new cetacean species discovered around Japan Brownell, Robert L. Jr., and Toshio Kasuya Marine Mammal Science 37(2):768-771

Fishes Burke, Brian, Cheryl Morgan, Katie Barnas, Margaret Williams, Thomas Williams, Brian Wells, Nate Mantua, Correigh Greene, Stuart Munsch, Nicholas Tolimieri, Becca Selden, Jameal Samhouri, Jason Cope, and Barbara Muhling In: Chris J. Harvey et al. (eds.), Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2020-21: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA), p. 40-56. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-170.

Productivity and change in fish and squid in the Southern Ocean Caccavo, Jilda Alicia, Henrik Christiansen, Andrew J. Constable, Laura Ghigliotti, Rowan Trebilco, Cassandra M. Brooks, Cedric Cotte, Thomas Desvignes, Tracey Dornan, Christopher D. Jones, Philippe Koubbi, Ryan A. Saunders, Anneli Strobel, Marino Vacchi, Anton P. van de Putte, Andrea Walters, Claire M. Waluda, Briannyn L. Woods, and Jose C. Xavier Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9:624918 (25 p.)

Social exploitation of extensive, ephermeral, environmentally controlled prey patches by supergroups of rorqual whales Cade, David E., James A. Fahlbusch, William K. Oestreich, John Ryan, John Calambokidis, Ken P. Findlay, Ari S. Friedlaender, Elliott L. Hazen, S. Mduduzi Seakamela, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen Animal Behaviour 182:251-266

Predator-scale spatial analysis of intra-patch prey distribution reveals the energetic drivers of rorqual whale super-group formation Cade, David E., S. Mduduzi Seakamela, Ken P. Findlay, Julie Fukunaga, Shirel R. Kahane-Rapport, Joseph D. Warren, John Calambokidis, James A. Fahlbusch, Aris S. Friedlaender, Elliott L. Hazen, Deon Kotze, Steven McCue, Michael Meyer, William K. Oestreich, Machiel G. Oudejans, Christopher Wilke, and Jeremy A. Goldbogen Functional Ecology 35(4):894-908

Polygenic basis and the role of genome duplication in adaptation to similar selective environments Campbell, Matthew A., Eric C. Anderson, John Carlos Garza, and Devon E. Pearse Journal of Heredity 112(7):614-625

Assessment of attraction and avoidance behaviors of fish in response to the proximity of transiting underwater vehicles Campbell, Matthew D., Ariane Huddleston, David Somerton, M. Elizabeth Clarke, Waldo Wakefield, Steve Murawski, Chris Taylor, Hanumant Singh, Yogesh Girdhar, and Mary Yoklavich Fishery Bulletin 119(4):216-230

Estimates of marine mammal, sea turtle, and seabird bycatch in the California large-mesh drift gillnet fishery: 1990-2019 Carretta, James V. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-654. 72 p.

U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2020 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-646. 389 p.

Sources of human-related injury and mortality for U.S. Pacific west coast marine mammal stock assessments, 2015-2019 Carretta, James V., Justin Greenman, Kristin Wilkinson, James Freed, Lauren Saez, Dan Lawson, Justin Viezbicke, and Jason Jannot U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-643. 157 p.

Speciation in the deep: genomics and morphology reveal a new species of beaked whale Mesoplodon eueu Carroll, Emma L., Michael R. McGowen, Morgan L. McCarthy, Felix G. Marx, Natacha Aguilar, Merel L. Dalebout, Sascha Dreyer, Oscar E. Gaggiotti, Sabine S. Hansen, Anton van Helden, Aubrie B. Onoufriou, Robin W. Baird, C. Scott Baker, Simon Berrow, Danielle Cholewiak, Diane Claridge, Rochell Constantine, Nicholas J. Davison, Catarina Eira, R. Ewan Fordyce, John Gatesy, G.J. Greg Hofmeyr, Vidal Martin, James G. Mead, Antonio A. Mignucci-Giannoni, Phillip A. Morin, Cristel Reyes, Emer Rogan, Massimiliano Rosso, Monica A. Silva, Mark S. Springer, Debbie Steel, and Morten Tange Olsen Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1961):20211213 (10 p.)

