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New directions for Indigenous and local knowledge research and application in fisheries science: Lessons from a systematic review Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Benjamin L. H. Jones, Rolando O. Santos, W. Ryan James, Sophia V. Costa, Aaron J. Adams, Ross E. Boucek, Lucy Coals, Leanne C. Cullen‐Unsworth, Samuel Shephard, Jennifer S. Rehage
Social‐ecological systems like fisheries provide food, livelihoods and recreation. However, lack of data and its integration into governance hinders their conservation and management. Stakeholders possess site‐specific knowledge crucial for confronting these challenges. There is increasing recognition that Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) is valuable, but structural differences between ILK and
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Dynamic marine spatial planning for conservation and fisheries benefits Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Maria Vigo, Virgilio Hermoso, Joan Navarro, Joan Sala‐Coromina, Joan B. Company, Sylvaine Giakoumi
The increasing global demand for marine resources raises concerns about sustainable resource management and biodiversity conservation. Spatial closures, such as marine protected areas, can be valuable tools for maintaining and restoring exploited populations. When these spatial closures adopt a dynamic nature being adapted to the changing environment, they can effectively account for factors such as
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Maximum sustainable employment: Adding to the beacons of wild fisheries governance Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Maarten Bavinck, Joeri Scholtens, Michael Fabinyi
This paper proposes to establish Maximum Sustainable Employment (MSE) as a new guiding light, or beacon, for wild fisheries governance. This new social beacon complements the directives provided by the prevailing beacons: Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) and Maximum Economic Yield (MEY). The argument is that context matters: in countries where poverty levels are high and alternative employment is scarce
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Marine heatwaves redistribute pelagic fishing fleets Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Nima Farchadi, Heather Welch, Camrin D. Braun, Andrew J. Allyn, Steven J. Bograd, Stephanie Brodie, Elliott L. Hazen, Alex Kerney, Nerea Lezama‐Ochoa, Katherine E. Mills, Dylan Pugh, Riley Young‐Morse, Rebecca L. Lewison
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have measurable impacts on marine ecosystems and reliant fisheries and associated communities. However, how MHWs translate to changes in fishing opportunities and the displacement of fishing fleets remains poorly understood. Using fishing vessel tracking data from the automatic identification system (AIS), we developed vessel distribution models for two pelagic fisheries targeting
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Scale morphology is a promising, additional tool for exploring the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater fishes Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Bálint Bánó, Aleksey Bolotovskiy, Boris Levin, George M. T. Mattox, Mauricio Cetra, István Czeglédi, Péter Takács
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Opening the black box: New insights into the role of temperature in the marine distributions of Pacific salmon Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Joseph A. Langan, Curry J. Cunningham, Jordan T. Watson, Skip McKinnell
Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) spend much of their life near the ocean surface where climatic and oceanographic conditions affect their habitat and survival. Despite decades of study, critical knowledge gaps persist regarding their ecology and distributions. Consequently, it has been difficult to assess how environmental conditions influence the high-seas distribution and habitat use of these culturally
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The use of vision modelling to design bycatch reduction devices using light Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jasmine Somerville, Jon Blount, Martin Stevens
Artificial light can be used to deter unwanted non‐target catch (bycatch) from fishing gear, which is thought to be achieved by repelling bycatch, or highlighting escape routes on nets. To select for responses in bycatch species, light should (1) cause the bycatch species to avoid capture, and (2) not invoke the same reaction in target species. One way to maximise the chance of a bycatch species responding
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Epigenetics in aquaculture By PiferrerF., Wang, H. P. (Eds). New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. 2023. pp. 512. ISBN: 978‐1‐119‐82191‐5. Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 Céline Cosseau, Jeremie Vidal‐Dupiol
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An efficient tool to find multispecies MSY for interacting fish stocks Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 T. J. Del Santo O’Neill, A. G. Rossberg, R. B. Thorpe
