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{"title":"Reviewer acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10281","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10281","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The editors and editorial board thank the following people who contributed technical reviews of manuscripts submitted to <i>Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science</i> during the year ending November 30, 2023.</p><p>Robert Allman</p><p>Julie Anderson Lively</p><p>Joel Anderson</p><p>Christine Angelini</p><p>Ronaldo Angelini</p><p>Michael D. Arendt</p><p>Charles Bangley</p><p>Partho Protim Barman</p><p>Vandick Batista</p><p>David Bethoney</p><p>Sabrina Beyer</p><p>Derek Bolser</p><p>Justin Bopp</p><p>Jon Brodziak</p><p>David Bryan</p><p>Michael Burton</p><p>David Bushek</p><p>Thomas Cameron</p><p>Theodore Castro-Santos</p><p>Brandon E. Chasco</p><p>David Checkley</p><p>Victor Cruz Escalona</p><p>Matthew Damiano</p><p>Nazli Demirel</p><p>Kevin Dockendorf</p><p>J. Drymon</p><p>Will Duguid</p><p>Brad Erisman</p><p>Elizabeth Figus</p><p>Nick Fisch</p><p>Jared Flowers</p><p>Elizabeth Fulton</p><p>Benjamin Gahagan</p><p>Lysel Garavelli</p><p>Carissa Gervasi</p><p>Kristen Gorman</p><p>Vincent Guida</p><p>Chenying Guo</p><p>Adrian Gutteridge</p><p>Anna Hagelin</p><p>Dana Haggarty</p><p>Edward Hale</p><p>Matthew Hare</p><p>Skyler Hedden</p><p>Lisa Izzo</p><p>Keith Kamikawa</p><p>Alexey Katin</p><p>Aimee Keller</p><p>Richard Kindong</p><p>Nikolai Klibansky</p><p>Elise Koob</p><p>Jorge Landa</p><p>Michael Larkin</p><p>Hunter S. Lenihan</p><p>Chengxue Li</p><p>Bilin Liu</p><p>Julia Mason</p><p>Jun Matsubayashi</p><p>Mark Maunder</p><p>Richard McBride</p><p>Matthew McMillan</p><p>Tobias Mildenberger</p><p>Markus Min</p><p>Jonathan Mitchell</p><p>Hannah Murphy</p><p>Matthew Ogburn</p><p>Kiva Oken</p><p>Jill Olin</p><p>Ashley Pacicco</p><p>Miquel Palmer</p><p>Daryl Parkyn</p><p>Lori Polasek</p><p>Martin Posey</p><p>Joseph Quattro</p><p>Rick Rideout</p><p>Karina Rodrigues</p><p>Jay Rooker</p><p>Peter Rubec</p><p>Roger Rulifson</p><p>Brendan Runde</p><p>Shaye Sable</p><p>Fran Saborido-Rey</p><p>Skyler Sagarese</p><p>Rory Saunders</p><p>Megan Schall</p><p>Fred Scharf</p><p>Meagan Schrandt</p><p>David Secor</p><p>Xiujuan Shan</p><p>Burton Shank</p><p>Joseph A. M. Smith</p><p>Kirk Steffensen</p><p>Justin Stevens</p><p>Justin Suca</p><p>Nick Tolimieri</p><p>Jorge Trejo-Martínez</p><p>Brittany Troast</p><p>Ana Tubio</p><p>Sara M. Turner</p><p>Mari Carmen Uribe Aranzabal</p><p>Quang Van Nguyen</p><p>Jessica Vandenberg</p><p>Matthew Vincent</p><p>Joshua Vine</p><p>Johanna Vollenweider</p><p>Bill Walton</p><p>Joseph Warren</p><p>Shannon Whaley</p><p>Will White</p><p>John Wiedenmann</p><p>Benjamin Williams</p><p>Amanda Southwood Williard</p><p>Ryan Woodland</p><p>Wei Yu</p><p>Kui Zhang</p><p>Viviane Zulian</p>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10281","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139397676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Red Snapper connectivity in the Gulf of Mexico","authors":"Ana C. Vaz,&nbsp;Mandy Karnauskas,&nbsp;Matthew Smith,&nbsp;LaTreese S. Denson,&nbsp;Claire B. Paris,&nbsp;Matthieu Le Hénaff,&nbsp;Kate Siegfried","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10275","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Red Snapper <i>Lutjanus campechanus</i> is a valued, heavily exploited fish species in the Gulf of Mexico. The species is distributed over a wide variety of habitats through its life history, and current evidence suggests moderate to high site fidelity, with particularly small home ranges and high residency times when fish are associated with reef structures. Given these life history traits, it is not surprising that within the gulf, there is evidence that the overall population is composed of multiple subpopulations. Thus, dispersal of early life stages plays an important role in the Red Snapper gulf population structure and dynamics, as embryo and larvae can be transported for longer distances, driving stock mixing and supplying recruits to sustain and replenish local subpopulations. Here, we assess the connectivity patterns of Red Snapper driven by larval dispersal in the Gulf of Mexico by simulating dispersal and recruitment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study employs a modeling approach to examine the probabilistic connectivity patterns of Red Snapper influenced by larval dispersal in the Gulf of Mexico. It investigates the impact of local oceanography, species behavior, and demographics on Red Snapper population structure. We estimate the spatial characteristics of Red Snapper dispersal, quantifying connectivity and larval supply fluxes between management jurisdictions, including state boundaries and the three-area boundaries recently selected during the stock identification portion of the Gulf of Mexico Red Snapper Research Track Assessment. We use the modeled probability of settlement as a proxy for recruitment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our results indicate that Red Snapper recruitment occurs mostly close to their spawning sites (median distance 80 km). Simulated dispersal revealed exchange of Red Snapper larvae across state boundaries, with Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana receiving a considerable supply of recruits from other states. Finally, estimation of subpopulations based on larval exchange support the areal divisions used within the research track stock assessment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our results suggest that interstate cooperation in heavily connected regions could benefit management of the species by optimizing sustainable exploitation across the Gulf of Mexico.