Flexible use of a dynamic energy landscape buffers a marine predator against extreme climate variability Carroll, Gemma, Stephanie Brodie, Rebecca Whitlock, James Ganong, Steven J. Bograd, Elliott Hazen, and Barbara A. Block Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288(1956):20210671 (9 p.)

A cookbook for using model diagnostics in integrated stock assessments Carvalho, Felipe, Henning Winker, Dean Courtney, Maia Kapur, Laurence Kell, Massimiliano Cardinale, Michael Schirripa, Toshihide Kitakado, Dawit Yemane, Kevin R. Piner, Mark N. Maunder, Ian Taylor, Chantel R. Wetzel, Kathryn Doering, Kelli F. Johnson, and Richard D. Methot Fisheries Research 240:105959 (18 p.)

Climate-driven range shifts are rapid yet variable among recreationally important coastal-pelagic fishes Champion, Curtis, Stephanie Brodie, and Melinda A. Coleman Frontiers in Marine Science 8:622299 (13 p.)

Separating paternal and maternal contributions to thermal transgenerational plasticity Chang, Sarah L., Who-Seung Lee, and Stephan B. Munch Frontiers in Marine Science 8:734318 (9 p.)

Trophic ecology of yellowtail rockfish (Sebastes flavidus) during a marine heat wave off central California, USA Chiu, Jennifer A., Joseph J. Bizzarro, and Richard M. Starr PLoS ONE 16(5):e0251499 (20 p.)

Anomalous poleward advection facilitates episodic range expansions of pelagic red crabs in the eastern North Pacific Cimino, Megan A., Michael G. Jacox, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie Brodie, Gemma Carroll, Elliott L. Hazen, Bertha E. Lavaniegos, Mark M. Morales, Erin Satterthwaite, and Ryan R. Rykaczewski Limnology and Oceanography 66(8):3176-3189

Threatened salmon rely on a rare life history strategy in a warming landscape Cordoleani, F., C.C. Phillis, A.M. Sturrock, A.M. FitzGerald, A. Malkassian, G.E. Whitman, P.K. Weber, and R.C. Johnson Nature Climate Change 11:982-988

Abundance, survival, and annual rate of change of Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) on a Navy sonar range Curtis, K. Alexandra, Erin A. Falcone, Gregory S. Schorr, Jeffrey E. Moore, David J. Moretti, Jay Barlow, and Erin Keene Marine Mammal Science 37(2):399-419

Marine algal toxins and their vectors in southern California cetaceans Danil, Kerri, Michelle Berman, Elizabeth Frame, Antonella Preti, Spencer E. Fire, Tod Leighfield, Jim Carretta, Melissa L. Carter, and Kathi Lefebvre Harmful Algae 103:102000

Uncommon stranding event of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in San Diego, California (October 2015) Danil, Kerri, Nicole Beaulieu-McCoy, Sophie Dennison, David Rotstein, Teri Rowles, and Sarah Wilkin U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SWFSC-641. 38 p.

Differential sensitivity to warming and hypoxia during development and long-term effects of developmental exposure in early life stage Chinook salmon Del Rio, Annelise M., Gabriella N. Mukai, Benjamin T. Martin, Rachel C. Johnson, Nann A. Fangue, Joshua A. Israel, and Anne E. Todgham Conservation Physiology 9(1):coab054 (17 p.)

Model-based estimation of average fish weights from recreational fisheries Dick, E.J., Jason Edwards, and Tien-Shui Tsou Fisheries Research 241:106002 (9 p.)

The status of vermilion rockfish (Sebastes miniatus) and sunset rockfish (Sebastes crocotulus) in U.S. waters off the coast of California south of Point Conception in 2021 Dick, E.J., Melissa H. Monk, Tanya L. Rogers, John C. Field, and Emma M. Saas Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 311 p.

Winter and summer biogeography of macrozooplankton community structure in the northern Antarctic Peninsula ecosystem Dietrich, Kimberly S., Jarrod A. Santora, and Christian S. Reiss Progress in Oceanography 196:102610 (16 p.)

