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Volume 97 

 Number 1 

 January 1999 



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Fishery 

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Contents 



Articles 



1-8 Broadhurst, Matt K., Steven J. Kennelly, and Steve Eayrs 



Flow-related effects in prawn-trawl codends: potential for increasing 

 the escape of unwanted fish through square-mesh panels 



9-24 Brodziak, Jon, and Lisa Hendrickson 



An analysis of environmental effects on survey catches of squids 

 Loligo pealei and ///ex illecebrosus in the northwest Atlantic 



25-38 Chen, Yong, and Steve S. Montgomery 



Modeling the dynamics of eastern rock lobster, Jasus verreauxi, 

 stock in New South Wales, Australia 



39-52 Deree, Heather L. 



Age and growth, dietary habits, and parasitism of the fourbeard 

 rockling, Enchelyopus cimbhus, from the Gulf of Maine 



53-61 Heist, Edward J., and John R. Gold 



Genetic identification of sharks in the U.S. Atlantic large coastal shark 

 fishery 



62-70 Koeller, Peter 



Influence of temperature and effort on lobster catches at different 

 temporal and spatial scales and the implications for stock 

 assessments 



71 -79 Lantry, Brian F., Donald J. Stewart, Peter S. Rand, and 



Edward L. Mills 



Evaluation of total-body electrical conductivity to estimate whole- 

 body water content of yellow perch, Perca flavescens, and alewife, 

 Alosa pseudoharengus 



80-91 Limburg, Karin E., Michael L. Pace, and Kristin K. Arend 



Growth, mortality, and recruitment of larval Morone spp. in relation 

 to food availability and temperature in the Hudson River 



92-99 Lorenzo, Jose M., and Jose G. Pajuelo 



Biology of a deep benthopelagic fish, roudi escolar Promethichthys 

 prometheus (Gempylidae), off the Canary Islands 



100-109 Love, Milton S., and Korie Johnson 



Aspects of the life histories of grass rockfish, Sebastes rastreiiiger, 

 and brown rockfish, 5. aurlculatus, from southern California 



