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Frontmatter final.qxd 11/17/07 2:30 PM Page 2 CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS Reports VOLUME 48 January 1 to December 31, 2007 Cooperating Agencies: CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION, NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE Frontmatter final.qxd 11/17/07 2:30 PM Page 3 CALCOFI COORDINATOR John Heine EDITOR Sarah M. Shoffler This report is not copyrighted, except where otherwise indicated, and may be reproduced in other publications provided credit is given to California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations and to the author(s). Inquiries concerning this report should be addressed to CalCOFI Coordinator, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92038-0218. EDITORIAL BOARD John Heine Robert Lea Laura Rogers-Bennett Printed and distributed December 2007, La Jolla, California ISSN 0575-3317 3-4 Contents.qxd 11/16/07 1:07 PM Page 1 CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 48, 2007 CONTENTS I. Reports, Review, and Publications Report of the CalCOFI Committee . 5 Review of Some California fisheries for 2006 Coastal Pelagic Finfish, Market Squid, Dungeness Crab, Spot Prawn, Highly Migratory Species, Ocean Salmon, California Halibut, Nearshore Live-Fishes, Cabezon, Surfperches, and Leopard Shark . 10 The State of the California Current, 2006-2007: Regional and Local Processes Dominate Ralf Goericke, Elizabeth Venrick, Tony Koslow, William J. Sydeman, Franklin B. Schwing, Steven J. Bograd, William T. Peterson, Robert Emmett, J. Rubén Lara Lara, Gilberto Gaxiola Castro, José Gómez Valdez, K. David Hyrenbach, Russel W. Bradley, Michael J. Weise, James T. Harvey, Curtis Collins, and Nancy C. H. Lo . 33 Publications . 67 II. Symposium of the CalCOFI Conference, 2006 Symposium Introduction . .69 Simple Fisheries and Marine Reserve Models of Interacting Species: An Overview and Example with Recruitment Facilitation Marissa L. Baskett . .71 Species Diversity and Foundation Species: Potential Indicators of Fisheries Yields and Marine Ecosystem Functioning. Matthew E.S. Bracken, Barry E. Bracken, and Laura Rogers-Bennett . .82 The Relationships Between Predatory Fish, Forage Fishes, and Juvenile Salmonid Marine Survival off the Columbia River: A Simple Trophic Model Analysis Robert L. Emmett and David B. Sampson . .92 Seasonal Food Web Models for the Oregon Inner-Shelf Ecosystem: investigating the role of large jellyfish James J. Ruzicka, Richard D. Brodeur, and Thomas C. Wainwright. .106 III. Scientific Contributions Range Expansion and Trophic Interactions of the Jumbo Squid, Dosidicus Gigas, in the California Current John C. Field, Ken Baltz, A. Jason Phillips, and William A. Walker . .131 Daily Larval Production of Pacific Hake (Merluccius productus) Off California in 1951–2006 Nancy C. H. Lo . .147 A Characterization of the Fish Assemblage of Deep Photic Zone Rock Outcrops in the Anacapa Passage, Southern California Milton S. Love and Donna M. Schroeder . .165 Aspects of the Life History of Treefish (Scorpaenidae: Sebastes serricep) Madhavi A. Colton and Ralph J. Larson . .177 Characterizing Spawning Habitats of Japanese Sardine, Sardinops Melanostictus, Japanese Anchovy, Engraulis Japonicus, and Pacific Round Herring, Etrumeus Teres, in the Northwestern Pacific Yoshioki Oozeki, Akinori Takasuka, Hiroshi Kubota, and Manuel Barange . .191 Comparison of Upwelling Indices off Baja California Derived from Three Different Wind Data Sources Paula Pérez-Brunius . .204 Northern Shift in the Location of Spawning and Recruitment of Pacific Hake (Merluccius productus) in the Northern California Current A. Jason Phillips, Stephen Ralston, Richard D. Brodeur, Toby D. Auth, Robert L. Emmett, Carrie Johnson, and Vidar G. Wespestad . .215 Instructions to Authors . 231 CalCOFI Basic Station Plan . inside back cover Indexed in Current Contents. Abstracted in Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts and Oceanic Abstracts. 3-4 Contents.qxd 11/16/07 1:07 PM Page 2 5-9 Committee Rept 11/17/07 10:28 AM Page 5 COMMITTEE REPORT CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 48, 2007 Part I REPORTS, REVIEW, AND PUBLICATIONS REPORT OF THE CALCOFI COMMITTEE NOAA HIGHLIGHTS Scientists aboard the R/V David Starr Jordan and the R/V Oscar Dyson conducted plankton net samples of CalCOFI Cruises eggs, larvae, and zooplankton, and vertical profiles of The CalCOFI program completed its fifty-seventh year temperature, salinity, oxygen, and chlorophyll. Transect with four successful quarterly cruises. All four cruises were observations included continuous egg pump samples, manned by personnel from NOAA Fisheries Service continuous multi-frequency acoustic samples of adults Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC), Scripps and possibly juvenile fish, and continuous measurements Institution of Oceanography (SIO), and the California of sea surface and meteorological conditions. Trained Department of Fish and Game (CDFG). The fall 2006 observers on both ships surveyed for marine mammals cruise was conducted on the Scripps vessel R/V Roger and sea birds during daylight hours. Revelle and covered the southern lines of the CalCOFI The data collected on Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) pattern. The winter 2006 cruise was conducted on the were used to generate an estimate of the spawning stock NOAA R/V David Starr Jordan. The Jordan covered line biomass, which resulted in an updated stock assessment. 