Natural ecological communities exhibit complex mixtures of interspecific biological interactions, which makes finding optimal yet sustainable exploitation rates challenging. Most fisheries management advice is at present based on applying the Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY) target to each species in a community by modelling it as if it was a monoculture. Such application of single-species MSY policies
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Policy pathways to reduce disproportionate burdens in tuna fisheries Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Bianca Haas, Kamal Azmi, Hussain Sinan, Quentin Hanich
The United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement requires states to recognise the special requirements of developing countries and to ensure that conservation and management measures do not place a disproportionate burden on developing countries. The aim of this article is to assess what policy arrangements are required to reduce the identified disproportionate burden. We developed a policy pathway that would
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The fish–mangrove link is context dependent: Tidal regime and reef proximity determine the ecological role of tropical mangroves Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Michael Bradley, Alexia Dubuc, Camilla V. H. Piggott, Katie Sambrook, Andrew S. Hoey, Martial Depczynski, Tim J. Langlois, Monica Gagliano, Shaun K. Wilson, Katherine Cure, Thomas H. Holmes, Glenn I. Moore, Michael Travers, Ronald Baker, Ivan Nagelkerken, Marcus Sheaves
Tropical mangroves are known to support fish production, but natural variability in the link between mangrove habitats and fish populations undermines our ability to manage, conserve and restore this ecological relationship. This is largely due to undefined context-dependence in the use of mangroves by fish. We collected a spatially extensive dataset of 494 mangrove fish assemblages using standardised
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The response of marine fish population productivity to juvenile habitat modifications depends upon life histories Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 J. Champagnat, E. Rivot, O. Le Pape
Coastal and estuarine habitats are essential for both growth and survival at juvenile stages for a large proportion of marine fish but are exposed to a variety of threats. However, the quantitative impacts of anthropic-mediated nursery degradation on exploited population dynamics and productivity are rarely addressed. We developed a comprehensive steepness-based parameterization of the stock–recruitment
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‘Drivin' with your eyes closed’: Results from an international, blinded simulation experiment to evaluate spatial stock assessments Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Daniel R. Goethel, Aaron M. Berger, Simon D. Hoyle, Patrick D. Lynch, Caren Barceló, Jonathan Deroba, Nicholas D. Ducharme-Barth, Alistair Dunn, Dan Fu, Francisco Izquierdo, Craig Marsh, Haikun Xu, Giancarlo M. Correa, Brian J. Langseth, Mark N. Maunder, Jeremy McKenzie, Richard D. Methot, Matthew T. Vincent, Teresa A'mar, Massimiliano Cardinale, Marta Cousido-Rocha, Nick Davies, John Hampton, Carolina
Spatial models enable understanding potential redistribution of marine resources associated with ecosystem drivers and climate change. Stock assessment platforms can incorporate spatial processes, but have not been widely implemented or simulation tested. To address this research gap, an international simulation experiment was organized. The study design was blinded to replicate uncertainty similar
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Testing models of increasing complexity to develop ecosystem-informed fisheries advice Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Matthew D. Robertson, Noel G. Cadigan, Paul M. Regular, Mariano Koen-Alonso, Frédéric Cyr, Fan Zhang, Tyler D. Eddy
Despite continued calls for the application of ecosystem-based fisheries management, tactical fisheries management continues to be heavily reliant on single-species stock assessments. These stock assessments rarely quantitatively integrate the effects of ecosystem processes on fish stock productivity. This lack of integration is ultimately driven by the complexity of interactions between populations
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Fish weight reduction in response to intra- and interspecies competition under climate change Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Zhen Lin, Shin-ichi Ito
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The challenge of assessing the effects of drifting fish aggregating devices on the behaviour and biology of tropical tuna Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Amaël Dupaix, Frédéric Ménard, John D. Filmalter, Yannick Baidai, Nathalie Bodin, Manuela Capello, Emmanuel Chassot, Hervé Demarcq, Jean-Louis Deneubourg, Alain Fonteneau, Fabien Forget, Francesca Forrestal, Daniel Gaertner, Martin Hall, Kim N. Holland, David Itano, David Michael Kaplan, Jon Lopez, Francis Marsac, Alexandra Maufroy, Gala Moreno, Jeff A. Muir, Hilario Murua, Liliana Roa-Pascuali, Géraldine
