CalCOFI Reports, Vol. 25, 1984
Contents
	Page
I. Reports, Review, and Publications	5
Report of the CalCOFI Committee for 1983	5
Review of Some California Fisheries for 1983	7
The 1983 Spawning Biomass of the Northern Anchovy.
Susan J. Piquelle and Roger P. Hewitt .	16
Publications	28
II.  Scientific Contributions	33
Lagrangian Observations of Near-Surface Currents in Canal de Ballenas.
Luis G. Alvarez, Antoine Badan Dangon, and Jose M. Robles	35
Spawning Frequency and Sex Ratio in the Peruvian Anchovy, Engraulis ringens.
Juergen Alheit, V Hugo Alarcon, and Beverly J. Macewicz	43
Some Effects of El Nino 1983 on the Northern Anchovy. Paul C. Fiedler	53
Coastal Front Observations with an Infrared Scanner.
David H. Dykstra, Robert S. Grove, and John B. Palmer	59
Drift Bottle Observations of the Nearshore Surface Circulation off California,
1977-1983.  Christopher M. Dewees and Elizabeth M. Strange	68
Determining Chlorophyll on the 1984 CalCOFI Surveys.
Elizabeth L. Venrick and Thomas L. Hayward	74
Comparative Quality of Rotifers and Copepods as Foods for Larval Fishes.
Gail H. Theilacker and Amy S. Kimball	80
Variation in Larval Morphogenesis within the Southern California Bight Population
of Euphausia pacifica from Winter through Summer, 19771978.             Margaret D. Knight	87
Spot Prawn (Pandalus platyceros) and Ridgeback Prawn (Sicyonia ingentis)
Fisheries in the Santa Barbara Channel.  John S. Sunada	100
The Feeding Habits of Juvenile Small Adult Barred Sand Bass
(Paralabrax nebulifer) in Nearshore Waters off NorthernSan DiegoCounty.
Dale A. Roberts, Edward E. DeMartini, and Kenneth M. Plummer	105
Food and Feeding of Bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) and Comparison with
Pacific Hake (Merluccius productus) Larvae in the California Current.
Barbara Y. Sumida and H. Geoffrey Moser	112
Diel Variation in Catch Parameters for Fishes Sampled by a 7.6m Otter Trawl in
Southern California Coastal Waters.  Edward E. DeMartini and Larry G. Allen	119
Estimated Annual Food Consumption by Northern Fur Seals in the
California Current.  George A. Antonelis, Jr., and Michael A. Perez	135
Growth of Jack Mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus, in Captivity.  Roderick Leong	146