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Phillip W. Bettoli U.S. Geological Survey, Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Research Unit, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, TN 38505. E-mail:pbettoli@tntech.edu Tucked away on the Highland Rim physiographic province in middle Tennessee is
by Natalie Sopinka—AFS Contributing Writer natsopinka@gmail.com Solomon David lives and breathes for all things Bowfin Amia calva, sturgeon, lungfish, and especially gar. How fitting, since these relics of earth’s geologic
by Natalie Sopinka—AFS Contributing Writer natsopinka@gmail.com Perhaps exhausted after a long-distance swim along the St. Lawrence River, a beaver was seen sleeping on the back of a humpback whale Megaptera
by Natalie Sopinka—AFS Contributing Writer natsopinka@gmail.com A timeworn image of a dam on Toronto’s Don River appears on the projector screen. Vanessa Minke-Martin’s voice fills the room. “The Atlantic Salmon
by Natalie Sopinka—AFS Contributing Writer natsopinka@gmail.com California’s waterways are home to smelt, dace, suckers, sturgeon, salmon, roach, and the state fish, the California Golden Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss aguabonita. They are
by Mauricio Ramírez-Rodríguez Publications that involve the identification of important fisheries species generally do not relate scientific names to common names in landing records. For this reason, and in order
by Thomas P. Quinn LONG-TERM RESEARCH As we conduct fieldwork and process samples in the lab afterwards, we often ponder what the real sample size is. We measured hundreds or
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