93 to line 60 just north of San Francisco. The spring and The total DEPM-based spawning biomass during summer 2006 cruises were on the Scripps vessel R/V New April–May 2006 was estimated to be 1,304,806 mt Horizon, and covered the standard CalCOFI pattern. The (CV = 0.47) within an 885,523 km2 spawning area from spring CalCOFI cruise was conducted in conjunction San Diego to British Columbia. Sardine eggs and adults with the first coast-wide survey (see below). The R/V were not found north of Coos Bay, Oregon. The stan- David Starr Jordan was used to perform the northern ex- dard DEPM sampling region off California (San Diego tension of the CalCOFI pattern, while the R/V Oscar to San Francisco) had a spawning area of 336,774 km2 Dyson surveyed from Vancouver, Canada, to San Francisco. and a spawning biomass of 1,081,612 mt (CV = 0.47). Standard CalCOFI protocols were followed during Thus, the portion of spawning biomass from San Francisco the four quarterly cruises. Over the year a total of 374 to British Columbia was approximately 223,194 mt (Hill bongo tows, 298 manta tows, 316 pairovet tows, 424 et al., 2006). CTD casts, and 40 trawls were conducted. In addition This survey is unique in that it is the first to provide to the usual CTD casts and net tows, measurements were a snapshot of the physical and biological environment collected on a variety of other parameters including but of the California Current ecosystem spanning the bulk not limited to primary productivity, salinity, dissolved of its range. The next coast-wide survey is scheduled for oxygen, acoustics, and weather. Both seabird and ma- April 2008 with the R/V David Starr Jordan and the R/V rine mammal observers also collected data on each cruise. Miller Freeman. Coast-wide Sardine Survey CalCOFI Ichthyoplankton Update The first coast-wide survey of the California Current To make the CalCOFI ichthyoplankton data base pelagic ecosystem was conducted from 1 April–8 May more user-friendly, the Ichthyoplankton Ecology group 2006, spanning from Baja California, Mexico, to British at SWFSC has undertaken a project to update all larval Columbia, Canada. The survey was carried out with fish identifications to current standards. The fish larvae three U.S. vessels. The R/V David Starr Jordan traveled have always been identified to the lowest taxon permit- from San Diego, California, north to San Francisco, ted by current knowledge. However, when taxonomic California. The R/V Oscar Dyson departed Seattle, resolution has improved, it usually has not been possi- Washington, and surveyed from Vancouver Island, ble to revisit and update earlier samples, with the result Canada, south to San Francisco, California. In addition, that many taxa must be aggregated back to genus, fam- the SIO vessel R/V New Horizon conducted the regu- ily, or ordinal level in order to perform analyses using lar spring CalCOFI survey concurrently. the entire CalCOFI ichthyoplankton data set. This re- 5 5-9 Committee Rept 11/17/07 10:28 AM Page 6 COMMITTEE REPORT CalCOFI Rep., Vol. 48, 2007 identification effort is a multi-year project that ultimately The governance structure of PaCOOS continues to will provide taxonomic consistency throughout the evolve. Representatives from Canada’s Department of CalCOFI ichthyoplankton time series. To date, all fish Fisheries and Oceans and from IMECOCAL, CalCOFI’s larvae from all CalCOFI samples collected between sister survey program along Baja California, Mexico, January 1972 (cruise 7201) and July 2007 (cruise 0707) were invited to join the Board of Governors. The ad- have been identified to current standards. Larvae col- dition of representatives from Canada and Mexico will lected during the 1969 CalCOFI cruises are now being round out representation along the entire California re-identified. Current Large Marine Ecosystem. Larval fish overall were only about half as abundant during the 2006 CalCOFI survey as they had been in CDFG HIGHLIGHTS the 2005 survey. In 2005, the abundance of northern The Marine Region of the California Department anchovy (Engraulis mordax) larvae increased substantially of Fish and Game (CDFG) in 2006 experienced in- and it replaced Pacific sardine as the most abundant creased funding primarily from the California legisla- species collected. It was the most abundant species again ture. These funds were used to hire 44 full time staff, in 2006, although less than one-quarter of its overall increasing the staff of the Region by almost 25% and abundance in 2005. Larval Pacific sardine were about restoring the Region’s operating budget. The major focus half as abundant in 2006 compared with 2005, but re- of these new positions is expanding the resource assess- mained the second most abundant species collected.