U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 100 

 Number 4 

 October 2002 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



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Library 



NOV 13 2002 ' 



Contents 



-— 651-661 



662-673 



Artides 



Bostrom, Meredith A., Bruce B. Collette, Brian E. 

 Luckhurst, Kimberly S. Reece, and John E. Graves 



Hybridization between two serranids, the coney iCepha/ophoiis fulva) 

 and the creole-fish iParanthias furcifer), at Bermuda 



Carter, Sarah K., and Glenn R. VanBlaricom 



Effects of experimental harvest on red sea urchins 

 iStrongylocentrotus franciscanus) in northern Washington 



674-682 Conrath, Christina L., James Gelsleichter, and 

 John A. Musick 



Age and growth of the smooth dogfish iMuste/us canis) 

 in the northwest Atlantic Ocean 



683-689 Gaertner, Daniel, Frederic Menard, Carol Develter, 

 and Javier Ariz 



Bycatch of billfishes by the European tuna purse-seine fishery in the 

 Atlantic Ocean 



The conclusions and opinions expressed 

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 authors and do not represent the official 

 position of the National Manne Fisher- 

 ies Service iNOAA) or any other agency 

 or institution. 



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690-710 Griffiths, Marc H. 



Life history of South African snoek, Thyrsites atun (Pisces: Gempylidae): 

 a pelagic predator of the Benguela ecosystem 



711-719 Hannah, Robert W, Steven J. Parker, and Erica L. Fruh 



Length and age at maturity of female petrale sole (Eopsetta jordani) 

 determined from samples collected prior to spawning aggregation 



720-726 Hjellvik, Vidar, Olav Rune God0, and Dag Tjostheim 



The measurement error in marine survey catches: the bottom 

 trawl case 



727-738 Jensen, Christopher F., Lisa J. Natanson, 



Harold L. Pratt Jr., Nancy Kohler, and Steven E. Campana 



The reproductive biology of the porbeage shark (Lamna nasus) in the 

 western North Atlantic Ocean 



