Congratulations to the authors and thank you to our readers! Publishing and promoting great science is one of the most important tenets of the AFS mission. Find out what caught the attention of fisheries scientists and managers in 2018, navigate to each journal by clicking on the covers below. Full access is available to AFS members and Marine and Coastal Fisheries is open access always! Featured Papers are also available with free access.
Articles by Journal
*Featured Paper, Free Access
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| Handle with Care: Establishing Catch Limits for Fish Stocks Experiencing Episodic Natural Mortality Events |
| Conservation of Black Bass Diversity: An Emerging Management Paradigm |
| Differences in Mercury Exposure among Wisconsin Anglers Arising from Fish Consumption Preferences and Advisory Awareness |
| Social Media for Fisheries Science and Management Professionals: How to Use It and Why You Should |
| Introduction to Bayesian Modeling and Inference for Fisheries Scientists |
| The Failure of Wild Salmon Management: Need for a Place-Based Conceptual Foundation |
| Reeling Them In: Initial Insight into the Factors Affecting Presentation Attendance at American Fisheries Society Meetings |
| Delta Smelt and Water Politics in California |
| Will Alaska’s Fisheries Regime Prove Resilient? Kenai River Fishery Management as a Model for Adaptive Governance |
| Why Keep Hatcheries? Weighing the Economic Cost and Value of Fish Production for Public Use and Public Trust Purposes |
| Historical Perspectives and a New U.S. Forest Service Strategy for Fish and Aquatic Stewardship |
| An Overview of Pacific Salmon |
| Commercial Fisheries of the Upper Mississippi River: A Century of Sustained Harvest |
| Embracing Disruptive New Science? Biotelemetry Meets Co-Management in Canada’s Fraser River |
| Perspectives on the Application of Unmanned Aircraft for Freshwater Fisheries Census |
| Does River Restoration Increase Fish Abundance and Survival or Concentrate Fish? The Effects of Project Scale, Location, and Fish Life History |
| PITR: A New Open Source R Package for PIT Telemetry Data |
| “Asian Carp” is Societally and Scientifically Problematic. Let’s Replace It |
| A Portfolio Framework for Prioritizing Conservation Efforts for Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Populations |
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| Improved Conventional PCR Assay for Detecting Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae DNA in Fish Tissues |
| Vibriosis in Fish: A Review on Disease Development and Prevention |
| Distribution and Prevalence of Myxobolus cerebralis in Postfire Areas of Plumas National Forest: Utility of Environmental DNA Sampling |
| Retail Baitfish in Michigan Harbor Serious Fish Viral Pathogens |
| Concurrent Infection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Ranavirus among Native Amphibians from Northeastern Oklahoma, USA |
| Swimming Endurance in Juvenile Chinook Salmon Infected with Salmincola californiensis |
| Humoral Immune Responses to Select Marine Bacteria in Loggerhead Sea Turtles Caretta caretta and Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtles Lepidochelys kempii from the Southeastern United States |
| Histological Alterations in Pacific Oysters Crassostrea gigas that Survived a Summer Mortality Event in Baja California, Mexico |
| High-Prevalence and Low-Intensity Ichthyophonus Infections in Pacific Halibut |
| Efficacy of Benzocaine, Eugenol, and Menthol as Anesthetics for Freshwater Angelfish |
| Risk Factors Associated with Mortality of Age-0 Smallmouth Bass in the Susquehanna River Basin, Pennsylvania |
| Survival of Whirling-Disease-Resistant Rainbow Trout Fry in the Wild: A Comparison of Two Strains |
| Toxicity of Potassium Chloride Compared to Sodium Chloride for Zebra Mussel Decontamination |
| Dietary Onion or Ginger Modulates the Stress Response and Susceptibility to Vibrio harveyi JML1 Infection in Brown-marbled Grouper Epinephelus fuscoguttatus Juveniles |
