Vol 37, 1996

CalCOFI Reports, Vol. 37, 1996

Contents

 

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I. Reports, Review, and Publications

     Report of the CalCOFI Committee

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     Review of Some California Fisheries for 1995          .......................................

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     The State of the California Current in 1995-1996: Continuing Declines in
       Macrozooplankton Biomass during a Period of Nearly Normal Circulation.

         Thomas L. Hayward, Sherry L. Cummings, Daniel R. Cayan, Francisco P Chavez,

         Ronald J. Lynn, ArnoldW Mantyla, Pearn P Niiler, Franklin B. Schwing,

         Richard R. Veit, and Elizabeth L. Venrick     

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     Publications            

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II.  Symposia of the CalCOFI Conference, 1995

     INTERDECADAL CHANGES IN THE ECOLOGY OF THE CALIFORNIA CURRENT:

     EVIDENCE AND POSSIBLE MECHANISMS         

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     Long-Term Change in the North Pacific Ocean: A Consideration of Some Important

         Issues. Thomas L. Hayward               

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     Plankton Patterns, Climate, and Change in the California Current.

         John A. McGowan, Dudley B. Chelton, and Alessandra Conversi          

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     Recent Advances in California Current Modeling: Decadal and Interannual Thermocline

         Variations. Arthur J. Miller     

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     Interannual Variations in Zooplankton Biomass in the Gulf of Alaska, and Covariation

         withCalifornia Current Zooplankton Biomass. Richard D. Brodeur, Bruce W Frost,

         Steven R. Hare, Robert C. Francis, and W. James Ingraham Jr.             

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     Patterns of Low-Frequency Variability in Fish Populations of the California Current.

         Alec D. MacCall     

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     Is There Evidence for Long-Term Climatic Change in Southern California Kelp Forests?

         Mia J. Tegner, Paul K. Dayton, Peter B. Edwards, and Kristin L. Riser  

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 SARDINE SYMPOSIUM

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   The 1994 Mexico-U.S. Spawning Biomass Survey for Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax)

       and The 1995 CalCOFI Sardine Symposium.

       Pablo R. Arenas, John R. Hunter, and Larry D. Jacobson

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   A High-Speed Midwater Rope Trawl for Collecting Coastal Pelagic Fishes.

       Ronald C. Dotson and David A. Griffith

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   Adult Reproductive Parameters of Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) during 1994.

       Beverly J. Macewicz, Jose Julian Castro- Gonzalez, Celia Eva Cotero-Altamirano,

       and J. Roe Hunter

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   Age Composition, Growth, and Maturation of the Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax)

       during 1994. John L. Butler Maria Luisa Granados G., J. Thomas Barnes,

       Marci Yaremko, and Beverly J. Macewicz

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   Egg Production and Spawning Biomass of Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) in 1994,

       Determined by the Daily Egg Production Method. Nancy C. H. Lo, Yanira A.

       Green Ruiz, Mercedes J. Cervantes, H. Geoffrey Moser arid Ronald J. Lynn      

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   Catch-at-Age Analysis for Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax), 1983-1995.

       Richard B . Deriso, J. Thomas Barnes, Larry D. Jacobson, and Pablo R. Arenas

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   The Sardine Fishery along the WesternCoast of Baja California, 1981 to 1994.

        Roberto Felix-Uraga, ReynaAla. Alvarado- Castillo, and Roberto Carmona-Pina

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   Egg Production of Pacific Sardine (Sardinops sagax) off Oregon in 1994.

       Paul J. Bentley, Robert L. Emmett, Nancy C. H. Lo, and H. Geoffrey Moser

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   Modeling Deterministic Effects of Age Structure, Density Dependence, Environmental

       Forcing, and Fishing on the Population Dynamics of Sardinops sagaxcaeruleus in the

       Gulf of California. Miguel A. Cisneros-Mata, Gabriela Montemayor-Lopez, and

       Manuel 0. Nevarez-Martinez

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III. Scientific Contributions

   Demersal Fish Trawls off Palos Verdes, Southern California, 1973-1993.

       Janet K. Stull and Chi-Li Tang

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   Relationship between Deep Chlorophyll Maximum and Surface Chlorophyll Concentration

       In the California Current System. Roberto Millan-Nunez, Saul Alvarez-Borrego, and

       Charles C. Trees      

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   Filtering Apparatus and Feeding of the Pacific Mackerel (Scomber japonicus) in the Gulf

       of California.Raul E. Molina, Fernando A. Manrique, and Hector E. Velasco       

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   Annual Variability of Ocean Currents at 350-m Depth over the Continental Slope off

       Point Sur, California.Curtis A. Collins, Robert G. Paquette, and Steven R. Ramp  

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