NOTICES 



NOAA Technical Reports NMFS published during the last 6 mo of 1978. 



Circulars 



414. Synopsis of biological data for the winter flounder, 

 Pseudopteuronectes americanus (Walbaum). By Grace 

 Klein-MacPhee. November 1978. ill + 43 p., 21 fig., 28 

 tables. Also FAO Fisheries Synopsis No. 117. 



415. A basis for classifying western Atlantic Sci- 

 aenidae (Teleostei: Perciformesl. By Labbish Ning 

 Chao. September 1978, v + 64 p., 41 fig., 1 table. 



416. Ocean variability: Effects on U.S. marine fishery 

 resources- 1975. Jul ien R. Goulet.Jr. and Elizabeth D. 



Haynes, editors. December 1978, iii + 350 p. 



417. Guide to the identification of genera of the fish 

 order Ophidiiformes with a tentative classification of 



the order. By Daniel M. Cohen and Jorgen G. Nielsen. 

 December 1978, vii + 72 p., 103 fig., 2 tables. 

 418. Annotated bibliography of four Atlantic scom- 

 brids: Scomberomorus brasiliensis, S. cavalla, S. 

 maculatus, andS. regalis. By Charles S. Manooch III. 

 Eugene L. Nakamura, and Ann Bowman Hall. De- 

 cember 1978, iii + 166 p. 



Special Scientific Report — Fisheries 



726. The Gulf of Maine temperature structure between 

 Bar Harbor, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, June 

 1975-November 1976. By Robert J. Pawlowski. De- 

 cember 1978, iii -I- 10 p., 14 fig., 1 table. 



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