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Announcement of the NMFS 

 (National Marine Fisheries Service) 

 best paper awards 



The National Marine Fisheries Service best 

 scientific paper awards for 2006 were awarded 

 to the following authors: 



Butler, John, Melissa Neuman, 

 Deanna Pinkard, Rikk Kvitek, 

 and Guy Cochrane 



The use of multibeam sonar mapping techniques 

 to refine population estimates of the endangered 

 white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni) 

 Fishery Bulletin 104:521-532 



Maloney, Nancy E. 



Sablefish, Anaplopoma fimbria, populations 

 on Gulf of Alaska seamounts 

 Marine Fisheries Review 66(3):1-12 



