Fishery Bulletin

Contents: Articles - 1) Yield per recruit analysis and management strategies for Atlantic croaker, Micropogonias undulatus, in the Middle Atlantic Bight; 2) Daily and seasonal activity patterns of female cunner, Tautogolabrus adspersus (Labridae), in Newfoundlan; 3) Composite square-mesh panel: a modification to codends for reducing unwanted bycatch and increasing catches of prawns throughout the New South Wales oceanic prawn-trawl fishery; 4) Movements, feeding periods, and daily ration of piscivorous young of the year bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, in the Hudson River estuary; 5) Population biology and harvest of the coral reef surgeonfish Acanthus lineatus in American Samoa; 6) Spatial and temporal variation in age and growth of king mackerel, Scomberomorus cavalla, 1977-1992; 7) Age, growth, distribution, and food habits of recently settled white seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, off San Diego County, California; 8) Analysis of diet and feeding strategies within an assemblage of estuarine larval fish and an objective assessment of dietary niche overlap; 9) Changes in the life history of red porgy, Pagrus pagrus, from the southeastern United States, 1972-1994; 10) Reproductive success of Pacific herring, Clupea pallasi, in Prince William Sound, Alaska, six years after the Exxon Valdez spill; 11) Maximum population growth rates and recovery times for Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua; 12) Age and growth of larval and juvenile Atlantic croaker, Micaropogonias undulatus, from the Middle Atlantic Bight and estuarine waters of Virginia; 13) Temporal and spatial spawning patterns of the Atlantic butterfish, Peprilus triacanthus, in the South and Middle Atlantic Bights; 14) A comparison of three genetic methods used for stock discrimination of orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus: allozymes, mitochondrial DNA, and random amplified polymorphic DNA; 15) Survival of chinooksalmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, from a spawning tributary of the Rakaia River, New Zealand, in relation to spring and summer maistem flows; a shift in distribution of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, in response to prey in the southern Gulf of Maine; 16) Temporal variation in sexual maturity and gear-specific sex ratio of the vermilion snapper, Thomboplites aurotubens, in the South Atlantic Bight.