U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 101 

 Number 4 

 October 2003 



Fishery 

 Bulletih 



'/'O'lne Biological Laboratory/ 

 Wooos Hole Ocoanngraphic Institution 



Library 



NOV 2 1 2003 



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Contents 



The conclusions and opinions expressed 

 in Ftshery Bulletin are solely those of the 

 authors and do not represent the official 

 position of the National Marine Fisher- 

 ies Service INOAA) or any other agency 

 or institution 



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Articles 



721-731 Baum, Julia K., Jessica J. Meeuwig, and 



Amanda C. J. Vincent 



Bycatch of lined seahorses (Hippocampus erectus) in a 

 Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery 



732-736 Bjorndal, Karen A., Alan B. Bolten, and Helen R. Mattins 



Estimates of suiA/ival probabilities for oceanic-stage loggerhead 

 sea turtles (.Caretta caretta) in the North Atlantic 



737-744 Chen, Yong, Margaret Hunter, Robert Vadas, and 

 Brian Beal 



Developing a growth-transition matnx for the stock assessment of 

 the green sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) off Maine 



745-757 de Lestang, Simon, Norman G. Hall, and Ian C. Potter 



Reproductive biology of the blue swimmer crab (Portunus pelagicus, 

 Decapoda: Portunidae) in five bodies of water on the west coast of 

 Australia 



758-768 Dew, Jodi R., Jim Berkson, Eric M. Hallerman, and 

 Standish K. Allen Jr. 



A model for assessing the likelihood of self-sustaining populations 

 resulting from commercial production of tnploid Suminoe oysters 

 (Crassostrea ahakensis) in Chesapeake Bay 



769-777 Diaz-Jaimes, Pindaro, and Manuel Uribe-Alcocer 



Allozyme and RAPD vanation in the eastern Pacific yellowfin tuna 

 (Thunnus albacares) 



778-789 Govoni, John Jeffrey, Elisabeth H. Laban, and 

 Jonathan A. Hare 



The early life history of swordfish iXiphias gladius) in the western 

 North Atlantic 



790-799 Heales, Donald S., David T. Brewer, You-Gan Wang, and 

 Peter N. Jones 



Does the size of subsamples take from multispecies trawl catches 

 affect estimates of catch composition and abundance? 



