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Abstract--To assess the impact of California sea lions (Zalophus californianus) on salmon fisheries in the Monterey Bay region of California, the percentages of hooked fish taken by sea lions in [...]

Abstract--Queen conch (Strombus gigas) stocks in the Florida Keys once supported commercial and recreational fisheries, but overharvesting has decimated this once abundant snail. Despite a ban on harvesting this species [...]

Abstract--Loligo opalescens live less than a year and die after a short spawning period before all oocytes are expended. Potential fecundity ([E.sub.P]), the standing stock of all oocytes just before [...]

Abstract--A major cause of the steep declines of American oyster (Crassostrea virginica) fisheries is the loss of oyster habitat through the use of dredges that have mined the reef substrata [...]

Abstract--A density prediction model for juvenile brown shrimp (Farfantepenaeus aztecus) was developed by using three bottom types, five salinity zones, and four seasons to quantify patterns of habitat use in [...]

Abstract--This study examines genetic variation at five microsatellite loci and at the vesicle membrane protein locus, pantophysin, of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) from Browns Bank, Georges Bank, and Nantucket Shoals. [...]

Abstract--Our analyses of observer records reveal that abundance estimates are strongly influenced by the timing of longline operations in relation to dawn and dusk and soak time--the amount of time [...]

Abstract--Fishes are widely known to aggregate around floating objects, including flotsam and fish aggregating devices (FADs). The numbers and diversity of juvenile fishes that associated with floating objects in the [...]

Abstract--Larval growth rates of the anchoveta Engraulis ringens were determined for two periods during the winter spawning season offTalcahuano, central Chile. Because winter is the season of minimum plankton production [...]

Abstract--Effects of year and region on young-of-the-year (age-0) walleye pollock abundance and size were examined by using bottom and midwater trawl collections made during 1985-88. Samples were collected from shelf [...]

The Caribbean spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, is distributed from Brazil throughout the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico to approximately North Carolina and Bermuda (Holthius, 1991). It supports major commercial [...]

Underlying explanations of recruitment variation among fish stocks have been an issue for several decades. An understanding of biological relationships between larval fish and their zooplankton prey is needed for [...]

Abstract--The threaded sculpin (Gymnocanthus pistilliger) is distributed in the North Pacific from Norton Sound south to Southeast Alaska and west to Russia and Japan. It reaches its greatest abundance in [...]