Fishers have intensively used drifting fish aggregating devices (DFADs) over the last three decades to facilitate their catch of tropical tunas. DFADs increase purse-seine efficiency, potentially increasing tuna fishing mortality. They could also have impacts on tuna natural mortality and reproductive potential, and assessing the consequences of their presence at sea on tuna populations is a challenge
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Learning from positive deviants in fisheries Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Laurenne Schiller, Gregory L. Britten, Graeme Auld, Boris Worm
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Optimal timing of return migration in Atlantic salmon Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Anders Foldvik, Eva Marita Ulvan, Tor Næsje
In many populations of Atlantic salmon, individuals return to rivers months or even a year prior to spawning. This premature arrival in fresh water by far exceeds the time needed for upstream migrations to spawning areas. Leaving the ocean early means forgoing substantial growth and incurring high metabolic costs of fasting in freshwater. Differences in timing of return migration has been shown to
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The future of gender research in small-scale fisheries: Priorities and pathways for advancing gender equity Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Emma D. Rice, Edith Gondwe, Abigail E. Bennett, Patrick Asango Okanga, Nimah F. Osho-Abdulgafar, Kafayat Fakoya, Ayodele Oloko, Sarah Harper, Patrick Chimseu Kawaye, Ernest O. Chuku, Hillary Smith
This paper presents an agenda for the future of gender research in small-scale fisheries (SSF). Building on expert insight from scholars who gathered during the 4th World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress Africa (4WSFC) with a synthesis of existing literature, we identify six topics that warrant future investigation in SSF, along with methodological considerations for addressing them. Research priorities
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Metabolism, population growth, and the fast-slow life history continuum of marine fishes Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sarah Gravel, Jennifer S. Bigman, Sebastián A. Pardo, Serena Wong, Nicholas K. Dulvy
The maximum intrinsic rate of population increase (rmax) represents a population's maximum capacity to replace itself and is central to fisheries management and conservation. Species with lower rmax typically have slower life histories compared to species with faster life histories and higher rmax. Here, we posit that metabolic rate is related to the fast–slow life history continuum and the connection
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Preference, avoidance, motivation and their importance to fish welfare Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Caroline Marques Maia, João Luis Saraiva, Eliane Gonçalves-de-Freitas
Several studies have reported the neurophysiological and behavioural mechanisms that enable fish to experience several types of affective states, such as fear, pain and joy. This is crucial for the welfare feelings-based approach, as conditions that bring positive or negative valence to fish influence their affective state. A method to understand to what extent fish ‘like’ or ‘dislike’ their surrounding
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Global synthesis of effects and feedbacks from artificial reefs on socioecological systems in recreational fisheries Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Lisa Chong, Zachary A. Siders, Kai Lorenzen, Robert N. M. Ahrens, Edward V. Camp
Artificial reefs have been widely deployed with the intention of increasing fish habitat, enhancing recreational fishery opportunities and providing socio-economic benefits to surrounding communities. Substantial work has been done to understand the ecology of artificial reefs but the efficacy of artificial reefs as a management tool hinges on socioecological feedbacks that are not well understood
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Recruitment regime shifts and nonstationarity are widespread phenomena in harvestable stocks experiencing pronounced climate fluctuations Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Shuyang Ma, Geir Huse, Kotaro Ono, Richard D. M. Nash, Anne Britt Sandø, Kjell Nedreaas, Solfrid Sætre Hjøllo, Svein Sundby, Tom Clegg, Jon Helge Vølstad, Olav Sigurd Kjesbu
Methods to reliably identify jump discontinuities in biological time series and to assess the specific contribution of various covariates are rapidly progressing. Here, we took advantage of these statistical improvements as well as those seen in complementary, down-scaled climate and biogeochemical models to investigate causes of the substantial interannual variability observed in recruitment strength
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Thermal tolerance in Pacific salmon: A systematic review of species, populations, life stages and methodologies Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Noa B. Mayer, Scott G. Hinch, Erika J. Eliason
