Aguirre, A. A., T. R. Spraker, A. Chaves, L. du Toit, W. Eure, and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Fibropapillomatosis in olive ridley turtles in Costa Rica. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 111.

Aguirre, A. A.
2000. Rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine turtles with fibropapillomatosis: An epidemiologic perspective. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 111.

Aquirre, A. A., and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Blood biochemistry values of green turtles, Chelonia mydas, with and without fibropapillomatosis. Comparative Hematology International 10:132-137.

Baker, J. D., and M. J. Donohue.
2000. Ontogeny of swimming and diving in Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) pups. Can. J. Zool. 78(1):100-109.

Balazs, G. H., S. K. K. Murakawa, D. M. Ellis, and A. A. Aguirre.
2000. Manifestation of fibropapillomatosis and rates of growth of green turtles at Kaneohe Bay in the Hawaiian Islands. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 112-113.

Balazs, G. H., L. K. Katahira, and D. M. Ellis.
2000. Satellite tracking of hawksbill turtles nesting in the Hawaiian Islands. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 279-281.

Balazs, G. H. and D. M. Ellis.
2000. Satellite telemetry of migrant male and female green turtles breeding in the Hawaiian Islands. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 281-283.

Balazs, G. H., M. Rice, S. K. K. Murakawa, and G. Watson.
2000. Growth rates and residency of immature green turtles at Kiholo Bay, Hawaii. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 283-285.

Bjorndal, K. A., J. A. Wetherall, A. B. Bolten, and J. A. Mortimer.
2000. Green turtle nesting at Tortuguero, Costa Rica: An encouraging trend. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 52.

Bustamente, R. H., G. K. Reck, B. I. Ruttenberg, and J. J. Polovina.
2000. The Galapagos spiny lobster fishery. In: Spiny lobsters: fisheries and culture, B. F. Phillips, and J. Kittaka (eds.). Fish. News Books, pp. 210-220.

DeMartini, E. E., J. H. Uchiyama, and H. A. Williams.
2000. Sexual maturity, sex ratio, and size composition of swordfish, Xiphias gladius, caught by the Hawaii-based pelagic longline fishery. Fish. Bull. 98:489-506.

Donohue, M. J., D. P. Costa, M. E. Goebel, and J. D. Baker.
2000. The ontogeny of metabolic rate and thermoregulatory capabilities of northern fur seal, Callorhinus ursinus, pups in air and water. J. Exp. Biol. 203:1003-1016.

Dutton, P., G. Balazs, A. Dizon, and A. Barragán.
2000. Genetic stock identification and distribution of leatherbacks in the Pacific: Potential effects on declining populations. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 38-39.

Ellis, D. M., G. H. Balazs, W. G. Gilmartin, S. K. K. Murakawa, and L. K. Katahira.
2000. Short-range reproductive migrations of hawksbill turtles in the Hawaiian Islands as determined by satellite telemetry. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 252-253.

Forney, K. A., J. Barlow, M. M. Muto, M. Lowry, J. Baker, G. Cameron, J. Mobley, C. Stinchcomb, and J. V. Carretta.
2000. U.S. Pacific marine mammal stock assessments: 2000. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-300, 276 p.

Humphreys, R. L., Jr.
2000. Otolith-based assessment of recruitment variation in a North Pacific seamount population of armorhead Pseudopentaceros wheeleri. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 204:213-223.

Johanos, T. C. and J. D. Baker.
2000. The Hawaiian monk seal in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-292, 125 p.

Laurs, R. M. and J. J. Polovina.
2000. Satellite remote sensing: an important tool in fisheries oceanography. In Paul J. Harrison and Timothy R. Parson, eds. Fisheries oceanography: an integrative approach to fisheries ecology and management. Blackwell Science, pp. 146-157.

Lu, Y., A. A. Aguirre, T. M. Work, G. H. Balazs, V. R. Nerurkar, and R. Yanagihara.
2000. Identification of a small, naked virus in tumor-like aggregates in cell lines derived from a green turtle, Chelonia mydas, with fibropapillomas. J. Virol. Methods 86:25-33.

Lu, Y., Y. Qigui, J. P. Zamzow, Y. Wang, G. S. Losey, G. H. Balazs, V. R. Nerurkar, and
R. Yanagihara.
2000. Detection of green turtle herpesviral sequence in saddleback wrasse Thalassoma duperrey: a possible mode of transmission of green turtle fibropapilloma. J. Aquat. Anim. Health 12:58-63.

