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SPECIAL ISSUE Whale Sharks: Science, Conservation and Management Proceedings of the First International Whale Shark Conference Foreword International collaboration in science, conservation and sustainable tourism of whale sharks T.R. Irvine and J.K. Keesing (Western Australia, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part I. Science Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) biology and ecology: A review of the primary literature J.D. Stevens (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A review of behavioural ecology of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) R.A. Martin (Vancouver, Canada and North Male’ Atoll, Maldives) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Satellite tracking of whale sharks using tethered tags A. Gifford (Princeton, NJ, USA), L.J.V. Compagno (Cape Town, South Africa), M. Levine and A. Antoniou (Princeton, NJ, USA) . . . Satellite tracking of juvenile whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Northwestern Pacific H.-H. Hsu, S.-J. Joung (Keelung, Taiwan), Y.-Y. Liao (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and K.-M. Liu (Taiwan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regional scale horizontal and local scale vertical movements of whale sharks in the Indian Ocean off Seychelles D. Rowat (Mahe, Seychelles) and M. Gore (Isle of Cumbrae, UK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aerial census of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) on the northern KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa G. Cliff, M.D. Anderson-Reade (Umhlanga, South Africa), A.P. Aitken (Rondebosch, South Africa), G.E. Charter and V.M. Peddemors (Umhlanga, South Africa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foraging ecology of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) within Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California Norte, México J.D. Nelson and S.A. Eckert (San Diego, CA, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ram filter-feeding and nocturnal feeding of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia J.G. Taylor (Western Australia, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assessing the size, growth rate and structure of a seasonal population of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus Smith 1828) using conventional tagging and photo identification R.T. Graham (Punta Gorda, Belize and York, UK) and C.M. Roberts (York, UK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Size and maturity status of the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia B.M. Norman (Western Australia, Australia) and J.D. Stevens (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Variations of the mitochondrial control region sequence in whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) from the Gulf of California, Mexico D. Ramírez-Macías, R. Vázquez-Juárez, F. Galván-Magaña and A. Munguía-Vega (La Paz, Mexico) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part II. Conservation and Management Occurrence of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in the Indian Ocean: A case for regional conservation D. Rowat (Mahe, Seychelles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tourist compliance to a Code of Conduct and the resulting effects on whale shark (Rhincodon typus) behavior in Donsol, Philippines A.L. Quiros (New Haven, CT, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seychelles: A case study of community involvement in the development of whale shark ecotourism and its socio-economic impact D. Rowat (Mahe, Seychelles) and U. Engelhardt (Queensland, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Community-based management through ecotourism in Bahia de los Angeles, Mexico N. Cárdenas-Torres, R. Enríquez-Andrade and N. Rodríguez-Dowdell (Baja California, Mexico) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Property rights-based management: Whale shark ecotourism in Bahia de los Angeles, Mexico N. Rodríguez-Dowdell, R. Enríquez-Andrade and N. Cárdenas-Torres (Baja California, Mexico) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short communications Whale shark landings in Indonesian artisanal shark and ray fisheries W.T. White (Murdoch WA, Australia) and R.D. Cavanagh (Cambridge, England) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Occurrence of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Madagascar M. Jonahson and S. Harding (Antananarivo, Madagascar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . doi:10.1016/S0165-7836(07)00064-1
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Artisanal fisheries and reproductive biology of the golden cownose ray, Rhinoptera steindachneri Evermann and Jenkins, 1891, in the northern Mexican Pacific J.J. Bizzarro, W.D. Smith (Moss Landing, CA, USA), J.F. Márquez-Farías (Sinaloa, Mexico) and R.E. Hueter (Sarasota, FL, USA) . . . . . Population dynamics of the green mussel Perna viridis from the high spat-fall coastal water of Malacca, Peninsular Malaysia S.M. Al-Barwani, A. Arshad, S.M.N. Amin, S.B. Japar, S.S. Siraj and C.K. Yap (Selangor, Malaysia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Detecting declines in catch rates of diverse trawl bycatch species, and implications for monitoring D.S. Heales, D.T. Brewer, P.M. Kuhnert and P.N. Jones (Cleveland, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fisher knowledge as expert system: A case from the longline fishery of Grenada, the Eastern Caribbean S. Grant and F. Berkes (Manitoba, Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A three-dimensional approach to school typology using vertical scanning multibeam sonar J. Paramo (Santa Marta, Colombia), S. Bertrand (Sète, France), H. Villalobos (Baja California Sur, Mexico) and F. Gerlotto (Sète, France) . . . . Influence of water temperature and fish length on the maximum swimming speed of sand flathead, Platycephalus bassensis: Implications for trawl selectivity K. Yanase (Tokyo, Japan), S. Eayrs (Tasmania, Australia) and T. Arimoto (Tokyo, Japan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Population dynamics of pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) and its linkage to fishery driven and climatic influences in a southern Baltic lagoon of the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain J.P. Gröger (New Bedford, MA, USA), H. Winkler (Rostock, Germany) and R.A. Rountree (New Bedford, MA, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . On fishing selectivity of hadrah (fixed stake trap) in the coastal waters of Kuwait A.F. Al-Baz, W. Chen, J.M. Bishop, M. Al-Husaini and S.A. Al-Ayoub (Salimyah, Kuwait) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modeling shark bycatch: The zero-inflated negative binomial regression model with smoothing M. Minami (Tokyo, Japan), C.E. Lennert-Cody (La Jolla, CA, USA), W. Gao (Jilin, China) and M. Román-Verdesoto (La Jolla, CA, USA) . . . Simulation-based study of the combined effect on cod-end size selection of turning meshes by 90° and reducing the number of meshes in the circumference for round fish B. Herrmann (Hirtshals, Denmark), D. Priour (Plouzane, France) and L.A. Krag (Hirtshals, Denmark) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Environmental, spatial, temporal and operational effects on swordfish (Xiphias gladius) catch rates of eastern Mediterranean Sea longline fisheries D. Damalas, P. Megalofonou and M. Apostolopoulou (Athens, Greece) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fish age categorization from otolith images using multi-class support vector machines S. Bermejo, B. Monegal and J. Cabestany (Barcelona, Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evaluating catchability assumptions for change-in-ratio and index-removal estimators, with application to southern rock lobster S.D. Frusher (Tasmania, Australia), J.M. Hoenig and T.F. Ihde (Gloucester Point, VA, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short communications Age, growth, reproductive biology and feed of the common guitarfish (Rhinobatos rhinobatos Linnaeus, 1758) in I˙skenderun Bay, the eastern Mediterranean Sea A. Ismen, C. Yıgın and P. Ismen (Çanakkale, Turkey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fish age classification based on length, weight, sex and otolith morphological features S. Bermejo (Barcelona, Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VOL. 84 NO. 3
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Estimation of a stock–recruitment relationship for Black Sea anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) under the influence of nutrient enrichment and the invasive comb-jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi D. Knowler (Burnaby, Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Application of the sex-specific age-structured assessment method for swordfish, Xiphias gladius, in the North Pacific Ocean S.-P. Wang, C.-L. Sun (Taipei, Taiwan), A.E. Punt (Seattle, WA, USA) and S.-Z. Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The impacts of spear and other recreational fishers on a small permanent Marine Protected Area and adjacent pulse fished area C.G. Meyer (Kaneohe, HI, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A preliminary investigation of the use of subcutaneous tagging in Caribbean reef squid Sepioteuthis sepioidea (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) S.E. Replinger and J.B. Wood (Bermuda) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Bayesian analysis of NSW eastern king prawn stocks (Melicertus plebejus) using multiple model structures M.C. Ives (Sydney, Australia) and J.P. Scandol (Cronulla, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spatial patterns in cohort-specific mortality of red throat emperor, Lethrinus miniatus, on the Great Barrier Reef A.J. Williams (Townsville, Australia), B.D. Mapstone and C.R. Davies (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The effect of hook/bait size and angling technique on the hooking location and the catch of recreationally caught black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri D. Grixti, S.D. Conron (Queenscliff, Australia) and P.L. Jones (Warrnambool, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Movement of adult edible crab (Cancer pagurus L.) at the Swedish West Coast by mark-recapture and acoustic tracking A. Ungfors (Strömstad, Sweden), H. Hallbäck (Lysekil, Sweden) and P.G. Nilsson (Strömstad, Sweden) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reproductive biology and per-recruit analyses of striped trumpeter (Latris lineata) from Tasmania, Australia: Implications for management S.R. Tracey, J.M. Lyle and M. Haddon (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Individual transferable quotas in the Baltic Sea herring fishery: A socio-bioeconomic analysis S. Kulmala, H. Peltomäki, M. Lindroos P. Söderkultalahti and S. Kuikka (Helsinki, Finland) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seasonal changes in the diet composition and prey selection of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) in the northern Gulf of Alaska C.F. Adams, A.I. Pinchuk (Seward, AK, USA) and K.O. Coyle (Fairbanks, AK, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reducing fisheries model complexity using a finite Fourier series reparameterization S. Subbey, D. Howell, B. Bogstad and M. Åsnes (Bergen, Norway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents of Fisheries Research, Volume 