Many of you may have had a neighbour or a grandfather who was a fanatic about tools. 1 Grandpa owned everything Sears ever made, and took it as a sign of moral turpitude if you used, say, a flathead screwdriver to take out a Phillips-head screw. Now I confess that I still do not own a Phillips screwdriver, and also use my flathead screwdriver to open paint cans. But Grandpa did rub off on me a ...

Abstract Catfishes (Ictaluridae) are among North America’s most important ichthyofauna for human consumption and recreation. As such, research on Blue Catfish Ictalurus furcatus , Channel I . punctatus Flathead Pylodictis olivaris has been abundant in historic contemporary literature. A common technique studying catfish involves marking or tagging fish to understand behavior, sampling efficienc...

Abstract Recreational fishing can have substantial ecological impacts, which must be managed against a background of critical socio-economic factors. However, it is often difficult to assess the effect altered management arrangements on this sector’s harvest. surveys assist in quantifying impact changes harvest limits. Here, we use survey data collected 2013/2014 and 2017/2018 estimate total ca...

Marine fish species with complex life cycles undergo ontogenetic changes in their physiological and habitat requirements. Therefore, predicting how warming ocean conditions are likely to impact populations requires size-(age-) habitat-specific analyses. We determined the exposure scope of adaptability 4 shelf-oriented flatfish Bering Sea projected climate-driven warming. quantified present day ...