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Best paper awards for 2009 
The award for best publication of the year is given to 
authors who are employees of the National Marine Fish- 
eries Service, NOAA, and whose articles are judged to 
be the most noteworthy of those published in Fishery 
Bulletin and Marine Fisheries Review. Authors from 
the National Marine Fisheries Service are noted in 
bold below. 
The winners for Fishery Bulletin: 
First prize: 
Jeffrey J. Polovina, Melanie Abecassis, 
Evan A. Howell, and Phoebe Woodworth 
Increases in the relative abundance of mid-trophic level 
fishes concurrent with declines in apex predators in the 
subtropical North Pacific, 1996-2006. 
Fish. Bull. 107:523-531. 
Honorable mention: 
Richard Brill, Peter Bushnell, Leonie Smith, Coley 
Speaks, Rumya Sundaram, Eric Stroud, and John 
Wang 
The repulsive and feeding-deterrent effects of electro- 
positive metals on juvenile sandbar sharks (Carcharhi- 
nus plumbeus). 
Fish. Bull. 107:298-307. 
The winners for Marine Fisheries Review: 
Phil Clapham and Yulia Ivashchenko. 
A Whale of a Deception 
This article documents the untold numbers of whales 
taken by the Soviet whaling industry in violation of 
international quotas. The article was discussed in the 
“News of the Week” section of the journal Science'. 
“Mystery of the Missing Humpbacks Solved by Soviet 
Data.” Science, vol. 324:1132. May 29, 2009. 
Mar. Fish. Rev. 71< 1):44— 52. 
