Fishery Bulletin 



CONTENTS 



Vol.74, No. 3 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 -^ 



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

 California Current, Sardinops sagax, Engraulis mordax, and Trachurus sym- 

 metricus 517 



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 



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

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

 and striped bass, Morone saxatilis 545 



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

 curves for striped marlin, Tetrapturus audax, and blue marlin, Makaira nigricans, 

 in the central North Pacific Ocean 553 



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

 and zooplankters near shore at Santa Catalina Island, California 567 



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

 Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean seatrouts, genus Cynoscion 599 



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

 fishes-a general model 609 ''' 



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



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, Clupea 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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