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Vol. 74, No. 3 lU—- - July 1976 



BREDER, CHARLES M., JR. Fish schools as operational structures 471 



PARRACK, M. L. Estimation of fishing effort in the western North Atlantic from | 



aerial search data 503 I 



ARTHUR, DAVID K. Food and feeding of larvae of three fishes occurring in the f 



California Current, Sardinops sagax, Engraidis mordax, and Trachurus sym- I 



vietricus 517 I 



FLANAGAN, CHRISTINE A., and JOHN R. HENDRICKSON. Observations on the | 



\ commercial fishery and reproductive biology of the totoaba, Cynoscion macdonaldi, in | 



! the northern Gulf of California 531 t 



\ KORN, SID, NINA HIRSCH, and JEANNETTE W. STRUHSAKER. Uptake, | 



I distribution, and depuration of ^"^C-benzene in northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, f 



and striped bass, Morone saxatilis 545 : 



: SKILLMAN, ROBERT A., and MARIAN Y. Y. YONG. Von Bertalanffy growth i 



curves for striped marlin, Tetrapturiis audax, and blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, * 



in the central North Pacific Ocean 553 



HOBSON, EDMUND S., and JAMES R. CHESS. Trophic interactions among fishes 



t and zooplankters near shore at Santa Catalina Island, California 567 



* WEINSTEIN, MICHAEL P., and RALPH W. YERGER. Protein taxonomy of the 



I Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean seatrouts, genus Cynoscion 599 



j ZWEIFEL, JAMES R., and REUBEN LASKER. Prehatch and posthatch growth of 



I fishes-a general model 609 



\ MILLER, R. J. North American crab fisheries: Regulations and their rationales . . . 623 

 j CLARKE, THOMAS A., and PATRICIA J. WAGNER. Vertical distribution and 



other aspects of the ecology of certain mesopelagic fishes taken near Hawaii .... 635 

 MANZER, J. I. Distribution, food, and feeding of the threespine stickleback, 

 Gasterosteus aculeatus, in Great Central Lake, Vancouver Island, with comments 



on competition for food with juvenile sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka 647 



WESTERNHAGEN, HEIN von, and HARALD ROSENTHAL. Predator-prey 

 relationship between Pacific herring, Clnpea harengus pallasi, larvae and a preda- 

 tory hyperiid amphipod, Hyperoche medusarum 669 



LAURS, R. MICHAEL, WILLIAM H. LENARZ, and ROBERT N. NISHIMOTO. 

 Estimates of rates of tag shedding by North Pacific albacore, Thunnus alalunga . 675 



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