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Creator:: Tissot, Brian N., Hixon, Mark Anthony, Barss, William, and Stein, David L.
Abstract:: Heceta Bank is a large reef on the edge of the central Oregon continental shelf that supports a wide variety of commercial fisheries. Using the research submersible Delta, we studied fish abundances on Heceta Bank and the relationship between species composition of fish assemblages and bottom types. Cluster analysis indicated...
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Full Text:: Department of Fish and Wildlife, Newport, Oregon 97365 Heceta Bank is a major commercial fishery zone off

Creator:: Starr, Richard M., Fox, David S., Hixon, Mark Anthony, Tissot, Brian N., Johnson, Gary E., and Barss, William H.
Abstract:: Submersible belt-transect surveys along a rocky bottom were combined with acoustic surveys of the water column to estimate depth distribution and density of fishes at Stonewall Bank, Oregon in the northeastern Pacific Ocean from September through October 1991. The objectives of the study were to determine the proportion of fish...
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Full Text:: Department of Fish and Wildlife SE Marine Science Or, Newport, Oregon 97365 Mark A. Hixon Department of

Creator:: Nasby-Lucas, Nicole M., Embley, Bob W., Hixon, Mark A., Merle, Susan G., Tissot, Brian N., and Wright, Dawn J.
Abstract:: In the face of dramatic declines in groundfish populations and a lack of sufficient stock assessment information, a need has arisen for new methods of assessing groundfish populations. We describe the integration of seafloor transect data gathered by a manned submersible with high-resolution sonar imagery to produce a habitat- based...
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Full Text:: groundfi sh trawl fi sh- ery. Final report to the Oregon Trawl Com- mission, 80 p. Oregon Trawl Commission

Creator:: Christie, Mark R., Tissot, Brian N., Albins, Mark A., Beets, James P., Jia, Yanli, Ortiz, Delisse M., Thompson, Stephen E., and Hixon, Mark A.
Abstract:: Acceptance of marine protected areas (MPAs) as fishery and conservation tools has been hampered by lack of direct evidence that MPAs successfully seed unprotected areas with larvae of targeted species. For the first time, we present direct evidence of large-scale population connectivity within an existing and effective network of MPAs....
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Full Text:: , Delisse M. Ortiz5, Stephen E. Thompson6, Mark A. Hixon1 1 Department of Zoology, Oregon State University

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