The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) prepared the Fishery Management Plan for Sharks of the Atlantic Ocean (Shark FMP) for the Secretary of Co...
This integrated document contains all elements of the Fishery Management Plan, Environmental Assessment (EA), Regulatory Impact Review (RIR) and Socia...
This is the sixteenth annual status of the Pacific coast groundfish fishery document prepared for the Pacific Fishery Management Council. The purpose ...
Pacific Coast fisheries in Council-managed waters ( ocean fisheries south of the Canadian border to Mexico from 3 to 200 miles offshore) are directed ...
The stations and gaps in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Water Level Observation Network (NWLON) are prioritized a...
Between 18 March and 4 April 2023, the Collaborative Pot Sampling (CPS1) project occurred to collect data on Bristol Bay red king crab (RKC) (Paralith...
Here, we introduce the Sacramento River Chinook salmon life cycle model (SRCLCM), an LCM framework for winter-run (listed as endangered under the fede...
2024 | Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center administrative Report H ; 24-01
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In 1994, NOAA Fisheries required all Hawaiʻi longline vessels to, when requested, carry onboard an observer to gather information to better character...
As technology evolves, uncrewed systems (UxS) are continuing to emerge as transformative tools across sectors, with incredible potential to advance sc...
Accurate hydrologic data (over-land precipitation, over-lake precipitation, runoff, lake evaporation, net basin supplies, connecting channel flows, di...
The project is a cetacean survey in the waters west of the Mariana Archipelago from the islands to the West Mariana Ridge. The survey includes standar...
This document describes the development of a Decision Support Tool (DST) from its inception as a request from the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction ...
2023 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. 81(1): 38-51
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Diadromous fish populations have incurred precipitous declines across the globe. Among many stressors, these species are threatened by anthropogenic b...
Socio–environmental synthesis as a research approach contributes to broader sustainability policy and practice by reusing data from disparate discip...
2020 | Journal of Crustacean Biology, Volume 40, Issue 4, July 2020, Pages 471–478
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Sperm limitation is a concern for a number of heavily fished decapods; however, work to assess this concern is sometimes hampered by a lack of simple ...
Maturation schedules shape the age structure of a population and influence productivity and exposure to fishing. Fish cultivated and raised in artific...
Sea scallops (Placopecten magellanicus) are a highly fecund species that supports one of the most commercially valuable fisheries in the northeast U.S...
Methods for population estimation and inference have evolved over the past decade to allow for the incorporation of spatial information when using cap...
We estimate temporally varying natural mortality within a size-based stock assessment model for U.S. sea scallops in three different regions, and comp...
2024 | Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 81: 387–402 (2024)
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Many Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) populations have experienced significant declines for decades throughout North America and Europe. Mortality due to...
Declining body size in fishes and other aquatic ectotherms associated with anthropogenic climate warming has significant implications for future fishe...
Nonphotochemical quenching (NPQ) is known to depress in vivo fluorescence (IVF) of chlorophyll a (Chla) in aquatic environments, which makes it diffic...
2022 | Forest Ecology and Management 504 (2022) 119801
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Removal of riparian trees can alter aquatic ecosystem structure and function by influencing factors such as light availability, sediment input, and st...
Estimating growth (increase in size with age) is an integral component of fish population assessment. The use of integrated assessment models combined...
Improvements in the number and resolution of Earth- and satellite-based sensors coupled with finer-resolution models have resulted in an explosion in ...
In April and May of 2020, a large phytoplankton bloom composed primarily of the dinoflagellate Lingulodinium polyedra reached historic levels in geogr...
2023 | Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 40, 77–80.
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The grouper species Mycteroperca profundorum Cervigón, 2011 (Epinephelidae) was described based on examination of three specimens collected from deep...
Enhancement of shellfish populations has long been discussed as a potential nutrient reduction tool, and eastern oyster aquaculture was recently appro...
Fisheries managers stock triploid (i.e., infertile, artificially produced) rainbow trout Oncorhynchus mykiss in North American lakes to support sport ...
2023 | Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 416(3), 773-785
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has prepared four seafood reference materials (RMs) for use in food safety and nutrition stu...
2024 | Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences (2024)
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Life history diversity can significantly affect population dynamics and effects of management actions. For instance, variation in individual responses...
The prevalence and intensity of marine heatwaves is increasing globally, disrupting local environmental conditions. The individual and population-leve...
2024 | Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 81(4), 713-741
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Tropical cyclone (TC) structure and intensity are strongly modulated by interactions with deep-layer vertical wind shear (VWS)—the vector difference...
2024 | Artificial Intelligence for the Earth Systems, 3(2)
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The quantification of storm updrafts remains unavailable for operational forecasting despite their inherent importance to convection and its associate...
The global ocean's coastal areas are rapidly experiencing the effects of climate change. These regions are highly dynamic, with relatively small-scale...
Seabird-vessel interactions are often studied through the lens of fisheries bycatch, but seabirds encounter many watercraft types. Western Gulls Larus...
While fisheries science in the USA has in the past been dominated by mode 1 knowledge production that is discipline-specific and focused on basic rese...
Across the United States, there is increasing concern about the poor performance of American students in science and our country’s position as a wor...
Reef fishes have been utilized as food fish throughout the U.S. Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico waters for centuries, with increasing fishing effort in r...
Queen snapper (Etelis oculatus) is of interest from an ecological and management perspective as it is the second most landed finfish species (by total...
Land surface temperature (LST) and its diurnal variability are key to understanding the land-atmosphere interactions, hydrological processes and clima...
The Critically Endangered North Atlantic right whale Eubalaena glacialis entered a population decline around 2011. To save this species without closin...
Paediatric vehicular hyperthermia (PVH) is the leading cause of non-crash vehicle-related death of children in the USA. Public health messaging is an ...
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