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Fisheries Species and Oil/Gas Platforms Offshore California Annotated Bibliography: Fisheries Species and Oil/Gas Platforms Offshore California MBC Applied Environmental Sciences Costa Mesa, California : MBC Applied Environmental Sciences, February 1987. OCS study MMS 86-0092. Funded by the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region of the Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior. Reprinted by Peter Brueggeman, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, October 2003. The Annotated Bibliography: Fisheries Species and Oil/Gas Platforms Offshore California presents 879 references on important fisheries species offshore California and on the ecology of fish and invertebrates which associate with oil and gas platforms offshore California. This Bibliography was published in: Annotated bibliography: fisheries species and oil/gas platforms offshore California. Costa Mesa, CA: MBC Applied Environmental Sciences, 1987. OCS study MMS 86-0092. Funded by the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region of the Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior. [Preface of printed version says there are more than 950 citations but the Sci-Mate database obtained by SIO Library had 879 citations.] This Bibliography comprises almost all the references cited in these two printed reports: 1: Ecology of important fisheries species offshore California. MBC Applied Environmental Sciences. MBC Applied Environmental Sciences. Costa Mesa, CA: MBC Applied Environmental Sciences, 1987. OCS study MMS 86-0093. Funded by the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region of the Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior. 2: Ecology of oil/gas platforms offshore California. MBC Applied Environmental Sciences. MBC Applied Environmental Sciences. Costa Mesa, CA : MBC Applied Environmental Sciences, 1987. OCS study MMS 86-0094. Funded by the Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Region of the Minerals Management Service, US Department of the Interior. Prosobranchia: Marine snails. AUTHOR(S): Abbott, D. P., and E. C. Haderlie. YEAR: 1980. SOURCE: Pages 230-307 in R. H. Morris, D. P. Abbott, and E. C. Haderlie (eds.), Intertidal invertebrates of California, Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA. KEYWORDS: Red abalone, Haliotis rufescens, fishery, economics, distribution, reproduction, life history, physiology, reproduction, growth, feeding, mortality, habitat. ABSTRACT: This section of Intertidal Invertebrates of California addresses the subfamily Prosobranchia, the largest of the three main divisions of the class Gatropoda, which includes the red abalone, Haliotis rufescens. The biology of the animal is discussed as well as its distinctive characteristics, range, habitat, interactions with other species, economic importance, and current research. A probability sea survey plan for estimating relative abundance of ocean shrimp. AUTHOR(S): Abramson, N. J. YEAR: 1968. SOURCE: Calif. Fish Game 54(4):257-269. KEYWORDS: Pandalus jordani, ocean shrimp. ABSTRACT: A method was designed to estimate relative abundance of the ocean shrimp, Pandalus jordani, using a stratified two-stage research vessel survey. First and second stage units were random otter trawl hauls and a random subsample of the catch, respectively. Relative abundance and variance formulas are given. The most feasible design was proportional allocation at the first stage and a constant sample size at the second. Distribution and abundance of sardine and anchovy larvae in the California current region off California and Baja California, 1951-64: A summary. AUTHOR(S): Ahlstrom, E. H. YEAR: 1966. SOURCE: U.S. Fish Wildl. Serv. Spec. Sci. Rep. Fish. 534:71 pp. KEYWORDS: Northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, larvae, distribution. ABSTRACT: Larval distribution and abundance of the northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, in 1951-1964 from waters off California and Baja California are reported. Similar information on the Pacific sardine, Sardinops caeruleus, is given. Numerous tables are given summarizing the occurrence and abundance of larvae by cruise and area, and the size composition by cruise. Most anchovy larvae were distributed between Point Conception, California, and Point San Juanico, Baja California. The southern and offshore extent of anchovy spawning has been adequately circumscribed, while the northern extent has not been well delineated. The major portion of anchovy larvae were taken off Baja California, except in 1957, 1959, and 1964. Few anchovies were taken off northern California where less than 5% of hauls contained larvae. As a whole, central California was more important for eggs and larvae with the area between Point Sur and Point San Luis the most significant. Anchovy populations increased markedly since 1951, rapidly until 1954, reaching a plateau