U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 104 

 Number 2 

 April 2006 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



MBLWHOI Library 



MAY 2 2006 



WOODS HOLE 



-:3achuoetts 02542 



Contents 



Articles 



159—166 Garci'a-Diaz, Mercedes, Jose A. Gonzalez, Marfa J. Lorente, 

 and Victor M. Tuset 



Spawning season, maturity sizes, and fecundity in 

 blacktail comber (Serranus atricauda) (Serranidae) from 

 tfie eastern-central Atlantic 



167-181 Tissot, Brian N., Mary M. Yoklavich, Milton S. Love, Keri York, 

 and Mark Amend 



Benthic invertebrates that form habitat on deep banks off 

 southern California, with special reference to deep sea coral 



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 ( NOAAl or any other agency or 

 institution. 



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 Service (NMFS) does not approve, 

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 NMFS, in any advertising or sales 

 promotion which would indicate or 

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 because of this NMFS publication. 



182—196 Li, Zhuozhuo, Andrew K. Gray, Milton S. Love, Akira Goto, 

 Takashi Asahida, and Anthony J. Gharrett 



A key to selected rockfishes (Sebastes spp ) based on 

 mitochondrial DNA restriction fragment analysis 



197—203 Torres-Orozco, Ernesto, Arturo Muhlia-Melo, 

 Armando Trasviiia, and Sofia Ortega-Garcfa 



Variation in yellowfin tuna iThunnus a/bacares) catches related to 

 El Niho-Southern Oscillation events at the entrance to 

 the Gulf of California 



204-214 Pepin, Pierre 



Estimating the encounter rate of Atlantic capelin 

 iMallotus villosus) with fish eggs, based on stomach 

 content analysis 



215—225 Davis, Michelle L., Jim Berkson, and Marcella Kelly 



A production modeling approach to the assessment of 

 the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) population 

 in Delaware Bay 



