Fishery Bulletin 



CONTENTS 



Vol. 76, No. 2 April 1978 



MAJOR, PETER F. Aspects of estuarine intertidal ecology of juvenile striped mul- 

 let, Mugil cephalus, in Hawaii 299 



NICHOLSON, WILLIAM R., and WILLIAM E. SCHAAF. Aging of Gulf menhaden, 

 Brevoortia patron us 315 



ORTNER, PETER B., PETER H. WIEBE, LOREN HAURY, and STEVEN 

 BOYD. Variability in zooplankton biomass distribution in the northern Sargasso 

 Sea: the contribution of Gulf Stream cold core rings 323 



BERGGREN, THOMAS J., and JOEL T. LIEBERMAN. Relative contribution of 

 Hudson, Chesapeake, and Roanoke striped bass, Morone saxatilis, stocks to the 

 Atlantic coast fishery 335 



RICE, D. W., JR., and F. L. HARRISON. Copper sensitivity of Pacific herring, 

 Chipea harengus pallasi, during its early life history 347 



IKEDA, TSUTOMU, and SIGERU MOTODA. Estimated zooplankton production 

 and their ammonia excretion in the Kuroshio and adjacent seas 357 



FUSARO, CRAIG. Growth rate of the sand crab, Emerita analoga, ( Hippidae) in two 

 different environments 369 



FLETCHER, R. IAN. Time-dependent solutions and efficient parameters for stock- 

 production models 377 



CHRISTENSEN, M. S. Trophic relationships in juveniles of three species of sparid 

 fishes in the South African marine littoral 389 



THEILACKER, GAIL H. Effect of starvation on the histological and morphological 



characteristics of jack mackerel, Trochurus syn2n7etricus, larvae 403 



COOK, RODNEY C, and GARY E. LORD. Identification of stocks of Bristol Bay 

 sockeye salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka, by evaluating scale patterns with a polyno- 

 mial discriminant method 415 



KROUSE, JAY S. Effectiveness of escape vent shape in traps for catching legal-sized 

 lobster, Homarus omericanus, and harvestable-size crabs. Cancer borealis and 

 Cancer irroratus 425 



HURLEY, ANN C. School structure of the squid Loligo opalescens 433 



SQUIRE, JAMES L., JR. Northern anchovy school shapes as related to problems in 

 school size estimation 443 



MOREIRA, G. SCARES, and W. B. VERNBERG. Synergistic effects of environmen- 

 tal variables on the metabolism of the copepod Euterpina acutifrons from two 

 different areas off the coast of the State of Sao Paulo, Brazil 449 



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