Modeling the past, present, and future distributions of endangered white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) to inform recovery efforts in California DiNardo, Jordan, Kevin L. Stierhoff, and Brice X. Semmens PLoS ONE 16(11): e0259716

Role of geostrophic currents in future changes of coastal upwelling in the California Current System Ding, Hui, Michael A. Alexander, and Michael G. Jacox Geophysical Research Letters 48(3):e2020GL090768 (10 p.)

Straying and life history of adult steelhead in a small California coastal stream revealed by otolith natural tags and genetic stock identification Donohoe, Christopher J., David E. Rundio, Devon E. Pearse, and Thomas H. Williams North American Journal of Fisheries Management 41(3):711-723

Next-generation regional ocean projections for living marine resource management in a changing climate Drenkard, Elizabeth J., Charles Stock, Andrew C. Ross, Keith W. Dixon, Alistair Adcroft, Michael Alexander, Venkatramani Balaji, Steven J. Bograd, Momme Butenschon, Wei Cheng, Enrique Curchitser, Emanuele Di Lorenzo, Raphael Dussin, Alan C. Haynie, Matthew Harrison, Albert Hermann, Anne Hollowed, Kirstin Holsman, Jason Holt, Michael G. Jacox, Chan Joo Jang, Kelly A. Kearney, Barbara A. Muhling, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Vincent Saba, Ann Britt Sando, Desiree Tommasi, and Muyin Wang ICES Journal of Marine 78(6):1969-1987

A more comprehensive climate vulnerability assessment framework for fisheries social-ecological systems Dudley, Peter N., Tanya L. Rogers, Mark M. Morales, Amanda D. Stoltz, Casey J. Sheridan, Anne K. Beulke, Carrie Pomeroy, and Mark H. Carr Frontiers in Marine Science 8:678099 (22 p.)

California streaming: Exploring deep-sea coral and sponge assemblages in sunny southern California Duncan, Elizabeth, Lisa Wooninck, Tom Laidig, Elizabeth Clarke, Abigail Powell, Curt Whitmire, Guy Cochrane, and Chris Caldow In: Nicole A. Raineault, Joanne Flanders, and Eric Niiler (guest eds.), New frontiers in ocean exploration: The E/V Nautilus, NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer, and R.V. Falkor 2020 field season. Oceanography 34(1, supp.):36-37.

Size and body condition of sympatric killer whale ecotypes around the Antarctic Peninsula Durban, J.W., H. Fearnbach, A. Paredes, L.S. Hickmott, and D.J. LeRoi Marine Ecology Progress Series 677:209-217

Enhanced monitoring of life in the sea is a critical component of conservation management and sustainable economic growth Estes, Maurice Jr., Clarissa Anderson, Ward Appeltans, Nic Bax, Nina Bednarsek, Gabrielle Canonico, Samy Djavidnia, Elva Escobar, Peer Fietzek, Marilaure Gregoire, Elliott Hazen, Maria Kavanaugh, Franck Lejzerowicz, Fabien Lombard, Patricia Miloslavich, Klas O. Moller, Jacquomo Monk, Enrique Montes, Hassan Moustahfid, Monica M.C. Muelbert, Frank Muller-Karger, Lindsey E. Peavey Reeves, Erin V. Satterthwaite, Jorn O. Schmidt, Ana M.M. Sequeira, Woody Turner, and Lauren V. Weatherdon Marine Policy 132:104699 (14 p.)

Patterns of depredation in the Hawai'i deep-set longline fishery informed by fishery and false killer whale behavior Fader, Joseph E., Robin W. Baird, Amanda L. Bradford, Daniel C. Dunn, Karin A. Forney, and Andrew J. Read Ecosphere 12(8):e03682 (23 p.)

Footprints of fixed-gear fisheries in relation to rising whale entanglements on the U.S. West Coast Feist, Blake E., Jameal F. Samhouri, Karin A. Forney, and Lauren E. Saez Fisheries Management and Ecology 28(3):283-294

Projected shifts in 21st century sardine distribution and catch in the California Current Fiechter, Jerome, Mercedes Pozo Buil, Michael G. Jacox, Michael A. Alexander, and Kenneth A. Rose Frontiers in Marine Science 8:685241 (12 p.)

