Best Publication Awards

“Best Publication Awards” are given to selected articles from Fishery Bulletin and Marine Fisheries Review. Papers considered for this award have at least one author that is an NMFS employee. Following is a list of recent winners with links to the PDF versions of the articles. Authors that are NMFS employees (or were when they wrote their articles) are listed in bold. Winners and their articles are listed in reverse chronological order, most recent first.

Fishery Bulletin

Vol. 110: Jones, Darin T., Christopher D. Wilson, Alex De Robertis, Christopher N. Rooper, Thomas C. Weber, and John L. Butler. Evaluation of rockfish abundance in untrawlable habitat: combining acoustic and complementary sampling tools, p. 332-343.

Vol. 109: Ralston, Stephen, André E. Punt, Owen S. Hamel, John D. DeVore, and Ramon J. Conser. A meta-analytic approach to quantifying scientific uncertainty in stock assessments, p. 217-231.

Vol. 108: Patrick, Wesley S., Paul Spencer, Jason Link, Jason Cope, John Field,
Donald Kobayashi, Peter Lawson, Todd Gedamke, Enric Cortés, Olav
Ormseth, Keith Bigelow, and William Overholtz. Using productivity and susceptibility indices to assess the vulnerability of United States fish stocks to overfishing, p. 305-322.

Vol. 107: Jeffrey J. Polovina, Melanie Abecassis, Evan A. Howell, and Phoebe Woodworth.
Increases in relative abundance of mid-trophic level fishes concurrent with declines in apex predators in the subtropical North Pacific, 1996–2006, p. 523-531.

Vol. 107 (honorable mention): Richard Brill, Peter Bushnell, Leonie Smith, and Coley Speaks. The repulsive and feeding-deterrent effects of electropositive metals on juvenile sandbar sharks (Caracharhinus plumbeus), p. 298-307.

Vol. 106: Kyle W. Shertzer and Erik H. Williams, Fish assemblages and indicator species: reef fishes off the southeastern United States, p. 257-269.

Vol. 105: Tara J. Anderson and Mary M. Yoklavich, Multiscale habitat associations of deepwater demersal fishes off central California, p. 168-179.

Vol. 104: John Butler, Melissa Neuman, Deanna Pinkard, Rikk Kvitek, and Guy Cochrane, The use of multibeam sonar mapping techniques to refine population estimates of the endangered white abalone (Haliotis sorenseni), p.521–532.

Vol. 103: Chris J. Harvey, Effects of El Niño events on energy demand and egg production of rockfish (Scorpaenidae: Sebastes): a bioenergetics approach, p. 71–83.

Vol. 101: John L. Butler, J. Thomas Barnes, Larry D. Jacobson, and H. Geoffery Moser, Biology and population dynamics of cowcod (Sebastes levis) in the southern California Bight, p. 260-280.

Vol. 100: R. Bruce MacFarlane and Elizabeth C. Norton, Physiological ecology of juvenile chinook salmon (0ncorhynchus tshawytscha) at the southern end of their distribution, the San Francisco Estuary and Gulf of the Farallones, California, p. 244-257.

Vol. 99: Nancy C.H. Lo, John R. Hunter, and Richard Charter, Use of a continuous egg sampler for ichthyoplankton surveys: application to the estimation of daily egg production of Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) off California, p. 554-571.

Vol. 98: James W. Orr and Ann C. Matarese, Revision of the genus Lepidopsetta Gill, 1862 (Teleostei: Pleuronectidae) based on larval and adult morphology, with a description of a new species from the north Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, p. 539-582.

Vol. 97: Allan W. Stoner, A. J. Bejda, J. P. Manderson, B. A. Phelan, L. L. Stehlik, and J. P. Pessutti, Behavior of winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, during the reproductive season: Laboratory and field observations on spawning, feeding, and locomotion, p. 999-1016.

Vol. 96: Jerald S. Ault, J. A. Bohnsack, and G. A. Meester, A retrospective (1979-1996) multispecies assessment of coral reef fish stocks in the Florida Keys, p. 395-414.

Marine Fisheries Review

Vol. 74: Scott-Denton, Elizabeth, Pat F. Cryer, Matt R. Duffy, Judith 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 Atlantic penaeid and rock shrimp fisheries based on observer data, 74(4):1-27.

Vol. 73: Ivashchenko, Yulia V., Phillip J. Clapham, and Robert L. Brownell Jr.
Soviet illegal whaling: the devil and the details, 73(3):1-19.

Vol. 72: Susan Abbott-Jamieson and Patricia M. Clay. The long voyage to
including sociocultural analysis in NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service, 72(2):14-33.

Vol. 71: Phil Clapham and Yulia Ivashchenko. A Whale of a Deception, 71(1):44-52.

Vol. 69: Patrick Ressler, John A. Holmes, Guy W. Fleischer, Rebecca E. Thomas, and Kenneth C. Cooke. Pacific Hake, Merluccius productus, Autecology: A Timely Review, 69(1-4):1-24.

Vol. 67: Vladimir N. Burkanov and Thomas R. Loughlin. Distribution and Abundance of Steller Sea Lions, Eumetopias jubatus, on the Asian Coast, 1720's-2005, 67(2):1-62.

Vol. 66: Nancy E. Maloney, Sablefish, Anaplopoma fimbria, populations on Gulf of Alaska seamount, 66(3):1-12.

Vol. 65: Charles W. Fowler, Tenents, Principles, and Criteria for Management: The Basis for Systemic Management, 65(2):1-55.

Vol. 62: Lisa S. Baraff and Thomas R. Loughlin, Trends and potential interactions between pinnipeds and fisheries of New England and the U.S. West Coast, 62(4):1-39.

Vol. 61: S. L. Perry, D. P. Demaster, and G. K. Silber, The great whales: History and status of six species listed as endangered under the U. S. Endangered Species Act of 1973, 61(1):1-74.

Vol. 60: Janet E. Mason, Declining rockfish lengths in the Monterey Bay, California, recreational fishery, 60(3):15-28.