U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 105 

 Number 4 

 October 2007 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



Articles 



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447-456 Katakura, Seiji, Hisatoshi Ikeda, Akira Nishimura, 

 Tsuneo Nishiyama, and Yasunori Sakurai 



An allometric smoothing function to describe thie relation 

 between otolith and somatic growth over the lifespan of walleye 

 pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) 



457-469 Able, Kenneth W., Peter J. Clarke, R. Christopher Chambers, 

 and David A. Witting 



Transitions in the morphological features, habitat use, and diet of 

 young-of-the-year goosefish (Lophius americanus) 



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470-484 Stewart, Ian J. 



Defining plausible migration rates based on historical tagging 

 data: a Bayesian mark-recapture model applied to English sole 

 (Parophrys vetulus) 



485-492 Magel, Christopher, Kirstin Wakefield, Nancy Targett, 

 and Richard Brill 



Activity in the pallial nerve of knobbed (Busycon carica) and 

 channeled (Busycotypus canaliculatum) whelks recorded during 

 exposure of the osphradium to odorant solutions 



493-508 Eveson, J. Paige, Tom Polacheck, and Geoff M. Laslett 



Incorporating fishery observer data into an integrated catch-at- 

 age and multiyear tagging model for estimating mortality rates 

 and abundance 



509-526 Barlow, Jay, and Karin A. Forney 



Abundance and population density of cetaceans 

 in the California Current ecosystem 



