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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
Jack E. Williams, Helen M. Neville, Amy L. Haak, Warren T. Colyer, Seth J. Wenger, and Stan Bradshaw ABSTRACT: Climate change is contributing to the severity and rate of stream
Jack E. Williams, Helen M. Neville, Amy L. Haak, Warren T. Colyer, Seth J. Wenger, and Stan Bradshaw RESUMEN: El cambio climático está contribuyendo a incrementar la severidad y la
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Jason T. Papenfuss, Nicholas Phelps, David Fulton, and Paul A. Venturelli RESUMEN: El manejo exitoso de las pesquerías y el control de la dispersión de especies invasivas depende de la
Saul Greenberg and Theresa Godin ABSTRACT: Estimating angling effort on more than a few lakes can be prohibitively expensive using creel surveys and often requires finer-scale angler distribution data than
Saul Greenberg and Theresa Godin RESUMEN: La estimación del esfuerzo de pesca con anzuelo que se realiza en varios lagos mediante muestreos en puerto, puede llegar a tener costos prohibitivos
Jake Rice, Michael J. Bradford, Keith D. Clarke, Marten A. Koops, Robert G. Randall, and Roger Wysocki RESUMEN: En el año 2012, el Acta Pesquera de Canadá fue enmendada. Las
Jake Rice, Michael J. Bradford, Keith D. Clarke, Marten A. Koops, Robert G. Randall, and Roger Wysocki ABSTRACT: In 2012, Canada’s Fisheries Act was amended. New fisheries protection provisions provide
Derek P. Crane, Loren M. Miller, James S. Diana, John M. Casselman, John M. Farrell, Kevin L. Kapuscinski, and Joe K. Nohner ABSTRACT: New research techniques and changing Muskellunge Esox