Aquatic systems are warming and exceeding upper thermal limits (UTLs) for many fish species, yet understanding how they inform resilience to climate change is challenging. Using Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) as a model, we conducted a systematic review involving 168 papers investigating UTL in five species. We found considerable variation in UTL among species, within species and across life stages;
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Drivers of success, speed and performance in fisheries moving towards Marine Stewardship Council certification Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Jennifer Rasal, Michael C. Melnychuk, Amanda Lejbowicz, Carlos Montero-Castaño, Sophie Ferber, Catherine Longo
With growing concerns about global overfishing, market-based eco-certification programs like the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) can incentivise adoption of sustainable practices. Several studies investigated drivers of improvement in market-driven Fisheries Improvement Projects, but failed to use detailed, standardised measures of progress, or considered small samples. We considered the relative
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Trait-based analyses reveal global patterns in diverse diets of albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Natasha A. Hardy, Cindy Matuch, Zachary Roote, Iris George, Barbara A. Muhling, Michael G. Jacox, Elliott L. Hazen, Steven J. Bograd, Larry B. Crowder, Stephanie J. Green
Simplifying complex species interactions can facilitate tracking and predicting functional responses to ecological stressors. This is important for highly migratory pelagic predators, exploiting diverse prey fields as they respond to dynamic environments. We reconstructed the historical resource use of albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) globally from the 1900s to 2015 and confirmed highly biodiverse
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Quota use in mixed-stock fisheries Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 William A. Karp, Michael C. Melnychuk, Robyn E. Forrest, Lorne Richard Little, Kristin McQuaw, Chad Demarest, Ray Hilborn, Nicole Baker, Brian Mose, Bruce Turris, Ernesto Penas Lado
Although most fisheries assessment and management focuses on the status of individual stocks, and regulations are commonly established as single-species total allowable catch limits (TACs), much of the catch from global fisheries comes from mixed-stock fisheries where species cannot be harvested separately. We show that in some fisheries where TAC and catch of demersal fish stocks are tracked, the
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Simulating benefits, costs and trade-offs of spatial management in marine social-ecological systems Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Daniel Ovando, Darcy Bradley, Echelle Burns, Lennon Thomas, James Thorson
Designing effective spatial management strategies is challenging because marine ecosystems are highly dynamic and opaque, and extractive entities such as fishing fleets respond endogenously to ecosystem changes in ways that depend on ecological and policy context. We present a modelling framework, marlin, that can be used to efficiently simulate the bio-economic dynamics of marine systems in support
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A synthesis of the diversity of freshwater fish migrations in the Amazon basin Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Guido A. Herrera-R, Sebastian A. Heilpern, Thiago B. A. Couto, Lulu Victoria-Lacy, Fabrice Duponchelle, Sandra B. Correa, Aldo Farah-Pérez, Silvia López-Casas, Carlos M. Cañas-Alva, Carolina R. C. Doria, Elizabeth P. Anderson
In the Amazon, the world's largest river basin, migrations within freshwater habitats are one of the predominant life history strategies for fishes. The flood pulse and the extensive river network provide aquatic organisms with temporal and spatial accessibility to a mosaic of freshwater habitats. Although migratory fish species are central to freshwater ecosystems and fisheries, the knowledge of species
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Trees for fishes: The neglected role for phylogenetic comparative methods in fisheries science Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 James T. Thorson
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Identifying priority areas for spatial management of mixed fisheries using ensemble of multi-species distribution models Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Diego Panzeri, Tommaso Russo, Enrico Arneri, Roberto Carlucci, Gianpiero Cossarini, Igor Isajlović, Svjetlana Krstulović Šifner, Chiara Manfredi, Francesco Masnadi, Marco Reale, Giuseppe Scarcella, Cosimo Solidoro, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Nedo Vrgoč, Walter Zupa, Simone Libralato
Spatial fisheries management is widely used to reduce overfishing, rebuild stocks, and protect biodiversity. However, the effectiveness and optimization of spatial measures depend on accurately identifying ecologically meaningful areas, which can be difficult in mixed fisheries. To apply a method generally to a range of target species, we developed an ensemble of species distribution models (e-SDM)
