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Today’s paper is from the AFS publication, North American Journal of Aquaculture. It provides a benchmark regarding a topic near and dear to my heart – Walleye broodstock collections. I
I love today’s paper. It brings me joy to read about a project that involves management, culture, and research. Fisheries managers undertaking a project to address native fish conservation, adopting
As I mentioned last week, I recently spend time with a wide variety of folks in the sportfishing community at the ASA (American Sportfishing Association) Sportfishing Summit. One topic that
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to attend the American Sportfishing Association’s Sportfishing Summit. This is the fall gathering of individuals representing sportfishing manufacturers, professional angler groups, fishing-centric
Oxford University Press (OUP) has announced a major new agreement with the American Fisheries Society (AFS) to publish its five prestigious peer-reviewed journals and Fisheries, the society’s monthly membership magazine, from 1 January 2025. The publications will join OUP’s portfolio of more than 500 titles, three-quarters of which are published on behalf of learned and professional societies.
Using a combination of electronic tags and video monitoring, we found that a fish passage structure on the Raritan River, New Jersey, works moderately well for the large-bodied American Shad but passes only a small fraction of the smaller-bodied river herring.
Identifying ranges of habitat factors influencing stream-rearing Chinook Salmon can help increase population productivity and restoration success.
New special section in the North American Journal of Fisheries Management: A symposium at the 2023 American Fisheries Society meeting highlighted collaborations among biologists, policymakers, and Native American tribes addressing conservation for native lampreys. Native lampreys provide ecosystem services that benefit a range of aquatic organisms and are essential to Native American tribes for nutritional, medicinal, and ceremonial purposes. The papers in this collection present key findings, related research, and an example of grassroots effort to protect and restore Pacific Lamprey.
The Big Hole River, Montana, contains the only remaining native population of Arctic Grayling in the lower 48 states. This laboratory study shows that higher average water temperatures that accompany climate change and other environmental perturbations will adversely affect the stress and future survival of this population.
Marine protected areas (MPAs) need monitoring to evaluate their benefits to society. The authors characterized American lobster and Jonah crab populations inside and outside a newly created MPA while commercial harvest was still operating, thereby providing essential information needed for assessing future responses to planned fishing closures.
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