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10275","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139047545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sometimes (often?) responses to multiple stressors can be predicted from single-stressor effects: A case study using an agent-based population model of croaker in the Gulf of Mexico","authors":"Kenneth A. Rose","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10260","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10260","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Rapid changes in the world's oceans make assessment of fish population responses to multiple stressors, especially on scales relevant to management, increasingly important. I used an existing agent-based, spatially explicit model of Atlantic Croaker <i>Micropogonias undulatus</i> in the northern Gulf of Mexico to examine how temperature, hypoxia, and ocean acidification, singly and in combinations, affect long-term population dynamics.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>I performed a factorial simulation experiment with each stressor at three levels and analyzed various treatment combinations to assess the additivity and multiplicity of interactions. The response variables were long-term equilibrium (final year) values of spawning stock biomass (SSB), recruitment, weight at age, and two measures of stock productivity (recruits per SSB and maximum recruitment) derived from the spawner–recruit relationship fitted to model output. I used the single-stressor effects from the experiment to predict how the response variables would change when all three stressors were changed. Single-stressor effects were combined as the sum of the fractional changes (additive scale) and the product of ratios of changes (multiplicative scale) and compared to the responses in simulations with all stressors imposed.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Analyzing the factorial design for two-way and three-way interactions showed that there were many interactions on the additive scale but very few on the multiplicative scale. Thus, the responses to multiple stressors were well predicted from single stressor effects when combined as multiplicative effects.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>I discuss how the lack of strong interactions could be due to model assumptions, the structure of the model, or oversimplified representation of stressor effects. Alternatively, the model and analysis may be sufficiently realistic and weak interactions on the multiplicative scale may be common. This would reduce a complicated multi-factor situation to a series of more tractable single-factor effects. A critical next step is to determine how we can a priori identify situations of low interactions (i.e., predictable from single-stressor effects) without having to already know the multi-stressor response.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10260","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139047523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Action science in practice: Co-production of a decision support tool visualizing effects of nutrient and hypoxia reduction goals on fisheries species","authors":"Michelle Shaffer, Sara Mariott, Kristy A. Lewis, Joe Buszowski, Kim de Mutsert","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10262","url":null,"abstract":"The Gulf of Mexico hosts some of the most productive fisheries in the United States, whereas the same region is known to experience environmental stressors, such as summer hypoxia. Ecosystem models have been developed for the Gulf of Mexico to determine how hypoxia affects living marine resources, but these models and their output are not always easy to access or interpret by managers, thereby decreasing their implementation in a management setting. To help alleviate the gap between ecosystem model development and management utility, the current study focuses on co-produced, user-friendly tools that describe the effects of nutrient and hypoxia reductions on marine living resources.","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139026883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Action science in practice: Co-production of a decision support tool visualizing effects of nutrient and hypoxia reduction goals on fisheries