U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 100 

 Number 1 

 January 2002 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



JAN 3 1 mi 



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 authors and do not represent the official 

 position of the National Manne Fisher- 

 ies Service (NOAA) or any other agency 

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Articles 



1-10 Blick, D. James, and Peter T. Hagen 



The use of agreement measures and latent class models to assess 

 the reliability of classifying thermally marked otoliths 



11-25 Carmona-Suarez, Carlos A., and Jesus E. Conde 



Local distribution and abundance of swimming crabs (Calllnectes spp. 

 and Arenaeus cribrarius) on a tropical arid beach 



26-34 Crabtree, Roy E., Peter B. Hood, and Derke Snodgrass 



Age, growth, and reproduction of permit (Trachinotus falcatus) in 

 Florida waters 



35-41 Denson, Michael R., Wallace E. Jenkins, 



Arnold G. Woodward, and Theodore I. J. Smith 



Tag-reporting levels for red drum (Saaenops ocellatus) caught by 

 anglers in South Carolina and Georgia estuaries 



42-50 Faunce, Craig H., Heather M. Patterson, and 



Jerome J. Lorenz 



Age, growth, and mortality of the Mayan cichlid 

 (Cichlasoma urophthalmus) from the southeastern Everglades 



51 -62 Hastings, Kelly K., and William J. Sydeman 



Population status, seasonal vanation in abundance, and long-term 

 population trends of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) at the 

 South Farallon Islands, California 



63-73 McBride, Richard S., Michael P. Fahay, and 



Kenneth W. Able 



Larval and settlement periods of the northern searobin 

 (Prionotus carollnus) and the striped searobin (P. evolans) 



74-80 Pennington, Michael, Liza-Mare Burmeister, and 



Vidar Hjellvik 



Assessing the precision of frequency distributions estimated from 

 trawl-survey samples 



