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Oceans and Atmosphere 
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for Fisheries 
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Dr. John B. Pearce 
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Northeast Fisheries Science Center 
National Marine Fisheries Service, NOAA 
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Dr. Harlyn O. Halvorson University of Massachusetts, Boston 
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Dr. Richard D. Methot National Marine Fisheries Service 
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Dr. Joseph E. Powers National Marine Fisheries Service 
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The Fishery Bulletin carries original research reports and technical notes on investiga- 
tions in fishery science, engineering, and economics. The Bulletin of the United States 
Fish Commission was begun in 1881; it became the Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries 
in 1904 and the Fishery Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service in 1941. Separates 
were issued as documents through volume 46; the last document was No. 1103. Begin- 
ning with volume 47 in 1931 and continuing through volume 62 in 1963, each separate 
appeared as a numbered bulletin. A new system began in 1963 with volume 63 in 
which papers are bound together in a single issue of the bulletin. Beginning with 
volume 70, number 1, January 1972, the Fishery Bulletin became a periodical, issued 
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