species","authors":"Michelle Shaffer,&nbsp;Sara Mariott,&nbsp;Kristy A. Lewis,&nbsp;Joe Buszowski,&nbsp;Kim de Mutsert","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10262","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10262","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The Gulf of Mexico hosts some of the most productive fisheries in the United States, whereas the same region is known to experience environmental stressors, such as summer hypoxia. Ecosystem models have been developed for the Gulf of Mexico to determine how hypoxia affects living marine resources, but these models and their output are not always easy to access or interpret by managers, thereby decreasing their implementation in a management setting. To help alleviate the gap between ecosystem model development and management utility, the current study focuses on co-produced, user-friendly tools that describe the effects of nutrient and hypoxia reductions on marine living resources.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Two decisions were made prior to the ecosystem model development to facilitate the transfer of model output: (1) to engage and consult fisheries and restoration managers throughout ecosystem model development to ensure that the output would provide relevant information; and (2) to provide an accessible visualization tool for making ecosystem model output readily available to support the needs of decision makers.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Results from an advisory panel survey instrument and advisory panel meetings guided ecosystem model development and launched the development of a decision support tool. The iterative process of building a decision support tool incorporating feedback from survey instrument respondents resulted in an ESRI ArcGIS Dashboard that allows end-users to identify the effects of hypoxia and respondent-specified nutrient and hypoxia reduction goals on the biomass and distribution of fisheries species.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The intent is to aid managers who are actively working to address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico with easy-to-access information on the effects of planned actions and to encourage future modelers to apply action science principles to best address the needs of decision makers.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10262","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139013292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A unified framework and terminology for reproductive traits integral to understanding fish population productivity","authors":"Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri,&nbsp;Nancy J. Brown-Peterson,&nbsp;David M. Wyanski,&nbsp;Heather E. Moncrief-Cox,&nbsp;Kevin J. Kolmos,&nbsp;Hayden S. Menendez,&nbsp;Beverly K. Barnett,&nbsp;Claudia Friess","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10276","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper highlights the complexity of marine fish spawner–recruit systems and how they vary across species and ecosystems while providing a universal terminology and framework to evaluate fish reproduction. We emphasize the gonadal development important to assess maturity, fecundity, where and when fish spawn, and transition and sex assignment in protogynous species.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We review and compare reproductive traits in warmwater and coldwater fishes. Reproductive phases for both sexes and protogynous species are defined and histological micrographs presented. New methods are developed to assess maturity; spawning seasonality; peak spawning; and, for protogynous species, sex assignment.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Protogyny, extended spawning seasons, and indeterminate fecundity are more common in warmwater than coldwater systems. The following reproductive phases are defined as immature, transitional (sex change), early developing (the first stage of entrainment in the reproductive cycle), late developing (stages needed to complete maturational competence), spawning, regressing (spawning season termination), and regenerating (fish that are mature but outside of the spawning season). A method to assess the certainty of maturity assignment based on reproductive phase and the age and size range sampled is presented, as are best practices to estimate size and age at maturity. To remove the subjectivity from current methods to estimate spawning seasonality, we present a new quantitative method to identify the core spawning season and peak spawning months.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>A species’ ability to adapt to fishing and climate change varies with their reproductive strategy. Improving our understanding of fish reproduction necessitates standardizing methodology and terminology.