Essays
Today’s society has greater access to video media than ever before (Duffy 2008; Mulhern 2009). The rapid expansion of the Internet (Web 2.0) in the 1990s followed by the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in the early 21st century have put people across the globe in front of screens not just capable of text and... Read More
The International Pacific Halibut Commission (IPHC) is a public international organization that was established in 1923 by an agreement between Canada and the United States. Its mandate is to perform research on and manage Pacific Halibut Hippoglossus stenolepis stocks within the waters of both nations. Every year the IPHC staff conducts numerous scientific projects to... Read More
By Gary D. Grossman and Kirill Y. Chernoff Open educational resources (OERs) encompass a broad class of pedagogical resources that, by definition, are available to any user group, typically via the World Wide Web (Parisky and Boulay 2013; Islim et al. 2016). These resources range from electronic texts to raw data, to Web‐hosted videos, to preformulated class exercises. The vast... Read More
Brooke E. Penaluna, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Paci c Northwest Research Station, 3200 SW Je erson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331. E-mail: [email protected] Ivan Arismendi, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Christine M. Mo tt, Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences, University of... Read More
Nicolaas Bouwes, Stephen Bennett, and Joe Wheaton A large effort is underway to test the effectiveness of stream restoration in the Pacific Northwest using intensively monitored watersheds (IMWs) to improve salmonid habitat with the expectation to increase salmonid production (Bennett et al. 2016). How, or whether, stream restoration can improve target salmonid populations and ecosystem functions remains... Read More
David L. Morgan, Barbara E. Wringer, Mark G. Allen, Brendan C. Ebner, Jeff M. Whitty, Adrian C. Gleiss, and Stephen J. Beatty The sawfishes (Pristidae) are the most threatened of all of the world’s shark and ray families, which is largely due to overfishing (Dulvy et al. 2014). There are five extant species of sawfish, all of which possess an enlarged,... Read More
Joe Margraf | U.S. Geological Survey, Supervisor of Western Cooperative Research Units, 1135 Park Ave., Unit 904, Pagosa Springs, CO 81147. E-mail: [email protected] In 1999, I moved to Alaska to serve as unit leader of the U.S. Geological Survey Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and professor of fisheries in the School of Fisheries... Read More
By Konstantine J. Rountos Department of Biology, St. Joseph’s College, 155 Roe Blvd., Patchogue, NY 11772. E-mail: [email protected] MOTIVATION Forage species are often defined in scientific and popular literature using terms such as “small,” “schooling,” “short- lived,” pelagic fish found at intermediate trophic levels of marine food chains. However, not all stakeholders use the same... Read More
By Abigail J. Lynch, USGS I’m not sure how many people can trace their career origin back to a specific instance, but I can. I was sitting in a concrete block of a building, an old military installation that had been retrofitted to be an auditorium-style classroom. Students were scattered across the carpeted steps of... Read More
Jordan Skaggs and Micheal S. Allen Soft plastic lures (SPLs) are among the most common tackle components used in recreational fisheries worldwide. Local and national media sources recently raised concern about the effect of discarded SPLs on fish populations (Raison et al. 2014). Fish may consume SPLs directly from baits or after being discarded by... Read More