Spatiotemporal patterns of variability in the abundance and distribution of winter-spawned pelagic juvenile rockfish in the California Current Field, John C., Rebecca R. Miller, Jarrod A. Santora, Nick Tolimieri, Melissa A. Haltuch, Richard D. Brodeur, Toby D. Auth, E.J. Dick, Melissa H. Monk, Keith M. Sakuma, and Brian K. Wells PLoS ONE 16(5):e0251638 (25 p.)

Lingcod Stock Assessment Review (STAR) Panel report Field, John, Will White, Matt Cieri, and Cathy Dichmont Pacific Fishery Management Council, Portland, Oregon. 27 p.

Lower trophic levels and forage Fisher, Jennifer, Kym Jacobson, Samantha Zeman, Eric Bjorkstedt, Roxanne Robertson, Cheryl Morgan, Brian Burke, John Field, Jarrod Santora, Keith Sakuma, Andrew Thompson, Stephanie Moore, Clarissa Anderson, Eva Ternon, Melissa Carter, Tracie Barry, Matthew Hunter, Caren Braby, Jerry Borchert, Alex Manderson, Christy Juhasz, Christina Grant, Duy Trong, Vanessa Zubkousky-White, Beckye Stanton, Zachary Forster, Dan Ayres, and Gregory D. Williams In: Chris J. Harvey et al. (eds.), Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2020-21: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA), p. 29-39. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-170.

Quantifying thermal exposure for migratory riverine species: Phenology of Chinook salmon populations predicts thermal stress FitzGerald, Alyssa M., Sara N. John, Travis M. Apgar, Nathan J. Mantua, and Benjamin T. Martin Global Change Biology 27(3):536-549

Local ecological knowledge supports identification of sea turtle nesting beaches in Panama Flores, Eric E., Joelbin De La Cruz, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Luis Urena Herpetological Conservation and Biology 16(2):238-250

Proceedings of the 2021 Trinational Sardine and Small Pelagics Forum (La Jolla, California, USA, January 11, 2021) Flores, Stephanie (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-21-03. 33 p.

2021 highly migratory species annual report Flores, Stephanie (ed.) U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Administrative Report LJ-21-04. 29 p.

Runs of homozygosity in killer whale genomes provide a global record of demographic histories Foote, Andrew D., Rebecca Hooper, Alana Alexander, Robin W. Baird, Charles Scott Baker, Lisa Ballance, Jay Barlow, Andrew Brownlow, Tim Collins, Rochelle Constantine, Luciano Dalla Rosa, Nicholas J. Davison, John W. Durban, Ruth Esteban, Laurent Excoffier, Sarah L. Fordyce Martin, Karin A. Forney, Tim Gerrodette, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Christophe Guinet, M. Bradley Hanson, Songhai Li, Michael D. Martin, Kelly M. Robertson, Filipa I.P. Samarra, Renaud de Stephanis, Sara B. Tavares, Paul Tixier, John A. Totterdell, Paul Wade, Jochen B.W. Wolf, Guangyi Fan, Yaolei Zhang, and Phillip A. Morin Molecular Ecology 30(23):6162-6177

Report on a review of the Oregon Coast and the Southern Oregon and Northern California Coastal spring-run Chinook salmon ESU configuration Ford, Michael J., Eric C. Anderson, John Carlos Garza, James M. Myers, Thomas H. Williams, and Robin S. Waples U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA White Paper NMFS-NWFSC-WP-2021-01. 28 p.

