A^A/ards 



U.S. Department of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



The Publications Advisory Committee of the National Marine Fisheries 

 Service has announced the best publications authored by NMFS scien- 

 tists and published in the Fishery Bulletin for 1 987 and 1 988 and Marine 

 Fisheries Review for 1 986 and 1 987, Only effective and interpretive articles 

 which significantly contribute to the understanding and knowledge of 

 NMFS mission-related studies are eligible, and the following pages were 

 judged as the best in meeting this requirement. 



Fishery Bulletin 1 987 



Dean W. Ahrenholz, Walter R. Nelson, and Sheryan P. Epperly 



Population and fishery characteristics of Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia 

 tyrannus. Fishery Bulletin, U.S. 85:569-600, Dean Ahrenholz and Sheryan 

 Epperly are with the Beaufort Laboratory, Southeast Fisheries Science 

 Center, Beaufort, North Carolina: Walter Nelson is with the Pascagoula 

 Laboratory, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Pascagoula, Mississippi. 



Fishery Bulletin 1 988 



Edmund S. Hobson and James R. Chess 



Trophic relations of the blue rockfish, Sebasies mystinus, in a coastal 

 upwelling system off northern California. Fishery Bulletin, U.S. 86:7 1 5-743. 

 Both authors are with the Tiburon Laboratory, Southwest Fisheries Science 

 Center, Tiburon, California. 



Marine Fisheries Review 1 986 



Austin B. Williams 



Lobsters— Identification, world distribution, and U.S. trade. Marine Fisheries 

 Review 48(2): I -36. The author is with the NMFS Systematics Laboratory, 

 National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC. 



l\/larine Fisheries Revie\A/ 1987 



Arthur W. Kendall Jr., and Ann C. Matarese 



Biology of eggs, larvae, and epipelagicjuveniles of sablefish, Anoplopoma 

 fimbria, in relation to their potential use in management. Marine Fisheries 

 Review 49(1): I -13. Both authors are with the Resource Assessment & 

 Conservation Engineering Division, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, 

 Seattle, Washington, 



John Alan Gulland 



1926-1990 



We report with sadness the death of 

 John Gulland on June 24, 1990 after 

 a long illness. He is remembered for 

 his work on population dynamics and 

 effects of exploitation on fish stocks, 

 and for his clear insights into the 

 problems of conservation and effec- 

 tive management of fisheries re- 

 sources. 



John Gulland trained at Cam- 

 bridge as an applied mathematician. 

 Early in his career, he joined the 

 Fisheries Laboratory at Lowestaft. 

 At this time, fisheries in the North 

 Atlantic were rebounding after the 

 hiatus of World War II and it had 

 become clear that scientific manage- 

 ment was required. Various interna- 

 tional commissions were established 

 for fisheries management, each of 

 which had a scientific committee 

 associated with it. It was not long 

 before Gulland began to play a major 

 role in these committees, insisting on 

 obtaining from each participating 

 country the data needed from their 

 fisheries. It was his careful analysis 

 of these fisheries data and his scien- 

 tific conclusions that cut through the 

 hypocrisy that was often a mask for 

 political considerations. 



In the early sixties, Gulland was 

 loaned to Australia, which in turn 

 loaned him to the Committee of 

 Three, established by the Interna- 

 tional Whaling Commission (IWC) in 

 1960 to carry out a scientific assess- 

 ment of the whale stocks. Gulland 

 quickly became such a valuable mem- 

 ber of the group that it was ex- 

 panded to the Committee of Four. 

 After the Committee made its 

 report, and suggested a substantial 

 cutback in whale quotas, the Food 

 and Agriculture Organization (FAO) 

 of the United Nations was given the 

 task of continuing the studies on 

 status of whale stocks. About this 

 time Gulland transferred to FAO and 

 continued this activity with the IWC 

 for several years. 



Also in his new post at FAO, Gul- 

 land began to work on the fisheries 

 problems of developing countries 

 around the world. He brought to 

 these problems the same logical mind 