Lu, Y., Y. Wang, Q. Yu, A. A. Aguirre, G. H. Balazs, V. R. Nerurkar, and R. Yanagihara.
2000. Detection of herpesviral sequences in tissues of green turtles with fibropapilloma by polymerase chain reaction. Arch. Virol 145:1885-1893.

Parrish, F. A., M. P. Craig, T. J. Ragen, G. J. Marshall, and B. M. Buhleier.
2000. Identifying diurnal foraging habitat of endangered Hawaiian monk seals using a seal-mounted video camera. Mar. Mamm. Sci., Vol. 16, No. 2.

Polovina, J. J.
2000. The lobster fishery in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. In: Spiny lobsters: fisheries and culture, B. F. Phillips, and J. Kittaka (eds.) Fish. News Books, 2nd edition, pp. 98-104.

Polovina, J. J., D. R. Kobayashi, D. M. Ellis, M. P. Seki, and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Turtles on the edge: movement of loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) along oceanic fronts in the central North Pacific, 1997-1998. Fish. Oceanogr. 9(1):71-82.

Polovina, J. J., M. P. Seki, and E. Howell.
2000. Sensors detect biological change in mid-latitude North Pacific. EOS, 8l(44):519.

Rice, M. R., G. H. Balazs, L. Hallacher, W. Dudley, G. Watson, K. Krussell, and B. Larson.
2000. Diving, basking, and foraging patterns of a subadult green turtle at Punalu'u, Hawaii. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 229-231.

Russell, D. J. and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Identification manual for dietary vegetation of the Hawaiian green turtle Chelonia mydas. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-294, 49 p.

Swimmer, J. Y. and G. H. Balazs.
2000. The biology of basking in the green turtle (Chelonia mydas). In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 233-234.

Work, T. M., G. H. Balazs, R. A. Rameyer, S. P. Chang, J. Berestecky.
2000. Assessing humoral and cell-mediated immune response in Hawaiian green turtles, Chelonia mydas. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 74:179-194.

Zamzow, J. P.
2000. Cleaning symbioses between Hawaiian reef fishes and green sea turtles, Chelonia mydas. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 235.

Zug, G. R. and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Estimating age in Hawaiian green sea turtles by skeletochronology. In Proceedings of the 18th International Sea Turtle Symposium (A. Abreu-Grobois, R. Briseño-Dueñas, R. Márquez-Millán, L. Sarti-Martínez, eds.), 3-7 March 1998. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SEFSC-436, pp. 127-128.

Administrative Reports

Aguirre, A. A.
2000. Health assessment and disease status studies of the Hawaiian monk seal (Monachus schauinslandi). Southwest Fish. Cent. Honolulu Lab., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396. Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-01, 44 p.

Boggs, C., P. Dalzell, T. Essington, M. Labelle, D. Mason, R. Skillman, and J. Wetherall.
2000. Recommended overfishing definitions and control rules for the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's pelagic fishery management plan. Southwest Fish. Cent. Honolulu Lab., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396. Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-05, 18 p.

Kawamoto, K. E. and S. G. Pooley.
2000. Annual report of the 1998 western Pacific lobster fishery (with preliminary 1999 data). Southwest Fish. Cent. Honolulu Lab., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396. Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-02, 38 p.

Kleiber, P. and C. Boggs
2000. Workshop on reducing sea turtle takes in longline fisheries-Miami, August 31-September 1, 1999. Honolulu Lab., Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396, Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-09, 16 p.

McCracken, Marti L.
2000. Estimation of sea turtle take and mortality in the Hawaiian longline fisheries. Honolulu Lab., Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396. Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-06, 29 p.

Moffitt, R. B. and D. R. Kobayashi.
2000. Recommended overfishing definitions and control rules for the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council's bottomfish and seamount groundfish fishery management plan. Southwest Fish. Cent. Honolulu Lab., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396. Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-03, 8 p.

Walsh, W. A.
2000. Comparisons of fish catches reported by fishery observers and in logbooks of Hawaii-based commercial longline vessels. Southwest Fish. Cent. Honolulu Lab., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396. Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-07, 45 p.

Work, T. M., R. A. Rameyer, G. H. Balazs, C. Cray, and S. P. Chang.
2000. Immune status of free-ranging green turtles from Hawaii with fibropapillomatosis. Honolulu Lab., Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent., Natl. Mar. Fish. Serv., NOAA, Honolulu, HI 96822-2396, Southwest Fish. Sci. Cent. Admin. Rep. H-00-11C, 12 p.

