U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 103 

 Number 2 

 April 2005 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



MAY 1 2005 



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Articles 



229—245 Alonzo, Suzanne H., and Marc Mangel 



Sex-change rules, stock dynamics, and the performance of 

 spawmng-per-recruit measures in protogynous stocks 



246-257 Brandon, Elisif A. A., Donald G. Calkins, 



Thomas R. Loughlin, and Randall W. Davis 



Neonatal growth of Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) pups 

 in Alaska 



258-269 Brouwer, Stephen L, and Marc H. Griffiths 



Reproductive biology of carpenter seabream (Argyrozona 

 argyrozona) (Pisces: Sparidae) in a marine protected area 



270-279 Burn, Douglas M., and Angela M. Doroff 



Decline in sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations along the 

 Alaska Peninsula, 1986-2001 



280-291 Carlson, John K„ and Ivy E. Baremore 



Growth dynamics of the spinner shark (Carcharhinus 

 brevipinna) off the United States southeast and Gulf of Mexico 

 coasts: a comparison of methods 



292-306 Domeier, Michael L, Dale Kiefer, Nicole Nasby-Lucas, 



Adam Wagschal, and Frank O'Brien 



Tracking Pacific bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus orientalis) in 

 the northeastern Pacific with an automated algorithm that 

 estimates latitude by matching sea-surface-temperature data 

 from satellites with temperature data from tags on fish 



307-319 Fischer, Andrew J., M. Scott Baker Jr., Charles A Wilson, 



and David L. Nieland 



Age, growth, mortality, and radiometric age validation of 

 gray snapper (Lut/anus gnseus) from Louisiana 



320-330 Grabowski, Robert C, Thomas Windholz, and Yong Chen 



Estimating exploitable stock biomass for the Maine green 

 sea urchin {Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis) fishery using 

 a spatial statistics approach 