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Syndemics of the sea: Adverse disease interactions and the stressors of fisher livelihoods Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Merrill Singer
The occupation of commercial fishing is recognized as a comparatively stressful and hazardous job characterized by a myriad of risks to health, including high rates of job-related injury, morbidity, and mortality. Nonetheless, systematic study of fisher health is limited. This paper examines a particularly understudied aspect of illness among fishers: the physical and social contexts, pathways, and
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Correction to article “Impact of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on US and Canada West Coast fisheries: Surprises and lessons from key case studies” Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-28
Free, C. M., Anderson, S. C., Hellmers, E. A., Muhling, B. A., Navarro, M. O., Richerson, K., Rogers, L. A., Satterthwaite, W. H., Thompson, A. R., Burt, J. M., Gaines, S. D., Marshall, K. N., White, J. W., & Bellquist, L. F. (2023). Impact of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on US and Canada West Coast fisheries: Surprises and lessons from key case studies. Fish and Fisheries, 24, 652–674. https://doi
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Meta-analytic assessment of physiological markers for decapod crustacean welfare Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Ellie-Ann Conneely, Christopher J. Coates
Decapod crustacean welfare is not only an ethical consideration for legislative purposes. Under culture and fishery settings, poor environmental conditions and operator practices can cause stress, which compromises the immune system and increases the risk of disease. For finfish, there are established environmental and animal (group, individual) welfare indicators. This is not the case for crabs, lobsters
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Is FAD fishing an economic trap? Effects of seasonal closures and other management measures on a purse-seine tuna fleet Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 P. Guillotreau, F. Salladarré, M. Capello, A. Dupaix, L. Floc'h, A. Tidd, M. Tolotti, L. Dagorn
The management of fish aggregating devices (FAD) creates heated debates in tuna fishery management organizations striving to reduce the number of deployed floating objects. Through several econometric models and a machine learning approach, we evaluate the consequences of three management scenarios on the catch and profit of the French purse-seine fleet operating in the Indian Ocean: (1) a half reduction
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Correction to ‘Pons, M., Kaplan, D., Moreno, G., Escalle, L., Abascal, F., Hall, M., Restrepo, V., & Hilborn, R. (2023). Benefits, concerns, and solutions of fishing for tunas with drifting fish aggregation devices. Fish and Fisheries, https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12780’ Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-06
Correction to ‘Pons, M., Kaplan, D., Moreno, G., Escalle, L., Abascal, F., Hall, M., Restrepo, V., & Hilborn, R. (2023). Benefits, concerns, and solutions of fishing for tunas with drifting fish aggregation devices. Fish and Fisheries, https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12780 The authors would like to make the following changes to the above article: CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The work presented in this
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Hidden in the ocean: The importance of detecting hybridisation in pelagic and deep-water fishes Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Carlo Pecoraro, Chiara Papetti, Carmelo Fruciano
The widespread occurrence of hybridisation in fishes suggests the need to revisit its importance for both a basic understanding of biological principles and practical applications for management and conservation. Despite evidence of its pervasiveness, the phenomenon of hybridisation in fish is not uniformly studied across species and environments. We note how natural hybridisation in pelagic and deep-sea
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Diverse pathways for climate resilience in marine fishery systems Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Jacob G. Eurich, Whitney R. Friedman, Kristin M. Kleisner, Lily Z. Zhao, Christopher M. Free, Meghan Fletcher, Julia G. Mason, Kanae Tokunaga, Alba Aguion, Andrea Dell'Apa, Mark Dickey-Collas, Rod Fujita, Christopher D. Golden, Anne B. Hollowed, Gakushi Ishimura, Kendra A. Karr, Stephen Kasperski, Yuga Kisara, Jacqueline D. Lau, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Layla Osman, Gretta T. Pecl, Jörn O. Schmidt, Edward
Both the ecological and social dimensions of fisheries are being affected by climate change. As a result, policymakers, managers, scientists and fishing communities are seeking guidance on how to holistically build resilience to climate change. Numerous studies have highlighted key attributes of resilience in fisheries, yet concrete examples that explicitly link these attributes to social-ecological
