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Publications

Peer-reviewed primary journal publications
and book chapters:

O'Dor, R., Dagom, L., Holland, K., Jonsen, I., Payne, J., Sauer, W., Semmens, J., Stokesbury, M., Smith, P. and Whoriskey, F. In Press.  The Ocean Tracking Network, In Proceedings of OceanObs'09: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society Conference (Vol. 1), Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Hall, J., Harrison, D.E. & Stammer, D., Eds., ESA Publication WPP-306, 2010 (in press).

 Reader, J.M., Spares, A.D., Stokesbury, M.J.W., Avery, T.S. and M.J. Dadswell. In Press. Stock discrimination of Canadian Maritime Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) smolts using otolith elemental fingerprints. Journal of Fish Biology

Dadswell, M.J., Spares, A.D., Reader, J.M. and M.J.W. Stokesbury. 2010. The North Atlantic Sub-polar Gyre and the Marine Migration of Atlantic salmon: the "Merry-Go-Round" Hypothesis. Journal of Fish Biology PDF

Stokesbury, M.J.S., Dadswell, M.J., Holland, K.N., Jackson, G.D., Bowen, W.D. and R.K. O’Dor. 2009.  Tracking diadromous fishes at sea using hybrid acoustic and archival tags. In Haro, A. J., K. L. Smith, R. A. Rulifson, C. M. Moffitt, R. J. Klauda, M. J. Dadswell, R. A. Cunjak, J. E. Cooper, K. L. Beal, and T. S. Avery, editors. 2009.  Challenges for Diadromous Fishes in a Dynamic Global Environment.  American Fisheries Society, Symposium 69, Bethesda, Maryland. PDF

Weng, K.C.W., Stokesbury, M.J.W., Boustany, A.M., Seitz, A.C., Teo, S.L.H., Miller, S.K., and B.A. Block.  2009.  Habitat and Behaviour of Yellowfin Tuna in the Gulf of Mexico determined using pop-up satellite archival tags. Journal of Fish Biology 74:1434-1439 PDF

 O’Dor, R. K., and M.J.W. Stokesbury. 2009. The Ocean Tracking Network – adding marine animal movements to the Global Ocean Observing System.  In J.L. Nielsen et al. (eds.), Tagging and Tracking of Marine Animals with Electronic Devices, Reviews: Methods and Technologies in Fish Biology and Fisheries.

O’Dor, R., Stokesbury, M., Amiro, P. and E. Halfyard.  2008. The Ocean Tracking Network: Cutting Edge Technology on a Global Scale. The Journal of Ocean Technology 3: 23-27

 Stokesbury, M.J.W., Cosgrove, R., Teo, S.L.H., Browne, D., O’Dor, R.K., and B.A. Block.  2007. Movement of Atlantic bluefin tuna from the eastern Atlantic Ocean to the western Atlantic Ocean as determined with pop-up satellite archival tags. Hydrobiologia 582:91-97 PDF

Dadswell, M.J., Stokesbury, M. and D. Bates.  2007. Biannual spawning and spat settlement of sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia and the possible long term effect of a scallop farm on the recovery of the Mahone Bay sea scallop population.  Journal of Shellfish Research 26: 1304-1304

 O’Dor R.K., Stokesbury, M.J.S., and G.D. Jackson  2007.  Tracking marine species – taking the next steps. Lyle JM, Furlani DM, Buxton CD (Eds.) 2007. Cutting-edge technologies in fish and fisheries science,  Austral Soc Fish Biol Work Proc, Hobart, Tasmania, August 2006, Australian Society for Fish Biology pp. 6-12

Spares, A., Reader, J.M., Stokesbury, M.J.W., McDermott, T., Zikovsky, L., Avery, T. S. and M. J. Dadswell.  2007. Inferring marine distribution of Canadian and Irish Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.) in the North Atlantic from  tissue concentrations of bio-accumulated caesium-137. ICES Journal of Marine Science 64:394-404
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Teo, S.L.H., Boustany, A., Dewar, H., Stokesbury, M.J.W., Weng, K.C., Beemer, S., Seitz, A.C., Farwell, C.J., Prince, E. and B.A. Block. 2007. Movement patterns, diving behavior and thermal biology of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) on their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico. Marine Biology 151:1-18 PDF

Gallant, J., Harvey-Clark, C., Myers, R.A. and M.J.W. Stokesbury.  2006. Sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) feeding on a Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus) in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada. Northeastern Naturalist 13: 35-38.

Stokesbury, M.J.W., Harvey-Clark, C., Gallant, J., Block, B.A., and R.A. Myers.  2005. Movement and environmental preferences of Greenland sharks (Somniosus microcephalus) electronically tagged in the St. Lawrence Estuary, Canada. Marine Biology 148: 159-165. PDF

Block, B.A., Teo, S.L.H., Walli, A., Boustany, A., Stokesbury, M.J.W., Farwell, C., Williams, T., Weng, K. and H. Dewar.  2005. Electronic tagging and population structure of Atlantic bluefin tuna. Nature 434: 1121-1127.

 Lacroix, G.L., Knox, D., and M.J.W. Stokesbury.  2005. Influence of tidal flow on Atlantic salmon post-smolt migration and behaviour in coastal habitat. Journal of Fish Biology 66: 485-498. PDF

Stokesbury,  M.J.W., Teo, S.L.H., Seitz, A., O’Dor, R. K., and B.A. Block.  2004.  Movement of Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) as determined by satellite tagging experiments initiated off New England. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61: 1976-1987. PDF

Lacroix, G.L. and  M.J.W. Stokesbury.  2004. Adult return of farmed Atlantic salmon escaped as juveniles into freshwater. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 133: 484-490. PDF

Stokesbury,  M.J.W., Lacroix, G.L., Price, E.L., Knox, D. and M.J. Dadswell.  2001. Identification by Scale Analysis of Farmed Atlantic Salmon Juveniles in Southwestern New Brunswick Rivers.  Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 130(5): 815-822 PDF

Stokesbury,  K.D.E., and M. J. W. Stokesbury. 1999.  Subtidal fishes associated with gravel and bedrock in the Baie des Chaleurs, Quebec.  Canadian Field-Naturalist 113(3): 466-471

Stokesbury, M. J
., and G. L. Lacroix.  1997.  High Incidence of hatchery origin Atlantic salmon in the smolt output of a Canadian River.  ICES Journal of Marine Science 54(6): 1074-1081
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Stokesbury, M. J. W. and K. D. E. Stokesbury. 1993. Occurrence of Juvenile Atlantic Menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, in the Annapolis River, Nova Scotia. Estuaries 16(4): 827-829 PDF