The influence of climate on marine populations is important for predicting stock abundance
of marine fishes, and has led to increasing interest in environment-based forecasts (EBFs) …

The impact of freshwater environmental factors on spawning migration mortality was
modeled to provide a predictive tool for fisheries management of four run timing groups of …

Rice, JC 2011. Advocacy science and fisheries decision-making.–ICES Journal of Marine
Science, 68: 2007–2012. Science advice is supposed to meet idealistic standards for …

Supplementation programs based on captive breeding and rearing are increasingly being
used in recovery planning for endangered or threatened salmonid populations. However, it …

Bristol Bay, Alaska, is home to the largest sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) fishery in
the world, harvesting an average of 25 million fish with an ex-vessel value exceeding US …

An important management challenge is to maintain productive populations of Pacific salmon
(Oncorhynchus spp.), despite highly variable environments and our weak understanding of …

Dynamic programming is used to construct harvest control rules that account for persistent
changes in productivity, exploitation rate constraints that prevent extinction of nontarget …

Population diversity can stabilize ecological dynamics and increase resilience to future
environmental change. In exploited systems, however, management goals to preserve …

International wild Atlantic salmon management priorities have moved from exploitation to
conservation since the 1990s, recognizing the need to protect diversity and abundance at …

A new state space stock–recruitment (SR) model (XSR) was developed to treat observation
errors in spawner and catch data, and nonstationarity in productivity for pink salmon …