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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SPECIAL ISSUE Whale Sharks: Science, Conservation and Management Proceedings of the First International Whale Shark Conference Foreword International collaboration in science, conservation and sustainable tourism of whale sharks T.R. Irvine and J.K. Keesing (Western Australia, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part I. Science Whale shark (Rhincodon typus) biology and ecology: A review of the primary literature J.D. Stevens (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A review of behavioural ecology of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) R.A. Martin (Vancouver, Canada and North Male’ Atoll, Maldives) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Satellite tracking of whale sharks using tethered tags A. Gifford (Princeton, NJ, USA), L.J.V. Compagno (Cape Town, South Africa), M. Levine and A. Antoniou (Princeton, NJ, USA) . . . Satellite tracking of juvenile whale sharks, Rhincodon typus, in the Northwestern Pacific H.-H. Hsu, S.-J. Joung (Keelung, Taiwan), Y.-Y. Liao (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and K.-M. Liu (Taiwan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Regional scale horizontal and local scale vertical movements of whale sharks in the Indian Ocean off Seychelles D. Rowat (Mahe, Seychelles) and M. Gore (Isle of Cumbrae, UK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Aerial census of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) on the northern KwaZulu-Natal coast, South Africa G. Cliff, M.D. Anderson-Reade (Umhlanga, South Africa), A.P. Aitken (Rondebosch, South Africa), G.E. Charter and V.M. Peddemors (Umhlanga, South Africa) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Foraging ecology of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) within Bahía de Los Angeles, Baja California Norte, México J.D. Nelson and S.A. Eckert (San Diego, CA, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ram filter-feeding and nocturnal feeding of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia J.G. Taylor (Western Australia, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assessing the size, growth rate and structure of a seasonal population of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus Smith 1828) using conventional tagging and photo identification R.T. Graham (Punta Gorda, Belize and York, UK) and C.M. Roberts (York, UK) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Size and maturity status of the whale shark (Rhincodon typus) at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia B.M. Norman (Western Australia, Australia) and J.D. Stevens (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Variations of the mitochondrial control region sequence in whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) from the Gulf of California, Mexico D. Ramírez-Macías, R. Vázquez-Juárez, F. Galván-Magaña and A. Munguía-Vega (La Paz, Mexico) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Part II. Conservation and Management Occurrence of whale shark (Rhincodon typus) in the Indian Ocean: A case for regional conservation D. Rowat (Mahe, Seychelles) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tourist compliance to a Code of Conduct and the resulting effects on whale shark (Rhincodon typus) behavior in Donsol, Philippines A.L. Quiros (New Haven, CT, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seychelles: A case study of community involvement in the development of whale shark ecotourism and its socio-economic impact D. Rowat (Mahe, Seychelles) and U. Engelhardt (Queensland, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Community-based management through ecotourism in Bahia de los Angeles, Mexico N. Cárdenas-Torres, R. Enríquez-Andrade and N. Rodríguez-Dowdell (Baja California, Mexico) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Property rights-based management: Whale shark ecotourism in Bahia de los Angeles, Mexico N. Rodríguez-Dowdell, R. Enríquez-Andrade and N. Cárdenas-Torres (Baja California, Mexico) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short communications Whale shark landings in Indonesian artisanal shark and ray fisheries W.T. White (Murdoch WA, Australia) and R.D. Cavanagh (Cambridge, England) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Occurrence of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) in Madagascar M. Jonahson and S. Harding (Antananarivo, Madagascar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . doi:10.1016/S0165-7836(07)00064-1
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Artisanal fisheries and reproductive biology of the golden cownose ray, Rhinoptera steindachneri Evermann and Jenkins, 1891, in the northern Mexican Pacific J.J. Bizzarro, W.D. Smith (Moss Landing, CA, USA), J.F. Márquez-Farías (Sinaloa, Mexico) and R.E. Hueter (Sarasota, FL, USA) . . . . . Population dynamics of the green mussel Perna viridis from the high spat-fall coastal water of Malacca, Peninsular Malaysia S.M. Al-Barwani, A. Arshad, S.M.N. Amin, S.B. Japar, S.S. Siraj and C.K. Yap (Selangor, Malaysia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Detecting declines in catch rates of diverse trawl bycatch species, and implications for monitoring D.S. Heales, D.T. Brewer, P.M. Kuhnert and P.N. Jones (Cleveland, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fisher knowledge as expert system: A case from the longline fishery of Grenada, the Eastern Caribbean S. Grant and F. Berkes (Manitoba, Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A three-dimensional approach to school typology using vertical scanning multibeam sonar J. Paramo (Santa Marta, Colombia), S. Bertrand (Sète, France), H. Villalobos (Baja California