Nineteen species of the deep-water fish family Macrouridae inhabit Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) North Atlantic. Size and age structure, longevity length at were explored for seven more abundant species: Coryphaenoides armatus, brevibarbis, carapinus, guentheri, mediterraneus, rupestris Macrourus berglax. The otoliths from these had growth increments resembling those accepted as annuli in other whic...

Sustainable fisheries management requires accurate stock assessment and an understanding of how targeted populations vary over space time respond to external stressors. Commercial fishery catch rate data (i.e. per unit effort; CPUE) are widely used assess performance can provide a measure abundance. However, changes in environmental conditions influence the two determinants CPUE, i.e. catchabil...

Summary data are given for the 25 new species of exotic barkand wood-boring Coleoptera first reported in the continental United States between 1985 and 2005, including 2 Buprestidae (Agrilus planipennis and Agrilus prionurus), 5 Cerambycidae (Anoplophora glabripennis, Callidiellum rufipenne, Phoracantha recurva, Sybra alternans, and Tetrops praeusta), and 18 Scolytidae (Ambrosiodmus lewisi, Euw...