888 
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kob, silver 51 
sole, yellowfin 494 
surgeonfish 680 
Mean size 403 
Megaptera nouaeangliae - see Whale, 
humpback 
Menhaden, Atlantic 445 
Merisitics 785 
Merlucciidae - see Hoki 
Methods 
age determination from length 39 
assessing dietary niche overlap 722 
classifying reproductive condition 80 
daily fecundity reduction 576 
determining sampling size 403 
estimation of mortality rates 
Chapman-Robson 863 
least-squares 863 
genetic 800 
in virtual population analysis 280 
skeletochronological 849 
Mexico 180, 360 
Micropogonias undulatus - see Croaker, 
Atlantic 
Middle Atlantic Bight 637, 773, 785 
Migration 47, 300 
Mississippi River 540 
Mitochondrial DNA 174, 566, 800 
Model 
age 39 
habitat 504 
growth 800 
spawner- recruitment 762 
stock assessment 149 
yield-per-recruit 637 
Modeling 637 
Morphometries 311, 394, 785 
Mortality 161, 637, 863 
rates in VPA’s 280 
Mouth size 722 
Movements 466, 646, 665 
Mugil cephalus - see Mullet, striped 
Mugilidae - see Mullet 
Mullet, striped 267 
Multispecies 114 
Myctophidae 334 
Myxine glutinosa - see Hagfish 
Myxinidae - see Hagfish 
Nephrophidae - see Lobster 
New Hampshire 414 
New York, Hudson River 665 
New Zealand 576, 99 
Rakaia River 812 
Newfoundland 646 
Nomeidae 250 
Nonlinear estimation 849 
Nonparametric smoothing 849 
Nordmpre-grid 209 
North Carolina 637 
Beaufort 477 
Nursery areas 
juvenile pleuronectids 504 
kob, silver 47 
snapper, pink 137 
sole, English 161 
Nutrition 231 
Oceanic islands 137 
Ommastrephidae 334 
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha - see Salmon, 
chinook 
Oocyte stages 321, 456, 598 
Oregon 293 
Coos Bay 25 
Otariidae - see Sea lion 
Otolith 
butterfish 785 
croaker, Atlantic 773 
mackerel, Spanish 530 
seabass, white 709 
totoaba 620 
weakfish 521 
Outliers, detection with robust 
regression 149 
Ovary, effects of preservation 869 
Overfishing 219, 732 
Pacific Ocean 
tuna 68, 566 
Pacific tuna fisheries 11 
Pagrus pagrus - see Porgy, red 
Parablennius tasmanianus 722 
Pelagic fishes 300 
Penaeus plebejus - see Prawn, eastern 
King 
Peprilus triacanthus - see 
Butterfish, Atlantic 
Perch, Pacific ocean 219 
Phenotypic variation 1 
Physical 
environment 376 
oceanography 250 
Pigmentation 394 
Piscivore 665 
Pleurogrammus monopterygius - see 
Mackerel, Atka 
Pleuronectes 
americanus - see Founder, winter 
asper - see Sole, yellowfin 
bilineatus - see Sole, rock 
putnami - see Flounder, smooth 
vetulus - see Sole, English 
Pleuronectidae - see Flounder and Sole 
Poacher, sail-fin 612 
Podothecus sachi - see Poacher, sail-fin 
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) 231 
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons 
(PAH’s) 231 
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) 800 
Polyphasic growth 849 
Pomatomidae - see Bluefish 
Pomatomus saltatrix - see Bluefish 
Population 
biology of surgeonfish 680 
dynamics 
menhaden, Atlantic 445 
rockfish 219 
growth rate for cod 762 
profile for hagfish 311 
structure 
grouper, red 174 
herring, Atlantic 126 
tuna, yellowfin 566 
Porgy, red 732 
Prawn, eastern King 653 
Prawn-trawl 209, 653 
Preservation 869 
Prey 
digestibility 386 
energy values 360 
mesopelagic 334 
occurrence 334 
size 722 
Pristipomoides filamentosus - see 
Snapper, pink 
Production 
snapper, juvenile pink 137 
Protein 431 
Proximate composition 431 
Pseudogobius olorum 722 
Random amplified polymorphic DNA 
(RAPD) 800 
Ration level 43 1 
Ray 349 
Recapture rate 267, 466 
Recreational fishery 456 
Recruitment 250, 773 
herring, Atlantic 376 
sardine, Atlanto-Iberian 187 
Replenishment (marine fish 
populations) 267 
Reproductive biology - see also Spawning 
bonefish 456 
guitarfish, shovelnose 349 
hagfish 311 
herring, Pacific 748 
kob, silver 47 
mackerel, Atka 321 
porgy, red 732 
sole, English 231 
swordfish 80 
Resource availability 722 
Retrospective analysis 445 
Rhinobatidae - see Guitarfish 
Rhinobatos productus - see Guitarfish, 
shovelnose 
Rhomboplites aurorubens - see Snapper, 
vermilion 
RNA-DNA ratios 431 
Robust regression 149 
Rockfish 
darkblotched 219 
rougheye 219 
splitnose 219 
Roughy, orange 576, 800 
Sablefish 293 
Sagitta 773 
Salinity gradient 414 
Salmonidae - see Salmon 
Salmon, chinook 25, 812 
Samoa, American 680 
Sampling 403, 477 
Sanctuaries 219 
Sand lance 826 
