U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 92 

 Number 1 

 January 1994 



Fishery 

 Bulletin 



Biological laboratory/ 

 Je Oceancgraphic Instituuo,, 

 Library 



B 2 3 1994 



Contents 



Woods Hole, MA 02543 



1 Barbieri, Luiz R., Mark E. Chittenden Jr., and 



Cynthia M. Jones 



Age, growth, and mortality of Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias 

 undulatus, in the Chesapeake Bay region, with a discussion of 

 apparent geographic changes in population dynamics 



1 3 Bigelow, Keith A. 



Age and growth of the oceanic squid Onychoteuthis 

 borealyaponica in the North Pacific 



26 Burke, Vincent J., Stephen J. Morreale, and 



Edward A. Standora 



Diet of the Kemp's ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempu, 

 in New York waters 



33 Ditty, James G., and Richard F. Shaw 



Larval development of tripletail, Lobotes sunnamensis (Pisces: 

 Lobotidae), and their spatial and temporal distribution in the 

 northern Gulf of Mexico 



46 Ferreira, Beatrice Padovani, and 



Garry R. Russ 



Age validation and estimation of growth rate of the coral trout, 

 Plectropomus leopardus. (Lacepede 1 802) from Lizard Island, 

 Northern Great Barrier Reef 



58 Gold, John R., and Linda R. Richardson 



Genetic distinctness of red drum [Sciaenops ocellatus) from 

 Mosquito Lagoon, east-central Florida 



67 Incze, Lewis S., and Terri Ainaire 



Distribution and abundance of copepod naupln and other small 

 (40-300 (im) zooplankton during spring in Shelikof Strait, Alaska 



