1. Preface

   • Skip McKinnell
   • Michio J. Kishi
   • Yoshiro Watanabe

   Preface Pages: 387 - 388

2. Hydrographic Structure and Variability in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Transition Area

   • Ichiro Yasuda

   ReviewPaper Pages: 389 - 402

3. Growth and Survival of Pacific Saury Cololabis saira in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Transitional Waters

   • Yoshiro Watanabe
   • Yutaka Kurita
   • Daiji Kitagawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 403 - 414

4. An East-West Comparison of the Transition Zone Coastal Pelagic Nekton of the North Pacific Ocean

   • Richard D. Brodeur
   • Joseph P. Fisher
   • William G. Pearcy

   OriginalPaper Pages: 415 - 434

5. Subsurface Water Masses in the Central North Pacific Transition Region: The Repeat Section along the 18° Meridian

   • Toshio Suga
   • Kazunori Motoki
   • Kimio Hanawa

   OriginalPaper Pages: 435 - 444

6. Larval Fishes in Relation to Water Masses of the Central North Pacific Transitional Areas, Including the Shelf Break of West-Central Alaska

   • Brenda L. Norcross
   • Skip M. McKinnell
   • Steven R. Sweet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 460

7. Interdecadal Variation of the Transition Zone Chlorophyll Front: A Physical-Biological Model Simulation between 1960 and 1990

   • Fei Chai
   • Mingshun Jiang
   • Yi Chao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 461 - 475

8. Principal Modes and Related Frequencies of Sea Surface Temperature Variability in the Pacific Coast of North America

   • Daniel B. Lluch-Cota
   • Warren S. Wooster
   • Alejandro Parés-Sierra

   OriginalPaper Pages: 477 - 488

9. Coastal Upwelling Activity on the Pacific Shelf of the Baja California Peninsula

   • Oleg Zaytsev
   • Rafael Cervantes-Duarte
   • Artemio Gallegos-Garcia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 489 - 502

10. Baja California's Biological Transition Zones: Refuges for the California Sardine

    • Daniel Lluch-Belda
    • Daniel B. Lluch-Cota
    • Salvador E. Lluch-Cota

    OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 513

11. Abundance and Distribution Patterns of Nekton and Micronekton in the Northern California Current Transition Zone

    • Richard D. Brodeur
    • William G. Pearcy
    • Stephen Ralston

    OriginalPaper Pages: 515 - 535