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By Daniel C. Dauwalter, Kurt A. Fesenmyer, Robin Bjork, Douglas R. Leasure & Seth J. Wenger Remote sensing has been pivotal to our understanding of freshwater
By Erik R. Schoen, Mark S. Wipfli, E. Jamie Trammell, Daniel J. Rinella, Angelica L. Floyd, Jess Grunblatt, Molly D. McCarthy, Benjamin E. Meyer, John M. Morton, James
COLUMNS President’s Commentary Can Fisheries Scientists Win the War on Science? Policy Regional Approaches to Marine Resources Management Guest Column A Conversation about NMFS’ Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management Policy
Committee on Names of Fishes, a joint committee of the American Fisheries Society and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists By Lawrence M. Page,
Raja Ampat is a series of archipelagos that occupies 4.6 million hectares in northern West Papua, Indonesia, and lies at the eastern edge of the coral triangle within the Indo-Pacific region. With more than 600 islands, including the “four kings”—Waigeo, Misool, Salawait, and Batanta—Raja Ampat is home to the world’s most diverse coral reefs
How Do You Address Increasing Politicization while Maintaining Technical Expertise for Sustainable Resource Management?
Two-way trap and haul is proposed as a high-priority recovery strategy for Chinook Salmon populations in California. Our findings indicate that any such TH2 program should proceed with extreme caution.
In this feature, we discuss the primary resource damage issues associated with cormorants, management efforts and outcomes, what we have learned, and the future with regard to cormorant management.
Kevin D. E. Stokesbury | Department of Fisheries Oceanography, School for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA Steven X. Cadrin,
David Chagaris | University of Florida, IFAS Nature Coast Biological Station, Gainesville, FL Samantha Binion-Rock and Alex Bogdano | North Carolina State University, Morehead City,
