Recreational fisheries are culturally and economically important around the world. Recent
research emphasizes that understanding and managing these systems requires a social …

Understanding tipping point dynamics in harvested ecosystems is of crucial importance for
sustainable resource management because ignoring their existence imperils social …

Abstract The fishery for Northern Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) off Newfoundland and
Labrador, Eastern Canada, presents the most spectacular case of an exploited stock …

Abstract Data from the Integrated Tracking of Aquatic Animals in the Gulf of Mexico (iTAG)
network, and sister networks, were used to evaluate fish movements in the Florida Keys—an …

Prey-predator models with Allee effect have great importance in the context of ecology. Allee
effect refers to a positive relationship between population density and per capita growth rate …

The argument that sufficiently high fishing mortality (selective or not) can effect genetic
change in fished populations has gained considerable traction since the late 1970s. The …

According to the theory of compensatory dynamics, depleted populations should recover
when the threat responsible for their decline is removed because per capita population …

The first relatively complete landscape-scale social–ecological system (SES) model of a
recreational fishery was developed and ground-truthed with independent angling effort data …

Providing science-based advice can be challenging. Personal in its reflections, the story that
follows asks throughout: What constitutes an appropriate model for the communication of …

Diadromous species are particularly vulnerable to climate change because they utilize both
marine and freshwater habitat to complete their life cycles. Dispersal plays an important role …