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- Report Highlights Economic Value of Conserving Public Lands, Recreation
- World's first vegetarian shark prefers heads of lettuce
- Tracking Atlantic Bluefin Tuna to Learn Migration, Habitat Secrets
- Pollution-hunting robot fish take to the sea
- AIBS Public Policy Report
- California/Delta Science Fellowship Announcement
- 2013 International Didymo Conference - Save the Date/First Call for Papers
- Master's Program in Fisheries at the University of Miami
- 6th World Fisheries Congress attracts over 1,300 delegates from 65 countries
- Outdoor News Bulletin, May 2012
- Kodiak Management Area weir descriptions and salmon escapement report, 2011.
- Kodiak Management Area weir descriptions and salmon escapement report, 2011
- Kodiak Management Area weir descriptions and salmon escapement report, 2010
- Kodiak commercial fisheries salmon management field camp and weir operational plan, 2011
- A seasonal summary of the Hidden Lake sockeye salmon stocking project and related criteria for 2010
- A compilation of the 2010 Spiridon Lake sockeye salmon enhancement project results: A report to the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge
- 2011 Mixed stock analysis of Chinook salmon harvested in the Southeast Alaska commercial troll fishery, 1999–2003
- Genetic stock identification of Copper River Chinook salmon harvest, 2005–2008
- 2012 Report to the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Southeast Alaska/Yakutat king crab fisheries
- 2012 Report to the Alaska Board of Fisheries on Yakutat scallop fisheries
- Synchrony of Marine Fish Catches and Climate and Ocean Regime Shifts in the North Pacific Ocean
- Temporal Shifts in Demography and Life History of an Anadromous Alewife Population in Connecticut
- Interannual Variability in Early Marine Growth, Size-Selective Mortality, and Marine Survival for Prince William Sound Pink Salmon
- Morphological, Physiological, and Genetic Techniques for Improving Field Identification of Steelhead, Coastal Cutthroat Trout, and Hybrid Smolts
- Effect of Striped Bass Larvae Transported from the Hudson River on Juvenile Abundance in Western Long Island Sound
- Dietary Segregation of Pelagic and Littoral Fish Assemblages in a Highly Modified Tidal Freshwater Estuary
- Maturation of Little Skate and Winter Skate in the Western Atlantic from Cape Hatteras to Georges Bank
- Relationships between Larval and Juvenile Abundance of Winter-Spawned Fishes in North Carolina, USA
- Life History, Ecology, and Long-term Demographics of Queenfish
- Use of a Fishery-Independent Trawl Survey to Evaluate Distribution Patterns of Subadult Sharks in Georgia