CalCOFI Reports, Vol. 26, 1985
Contents
	Page
In Memoriam -- Martin W. Johnson	5
I. Reports, Review, and Publications
Report of the CalCOFI Committee	7
Review of Some California Fisheries for 1984	9
The 1984 Spawning Biomass of the Northern Anchovy.  Roger P. Hewitt	17
Publications	26
II. Symposium of the CalCOFI Conference, 1984
COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF EASTERN OCEAN BOUNDARY SYSTEMS	29
Comparative Studies and the Recruitment Problem: Searching for
Generalizations.  Andrew Bakun	30
Major Dynamics Affecting the Eastern Tropical Atlantic and PacificOceans.         Joel Picaut	41
Anomalous Warm Events in Eastern Boundary Current Systems.
Douglas R. McLain, Russell E. Brainard, and Jerrold G. Norton	51
Origin of Productivity Anomalies during the 1982-83 El Nino.
Richard T. Barber, Jane E. Kogelschatz, and Francisco P. Chavez	65
The Influence of Large-Scale Environmental Processes on Neritic Fish
Populations in the Benguela Current System.            Peter A. Shelton, Alan J. Boyd, and Michael J. Armstrong	72
The Effects of Varying Nutrient Concentration on Biological Production in
Upwelling Regions.  Richard C. Dugdale	93
Anchovy Egg Dispersal and Mortality as Inferred from Close-Interval
Observations. Paul E. Smith and Roger P. Hewitt	97
III. Scientific Contributions
Growth of Larval Sardines off Peru.          John L. Butler and Blanca Rojas de Mendiola	113
Recent Increased Abundance and Potential Productivity of Pacific Mackerel
(Scomber japonicus).  Alec D. MacCall, Richard A. Klingbeil,            and Richard D. Methot	119
An Inverse Egg Production Method for Determining the Relative Magnitude of
Pacific Sardine Spawning Biomass off California.            Patricia Wolf and Paul E. Smith	130
Descriptions of Larvae of California Yellowtail, Seriola lalandi and Three Other
Carangids from the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Chloroscombrus orqueta,          Caranx caballus, and Caranx sexfasciatus.
Barbara Y. Sumida, H. Geoffrey Moser, and Elbert H. Ahlstrom	139
Evaluation of Some Techniques for Preserving Nutrients in Stored Seawater.
Samples. Elizabeth L. Venrick and Thomas L. Hayward	160
Size Distributions and Sex Ratios of Ridgeback Prawns (Sicyonia ingentis) in
the Santa Barbara Channel (1979-1981).  Susan L. Anderson,
Louis W. Botsford, and Wallis H. Clark, Jr	169
Stomach Contents of Albacore, Skipjack, and Bonito Caught off Southern
California duringSummer 1983. Hannah J. Bernard, John B. Hedgepeth,            and Stephen B. Reilly	175