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Wooos Hote, Jv»ass. 



Vol. 81, No. 1 



January 1983 



SMITH, TIM D. Changes in size of three dolphin (Stenella spp.) populations in 

 the eastern tropical Pacific 1 



LANGTON, RICHARD W. Food habits of yellowtail flounder, Limanda ferru- 

 gi>iia (Storer), from off the northeastern United States 15 



DUNN, JEAN R. Development and distribution of the young of northern smooth- 

 tongue, Leuroglossus sckmidti (Bathylagidae), in the northeast Pacific, with com- 

 ments on the systematics of the genus Leuroglossus Gilbert 23 



KATZ, S. J., C. B. GRIMES, and K. W. ABLE. Delineation of tilefish, Lopholatilus 

 chamaeleonticeps, stocks along the United States east coast and in the Gulf of 

 Mexico 41 



RICHARDS. R. ANNE, J. STANLEY COBB, and MICHAEL J. FOGARTY. 

 Effects of behavioral interactions on the catchability of American lobster, Ho- 

 marus americanus, and two species of Cancer crabs 51 



PARSONS, GLENN R. The reproductive biology of the Atlantic sharpnose 

 shark, Rhizoprionodon terraenovae (Richardson) 61 



APPELDOORN, RICHARD S. Variation in the growth rate of Myaarenaria and 

 its relationship to the environment as analyzed through principal components 

 analysis and the a> parameter of the von Bertalanffy equation 75 



SHAKLEE, JAMES B., RICHARD W. BRILL, and ROBIN ACERRA. Bio- 

 chemical genetics of Pacific blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, from Hawaiian 

 waters 85 



BARTOO, NORMAN W., and KEITH R. PARKER. Stochastic age-frequency 

 estimation using the von Bertalanffy growth equation 91 



JOHNSON, ALLYN G., WILLIAM A. FABLE, JR., MARK L. WILLIAMS, and 

 LYMAN E. BARGER. Age, growth, and mortality of king mackerel, Scom- 

 beromorus ca valla, from the southeastern United States 97 



HAN AN, DOYLE A. Review and analysis of the bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus, 

 fishery in the eastern North Pacific Ocean 107 



SWARTZMAN, GORDON L., and ROBERT T. HAAR. Interactions between 

 fur seal populations and fisheries in the Bering Sea 121 



DURBIN, ANN GAIL, EDWARD G. DURBIN, THOMAS J. SMAYDA, and 

 PETER G. VERITY. Age, size, growth, and chemical composition of Atlantic 

 menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, from Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island 133 



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