Widespread population extirpations and the consequent loss of ecological, genetic, and life‐history
diversity can lead to extinction of evolutionarily significant units (ESUs) and species. …

The Endangered Species Act (ESA) allows listing of “distinct population segments” of vertebrates
as well as named species and subspecies. The policy of the National Marine Fisheries …

Five new species of modioliform mussels in the family Mytilidae are described from material
collected at sulfide/hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico. New definitive taxa, placed in …

On 27 November 2007, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) received a petition
seeking to list southern eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), as a threatened or endangered …

A protein-electrophoretic analysis of six putative morphospecies in the bivalve family
Vesicomyidae from eight deep-sea hydrothermal vent sites in the eastern Pacific, three cold-water …

This report describes the conclusions of the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS)
Puget Sound Rockfish Biological Review Team (BRT) on the status of five species of rockfish—…

Adults of the bivalve species Solemya velum live in symbiosis with chemoautotrophic
bacteria in specialized gill bacteriocytes. The bacteria play an essential nutritional role in the …

In response to a petition to list 18 species of marine fish in Puget Sound under the ESA (Wright
1999), NMFS initiated status reviews of seven of these species: Pacific hake, Merluccius …

Understanding how abundance, productivity and distribution of individual species may
respond to climate change is a critical first step towards anticipating alterations in marine …

This study presents the first protein electrophoretic study of population structure within the
Georgia Basin Pacific hake Distinct Population Segment, as defined under the US …