U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 105 

 Number 1 

 January 2007 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



Articles 



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Massachusero 



Wexler, Jeanne B., Seinen Chow, Toshie Wakabayashi, 

 Kenji Nohara, and Daniel Margulies 



Temporal variation in growth of yellowfin tuna 



(.Thunnus albacares) larvae in the Panama Bight, 1990-97 



19—29 McDermott, Susanne F., Katherine P. Maslenikov, 

 and Donald R. Gunderson 



Annual fecundity, batch fecundity, and oocyte atresia of Atka 

 mackerel (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) in Alaskan waters 



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 solely those of the authors and do 

 not represent the official position of 

 the National Marine Fisher-ies Ser- 

 vice iNOAAl or any other agency or 

 institution. 



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30-38 Hobbs, James A., William A Bennett, Jessica E Burton, 

 and Bradd Baskerville-Bridges 



Modification of the biological intercept model to account 

 for ontogenetic effects in laboratory-reared delta smelt 

 {Hypomesus transpacificus) 



39—48 Laidig, Thomas E., James R. Chess, and Daniel F. Howard 



Relationship between abundance of juvenile rockfishes 

 (Sebastes spp.) and environmental variables documented off 

 northern California and potential mechanisms for the covariation 



49—61 Harley, Shelton J„ and Jenny M, Suter 



The potential use of time-area closures to reduce catches of 

 bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) in the purse-seme fishery of the 

 eastern Pacific Ocean 



62-73 Secor, David H., and Philip M. Piccoli 



Oceanic migration rates of Upper Chesapeake Bay striped bass 

 (Morone saxatiiis), determined by otolith microchemical analysis 