| First Report of Achlya oblongata Infection in Freshwater-Reared Asian Seabass Lates calcarifer |
| Comparison of Sampling and Detection Methods for Chinook Salmon and Steelhead Naturally Infected with Myxobolus cerebralis |
| Identification of Differentially Regulated Edwardsiella ictaluri Proteins During Catfish Serum Treatment |
| Thiamine Levels in Muscle and Eggs of Adult Pacific Salmon from the Fraser River, British Columbia |
| Differential Effects of Adult Salmon Lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis on Physiological Responses of Sockeye Salmon and Atlantic Salmon |
| Infection by Nanophyetus salmincola and Toxic Contaminant Exposure in Out-migrating Steelhead from Puget Sound, Washington: Implications for Early Marine Survival |
| Establishing a Diagnostic Technique for Coelomocentesis in the Long-Spined Sea Urchin Diadema antillarum |
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| Evaluation of Poultry By-Product Meal as an Alternative to Fish Meal in the Diet of Juvenile Black Sea Bass Reared in a Recirculating Aquaculture System |
| Tolerance of Prenant’s Schizothoracin Schizothorax prenanti to Total Dissolved Gas Supersaturated Water at Varying Temperature |
| *Thoughts for the Future of Aquaculture Nutrition: Realigning Perspectives to Reflect Contemporary Issues Related to Judicious Use of Marine Resources in Aquafeeds |
| Evaluation of Porcine Meat and Bone Meal in Diets for Pond-Raised Hybrid Catfish |
| Evaluation of Formulated Feed for Juvenile Lake Sturgeon Based on Growth Performance and Nutrient Retention |
| Potential Enhancement of Juvenile Mussel Production with Exogenous Cortisol Treatment of Fish Hosts |
| *Novel Feed from Invasive Species is Beneficial to Walleye Aquaculture |
| Demonstration of Survival, Growth, and Reproduction of Gulf Killifish in Freshwater Ponds |
| Assessing Natural Substrates for Restricting Movement of California Sea Cucumbers Parastichopus californicus |
| Earthy and Musty Off-Flavor Episodes in Catfish Split-Pond Aquaculture Systems |
| Enrichment of Circular Tanks with Vertically Suspended Strings of Colored Balls Improves Rainbow Trout Rearing Performance |
| An Evaluation of Vertically Suspended Environmental Enrichment Structures during Rainbow Trout Rearing |
| Yellow Perch Sperm Motility, Cryopreservation, and Viability of Resulting Larvae and Juveniles |
| Inducing Subacute Enteritis in Yellowtail Kingfish Seriola lalandi: the Effect of Dietary Inclusion of Soybean Meal and Grape Seed Extract on Hindgut Morphology and Inflammation |
| Optimizing Feeding Strategies for Yellowtail Jack at Winter Water Temperatures |
| Evaluation of Snail Consumption by Black Buffalo |
| Addition of Emulsifiers to Hydrogenated Soybean Oil-Based Feeds for Yellowtail |
| Effects of Temperature and Salinity on Early Ontogeny of Bigmouth Sleeper Larvae |
| Effect of Water Source and Trout Strain on Expression of Stress-Affected Genes in a Commercial Setting |
| Survival of Pellet-Reared, Naturalized, and Wild Advanced-Size Largemouth Bass Exposed to Angling and Handling Stressors |
| Arachidonic Acid in the Diet of Captive Yellowtail and Its Effects on Egg Quality |
| Evaluation of Three Electrical Outputs in an Electro-Immobilization System to Reduce Induction Time during Routine Handling of Fish at a Hatchery |
| Evaluation of Dietary Protein Level in Practical Feed for Twoband Bream Diplodus vulgaris |
| Effects of Aquaculture on Lakes in the Central Yangtze River Basin, China, I. Water Quality |
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| *A Review of Beaver-Salmonid Relationships and History of Management Actions in the Western Great Lakes (USA) Region |
| A Rapid-Assessment Method to Estimate the Distribution of Juvenile Chinook Salmon in Tributary Habitats Using eDNA and Occupancy Estimation |
| Genetic Assignment of Brook Trout Reveals Rapid Success of Culvert Restoration in Headwater Streams |
