The Journals Department occasionally singles out papers that are especially topical, important, likely to be of widespread interest, or otherwise worthy of special promotion and accords them special treatment. This includes

• Accelerated production
• Waiver of page charges and publication fees
• Waiver of the fee for printing figures in color
• Free online access for two months
• Dedicated promotion

Submission—Authors should indicate in their submission to ScholarOne that they would like their paper to be considered as a featured paper and stipulate why it merits this treatment. Even when authors haven’t requested consideration as a featured paper, the editor or subject editor, associate editor, or reviewers may conclude that the paper merits such consideration. The final decision rests with the editor or subject editor.

Production—Once accepted, featured papers will be moved to the top of the production queue and be handled on an accelerated timeline. All publication fees—page charges, shipping and handling fees, and fees for the printing of color figures—will be waived. (If authors opt to make their paper open access permanently, they should utilize the Open Choice option during production; the fee for this is US$2,950.)

Post-publication—Featured papers will be freely available online at no cost for two months and will be promoted by AFS and our publisher (Wiley). Promotion typically includes social media posts (Twitter and Facebook), placement on the AFS homepage (fisheries.org) as well as in the carousel on the AFS journals hub (afsjournals.org), and a highlight in the biweekly AFS newsletter (fisheries.org/newsletter/).

Recent Featured Papers

2016

• TAFS: Efficacy of Environmental DNA to Detect and Quantify Brook Trout Populations in Headwater Streams of the Adirondack Mountains, New York

2017

• NAJFM: Spatial Heterogeneity, Variable Rewards, Tag Loss, and Tagging Mortality Affect the Performance of Mark–Recapture Designs to Estimate Exploitation: an Example using Red Snapper in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
• TAFS: Using Variance Structure to Quantify Responses to Perturbation in Fish Catches
• TAFS: Validating Fin Ray Microchemistry as a Tool to Reconstruct the Migratory History of White Sturgeon
• NAJFM: Sample Size Estimation for On-Site Creel Surveys
• NAJFM: Changes in Movements of Chinook Salmon between Lakes Huron and Michigan after Alewife Population Collapse
• TAFS: Estimating the Annual Spawning Run Size and Population Size of the Southern Distinct Population Segment of Green Sturgeon
• NAJFM: Quasi‐Stationary Atlantic Cod Bycatch Estimation in the Maine American Lobster Homarus americanus Trap Fishery

2018

• NAJFM: Understanding Resource‐Conserving Behaviors Among Fishers: Barotrauma Mitigation and the Power of Subjective Norms in Florida’s Reef Fisheries
• MCF: Numbers and Biomass of Natural‐ and Hatchery‐Origin Pink Salmon, Chum Salmon, and Sockeye Salmon in the North Pacific Ocean, 1925–2015
• TAFS: Survival and Reproductive Success of Hatchery YY Male Brook Trout Stocked in Idaho Streams
• MCF: Comparative Abundance, Species Composition, and Demographics of Continental Shelf Fish Assemblages throughout the Gulf of Mexico
• JAAH: Antibiotic Treatment of Mucodegeneration and Positive Buoyancy in a Chambered Nautilus Nautilus pompilius
• TAFS: Phenological Diversity of Salmon Smolt Migration Timing within a Large Watershed
• TAFS: Distribution and Age Composition of Red Snapper across the Inner Continental Shelf of the North‐Central Gulf of Mexico
• TAFS: Evaluating the Trade‐Offs between Invasion and Isolation for Native Brook Trout and Nonnative Brown Trout in Pennsylvania Streams
• TAFS: Short‐Term Pain and Long‐Term Gain: Using Phased‐In Minimum Size Limits to Rebuild Stocks—the Pacific Bluefin Tuna Example