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Best NMFS Publications for 1982 



The Publications Advisory Committee of the National 

 Marine Fisheries Service has announced the best publica- 

 tions authored by the NMFS scientists and published in 

 the Fishery Bulletin and the Marine Fisheries Review for 

 1982. Only effective and interpretive articles which sig- 

 nificantly contribute to the understanding and knowledge 

 of NMFS mission-related studies are eligible, and the 

 following papers were judged as the best in meeting this 

 requirement. 



"Development of the vertebral 

 column, fins and fin supports, 

 branch iostegal rays, and squamation in the 

 swordfish, Xiphias gladius" by Thomas 

 Potthoff and Sharon Kelley appears in 

 Fishery Bulletin 80(2): 161-186. Thomas 

 Potthoff, fishery biologist, and Sharon 

 Kelley, research assistant, are from the 

 Southeast Fisheries Center's Miami 

 Laboratory, Miami, Fla. 



"A review of the offshore shrimp 

 fishery and the 1981 Texas closure" by 

 Edward F. Klima, Kenneth N. Baxter, and 

 Frank J. Patella, Jr. appears in Marine 

 Fisheries Review 44(9- 10): 16-30. Edward 

 F Klima, Director of the Galveston 

 Laboratory, Kenneth N. Baxter, 

 supervisory fishery biologist, and Frank J. 

 Patella, Jr. , fishery biologist, are also from 

 the Southeast Fisheries Center but from the 

 Galveston Laboratory, Galveston, Tex. 



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