U.S. Department 

 of Commerce 



Seattle, Washington 



Volume 90 

 Number 2 

 April 1992 



Fishery 



Biological Lauoral 

 LIBRARY 



VI J 



UG - 3 1992 



Contents 



L. 



VVUJUS MOle, iV.uSS. 



iji Publications Awards, 1989-90 



iv List of recent NOAA Technical Reports 



217 Armstrong, Michael P., John A. Musicl<, and 

 James A. Colvocoresses 



Age, growth, and reproduction of the goosefish Lophius amencanus 

 (Pisces.Lophiiformes) 



231 Bowers, Michael J. 



Annual reproductive cycle of oocytes and embryos of yellowtail 

 rockfish Sebastes flavidus (Family Scorpaenidae) 



243 Bullock, Lewis H., Michael D. Murphy, 



Mark F. Godcharles, and Michael E. Mitchell 



Age, growth, and reproduction of jewfish Epinephelus itajara in the 

 eastern Gulf of Mexico 



250 Campton, Donald E., Carl J. Berg Jr., 



Lynn M. Robison, and Robert A. Glazer 



Genetic patchiness among populations of queen conch Strombus 

 gigas in the Florida Keys and Bimini 



260 Dorn, Martin W. 



Detecting environmental covariates of Pacific whiting Merluccius 

 productus growth using a growth-increment regression model 



276 Hyndes, Glenn A., Nell R. Loneragan, and 

 Ian C. Potter 



Influence of sectioning otoliths on marginal increment trends and 

 age and growth estimates for the flathead Platycephalus speculator 



285 Markle, Douglas F., Phillip M. Harris, and 

 Christopher L. Toole 



Metamorphosis and an overview of early-life-history stages in 

 Dover sole Microstomus pacificus 