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The relative influence of temperature and ontogeny on groundfish distribution varies across life stages Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Lingbo Li, Anne B. Hollowed, Edward D. Cokelet, Aimee A. Keller, Steve J. Barbeaux, Michelle M. McClure, Wayne A. Palsson
Distributional changes for fish populations may be difficult to interpret since temperature responses are often confounded with ontogenetic shifts. However, the relative importance of these two types of fish movement (temperature responses and ontogenetic shifts) to population distribution remains largely unstudied. This study presents the first attempt to compare the two types of movement in depth
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Dynamic human, oceanographic, and ecological factors mediate transboundary fishery overlap across the Pacific high seas Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Timothy H. Frawley, Barbara Muhling, Stephanie Brodie, Hannah Blondin, Heather Welch, Martin C. Arostegui, Steven J. Bograd, Camrin D. Braun, Megan A. Cimino, Nima Farchadi, Elliott L. Hazen, Desiree Tommasi, Michael Jacox
The management and conservation of tuna and other transboundary marine species have to date been limited by an incomplete understanding of the oceanographic, ecological and socioeconomic factors mediating fishery overlap and interactions, and how these factors vary across expansive, open ocean habitats. Despite advances in fisheries monitoring and biologging technology, few attempts have been made
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Including older fish in fisheries management: A new age-based indicator and reference point for exploited fish stocks Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Christopher A. Griffiths, Henning Winker, Valerio Bartolino, Håkan Wennhage, Alessandro Orio, Massimiliano Cardinale
Larger and older fish contribute disproportionately to spawning and play an important role in the replenishment of exploited stocks. Fishing often removes specific size- and age-classes, with direct impacts on stock productivity and population resilience. Despite this, fisheries advice is commonly based on estimates of spawning stock biomass (SSB) and fishing mortality (F) and makes little reference
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Global governance guard rails for sharks: Progress towards implementing the United Nations international plan of action Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Eric Gilman, Milani Chaloupka, Nathan Taylor, Lauren Nelson, Kim Friedman, Hilario Murua
There is growing concern over the conservation status of sharks and relatives exposed to fishing mortality. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1999 adopted the International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks (IPOA), which provides nations with advice on adopting and implementing national plans. An assessment of global national and regional plans
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Estimating intrinsic susceptibility to extinction when little ecological information is available: The case of Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae) Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Diego M. Vazquez, Luis O. Lucifora
Determining the extinction risk of poorly known species is difficult, as data on both their biological traits and the threats to which they are exposed are often not available. Neotropical freshwater stingrays (potamotrygonins) represent such a challenge, as limited ecological data prevent formal assessments. Geographic range size (GRS) was computed for the first time for potamotrygonins (as a longitudinal
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Consistent features of the gut microbiota in response to diverse shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei diseases: A meta-analysis Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Jiangning Mao, Jiaqi Lu, Jiong Chen, Jinbo Xiong
Dysbiosis in the gut microbiota has been intimately implicated in shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei, Penaeidae) diseases. However, considering the variety of shrimp diseases and the variability in experimental conditions, studies addressing common features of the gut microbiota−shrimp disease relationship are limited. Through an unbiased subject-level meta-analysis framework, 463 shrimp gut bacterial communities
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Biological life-history and farming scenarios of marine aquaculture to help reduce wild marine fishing pressure Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Halley E. Froehlich, Jamie C. Montgomery, David R. Williams, Casey O'Hara, Caitlin D. Kuempel, Benjamin S. Halpern
Aquaculture (freshwater and marine) has largely supplemented fisheries, but in theory could help reduce fishing pressure on wild stocks. Although not the sole factors, some potential benefits depend on aquaculture pressures on fished species, including collection of wild ‘seed’ material—earlier to later life stages—for rearing in captivity and the capacity of aquaculture to increase. Here we first
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Reproductive resilience or sweepstakes recruitment? Assessing drivers of lifetime reproductive success in exploited marine fish Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-14 Michael D. Tringali, Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri
