U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 104 

 Number 4 

 October 2006 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Contents 



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Articles 



489—497 Barrientos, Claudio A., M. Teresa Gonzalez, 

 and Carlos A. Moreno 



Geographic differences in tfie feeding patterns of red rockfishi 

 (Sebastes capensis) along Soutfi American coasts 



498-511 Bergenlus, Mikaela A. J., Gavin A. Begg, 

 and Bruce D. Mapstone 



The use of otolith morphology to indicate the stock structure 

 of common coral trout (Plectropomus leopardus) on the Great 

 Barrier Reef, Australia 



512—520 Mant, Jason C, Michael J. Moran, Stephen J. Newman, 

 S. Alex Hesp, Norman G. Hall, and Ian C. Potter 



Biological characteristics and mortality of western butterfish 

 (Pentapodus vitta), an abundant bycatch species of prawn 

 trawling and recreational fishing in a large subtropical 

 embayment 



521—532 Butler, John, Melissa Neuman, Deanna Pinkard, Rikk Kvitek, 

 and Guy Cochrane 



The use of multibeam sonar mapping techniques to refine 

 population estimates of the endangered white abalone 

 (Haliotis sorenseni) 



533—541 Scandol, James P., Tony J. Underwood, and Matt. K. Broadhurst 



Experiments in gear configuration to reduce bycatch m an 

 estuarine squid-trawl fishery 



542—549 Love, Milton S., and Anne York 



The relationships between fish assemblages and the amount of 

 bottom horizontal beam exposed at California oil platforms: 

 fish habitat preferences at man-made platforms and 

 (by inference) at natural reefs 



550—558 Corander, Jukka, Pekka Marttinen, and Samu Mantyniemi 



A Bayesian method for identification of stock mixtures from 

 molecular marker data 



