CalCOFI Reports, Vol. 28, 1987
Contents
	Page
In Memoriam	5
Frances Clark	5
Philip Roedel	6
Marston Sargent	7
I. Reports, Review, and Publications
Report of the CalCOFI Committee	9
Review of Some California Fisheries for 1986	11
The Relative Magnitude of the 1986 Pacific Sardine Spawning Biomass off California
Patricia Wolf, Paul E. Smith, and Cheryl L. Scannell	21
Publications	27
II. Symposium of the CalCOFI Conference, 1986
PERSPECTIVES ON MEXICAN FISHERIES SCIENCE	31
Fisheries Activities in the Gulf of California, Mexico.Joaquin Arvizu-Martinez	32
The Mexican Tuna Fishery. Arturo Muhlia-Melo	37
The Pacific Shrimp Fishery of Mexico.Francisco J. Magallon-Barajas	43
Pesquerias Pelagicas y Neriticas de la Costa Occidental de Baia California,Mexico.
Sergio Hernandez-Vazquez	53
III. Scientific Contributions
Zooplankton Variability in the California Current, 1951-1982. Collin S. Roesler and
Dudley B. Chelton	59
Larval Fish Assemblages in theCalifornia Current Region, 1954-1960, a        Period of Dynamic Environmental Change.
H. Geoffrey Moser, Paul E. Smith, and LawrenceE. Eber	97
Mesoscale Cycles in the Series of Environmental Indices Related to the Sardine
Fishery in the Gulf of California. Leonardo Huato-Soberanis and Daniel Lluch-Belda	128
A Historical Review of Fisheries Statistics and Environmental and Societal
Influences off  the Palos Verdes Peninsula, California.Janet K. Stull,        Kelly A. Dryden, and Paul A. Gregory	135
Demersal Fishes of the Upper Continental Slope off Southern California.        Jeffrey N. Cross	155
Tests of Ovary Subsampling Options and Preliminary Estimates of Batch Fecundity
for Two Paralabrax Species. Edward E. DeMartini	168
Effects of Sample Size and Contagion on Estimating Fish Egg Abundance.
Andrew E. Jahn and Paul E. Smith	171
Sampling for Eggs of Sardine and Other Fishes in the Coastal Zone Using the
CalVET Net.  Robert J. Lavenberg, Andrew E. Jahn, Gerald E. McGowen,        and James H. Petersen	178