Fishery Bulletin; Volume 93; Number 1

Contents: 1. Barlow, Jay the abundance of cetaceans in California waters. Part 1: ship surveys in summer and fall of 1991, 15. Forney, Karin A., Jay Barlow, and James V. Carretta the abundance to cetaceans in California waters. Part II: Aerial surveys in winter and spring of 1991 and 1992, 27. Bruce, Barry D larvcal development of King Georgewhiting, Sillaginodes punctata, school whiting, Sillago bassensis, and yellow fin whiting Sillago schomburgkii (percoidei: sillaginidae), from south Australian waters, 44. Carls, Mark G., and Charles E. O'Clair responses of Tanner cravs, Chionoecetes bairdi, exposed to cold air, 57. Cortes, Enric demographic analysis of the Atlantic sharpnose shark, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae, in the Gulf of Mexico, 67. Ellis, Denise M., and Edward E. DeMartini evaluation of a video camera technique for indexing abundances of juvenile pink snapper, Pristipomoides filamentosus, and other Hawaiian insular shelf fishes, 78. Finnerty, Johan R., and Barbvara A. Block evolution of cytochrome b in the Sconbroidei (Teleostei): molecular insights into billfish (Istiophoridae and Xiphiidae) relationships, 97. Kornfield, Irv, Austin B. Williams, and Robert S. Steneck assignment of Homarus capensis (Gerbst, 1792) the Cape lobster of South Africa, to the new genus Homarinus (Decpoda: Nephropidae), 103. Milton, David A., Steven A. Short, Michael F. O'Neill, and Stephen J. M. Blaber ageing of three species of tropical snapper (Lutjanidae) from the Gulf of Carpentaria, Australia, using radiometry and otolith ring counts, 116. Natanson, Lisa J., John G. Casey, and Nancy E. Kohler age and growth estimates for the dusky shark, Carcharhinus obscurus, in the western North Atlantic Ocean, 127. Rickey, Martha H. maturity spawning and seasonal movement of arrowtooth flounder, Atheresthes stomias, off Washington, 139. Schmid, Jeffrey R. marine turtle populations on the east central coast of Florida: results of tagging studies at Cape Canaveral Florida, 1986-1991, Notes: 152. Benetti, Daniel D., Edwin S. Iversen, and Anthony C. Ostrowski growht rates of captive dolphin, Coryphaena hippurus, in Hawaii, 158. Canino, Michael F., and Elaine M. Caldarone modification and comparison of two fluorometric techniques for dererminig nucleic acid contents of fish larve, 166. Laidig, Thomas E., and Stephen Falston the potential use of otolith characters in identifying larval rockfish (Sebastes spp.), 172. Matsuura, Yasunobu, and Roger Hewitt changes in the spatial patchiness of Pacific mackerel Scomber japonicus, larvae with increasing age and size, 179. Riley, Cecilia M., G.Joan Holt, and Connie R. Arnold growth and morphology of larval and juvenile captive bred yellowtail snapper Ocyurus chrysurus, 186. Secor, David H., T. Mark Trice, and Harry T. Hornick validati8on of otolith based ageing and an comparison of otolith and scale based ageing in mark recaptured Chesapeake Bay striped bass, Morone saxatilis, 191. Szedlmayer, Stephen T., and Jeffrey C. Howe an evaluation of six marking methods for age 0 red drum, Sciaenops ocellatus, 196. Wiley, David N., Regina A. Asmutis, Thomas D. Pitchford and Damon P. Gannon stranding and mortality of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae in the mid Atlantic and southeast United States, 1985-1992, 207. Awards