My purpose in this book is to bring together in one place a summary of the voluminous
information relevant to fisheries oceanography that has been published during the more …

The international effort to prevent the collapse of Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT, Thunnus
thynnus, Scombridae) stocks exemplifies the challenges associated with modern marine …

Few fisheries oceanography surveys in the United States have sampled hydrography and
ichthyoplankton or juvenile fishes for 15 years or more. We describe six long time series …

Due to their sensitivity to climate forcing that may alter their abundance and distribution,
small pelagic fish are important ecological indicators of the state of the California Current …

The preferential larval distributions of 22 fish species in the California Current System were
identified in their temporal, spatial, and thermal domains using single parameter quotient …

The descriptive physical oceanography of the California Current System has been well
reviewed in the literature. In this chapter I provide an up to date summary of the features that …

The California market squid is ecologically and economically important to the California
Current Ecosystem and coastal communities. However, the population undergoes periodic …

Globally, the exploitation of small pelagic fish, like Pacific mackerel is of great importance
due to food industry demand. However, there are few studies regarding its parasites load …

We report the ingestion of wire by a Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus chick at San
Pedro Mártir Island, Gulf of California, Mexico. A scat sample collected from a four-to five …

Pacific mackerel stock assessment is conducted annually in support of the Pacific Fishery
Management Council (PFMC) process, which ultimately establishes a harvest guideline …