U.S. Department 
of Commerce 
Seattle, Washington 
Volume 95 
Number 1 
January 1997 
Fishery 
Bulletin 
Contents 
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Articles 
1 Bertram, Douglas F., Thomas J. Miller, and 
William C. Leggett 
Individual variation in growth and development during the 
early life stages of winter flounder, Pleuronectes americanus 
1 1 Crockford, Susan J. 
Archeological evidence of large northern bluefin tuna, 
Thunnus thynnus, in coastal waters of British Columbia and 
northern Washington 
25 Fisher, Joseph R, and William G. Pearcy 
Dietary overlap of juvenile fall- and spring-run Chinook salmon, 
Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, in Coos Bay, Oregon 
39 Goodyear, C. Phillip 
Fish age determined from length: an evaluation of three 
methods using simulated red snapper data 
47 Griffiths, Marc H. 
The life history and stock separation of silver kob, 
Argyrosomus inodorus, in South African waters 
68 Hampton, John 
Estimates of tag-reporting and tag-shedding rates in a 
large-scale tuna tagging experiment in the western tropical 
Pacific Ocean 
80 Hinton, Michael G., Ronald G. Taylor, and 
Michael D. Murphy 
Use of gonad indices to estimate the status of reproductive 
activity of female swordfish, Xiphias gladius: a validated 
classification method 
85 Kane, Joseph 
Persistent spatial and temporal abundance patterns for late- 
stage copepodites of Centropages hamatus (Copepoda: 
Calanoida) in the U.S. northeast continental shelf ecosystem 
