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Fishery Bulletin 



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DEC 10 1985 



Vol. 83, No. 3 



Woods Hole, Mass. 



July 1985 



GERRODETTE, TIM, DANIEL GOODMAN, and JAY BARLOW. Confidence limits 

 for population projections when vital rates vary randomly 207 



STEVENSON, DAVID K., and FRAN PIERCE. Life history characteristics of Pan- 

 daliis montagui and Dichelopandalics leptocertis in Penobscot Bay, Maine 219 



HUNTER, JOHN, and RAGAN NICHOLL. Visual threshold for schooling in northern 

 anchovy, Engraulis mordax 235 



LOVE, MILTON S., WILLIAM WESTPHAL, and ROBSON A. COLLINS. Distribu- 

 tional patterns of fishes captured aboard commercial passenger fishing vessels along 

 the northern Channel Islands, California 243 



HAYNES, EVAN B. Morphological development, identification, and biology of larvae 

 of Pandalidae, Hippolytidae, and Crangonidae (Crustacea, Decapoda) of the northern 

 North Pacific Ocean 253 



JONES, CYNTHIA. Within-season differences in growth of larval Atlantic herring, 

 Clupea harengtcs harengus 289 



GUILLEMOT, PATRICK J., RALPH J. LARSON, and WILLIAM H. LENARZ. 

 Seasonal cycles of fat and gonad volume in fish species of northern California rockfish 

 (Scorpaenidae: Sebastes) 299 



FLIERL, G. R., and J. S. WROBLEWSKI. The possible influence of warm core Gulf 

 Stream rings upon shelf water larval fish distribution 313 



CONOVER, DAVID 0. Field and laboratory assessment of patterns in fecundity of 

 a multiple spawning fish: the Atlantic silverside Menidia menidia 331 



LESTER, R. J. G., A. BARNES, and G. HABIB. Parasites of skipjack tuna, Katsu- 

 womts pelamis: fishery implications 343 



WURSIG, BERND, ELEANOR M. DORSEY, MARK A. FRAKER, ROGER S. 

 PAYNE, and W. JOHN RICHARDSON. Behavior of bowhead whales, Balaena 

 mysticetiLs, summering in the Beaufort Sea: a description 357 



ANKENBRANDT, LISA. Food habits of bait-caught skipjack tuna, Katsuwonus 

 pelamis, from the southwestern Atlantic Ocean , .r". 1 . . 379 



MEDVED, ROBERT J., CHARLES E. STILLWELL, and JOHN J. CASEY. Stomach 

 contents of young sandbar sharks, Carcharhinus plumbeus, in Chincoteague Bay, 

 Virginia 395 



ROSENBLUM, SHELLY E., and THOMAS M. NIESEN. The spawning cycle of 

 soft-shell clam. My a arenaria, in San Francisco Bay 403 



McFARLAND, W. N., E. B. BROTHERS, J. C. OGDEN, M. J. SHULMAN, E. L. 

 BERMINGHAM, and N. M. KOTCHIAN-PRENTISS. Recruitment patterns in 

 young French grunts, Haemulon Jlavolineatum (Family Haemulidae), at St. Croix, 

 Virgin Islands 413 



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