Forecasting, using time series data, has become the most relevant and effective tool for fisheries stock assessment. Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) modeling been commonly used to predict general trend fish landings with increased reliability precision. In this paper, ARIMA models were applied Lake Malombe annual catch per unit effort (CPUE). The CPUE trends first observed both...

Abstract Effects of offshore wind farm (OSW) development in the US on fishery resources have been predicted based European experience. A seven-year study first OSW documented response demersal fish and invertebrates to construction operation. Local fishermen scientists designed a monthly trawl survey using Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) design assess potential effects Block Island Wind Farm...

Abstract Blue crabs ( Callinectes sapidus ) are highly mobile, ecologically-important mesopredators that support multimillion-dollar fisheries along the western Atlantic Ocean. Understanding how blue respond to coastal landscape change is integral conservation and management, but such insights have been limited a narrow range of habitats spatial scales. We examined local-scale landscape-scale h...

Invasive species can cause major disruptions in native food webs, yet the impact of introductions and whether they will become invasive appears to be context-dependent. Rainbow smelt alewife co-exist as Laurentian Great Lakes on Atlantic coast North America, but Lake Champlain rainbow is dominant forage fish are invasive. Alewife became abundant by 2007, providing an opportunity explore dynamic...

This study evaluated the vertical distribution of immature albacore tuna (Thunnus alalunga) in Indian Ocean as a function various environmental parameters. Albacore fishing data were gathered from logbooks large-sized Taiwanese longline vessels. Fishery and for period 1998 to 2016 collected. In addition surface variable, most influential temperature, dissolved oxygen (OXY), chlorophyll, salinit...

Few concurrent studies exist of sympatric gray wolf (Canis lupus) and coyote (C. latrans) harvest at far northern latitudes. Moreover, no explicitly examine effects on phenotypes wolves coyotes. We documented changes in sex age characteristics morphology coyotes harvested by hunters near Ptarmigan Lake, east-central Alaska, USA, between 1998 2001. hypothesized that the would result larger, heav...