There are many syntheses on the role of animal behavior in understanding and mitigating conservation threats for wildlife. That body of work has inspired the development of a new discipline called conservation behavior. Yet, the majority of those synthetic papers focus on non-fish taxa such as birds and mammals. Many fish populations are subject to intensive exploitation and management and for decades researchers have used concepts and knowledge from animal behavior to support management and conservation actions. Dr. David L. G. Noakes is an influential ethologist who did much foundational work related to illustrating how behavior was relevant to the management and conservation of wild fish. We pay tribute to the late Dr. Noakes by summarizing the relevance of animal behavior to fisheries management and conservation. To do so, we first consider what behavior has revealed about how fish respond to key threats such as habitat alteration and loss, invasive species, climate change, pollution, and exploitation. We then consider how behavior has informed the application of common management interventions such as protected areas and spatial planning, stock enhancement, and restoration of habitat and connectivity. Our synthesis focuses on the totality of the field but includes reflections on the specific contributions of Dr. Noakes. Themes emerging from his approach include the value of fundamental research, management-scale experiments, and bridging behavior, physiology, and ecology. Animal behavior plays a key role in understanding and mitigating threats to wild fish populations and will become more important with the increasing pressures facing aquatic ecosystems. Fortunately, the toolbox for studying behavior is expanding, with technological and analytical advances revolutionizing our understanding of wild fish and generating new knowledge for fisheries managers and conservation practitioners.

关于动物行为在理解和减轻野生动物保护威胁方面的作用有很多综合。这项工作激发了一门名为保护行为的新学科的发展。然而，这些合成论文中的大多数都集中在鸟类和哺乳动物等非鱼类分类群上。许多鱼类种群受到密集的开发和管理，几十年来，研究人员利用动物行为的概念和知识来支持管理和保护行动。David LG Noakes 博士是一位有影响力的动物行为学家，他做了许多与说明行为如何与野生鱼类的管理和保护相关的基础工作。我们通过总结动物行为与渔业管理和保护的相关性来向已故的诺克斯博士致敬。为此，我们首先考虑哪些行为揭示了鱼类如何应对栖息地改变和丧失、入侵物种、气候变化、污染和开发等关键威胁。然后，我们考虑行为如何影响常见管理干预措施的应用，例如保护区和空间规划、种群增强以及栖息地和连通性的恢复。我们的综合侧重于整个领域，但包括对 Noakes 博士的具体贡献的反思。从他的方法中出现的主题包括基础研究的价值、管理规模的实验以及桥接行为、生理学和生态学。动物行为在理解和减轻对野生鱼类种群的威胁方面发挥着关键作用，随着水生生态系统面临的压力越来越大，动物行为将变得更加重要。