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By Sarah Harrison | AFS Contributing Editor. E-mail: sharrison@fisheries.org Clifford Hutt (Mississippi State University, Human Dimensions and Conservation Laboratory) and his colleagues estimated both the economic impact (the monetary benefits
By Sarah Harrison | AFS Contributing Editor. E-mail: sharrison@fisheries.org In this study, Joseph H. Tarnecki and William F. Patterson of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab, University of South Alabama, examined
Jeff Schaeffer | AFS Co-Chief Science Editor. E-mail: jschaeffer@usgs.gov This article highlights efforts to conserve Delta Smelt Hypomesus transpacificus, an endangered species threatened by habitat loss and drought in the
Jeff Schaeffer | AFS Co-Chief Science Editor. E-mail: jschaeffer@usgs.gov With this article, Vicky Blazer (U.S. Geological Survey, National Fish Health Research Laboratory) and her colleagues established clearly that endocrine disruptors
Jeff Schaeffer | AFS Co-Chief Science Editor. E-mail: jschaeffer@usgs.gov This work by Richard Ryder represents an important paper because it was one of the first widely accepted papers that promoted
Recent advances in genetic analysis are transforming the ways in which biologists monitor and manage aquatic organisms. Traditional monitoring techniques for aquatic species are often costly and time-intensive, especially when
Craig Gothreaux Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808. E-mail: cgothreaux@wlf.la.gov Patrick Banks Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 When
Annie B. Morgan Shoreline Restoration Coordinator, Marine Discovery Center 520 Barracuda Blvd. New Smyrna Beach, FL 32169. annie@marinediscoverycenter.org At the Marine Discovery Center (MDC) in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, volunteers and
Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha smolts emigrating the Sacramento River in California must navigate through a delta complex with water diversions that confer lower survival for entrained fish that leave the
Television viewers are now being carpet-bombed with advertising for probiotics that are alleged to improve human health via promotion of beneficial gut bacteria. But probiotics may play a real role
