Several innovative management initiatives have been implemented recently in the Canadian 4WX herring fishery. An ‘‘in-season management approach’’ allows a number of decisions regarding the appropriate distribution and rate of fishing by a team consisting of participants in the fishery and members of government on the basis of the best available information during the season. Observations from ...

Several years of research on the gametic development and spawning of different species of holothurians have produced results that find applications in aquaculture and fisheries management programs. The first set of data shows that sea cucumbers secrete a biologically active chemical which allows gamete synthesis synchrony among conspecifics. Laboratory experiments have revealed that the gametic...

Population genetic compositions of the three largest spawning groups of Lake Erie walleyes Sander vitreus (Maumee River, Sandusky River, and Van Buren Bay reefs) were tested for temporal and spatial consistency across 14 years using nine nuclear DNA microsatellite loci from 726 adult walleyes collected in 1995, 1998, 2003, 2007, and 2008. Previous genetic work focused on a one-time “snapshot”; ...

Historically Saccharina spp. beds occurred along the west coast of Hokkaido, an oligotrophic area, and were commercially exploited. Currently extensive commercial Saccharina spp. beds do not form due to nutrient limitations. Here, we postulate that nutrients assimilated by paleo-Saccharina spp. beds may have been derived from spawning herrings (Clupea pallasii) acting as organisms that formed a...

This study is the first to characterize temporal changes in blood chemistry of individuals from one population of male sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka during the final 6 weeks of sexual maturation and senescence in the freshwater stage of their spawning migration. Fish that died before the start of their historic mean spawning period (c. 5 November) were characterized by a 20-40% decrease in ...

Despite the fact that pink salmon is a fish species with a short-cycle life span, its stock abundance dynamics exhibit features typical of common pelagic fish species with an average life-cycle duration. Interchanging periods of high and low pink salmon abundance levels relate to positive and negative stock abundance trends inherent for major regional groups, Asian and American parts of aggrega...