U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 105 

 Number 3 

 July 2007 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



Articles 



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313-326 Auth, Toby D., Richard D. Brodeur, and Kathleen M. Fisher 



Die! variation in vertical distribution of an offshore 

 ichthyoplankton community off the Oregon coast 



327-336 Curtis, Janelle M. R. 



Validation of a method for estimating realized annual fecundity 

 in a multiple spawner, the long-snouted seahorse 

 (Hippocampus guttulatus), using underwater visual census 



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 vice (NOAA) or any other agency or 

 institution. 



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337-347 Benson, Scott R., Karin A. Forney, James T. Harvey, 

 James V. Carretta, and Peter H. Dutton 



Abundance, distribution, and habitat of leatherback turtles 

 (Dermochelys coriacea) off California, 1990-2003 



348-355 Bengtson, John L., Alana V. Phillips, Elizabeth A. Mathews, 

 and Michael A. Simpkins 



Comparison of survey methods for estimating abundance of 

 harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) in glacial fjords 



356-367 DeMartini, Edward E., James H. Uchiyama, 



Robert L. Humphreys Jr., Jeffrey D. Sampaga, 

 and Happy A. Williams 



Age and growth of swordfish iXiphias g/adius) caught by 

 the Hawaii-based pelagic longline fishery 



368-378 Anderson, Joel D. 



Systematics of the North American menhadens: 

 molecular evolutionary reconstructions in the genus 

 Brevoori/a (Clupeiformes: Clupeidae) 



