U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 104 

 Number 1 

 January 2006 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



The conclusions and opinions ex- 

 pressed in Fishery Bulletin are 

 solely those of the authors and do 

 not represent the official position of 

 the National Marine Fisher-ies Ser- 

 vice (NOAA) or any other agency or 

 institution. 



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Articles 



MBLWHOI Library 

 JAN 1 2006 



Mas: 



1 Rochet, Marie-Joelle, Jean-Francois Cadiou, and 

 Verena M. Trenkel 



Precision and accuracy of fish length measurements obtained 

 with two visual underwater methods 



10 Witteveen, Briana H., Robert J. Foy, and Kate M. Wynne 



The effect of predation (current and historical) 



by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeang/iae) on fish 



abundance near Kodiak Island, Alaska 



Companion papers 



21 Weinberg, Kenneth L., and David A Somerton 



Variation in trawl geometry due to unequal warp length 



35 Kotwicki, Stan, Kenneth L. Weinberg, and 

 David A. Somerton 



The effect of autotrawl systems on the performance 

 of a survey trawl 



46 Zeidberg, Louis D., William M. Hamner, Nikolay P. Nezlin, 

 and Annette Henry 



The fishery for California market squid f.Loligo opa/escens) 

 (Cephalopoda: Myopsida), from 1981 through 2003 



60 Criales, Maria M. John D. Wang, Joan A. Browder, 

 Michael B. Robblee, Thomas L. Jackson, 

 and Clinton Hittle 



Variability in supply and cross-shelf transport of pink shrimp 

 (Farfantepenaeus duorarum) postlarvae into western Florida Bay 



75 Grandcourt, Edwin M., Thabit Z. Al Abdessalaam, 

 Ahmed T. Al Shamsi, and Franklin Francis 



Biology and assessment of the painted sweetlips (Diagramma pictum 

 (Thunberg, 1792)) and the spangled emperor (Lethrinus nebulosus 

 (Forsskal, 1775)) in the southern Arabian Gulf 