Distribution patterns and population size of the Ashy Storm Petrel Oceanodroma homochroa Ford, R. Glenn, Scott Terrill, Janet Casey, Debi Shearwater, Stephanie R. Schneider, Lisa T. Ballance, Linda Terrill, Margot Tollefson, and David G. Ainley Marine Ornithology 49(2):193-204

A multidecadal Bayesian trend analysis of harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) populations off California relative to past fishery bycatch Forney, Karin A., Jeffrey E. Moore, Jay Barlow, James V. Carretta, and Scott R. Benson Marine Mammal Science 37(2):546-560

Body growth of North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) revisited Fortune, Sarah M.E., Michael J. Moore, Wayne L. Perryman, and Andrew W. Trites Marine Mammal Science 37(2):433-447

First Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) stranding in Texas, USA, and identification of a chelonid alphaherpesvirus5 (ChHV5) variant present in tumor tissue Frandsen, Hilary R., Heather M. Wilson, J. Shelby Walker, Cameron M. Purvin, Peter H. Dutton, Erin L. LaCasella, Brian A. Stacy, Liam Whitmore, Jessica A. Farrell, David J. Duffy, and Donna J. Shaver Herpetological Review 52(3):492-499

Exercise duration and cohort affect variability and longevity of the response to exercise training in California Yellowtail (Seriola dorsalis) Frank, Laura N., Kevin Stuart, Zachary Skelton, Mark Drawbridge, John R. Hyde, Mary Sue Lowery, and Nicholas G. Wegner Aquaculture 540:736684 (13 p.)

Changes to the structure and function of an albacore fishery reveal shifting social-ecological realities for Pacific Northwest fishermen Frawley, Timothy H., Barbara A. Muhling, Stephanie Brodie, Mary C. Fisher, Desiree Tommasi, Gwendal Le Fol, Elliott L. Hazen, Stephen S. Stohs, Elena M. Finkbeiner, and Michael G. Jacox Fish and Fisheries 22(2):280-297

Trends in phytoplankton communities within large marine ecosystems diverge from the global ocean Friedland, Kevin D., John R. Moisan, Aurore A. Maureaud, Damian C. Brady, Andrew J. Davies, Steven J. Bograd, Reg A. Watson, and Yannick Rousseau Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 78(11):1689-1700

Trophic ecology of juvenile green turtles in the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean: insights from stable isotope analysis and niche modelling Gama, Luciana R., Mariana M.P.B. Fuentes, Tailisi Hoppe Trevizani, Franciane Pellizzari, Garrett E. Lemons, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Camila Domit Marine Ecology Progress Series 678:139-152

Hawksbill nesting in Hawaiʻi: 30-year dataset reveals recent positive trend for a small, yet vital population Gaos, Alexander R., Lauren Kurpita, Hannah Bernard, Luke Sundquist, Cheryl S. King, Joy H. Browning, Eldridge Naboa, Irene K. Kelly, Kelleigh Downs, Tomo Eguchi, George Balazs, Kyle Van Houtan, Devin Johnson, T. Todd Jones, and Summer L. Martin Frontiers in Marine Science 8:770424 (15 p.)

Spatial and temporal variation in annual versus biennial reproductive cycles in eastern Bering Sea snow crab Chionoecetes opilio Gardner, Jennifer L., W. Christopher Long, Katherine M. Swiney, and Robert J. Foy North American Journal of Fisheries Management 41(6):1878-1891

Synthesis Garfield, Newell (Toby), and Chris J. Harvey In: Chris J. Harvey et al. (eds.), Ecosystem status report of the California Current for 2020-21: A summary of ecosystem indicators compiled by the California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Team (CCIEA), p. 90-91. U.S. Department of Commerce, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NWFSC-170.

The "MEDiterranean International Acoustic Survey": an introduction Giannoulaki, Marianna, Juan Zwolinski, Ali Cemal Gucu, Andrea De Felice, and Stylianos Somarakis Mediterranean Marine Science 22(4):747-750

A comparative review of macromedusae in eastern boundary currents Gibbons, Mark J., Heidi Skrypzeck, Richard D. Brodeur, Jose M. Riascos, Javier A. Quinones Davila, Cecilia A.F. Grobler, Jean-Paul Roux, John C. Field, Elizabeth A. Daly, Rebecca R. Miller, Verena Ras, Agustin Schiariti, Luciano Chiaverano, Beau M. Tjizoo, Laura Prieto, Hounaida F. Idrissi, and Sergio Palma Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review 59:371-482

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