U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 98 

 Number 2 

 April 2000 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



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 authors and do not represent the official 

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 ies Service (NOAAi or an> other agency 

 or institution. 



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Articles 



227-235 Acha, Eduardo M., and Gustavo J. Macchi 



Spawning of Brazilian menhaden, Brevoortia aurea, in the 

 Rio de la Plata estuary off Argentina and Uruguay 



236-249 Brewster-Geisz, Karyl K., and Thomas J. Miller 



Management of the sandbar shark, Carcharhinus plumbeus: 

 implications of a stage-based model 



250-263 Keen Alonso, Mariano, Enrique A. Crespo, 

 Susana N. Pedraza, Nestor A. Garcia, and 

 Mariano A. Coscarella 



Food habits of the South American sea lion, Otaria flavescens, off 

 Patagonia, Argentina 



264-282 Lo, Nancy C. H, John R. Hunter, and James H. Churnside 



Modeling statistical performance of an airborne lidar survey system 

 for anchovy 



283-289 Macchi, Gustavo J., and Eduardo M. Acha 



Spawning frequency and batch fecundity of Brazilian menhaden, 

 Brevoortia aurea, in the Rio de la Plata estuary off 

 Argentina and Uruguay 



290-298 Manickchand-Heileman, Sherry C, and Dawn A. T. Phillip 



Age and growth of the yellowedge grouper, 

 Epinephelus flavolimbatus, and the yellowmouth grouper, 

 Mycteroperca interstitialis, off Trinidad and Tobago 



299-318 Mollet, Henry F., Geremy Cliff, Harold L. Pratt Jr., and 

 John D. Stevens 



Reproductive biology of the female shortfin mako, Isurus oxyrindtus 

 Rafinesque, 1810, with comments on the embryonic development of 

 lamnoids 



319-335 Mortensen, Donald, Alex Wertheimer, Sidney Taylor, and 

 Joyce Landingham 



The relation between early marine growth of pink salmon, 

 Oncorhynchus gorbuscha, and marine temperature, secondary 

 production, and sui"vival to adulthood 



