NOAA TECHNICAL REPORTS 



National Marine Fisheries Service, Special Scientific Report — Fisheries 



The major responsibilities of the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) are to monitor and assess the abundance and geographic distribution of fishery 

 resources, to understand and predict fluctuations in the quantity and distribution of these resources, and to establish levels for optimum use of the resources. 

 NMFS is also charged with the development and implementation of policies for managing national fishing grounds, development and enforcement of domestic 

 fisheries regulations, surveillance of foreign fishing off United States coastal waters, and the development and enforcement of international fishery agreements 

 and policies. NMFS also assists the fishing industry through marketing service and economic analysis programs, and mortgage insurance and vessel construc- 

 tion subsidies. It collects, analyzes, and publishes statistics on various phases of the industry. 



The Special Scientific Report— Fisheries series was established in 1949. The series carries reports on scientific investigations that document long-term 

 continuing programs of NMFS, or intensive scientific reports on studies of restricted scope. The reports may deal with applied fishery problems. The series is 

 also used as a medium for the publication of bibliographies of a specialized scientific nature. 



NOAA Technical Report NMFS Circulars are available free in limited numbers to governmental agencies, both Federal and State. They are also available in 

 exchange for other scientific and technical publications in the marine sciences. Individual copies may be obtained from Publications Services Branch (E/AI 13), 

 National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. U.S. Department of Commerce, I 1400 

 Rockville Pike. Rockville, MD 20852. Recent Circulars are: 



726. The Gulf of Maine temperature structure between Bar Harbor, Maine, and 

 Yarmouth. Nova Scotia, June 1975-November 1976. By Robert J. Pawlowski. 

 December 1978. iii + 10p.. 14 figs-, I table. 



739. Bottom-water temperature trends in the Middle Atlantic Bight during spring 

 and autumn, 1964-76. By Clarence W. Davis. December 1979, iii + 13 p., 10 figs., 



9 tables. 



727. Expendable bathythermograph observations from the NMFS/MARAD Ship 

 of Opportunity Program for 1975. By Ste\en K. Cook. Barclay P. Collins, and 

 Christine S. Carty. January 1979. iv+93 p . 2 figs., 13 tables, 54 app. figs. 



728. Vertical sections of semimonthly mean temperature on the San Francisco- 

 Honolulu route: From expendable bathythermograph observations. June 

 1966-Deccmber 1974. By J. F. T Saur. L. E. Eber. D. R. McLain, and C. E. Dor- 

 man. January 1979, iii +35 p., 4 figs.. 1 table. 



740. Food of fifteen northwest Atlantic gadiform fishes. By Richard W. Langton 

 and Ra> E. Bowman February 1980. iv +23 p.. 3 figs.. 1 1 tables. 



741 . Distribution of gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea) in the Middle Atlantic 

 Bight region. By John J. Dickinson. Roland L. Wigley, Richard D. Brodeur, and 

 Susan Brown-Leger. October 1980, vi +46 p.. 26 figs., 52 tables. 



742. Water structure at Ocean Weather Station V, northwestern Pacific Ocean, 

 1966-71 . By D. M. Husby and G. R. Seckel. October 1980, 18 figs.. 4 tables. 



729. References for the identification of marine invertebrates on the southern 

 Atlantic coast of the United States. By Richard E. Dowds. April 1979. iv +37 p. 



743. Average density index for walleye pollock. Theragra chalcogramma, in the 

 Bering Sea. By Loh-Lee Low and Ikuo Ikeda. November 1980. iii + 1 1 p.. 3 figs., 9 

 tables. 



730. Surface circulation in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico as deduced from drift 

 bottles. By Robert F Temple and John A. Martin. May 1979, iii + 13 p.. 8 figs . -1 



tables 



73 1 . Annotated bibliography and subject index on the shortnose sturgeon. Ac'tpen- 

 ser brevirostrum. By James G. Hoff. April 1979. iii + 16p. 



744. Tunas. oceanography and meteorology of the Pacific, an annotated bibliogra- 

 phy. 1950-78. by Paul N. Sund. March 1981. iii + 123 p. 



745. Dorsal mantle length-total weight relationships of squids Loligo pealei and 

 lllex illecebrosus from the Atlantic coast of the United States, by Anne M. T. Lange 

 and Karen L. Johnson. March 1981, iii + 17 p., 5 figs., 6 tables. 



732. Assessment of the Northwest Atlantic mackerel. Scomber scombrus. stock. 

 By Emory D. Anderson. April 1979. iv + 13 p., 9 figs., 15 tables. 



746. Distribution of gammaridean Amphipoda (Crustacea) on Georges Bank, by 

 John J. Dickinson and Roland L. Wigley. June 1981, iii +25 p.. 16 figs., I table. 



733 Possible management procedures for increasing production o\ sockeye 

 salmon smolts in the Naknek River system, Bristol Bay. Alaska B> Robert J. Ellis 

 and William J. McNeil. April 1979. iii +9 p., 4 figs., 11 tables. 



Movement, growth, and mortality of American lobsters. Homarus ameri- 

 canus, tagged along the coast of Maine, by Jay S. K rouse. September 1981 . iii + 12 

 p.. 10 figs.. 8 tables. 



734 Escape of king crab. Paralithodes i amtschatica, from derelict pots B\ Wil- 

 liam L. High and Donald D. Worlund. Ma> 1979. iii^ll p.. 5 figs.. 6 tables. 



748. Annotated bibliography of the conch genus Sirombus iGastropoda, Strombi- 

 dae) in the western Atlantic Ocean, by George H. Darcy. September 1981. iii + 16 p. 



35, Historj of the fisher) and summary statistics of the sockeye salmon. Onco- 

 rhynchus nerka, runs to the Chignik Lakes. Alaska. 1888-1966. B> Michael L. 

 Dahlberg. August 1979. iv + l6p.. 15 figs.. I 1 tables. 



736. A historical and descriptive account of Pacific coasi anadromous salmonid 

 rearing facilities and a summary o\ their releases by region, 1960-76. By Roy J 

 Whale and Robert Z. Smith. September 1979. iv+40p.. 15 figs.. 25 tables. 



737 Movements of pelagic dolphins {Stenella spp.) in the eastern tropical Pacific 



as indicated by results of tagging, with summary of tagging operations. 1969-76. 

 B> W. F. Pernn. W. E. E\ans,andD. B. Holts. September 1979. iii -r 14 p.. 9 figs . 8 

 tables. 



738. Environmental baselines in Long Island Sound. 1972-73. B\ R. N. Reid. A. 

 B. Frame, and A. F. Draxler. December 1979. iv+3l p., 40 figs.. 6 tables. 



749. Food o\' eight northwest Atlantic pleuronectiform fishes, by Richard W. 

 Langton and Ra> E. Bowman. September 1981, iii + 16 p., 1 fig., 8 tables. 



750. World literature to fish hybrids with an analysis by family, species, and 

 hybrid: Supplement 1 , by Frank J. Schwartz. November 1981, iii +507 p. 



751. The barge Ocean 250 gasoline spill, by Carolyn A. Griswold (editor). 

 November 1981. iv+30p., 28 figs.. 17 tables. 



752. Movements of tagged summer flounder. Paralichthys dentaius, off southern 

 New England, by F. E. Lux and F E. Nichy. December 1981, iii + 16 p.. 13 figs., 3 

 tables. 



753. Factors influencing ocean catches of salmon. Oncorhynchus spp.. off Wash- 

 ington and Vancouver Island, by R. A. Low. Jr. and S. B. Mathews, January 1982, 

 ix - 12 p. 6 figs.. 7 tables. 



