Latest AFS Publications
By Mike Lunde A river is an aquatic interstate, interconnected by multiple boulevards of gin-clear, crystalline water. The river’s birthplace is centered around groundwater located underground in the permafrost in between snow-capped mountains that cascade below low altitude cumulus clouds. Other rivers emerge in headwater lakes characterized by jade-blue glacial water. Around the shoreline, snow-capped... Read More
Andrew L. Rypel, John Lyons, Joanna D. Tober Griffin, and Timothy D. Simonson To identify past successes and future opportunities for improved fisheries management in Wisconsin, we synthesized sizestructure information on 19 gamefish species from 1944 to 2012, incorporating data on more than 2 million measured individuals. Since the 1940s, mean and mean maximum sizes... Read More
J. Marty Holtgren and Nancy A. Auer In 2007, the state of Michigan and five tribes entered into a consent decree that provides opportunity for collaborative fishery assessments and restoration activities. The struggles found in state and tribal cooperation are well known by many fisheries practitioners; less well known is the benefit, although described extensively... Read More
By Leah Baumwell, IGFA Conservation Coordinator, Email: [email protected] “I wonder why he jumped, the old man thought. He jumped almost as though to show me how big he was.” —Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea Collectively referred to as “billfish,” marlin, sailfish, and spearfish (family Istiophoridae) are some of the largest and most magnificent... Read More
Dana M. Infante, Erin Landguth, Winsor H. Lowe, Gordon Luikart, Clint C. Muhlfeld, Kim T. Scribner, and Gary E. Whelan Environmental variation and landscape features affect ecological processes in fluvial systems; however, assessing effects at management-relevant temporal and spatial scales is challenging. Genetic data can be used with landscape models and traditional ecological assessment data... Read More
M. Brady Allen, Patrick J. Connolly, Rod O. Engle, Frank C. Shrier, Jeremy T. Wilson, and Joseph S. Zendt Condit Dam, at river kilometer 5.3 on the White Salmon River, Washington, was breached in 2011 and completely removed in 2012. This action opened habitat to migratory fish for the first time in 100 years. The... Read More
Anytime you can gather together 50, 100, or possibly 4,000 fisheries professionals in one place, you can be guaranteed to have a pretty good time. Fisheries issues from arctic subsistence fishing influenced by climate change to Caribbean reef fisheries (and everything in-between) can easily be a part of the discussion. Graduate program opportunities, jobs, developing... Read More
Marta Muñoz-Colmenero, Oscar Blanco, Vanessa Arias, Jose Luis Martinez, and Eva Garcia-Vazquez Le mauvais étiquetage des fruits de mer est un problème mondial, car il peut engendrer une sous-déclaration de l’exploitation des espèces et avoir des effets néfastes sur la conservation des espèces en voie de disparition. La persistance de ce problème a été documentée... Read More
John Waldman is a professor of biology at Queens College, Queens, NY 11367. E-mail: [email protected] How did you get involved with the work you are doing now—what led you into this particular line of research? Though I grew up in the Bronx, I lived in walking distance of Long Island Sound. There I had an... Read More
Henriette I. Jager, Michael J. Parsley, Joseph J. Cech, Jr., Robert L. McLaughlin, Patrick S. Forsythe, Robert F. Elliott, and Brenda M. Pracheil La majorité des grands fleuves d’Amérique du Nord sont fragmentés par des barrages qui interrompent les migrations d’un large éventail de poissons comme les esturgeons. Relier l’habitat est considéré comme un important... Read More
