Fishery Bulletin articles from January 2002

Fishery Bulletin archives from January 2002

The use of agreement measures and latent class models to assess the reliability of classifying thermally marked otoliths *.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--Otolith thermal marking is an efficient method for mass marking hatchery-reared salmon and can be used to estimate the proportion of hatchery fish captured in a mixed-stock fishery. Accuracy of the thermal pattern classification...

Local distribution and abundance of swimming crabs (Callinectes spp. and Arenaeus cribrarius) on a tropical arid beach.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--Distribution, abundance, and several population features were studied in Ensenada de La Vela (Venezuela) between 1993 and 1998 as a first step in the assessment of local fisheries of swimming crabs. Arenaeus cribrarius was the most...

Age, growth, and reproduction of permit (Trachinotus falcatus) in Florida waters.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--We examined 536 permit (Trachinotus falcatus, 65-916 mm FL) collected from the waters of Florida Keys and from the Tampa Bay area on Florida's Gulf coast to describe their growth and reproduction. Among permit that we sexed, females...

Tag-reporting levels for red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) caught by anglers in South Carolina and Georgia estuaries *.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--A total of 1784 legal-size ([greater than or equal to] 356 mm TL) hatchery-produced red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) were tagged and released to estimate tag-reporting levels of recreational anglers in South Carolina (SC) and Georgia...

Age, growth, and mortality of the Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus) from the southeastern Everglades.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--Mayan cichlids (Cichlasoma urophthalmus) were collected monthly from March 1996 to October 1997 with hook-and-line gear at Taylor River, Florida, an area within the Crocodile Sanctuary of Everglades National Park, where human...

Population status, seasonal variation in abundance, and long-term population trends of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) at the South Farallon Islands, California *.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--We examined seasonal and annual variation in numbers of Steller (northern) sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) at the South Farallon Islands from counts conducted weekly from 1974 to 1996. Numbers of adult and sub-adult males peaked during...

Larval and settlement periods of the northern searobin (Prionotus carolinus) and the striped searobin (P. evolans) *.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--This study reports new information about searobin (Prionotus spp.) early life history from samples collected with a Tucker trawl (for planktonic stages) and a beam trawl (for newly settled fish) from the coastal waters of New Jersey....

Assessing the precision of frequency distributions estimated from trawl-survey samples.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--In trawl surveys a cluster of fish are caught at each station, and fish caught together tend to have more similar characteristics, such as length, age, stomach contents etc., than those in the entire population. When this is the case,...

Estimated ages of red porgy (Pagrus pagrus) from fishery-dependent and fishery-independent data and a comparison of growth parameters.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--The red porgy, Pagrus pagrus, is an important reef fish in several offshore fisheries along the southeastern United States. We examined samples from North Carolina through southeast Florida from recreational (headboat) and commercial...

Bycatch in the tuna purse-seine fisheries of the western Indian Ocean.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--Bycatch taken by the tuna purse-seine fishery from the Indian Ocean pelagic ecosystem was estimated from data collected by scientific observers aboard Soviet purse seiners in the western Indian Ocean (WIO) during 1986-92. A total of...

Ontogenetic shifts in natural diet during benthic stages of American lobster (Homarus americanus), off the Magdalen Islands.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... Abstract--The natural diet of 506 American lobsters (Homarus americanus) ranging from instar V (4 mm cephalothorax length, CL) to the adult stage (112 mm CL) was determined by stomach content analysis for a site in the Magdalen Islands, Gulf of...

Age and growth of Hawaiian green seaturtles (Chelonia mydas): an analysis based on skeletochronology.
January 1, 2002... Abstract--Skeletochronological data on growth changes in humerus diameter were used to estimate the age of Hawaiian green seaturtles ranging from 28.7 to 96.0 cm straight carapace length. Two age estimation methods, correction factor and spline...

Estimates of lobster-handling mortality associated with the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands lobster-trap fishery.
January 1, 2002... The commercial lobster fishery in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) is a distant-water trap fishery that targets the Hawaiian spiny lobster (Panulirus marginatus) and slipper lobster (Scyllarides squammosus). The NWHI are an isolated...

An evaluation of pop-up satellite tags for estimating postrelease survival of blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) from a recreational fishery *.
January 1, 2002... Blue marlin (Makaira nigricans) represent an important commercial and recreational resource throughout tropical and subtropical oceanic waters. In the Atlantic Ocean, blue marlin are managed as a single, oceanwide stock. In the most recent...

Reproduction of the blacknose shark (Carcharhinus acronotus) in coastal waters off northeastern Brazil.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... The blacknose shark, Carcharhinus acronotus, is a relatively small carcharinid, typically inhabiting continental shelf areas in the western Atlantic Ocean, from North Carolina throughout the Gulf of Mexico (Bigelow and Schroeder, 1948) and...

A new growth model for red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) that accommodates seasonal and ontogenic changes in growth rates.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2002... The red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) is a popular gamefish found throughout the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico and along the eastern seaboard as far north as Massachusetts. Juvenile red drum grow extremely rapidly, especially during the...