While fishery closures during the spawning season are commonplace, direct evidence for
their benefit is mainly restricted to species forming large spawning aggregations. This paper …

Recreational fishing is practiced by~ 350 million people globally, and while it historically has
been thought to have minimal ecological impact relative to commercial fishing, numerous …

Managing fisheries using length‐based harvest regulations is common, but such policies
often create trade‐offs among conservation (eg maintaining natural age‐structure or …

Fisheries-induced evolution and its impact on the productivity of exploited fish stocks
remains a highly contested research topic in applied fish evolution and fisheries science …

Largemouth Bass (LMB) Micropterus salmoides is one of the most popular sport fish in the
United States and is intensively managed across much of its range. Beginning in 1989 …

Shifting temporal or non-linear relationships between angler behavior and fish population
characteristics can mask population declines or produce unexpected regulation outcomes …

Fishing can drive changes in important phenotypic traits through plastic and evolutionary
pathways. Size‐selective harvest is a primary driver of such trait change, has received much …

With the increasing importance of recreational activities in and around inland water bodies,
there is a need for sound knowledge about their ecological impacts. This narrative review …

Abstract In Opinicon Lake, Ontario during two non-pandemic years (2019 and 2022) the
hook-wounding rates from recreational angling observed among nesting male largemouth …

Sex-and size-specific reproductive behaviors can increase the vulnerability of certain
demographic components of fish populations to exploitation, potentially leading to …