U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 98 

 Number 3 

 July 2000 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



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Articles 



451 -462 Bolles, Karen L., and Gavin A. Begg 



Distinction between silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis) stocks in U.S. 

 waters of the northwest Atlantic based on whole otolith morphometries 



463-473 Broadhurst, Matt K., Pual E. McShane, and 

 Roger B. Larsen 



Effects of twine diameter and mesh size in the body of prawn trawls on 

 bycatch in Gulf St. Vincent, Australia 



474-488 Cappo, Mike, Peter Eden, Stephen J. Newman, and 

 Simon Robertson 



A new approach to validation of periodicity and timing of opaque zone 

 formation in the otoliths of eleven species of Lutjanus from the central 

 Great Barrier Reef 



489-506 DeMartini, Edward E., James H. Uchiyama, and 

 Happy A. Williams 



Sexual maturity, sex ratio, and size composition of swordfish, Xiphlas 

 gladlus, caught by the Hawaii-based pelagic longline fishery 



507-527 Drass, Denice M., Kevin L. Bootes, 



Joanne Lyczkowski-Shultz, Bruce H. Comyns, 



G. Joan Holt, Cecilia M. Riley, and Ronald P. Phelps 



Larval development of red snapper, Lutjanus campechanus, and 

 comparisons with co-occurring snapper species 



528-538 McBride, Richard S., and Kim A. McKown 



Consequences of dispersal of subtropically spawned crevalle jacks, 

 Caranx hippos, to temperate estuaries 



539-582 Orr, James W., and Ann C. Matarese 



Revision of the genus Lepidopsetta Gill, 1862 (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) 

 based on larval and adult morphology, with a description of a new 

 species from the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea 



583-599 Ortiz, Mauricio, Christopher M. Legault, and 

 Nelson M. Ehrhardt 



An alternative method for estimating bycatch from the U.S. shrimp 

 trawl fishery in the Gulf of Mexico, 1972-1995 