through 1957, and again increasing rapidly until 1962. Approximately nine times as many larvae were taken per year during the recent period as during the early 1950s. Numbers of larvae decreased markedly with increase in size. Sardine eggs and larvae and other fish larvae, Pacific Coast, 1957. AUTHOR(S): Ahlstrom, E. H. YEAR: 1959. SOURCE: U.S. Fish Wild. Serv. Spec. Sci. Rep. Fish. 328:99 pp. KEYWORDS: Eggs, larvae, distribution, abundance, northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, Scomber japonicus, chub mackerel, jack mackerel, Trachurus symmetricus. ABSTRACT: The size, distribution and abundance of Pacific sardine, Sardinops caerulea, eggs and larvae were reported. In addition, the larvae of northern anchovy, jack mackerel, Pacific mackerel, Pacific hake, and rockfish were also considered. Samples were collected, with plankton nets, from San Francisco to Cabo San Lucas at depths of 140 m to the surface. Anchovy larvae was the most abundant species in the survey area, followed, in decreasing importance, by hake, rockfish, jack mackerel, sardine, and Pacific mackerel. Sardine larvae were found further south than eggs due to the southward transport. Larger larvae were found only in the southern part of the distribution. Eggs were obtained in the northern part of the range during June, and in the southern part of the range from March to July and October. Co-occurrences of sardine and anchovy larvae in the California current region off California and Baja California. AUTHOR(S): Ahlstrom, E. H. YEAR: 1966. SOURCE: CalCOFI Rep. 11:117-135. KEYWORDS: Northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, larvae, spawning. ABSTRACT: The co-occurrences of the Pacific sardine, Sardinops caeruleus, and northern anchovy, Engraulis mordax, are reported along with their interactions off California and Baja California during 1951-1960. In recent years the Pacific sardine and northern anchovy have experienced reduced spawning off central California. Anchovy egg and larval distribution changed less than that of sardines, with a spread northward in 1958 and 1959. Sardine larvae were more abundant in 1954 but in 1962 anchovy larvae outnumbered sardine larvae by more than 90 to 1. High and low abundance estimates for sardine and anchovy larvae were 7.3 to 1.2 and 55 to 15.1 trillion, respectively. An increase in co-occurrences of anchovy larvae in collections with sardine larvae from 62% (1954) to 87% (1960) was observed. For the decade as a whole, anchovy larvae co-occurred with sardine and sardine larvae co-occurred with anchovy in 69.8% and 22.0% of hauls, respectively. The co-occurrence of eggs is less than that for larvae. More larvae per sample were obtained in hauls with both species than when that species occurred alone. Newly hatched larvae co-occurred less than older larvae. Anchovy abundance quadrupled during the 1950s, while after 1954 sardine abundance progressively decreased. Anchovies should have had an advantage over sardines if interspecies competition was a factor in larval survival and co-occurrence was a measure of competition. Even though numbers of larvae per tow were larger in hauls which contained both species, there was no indication of better survival. Report of neuston (surface) collections made on an extended CalCOFI cruise during May 1972. AUTHOR(S): Ahlstrom, E. H., and E. Stevens. YEAR: 1976. SOURCE: CalCOFI Rep. 18:167-180. KEYWORDS: Engraulis mordax, northern anchovy, larvae, Anoplopoma fimbria, sablefish, Sebastes sp., Trachurus symmetricus, jack mackerel. ABSTRACT: This paper reports on neuston net hauls made simultaneously with oblique plankton tows by the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations. In neuston tows, the number of fish larvae collected ranged from zero to 1,039 with 50% having zero to 10. Oblique hauls with zero to 10 larvae were found 13% of the time. Overall, the average catch in neuston samples was about one-third that taken in oblique tows. In neuston hauls, six species and four genera accounted for 91.4% of the total taken: Engraulis mordax (43.3%), Cololabis saira (15.6%), Oxyporhampus micropterus (11.2%), Anoplopoma fimbria (6.7%), Tarletonbeania crenularis (4.2%), Oligoplites sp. (3.6%), Opisthonema sp. (2.1%), Sebastes sp. (1.9%), Vinciguerria lucetia (1.9%), and Auxis sp. (0.9%). Taken exclusively in neuston samples were larvae-juveniles of A. fimbria, Macrorhamphosus gracilis, and Opisthonema sp. Almost 2.5 times as many species were taken in the oblique hauls, with eight species and two genera contributing 87.1%. Offshore and inshore species composition comparison are made. Northern anchovy, Pacific caury, jack mackerel, sablefish, rockfish, slender snipefish, and myctophid lanternfishes are all discussed in detail in relation to catches from surface neuston nets. Neuston samples are beneficial in evaluating species which have stages from egg to juvenile
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