U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 97 

 Number 3 

 July 1999 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



icud 



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Contents 



Articles 



411-420 Austin, Herbert M., Daniel Scoles, and Allison J. Abell 



Morphometric separation of annual cohorts within mid-Atlantic 

 bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrlx, using discriminant function analysis 



421 -433 Bertignac, Michel, John Hampton, and Atilio L. Coan Jr. 



Estimates of exploitation rates for north Pacific albacore, Thunnus 

 alalunga, from tagging data 



434-448 Broadhurst, Matt K., Roger B. Larsen, Steven J. Kennelly, 

 and Paul E. McShane 



Use and success of composite square-mesh codends in reducing 

 bycatch and in improving size-selectivity of prawns in Gulf St. 

 Vincent, South Australia 



449-458 DeMartini, Edward E., and Boulderson B. Lau 



Morphometric criteria for estimating sexual maturity in two snappers, 

 Etelis carbunculus and Pristipomoldes sleboldii 



459-471 Franks, James S., James R. Warren, and Michael V. Buchanan 



Age and growth of cobia, Rachycentron canadum, from the 

 northeastern Gulf of fviexico 



472-481 Friedland, Kevin D., Jean-Denis Dutil, and Teresa Sadusky 



Growth patterns in postsmolts and the nature of the marine juvenile 

 nursery for Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar 



482-494 Hannah, Robert W. 



A new method for indexing spawning stock and recruitment in 

 ocean shrimp, Pandalus jordani, and preliminary evidence for a 

 stock-recruitment relationship 



495-507 Labropoulou, Mary, Athanasios Machias, and 

 Nikolaos Tsimenides 



Habitat selection and diet of juvenile red porgy, Pagrus, pagrus, 

 (Linnaeus, 1758) 



508-525 Lindeman, Kenyon C, and David B. Snyder 



Nearshore hardbottom fishes of southeast Florida and effects of 

 habitat burial caused by dredging 



526-541 Nates, Sergio P., and Darryl L. Felder 



Growth and maturation of the ghost shrimp Lepidophthalmus 

 sinuensis Lemaitre and Rodngues, 1991 (Crustacea, Decapoda, 

 Callianassidae), a burrowing pest in penaeid shrimp culture ponds 



542-554 Perkins, Peter C, and Elizabeth F. Edwards 



Capture rate as a function of school size in pantropical spotted 

 dolphins, Stenella attenuata, in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean 