| Evaluating the Effect of Dam Removals on Yellow-Phase American Eel Abundance in a Northeastern U.S. Watershed |
| Genetic Divergence of Nearby Walleye Spawning Groups in Central Lake Erie: Implications for Management |
| The Importance of Sound Methodology in Environmental DNA Sampling: Response to Comment |
| A Review of Approaches for Monitoring the Effectiveness of Regional River Habitat Restoration Programs |
| Predicted and Observed Responses of a Nonnative Channel Catfish Population Following Managed Removal to Aid the Recovery of Endangered Fishes |
| *Understanding Resource-Conserving Behaviors Among Fishers: Barotrauma Mitigation and the Power of Subjective Norms in Florida’s Reef Fisheries |
| Fish Distributions and Habitat Associations in Manistee River, Michigan, Tributaries: Implications for Arctic Grayling Restoration |
| The Postrelease Survival of Walleyes Following Ice-Angling on Lake Nipissing, Ontario |
| Characterizing the Preferences and Values of U.S. Recreational Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Anglers |
| Evidence of a Genetically Distinct Population of Striped Bass within the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Snorkeling-Based Fish Stock Assessment by Anglers-A Valuable Method for Managing Recreational Fisheries |
| Population Viability Improves Following Termination of Coho Salmon Hatchery Releases |
| Comment: The Importance of Sound Methodology in Environmental DNA Sampling |
| *Quantifying Uncertainty in Aquatic Telemetry: Using Received Signal Strength to Estimate Telemetry Error |
| Working Towards a Framework for Stock Evaluations in Data-Limited Fisheries |
| Survival of Juvenile Fall-Run Chinook Salmon through the San Joaquin River Delta, California, 2010-2015 |
| Review of Tools for Identifying, Planning, and Implementing Habitat Restoration for Pacific Salmon and Steelhead |
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| Prespawn Mortality of Female Chinook Salmon Increases with Water Temperature and Percent Hatchery Origin |
| Impacts and Implications of Temperature Variability on Chinook Salmon Egg Development and Emergence Phenology |
| Lake Sturgeon, Lake Whitefish, and Walleye Egg Deposition Patterns with Response to Fish Spawning Substrate Restoration in the St. Clair-Detroit River System |
| Effects of Extreme Hydrologic Regimes on Juvenile Chinook Salmon Prey Resources and Diet Composition in a Large River Floodplain |
| *Phenological Diversity of Salmon Smolt Migration Timing within a Large Watershed |
| Factors Regulating Year-Class Strength of Silver Carp Throughout the Mississippi River Basin |
| Global Warming of Salmon and Trout Rivers in the Northwestern U.S.: Road to Ruin or Path Through Purgatory? |
| *Survival and Reproductive Success of Hatchery YY Male Brook Trout Stocked in Idaho Streams |
| Mercury and Selenium in Twelve Cutthroat Trout Tissues from High-Elevation Colorado Lakes, USA: Intraspecific and Interspecific Comparisons |
| Egg Viability and Egg-to-Fry Survival of Captive-Reared Chinook Salmon Released to Spawn Naturally |
| *Estimating the Annual Spawning Run Size and Population Size of the Southern Distinct Population Segment of Green Sturgeon |
| Movement and Survival of Wild Chinook Salmon Smolts from Butte Creek During Their Out-Migration to the Ocean: Comparison of a Dry Year versus a Wet Year |
| *Integrated Diet Analyses Reveal Contrasting Trophic Niches for Wild and Hatchery Juvenile Chinook Salmon in a Large River Delta |
| Dam Removal and Fish Passage Improvement Influence Fish Assemblages in the Penobscot River, Maine |
| *Short-Term Pain and Long-Term Gain: Using Phased-In Minimum Size Limits to Rebuild Stocks-the Pacific Bluefin Tuna Example |
| A Natural-Origin Steelhead Population’s Response to Exclusion of Hatchery Fish |
| Nonsalmonid versus Salmonid Passage at Nature-Like and Pool-and-Weir Fishways in Atlantic Canada, with Special Attention to Rainbow Smelt |
