While the impacts of high exploitation on fish populations and aquatic ecosystems are well-
documented for commercial fishing, particularly in the marine environment, the potential …

Catchability is an important parameter in many stock assessment models because it relates
an index of abundance to stock size. We review the theory and evidence for time-varying …

Passive capture techniques involve the capture of fishes or other aquatic animals by
entanglement, entrapment, or angling devices that are not actively moved by humans or …

Yellow perch, Perca flavescens, is an ecologically and economically important species
native to a large portion of the northern United States and southern Canada and is also a …

The amount of energy allocated to growth versus other functions is a fundamental feature of
an organism's life history. Constraints on energy availability result in characteristic trade‐offs …

Microplastics are emergent contaminants threatening aquatic organisms including
aquacultured fish. This study investigated the effects of high-density polyethylene (HDPE …

The alewife Alosa pseudoharengus, an invader to the Laurentian Great Lakes from the
Atlantic Ocean, has been blamed for causing major disruptions of Great Lakes fish …

Lake Sturgeon is a potamodromous, fluvial‐dependent species from the family
Acipenseridae, and one of the largest freshwater fishes within its North American range …

It is often said that managing fisheries is managing people. This truism implies that fisheries
science inherently involves disciplines that focus on fish and their population dynamics …

Using various available time series for Lake Michigan, we examined changes in the Lake
Michigan food web following the dreissenid mussel invasions and identified those changes …