Understanding the processes that drive reproductive success in marine fish stocks is critical to effective fisheries management. These processes can be difficult to investigate, especially in age-structured populations, because they occur at transgenerational scales. Reproductive success is often attributed to a small portion of the adult population (<0.01%) and thought to be driven primarily by random
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Exploitation shifted trophic ecology and habitat preferences of Mediterranean and Black Sea bluefin tuna over centuries Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Adam J. Andrews, Christophe Pampoulie, Antonio Di Natale, Piero Addis, Darío Bernal-Casasola, Veronica Aniceti, Gabriele Carenti, Verónica Gómez-Fernández, Valerie Chosson, Alice Ughi, Matt Von Tersch, Maria Fontanals-Coll, Elisabetta Cilli, Vedat Onar, Fausto Tinti, Michelle Alexander
During recent decades, the health of ocean ecosystems and fish populations has been threatened by overexploitation, pollution and anthropogenic-driven climate change. Due to a lack of long-term ecological data, we have a poor grasp of the true impact on the diet and habitat use of fishes. This information is vital if we are to recover depleted fish populations and predict their future dynamics. Here
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Toward sustainable harvest strategies for marine fisheries that include recreational fishing Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Ashley M. Fowler, Natalie A. Dowling, Jeremy M. Lyle, Josep Alós, Leif E. Anderson, Steven J. Cooke, Andy J. Danylchuk, Keno Ferter, Heath Folpp, Clifford Hutt, Kieran Hyder, Daniel K. Lew, Michael B. Lowry, Tim P. Lynch, Nicholas Meadows, Estanis Mugerza, Kjell Nedreaas, Domingos Garrone-Neto, Faith A. Ochwada-Doyle, Warren Potts, David Records, Scott Steinback, Harry V. Strehlow, Sean R. Tracey,
Recreational fishing (RF) is a large yet undervalued component of fisheries globally. While progress has been made in monitoring, assessing, and managing the sector in isolation, integration of RF into the management of multi-sector fisheries has been limited, particularly relative to the commercial sector. This marginalises recreational fishers and reduces the likelihood of achieving the sector's
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Observing fish interactions with marine energy turbines using acoustic cameras Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-29 Emma Cotter, Garrett Staines
Marine current energy converters such as tidal and riverine turbines have the potential to provide reliable, clean power. The risk of collision of fishes with marine energy turbines is not yet well understood, in part due to the challenges associated with observing fish at turbine sites. Turbidity and light availability can limit the effectiveness of optical sensors like video cameras, motivating the
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Benefits, concerns, and solutions of fishing for tunas with drifting fish aggregation devices Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Maite Pons, David Kaplan, Gala Moreno, Lauriane Escalle, Francisco Abascal, Martin Hall, Victor Restrepo, Ray Hilborn
Drifting fish aggregating devices (dFADs) are human-made floating objects widely used by tropical tuna purse seine (PS) fisheries to increase catch of target species. However, dFAD use has several negative impacts, including increased potential for overfishing, higher juvenile tuna catch, higher bycatch compared to other PS fishing modes, ghost-fishing, and generation of marine litter. Based on these
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Pacific cod in the Anthropocene: An early life history perspective under changing thermal habitats Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Benjamin J. Laurel, Alisa Abookire, Steve J. Barbeaux, L. Zoe Almeida, Louise A. Copeman, Janet Duffy-Anderson, Thomas P. Hurst, Michael A. Litzow, Trond Kristiansen, Jessica A. Miller, Wayne Palsson, Sean Rooney, Hillary L. Thalmann, Lauren A. Rogers
The rapid decline in Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus, Gadidae) biomass following multiple Gulf of Alaska marine heatwaves (2014–2016 and 2019) may be one of the most dramatic documented changes in a sustainably managed marine fishery. As such, fisheries managers are exploring new recruitment paradigms for Pacific cod under novel environmental conditions. In this review, we address the challenges of
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Re-imagining the precautionary approach to make collaborative fisheries management inclusive of Indigenous Knowledge Systems Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Alejandro Frid, Kyle L. Wilson, Jennifer Walkus, Robyn E. Forrest, Mike Reid
Fisheries science uses quantitative methods to inform management decisions that reflect cultural preferences which, in turn, indirectly influence the states of ecosystems. To date, it has largely supported Eurocentric preferences for the commodification of marine organisms under the tenets of maximum sustainable yield, whereby abundances are intentionally maintained far below their historical baselines