| Long-Term Change of Fish Communities in a Polluted Watershed: Does Cleaner Water “Act” on Fishes? |
| Size, Growth, and Size-Selective Mortality of Subyearling Chinook Salmon during Early Marine Residence in Puget Sound |
| Fall and Winter Microhabitat Use and Suitability for Spring Chinook Salmon Parr in a U.S. Pacific Northwest River |
| Individual-Based Modeling of Delta Smelt Population Dynamics in the Upper San Francisco Estuary III. Effects of Entrainment Mortality and Changes in Prey |
| *Evaluating the Trade-Offs between Invasion and Isolation for Native Brook Trout and Nonnative Brown Trout in Pennsylvania Streams |
| *Habitat-Specific Reproductive Potential of Red Snapper: A Comparison of Artificial and Natural Reefs in the Western Gulf of Mexico |
| Effects of Flow-Related Variables on Oversummer Survival of Juvenile Coho Salmon in Intermittent Streams |
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| Assisting Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Efforts Using a Comprehensive Survey Database, a Large Environmental Database, and Generalized Additive Models |
| Interspecific Interactions May Influence Reef Fish Management Strategies in the Gulf of Mexico |
| Dietary Composition and Trophic Niche Partitioning of Spotty-bellied Greenlings Hexagrammos agrammus, Fat Greenlings H. otakii, Korean Rockfish Sebastes schlegelii, and Japanese Seaperch Lateolabrax japonicus in the Yellow Sea Revealed by Stomach Content Analysis and Stable Isotope Analysis |
| Changes in the Biological Characteristics of Walleye Pollock Related to Demographic Changes in the East Sea During the Late 20th Century |
| Illuminating the Headrope of a Selective Flatfish Trawl: Effect on Catches of Groundfishes, Including Pacific Halibut |
| Effect of Bait Type and Bait Size on Catch Efficiency in the European Hake Merluccius merluccius Longline Fishery |
| Size, Age, and Spatial-Temporal Distribution of Shortfin Mako in the Mexican Pacific Ocean |
| Descender Devices are Promising Tools for Increasing Survival in Deepwater Groupers |
| Assessing Indices of Growth for Field Studies of Juvenile Salmon: An Experiment and Synthesis |
| Efficacy of Otoliths and First Dorsal Spines for Preliminary Age and Growth Determination in Atlantic Tripletails |
| Comparative Performance of Three Length-Based Mortality Estimators |
| Occurrences of Jellyfish in the Industrial Fishing Activity of the Southeastern and Southern Regions of Brazil |
| Fishermen’s Historical Knowledge Leads to a Re-Evaluation of Redfish Catch |
| A Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling Approach for the Habitat Distribution of Smooth Dogfish by Sex and Season in Inshore Coastal Waters of the U.S. Northwest Atlantic |
| *Numbers and Biomass of Natural- and Hatchery-Origin Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, and Sockeye Salmon in the North Pacific Ocean, 1925-2015 |
| Small-Scale Fisheries at an Albanian Marine Protected Area: A Collaborative Attitude is Associated with Higher Catches |
| Striped Bass and Atlantic Menhaden Predator-Prey Dynamics: Model Choice Makes the Difference |
| Eelgrass as Valuable Nearshore Foraging Habitat for Juvenile Pacific Salmon in the Early Marine Period |
| *Comparative Abundance, Species Composition, and Demographics of Continental Shelf Fish Assemblages throughout the Gulf of Mexico |
| Juvenile Chinook Salmon and Forage Fish Use of Eelgrass Habitats in a Diked and Channelized Puget Sound River Delta |
| Spatial, Temporal, and Biological Characteristics of a Nearshore Coral Reef Fishery in the Northern Mariana Islands |
| Environmental Drivers of Adult Atlantic Sturgeon Movement and Residency in the Delaware Bay |
| Catch Trend and Stock Assessment of Hilsa Tenualosa ilisha Using Digital Image Measured Length-Frequency Data |
| Consumer-Driven Depletion of the Northern Diamondback Terrapin in Chesapeake Bay |
| American Eel Fecundity and Ovary Maturation in Relation to Body Size and Geographic Distribution |
