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Best paper awards for 2011 
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 National 
Marine Fisheries Service are noted in bold font below. 
The winners for Fishery Bulletin : 
Ralston, Stephen, Andre E. Punt, Owen S. Hamel, 
John D. DeVore, and Ramon J. Conser 
A meta-analytic approach to quantifying scientific uncer- 
tainty in stock assessments 
Fish. Bull. 109:(2):217— 231. 
The winners for Marine Fisheries Review : 
Ivashchenko, Yulia V., Phillip J. Clapham, 
and Robert L. Brownell Jr. 
Soviet illegal whaling: the devil and the details 
Mar. Fish. Rev. 73(3): 1—19. 