Approved by Science and Research Director

Seki, M. P., D. G. Foley, R. R. Bidigare, J. J. Polovina, C. L. Leonard, and R. E. Brainard.
2000. Observations of biological enhancement at cyclonic eddies tracked with GOES thermal imagery in Hawaiian waters.

Abstracts

Aguirre, A. A., J. V. Pérez, T. R. Spraker, P. H. Saldaña, B. Zimmerman, E. A. Padilla, E. M. L. Reyes, G. H. Balazs.
2000. Studies of marine turtle fibropapillomatosis in Mexico: an international collaboration of research and training. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Balazs, G. H., M. R. Rice, and P. A. Bennett.
2000. Remote interactive imaging: implementation of a seaturtlecam system in the Hawaiian Islands. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Balazs, G. H., S. K. K. Murakawa, D. M. Parker, M. R. Rice.
2000. Adaptation of captive-reared green turtles released into Hawaiian coastal foraging habitats, 1990-1999. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Bennett, P. A., U. Keuper-Bennett, and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Remigration and residency of Hawaiian green turtles in coastal waters of Honokowai, West Maui. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Bennett, P. A., U. Keuper-Bennet, and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Changing the landscape: evidence for detrimental impacts to coral reefs by Hawaiian marine turtles. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Bidigare, R. R., C. L. Leonard, D. G. Foley, M. P. Seki, and J. J. Polovina.
2000. Eddy formation and new production rates in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. [Abstr.] To be presented at the NASA SeaWiFS Science Team Meeting, May 2000.

Bidigare, R. R., C. L. Leonard, D. G. Foley, M. P. Seki, and J. J. Polvina.
2000. Eddy formation and new production rates in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Ocean Optics XV, Musée Océanographique, Monaco, October 16-20, 2000.

Brainard, R. E., M. P. Seki, J. J. Polovina, D. G. Foley.
2000. The role of oceanography on aggregation and vulnerability of bigeye tuna in the Hawaii longline fishery from satellite, moored, and shipboard time series. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Annual Tuna Conference, Lake Arrowhead, California, May 22-25, 2000.

Brainard, R. E., D. G. Foley, M. J. Donohue, and R. C. Boland.
2000. Accumulation of marine debris by ocean currents threatens coral reef ecosystems of the Hawaiian Islands and elsewhere. [Abstr.] To be presented at the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, October 23-27,2000.

Brainard, R. E., J. E. Maragos, E. E. DeMartini, R. Wass, F. A. Parrish, R. C. Boland, and R. Newbold.
2000. An overview of a joint NOAA/USFWS rapid ecological assessment of the coral reef ecosystems of the U.S. line and Phoenix Islands. [Abstr.] To be presented at the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, October 23-27,2000.

Harrington, K. A., M. R. Rice, and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Habitat use of mixohaline fish ponds by green turtles at Kiholo Bay, Hawaii. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Parker, D. M., W. Cooke, G. H. Balazs.
2000. Dietary components of pelagic loggerhead turtles in the North Pacific Ocean. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Parrish, F. A., C. K. Abernathy, G. Marshall, and B. Buhleier.
2000. Deepwater coral beds as foraging habitat for the endangered Hawaiian monk seal. [Abstr.] To be presented at the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, October 23-27, 2000.

Parrish, F., M. Ridgley.
2000. A multiobjective approach for identifying no-take zones in large-scale coral reef ecosystems. [Abstr.] To be presented at the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali, October 23-27, 2000.

Quackenbush, S. L., J. V. Pérez, A. A. Aguirre, J. A. Horrocks, G. H. Balazs, R. N. Casey, and
J. W. Casey.
2000. Prevalence and phylogeny of herpesvirus sequences from normal and fibropapilloma tissues of green and olive ridley turtles sampled at Oaxaca, Mexico and Barbados, West Indies. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Rice, M. R., D. K. Kopra, and G. H. Balazs.
2000. Ecology and behavior of green turtles basking at Kiholo Bay, Hawaii. [Abstr.] To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.

Work, T. M., R. A. Rameyer, G. H. Balazs, C. Cray, S. P. Chang.
2000. Immunology of green turtle fibropapillomatosis in Hawaii. To be presented at the Proceedings of the 20th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, February 29 through March 4, 2000, Orlando, Florida.