Fishery Bulletin 



CONTENTS 



Vol. 80, No. 2 April 1982 



POTTHOFF, THOMAS, and SHARON KELLEY. Development of the vertebral 

 column, fins and fin supports, branchiostegal rays, and squamation in the sword- 

 fish, Xiphias gladius 161 



LOUGH, R. GREGORY, MICHAEL PENNINGTON, GEORGE R. BOLZ, and 

 ANDREW ROSENBERG. Age and growth of larval Atlantic herring, Clupea 

 harengus L., in the Gulf of Maine-Georges Bank region based on otolith growth 

 increments 187 



RADTKE, R. L., and J. M. DEAN. Increment formation in the otoliths of em- 

 bryos, larvae, and juveniles of the mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus 201 



KNIGHT, MARGARET, and M AKOTO OMORI. The larval development of Ser- 

 gestes similis Hansen (Crustacea, Decapoda, Sergestidae) reared in the labora- 

 tory 217 



ROSENBERG, ANDREW A. Growth of juvenile English sole, Parophrys vetulus, 

 in estuarine and open coastal nursery grounds 245 



AINLEY, DAVID G., HARRIET R. HUBER, and KEVIN M. BAILEY. Popu- 

 lation fluctuations of California sea lions and the Pacific whiting fishery off cen- 

 tral California 253 



HAIN, JAMES H. W., GARY R. CARTER, SCOTT D. KRAUS, CHARLES A. 

 MAYO, and HOWARD E. WINN. Feeding behavior of the humpback whale, 

 Megaptera novaeangliae, in the western North Atlantic 259 



SKINNER, RENATE H. The interrelation of water quality, gill parasites, and 

 gill pathology of some fishes from south Biscayne Bay, Florida 269 



MILLER, RUTH, and JOHN SPINELLI. The effect of protease inhibitors on 

 proteolysis in parasitized Pacific whiting, Merluccius productus, muscle 281 



CLARKE, THOMAS A. Feeding habits of stomiatoid fishes from Hawaiian 

 waters 287 



HAYNES, EVAN. Description of larvae of the golden king crab, Lithodes aequi- 

 spina, reared in the laboratory 305 



MANN, ROGER. The seasonal cycle of gonadal development in A rctica islandica 

 from the Southern New England shelf 315 



WHITLEDGE, TERRY E. Regeneration of nitrogen by the nekton and itssignifi- 

 cance in the northwest Africa upwelling ecosystem 327 



BRUNDAGE, HAROLD M., Ill, and ROBERT E. MEADOWS. The Atlantic 

 sturgeon, Acipenser oxyrhynchus, in the Delaware River estuary 337 



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