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Coupling dynamic energy budget and population dynamic models to inform stock enhancement in fisheries management Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Yiwen Liu, Chongliang Zhang, Xiujin Wei, Binduo Xu, Ying Xue, Yiping Ren, Yong Chen
Extensive applications of fishery stock enhancement worldwide bring up broad concerns about its negative effects, creating a pivotal need for science-based assessment and planning of enhancement strategies. However, the lack of mechanistic understanding of enhanced population dynamics, particularly the density-dependent processes, leads to compromise in model development and limits the capacity in
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Warm oceans exacerbate Chinook salmon bycatch in the Pacific hake fishery driven by thermal and diel depth-use behaviours Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Megan C. Sabal, Kate Richerson, Paul Moran, Taal Levi, Vanessa J. Tuttle, Michael Banks
Fisheries bycatch impacts marine species globally and understanding the underlying ecological and behavioural mechanisms could improve bycatch mitigation and forecasts in novel conditions. Oceans are rapidly warming causing shifts in marine species distributions with unknown, but likely, bycatch consequences. We examined whether thermal and diel depth-use behaviours influenced bycatch of a keystone
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Life in the fast lane: Revisiting the fast growth—High survival paradigm during the early life stages of fishes Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Dominique Robert, Jun Shoji, Pascal Sirois, Akinori Takasuka, Ignacio A. Catalán, Arild Folkvord, Stuart A. Ludsin, Myron A. Peck, Su Sponaugle, Patricia M. Ayón, Richard D. Brodeur, Emily Y. Campbell, Evan K. D'Alessandro, John F. Dower, Louis Fortier, Alberto G. García, Klaus B. Huebert, Marc Hufnagl, Shin-ichi Ito, Mikimasa Joh, Francis Juanes, Mitsuo Nyuji, Yoshioki Oozeki, Guido Plaza, Motomitsu
Early life survival is critical to successful replenishment of fish populations, and hypotheses developed under the Growth-Survival Paradigm (GSP) have guided investigations of controlling processes. The GSP postulates that recruitment depends on growth and mortality rates during early life stages, as well as their duration, after which the mortality declines substantially. The GSP predicts a shift
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Climate change projections of commercial fish distribution and suitable habitat around north western Europe Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-07-02 Bryony L. Townhill, Elena Couce, Jonathan Tinker, Susan Kay, John K. Pinnegar
Under future climate change, modification of temperature and salinity are expected to result in distribution shifts of marine organisms, including commercial fish and shellfish. Changes are anticipated everywhere, including in the seas of many important fishing nations. Species turnover will in turn result in both opportunities and threats to fishing industries. To determine the impacts for northwest
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Advances in remote sensing of freshwater fish habitat: A systematic review to identify current approaches, strengths and challenges Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-24 Spencer Dakin Kuiper, Nicholas C. Coops, Scott G. Hinch, Joanne C. White
Remote sensing technology offers the ability to derive information on freshwater fish habitats across broad geographic areas and has the potential to transform approaches to monitoring. However, the numerous platforms, sensors and analytical software that are available may overwhelm those interested in utilizing this important technology and thus limit its broad application and uptake. Our review is
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Estimating trends and magnitudes of bycatch in the tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Tom Peatman, Valerie Allain, Lui Bell, Berry Muller, Aurélien Panizza, Naiten B. Phillip, Graham Pilling, Simon Nicol
Minimising the unintended capture of fish, marine mammals, reptiles, seabirds and other marine organisms is an important component of responsible fisheries management and for stabilising declines and rebuilding populations of threatened species. The analyses presented were designed to establish the first quantitative baseline of historical catches, catch rates and species composition for the dominant
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Why do some fish grow faster than others? Fish Fish. (IF 6.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Harriet R. Goodrich, Timothy D. Clark
All animals must acquire food to grow, but there is a vast diversity in how different species and even different individuals approach and achieve this task. Individuals within a species appear to fall along a bold-shy continuum, whereby some fish acquire food aggressively and with seemingly high risk, while others appear more submissive and opportunistic. Greater food consumption generally results