Sur, Mexico) and F. Gerlotto (Sète, France) . . . . Influence of water temperature and fish length on the maximum swimming speed of sand flathead, Platycephalus bassensis: Implications for trawl selectivity K. Yanase (Tokyo, Japan), S. Eayrs (Tasmania, Australia) and T. Arimoto (Tokyo, Japan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Population dynamics of pikeperch (Sander lucioperca) and its linkage to fishery driven and climatic influences in a southern Baltic lagoon of the Darss-Zingst Bodden Chain J.P. Gröger (New Bedford, MA, USA), H. Winkler (Rostock, Germany) and R.A. Rountree (New Bedford, MA, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . On fishing selectivity of hadrah (fixed stake trap) in the coastal waters of Kuwait A.F. Al-Baz, W. Chen, J.M. Bishop, M. Al-Husaini and S.A. Al-Ayoub (Salimyah, Kuwait) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Modeling shark bycatch: The zero-inflated negative binomial regression model with smoothing M. Minami (Tokyo, Japan), C.E. Lennert-Cody (La Jolla, CA, USA), W. Gao (Jilin, China) and M. Román-Verdesoto (La Jolla, CA, USA) . . . Simulation-based study of the combined effect on cod-end size selection of turning meshes by 90° and reducing the number of meshes in the circumference for round fish B. Herrmann (Hirtshals, Denmark), D. Priour (Plouzane, France) and L.A. Krag (Hirtshals, Denmark) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Environmental, spatial, temporal and operational effects on swordfish (Xiphias gladius) catch rates of eastern Mediterranean Sea longline fisheries D. Damalas, P. Megalofonou and M. Apostolopoulou (Athens, Greece) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fish age categorization from otolith images using multi-class support vector machines S. Bermejo, B. Monegal and J. Cabestany (Barcelona, Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Evaluating catchability assumptions for change-in-ratio and index-removal estimators, with application to southern rock lobster S.D. Frusher (Tasmania, Australia), J.M. Hoenig and T.F. Ihde (Gloucester Point, VA, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Short communications Age, growth, reproductive biology and feed of the common guitarfish (Rhinobatos rhinobatos Linnaeus, 1758) in I˙skenderun Bay, the eastern Mediterranean Sea A. Ismen, C. Yıgın and P. Ismen (Çanakkale, Turkey) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Fish age classification based on length, weight, sex and otolith morphological features S. Bermejo (Barcelona, Spain) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VOL. 84 NO. 3
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Estimation of a stock–recruitment relationship for Black Sea anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus) under the influence of nutrient enrichment and the invasive comb-jelly, Mnemiopsis leidyi D. Knowler (Burnaby, Canada) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Application of the sex-specific age-structured assessment method for swordfish, Xiphias gladius, in the North Pacific Ocean S.-P. Wang, C.-L. Sun (Taipei, Taiwan), A.E. Punt (Seattle, WA, USA) and S.-Z. Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The impacts of spear and other recreational fishers on a small permanent Marine Protected Area and adjacent pulse fished area C.G. Meyer (Kaneohe, HI, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A preliminary investigation of the use of subcutaneous tagging in Caribbean reef squid Sepioteuthis sepioidea (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) S.E. Replinger and J.B. Wood (Bermuda) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A Bayesian analysis of NSW eastern king prawn stocks (Melicertus plebejus) using multiple model structures M.C. Ives (Sydney, Australia) and J.P. Scandol (Cronulla, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Spatial patterns in cohort-specific mortality of red throat emperor, Lethrinus miniatus, on the Great Barrier Reef A.J. Williams (Townsville, Australia), B.D. Mapstone and C.R. Davies (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The effect of hook/bait size and angling technique on the hooking location and the catch of recreationally caught black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri D. Grixti, S.D. Conron (Queenscliff, Australia) and P.L. Jones (Warrnambool, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Movement of adult edible crab (Cancer pagurus L.) at the Swedish West Coast by mark-recapture and acoustic tracking A. Ungfors (Strömstad, Sweden), H. Hallbäck (Lysekil, Sweden) and P.G. Nilsson (Strömstad, Sweden) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reproductive biology and per-recruit analyses of striped trumpeter (Latris lineata) from Tasmania, Australia: Implications for management S.R. Tracey, J.M. Lyle and M. Haddon (Tasmania, Australia) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Individual transferable quotas in the Baltic Sea herring fishery: A socio-bioeconomic analysis S. Kulmala, H. Peltomäki, M. Lindroos P. Söderkultalahti and S. Kuikka (Helsinki, Finland) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Seasonal changes in the diet composition and prey selection of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) in the northern Gulf of Alaska C.F. Adams, A.I. Pinchuk (Seward, AK, USA) and K.O. Coyle (Fairbanks, AK, USA) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reducing fisheries model complexity using a finite Fourier series reparameterization S. Subbey, D. Howell, B. Bogstad and M. Åsnes (Bergen, Norway) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contents of Fisheries Research, Volume 84 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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