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National Marine Fisheries Service Best Paper Awards for 2012 
The award for best publication of the year is given to 
authors who are employees of the National Marine 
Fisheries Service and whose article is judged to be the 
most noteworthy of those published in Fishery Bulletin 
and Marine Fisheries Review. Authors from the Na- 
tional Marine Fisheries Service are noted in bold font 
below. 
The winners for Fishery Bulletin 
Jones, Darin T., Christopher D. Wilson, Alex De Rober- 
ts, Christopher N. Rooper, Thomas C. Weber, and John L. 
Butler. 
Evaluation of rockfish abundance in untrawlable habitat; com- 
bining acoustic and complementary sampling tools. Fish. 
Bull. 110:332-343. 
The winners for Marine Fisheries Review 
Scott-Denton, Elizabeth, Pat F Cryer, Matt R. Duffy, Ju- 
dith P. Gocke, Mike R. Harrelson, Donna L. Kinsella, James 
M. Nance, Jeff R. Pulver, Rebecca C. Smith, and Jo Anne 
Williams 
Characterization of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico and South At- 
lantic penaeid and rock shrimp fisheries based on observer 
data. Mar. Fish. Rev. 74(4): 1 —2 7. 
