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Contents

Relationship Between Marketing Category (Count) Composition and
Ex-Vessel Value of Reported Annual Catches of Shrimp in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico
by Charles W. Caillouet, Frank J. Patella, and William B. Jackson

The Anomalous Surface Salinity Minima Area Across
the Northern Gulf of Alaska and Its Relation to Fisheries
by W. J. Ingraham, Jr.

Atmospheric Climatology and Its Effect on Sea Surface
Temperature-Winter 1977 to Winter 1978
by Robert R. Dickson and Jerome Namias

Special Report: Marine Environmental Conditions off the Coasts
of the United States, January 1977-March 1978: Foreword

Marine Environmental Conditions off the Coasts
of the United States, January 1977-March 1978-Introduction
by Robert A. Pedrick

Marine Environmental Conditions off the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts
of the United States, January 1977-March 1978
by Merton C. Ingham

Marine Environmental Conditions off the Pacific Coast
of the United States, January 1977-March 1978
by D. R. McLain, F. Favorite, and R. J. Lynn