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New titles on sale in 2025 include: 11th Annual Larval Fish Conference Advances in Understanding Landscape Influences on Freshwater Habitats and Biological Assemblages Aquatic Habitat Assessment: Common Methods Biological Indicators
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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.
Standard Methods for Sampling North American Freshwater Fishes, Second Edition Bulk Pre-Orders Due to popular demand, AFS is pleased to offer bulk pre-orders for the forthcoming book Standard Methods for
Ecosystems that change through time impose new scientific challenges for fisheries management advice. We present a case study to illustrate our view on how to face such challenges. The Pink Shrimp
Monitoring of fishing activities is an essential component of successful fisheries management that can provide verifiable fishery-dependent data on fishing activities and help assess performance and success of fisheries management
Geographic information systems (GIS) are powerful tools for analysis and interpretation of spatial data commonly encountered in fisheries science. We presented details of GIS use in fisheries management in a
Learning to Manage and Managing to Learn: Sustaining Freshwater Recreational Fisheries in a Changing Environment ABSTRACT: Freshwaters are being transformed by multiple environmental drivers, creating uncertainty about future conditions. One
Pacific Lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus) have been an important part of the ecological community and co-evolved with aquatic species of the western rivers of the United States. Scarce information on Pacific
by Manuel Mendoza-Carranza and Alejandro Espinoza-Tenorio (Fisheries magazine: February 2015) Despite the conspicuous character of sawfish (Pristis spp.) in shallow estuarine waters, current records in the southern Gulf of Mexico