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10276","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138570973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate effects on the timing of Maryland Striped Bass spawning runs","authors":"Angela Giuliano","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10274","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Chesapeake Bay water temperatures have increased through time, and under various climate change scenarios they are projected to increase by an additional 2–6°C by the end of the 21st century. Previous work has shown that water temperatures are the primary trigger for Striped Bass <i>Morone saxatilis</i> spawning.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Using spawning stock survey data (1985–2020) from the Potomac River and upper Chesapeake Bay and temperature data from an ichthyoplankton survey (sampled non-continuously between 1954 and 2021) in the Nanticoke and Choptank rivers, this study examined how water temperature milestones that are important for Striped Bass spawning have changed over time as well as how selectivity-corrected total female catch per unit effort has shifted with changes in water temperature and the age structure of the stock.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Water temperatures observed in the spawning stock survey were lower in the 1980s and 1990s and have been higher since the 2000s. A significant change in timing of the start of spawning was not detected in the spawning stock survey data, but a significant change was found in the timing of the end of spawning, suggesting that the spawning season has shortened. In addition, the date on which the last prespawn female was observed on the spawning grounds has also occurred earlier in the year since the 2000s. Results from the long-term temperature data collected in the Choptank and Nanticoke rivers only showed a significant change through time for the start of spawning in the Nanticoke River.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While these changes could affect egg and larval Striped Bass survival either through either direct mortality due to water temperature or changes in the timing of zooplankton blooms, the effects of climate change could be mitigated by having a broad range of spawning ages to maximize the chances that larval Striped Bass matching with prey availability.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10274","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138432114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Local ecological knowledge (LEK) suggests overfishing and sequential depletion of Peruvian coastal groundfish","authors":"Fabio Castagnino,&nbsp;Rodrigo A. Estévez,&nbsp;Matías Caillaux,&nbsp;Ximena Velez-Zuazo,&nbsp;Stefan Gelcich","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10272","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;div&gt;\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Objective&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Fish populations targeted by recreational and artisanal fisheries remain largely unassessed in low- and middle-income countries. This generally results in a lack of regulatory action from government agencies, thus aggravating the risk of overfishing. In this context, sources of historical information, such as local ecological knowledge (LEK), are key to providing insight on the status of fish populations and informing management. Systematized elicitation processes have increasingly shown an ability to produce quantitative indicators while reducing biases and caveats inherent to expert knowledge. In this study, we assessed changes in composition of the catch, species abundance, and geographical distribution of the catch for 10 data-poor coastal groundfish species of Peru using LEK.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Methods&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;We designed and conducted a structured elicitation process to gather LEK on these species from 40 recreational and commercial spearfishers in Peru. We then used the obtained data to develop a set of indices and analyzed them statistically to identify trends and the magnitude of changes over time, if any, between the years 1960 and 2019.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Result&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Our results show a significant decline in the relative participation (a species' catch proportion relative to the total catch) and abundance of seven assessed species in the catch as well as a major reduction in their geographical distribution. For some species, decreases in relative participation within the catch and decreases in average daily catch, a measure that may indicate changes in abundance, were statistically significant across the time span of the study. Average daily catch was between 1% and 15% of their historical high values. Some species have experienced a reduction of 60–100% in the geographical distribution of their catch.&lt;/p&gt;\u0000 &lt;/section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;section&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;h3&gt; Conclusion&lt;/h3&gt;\u0000 \u0000 &lt;p&gt;Results suggests a scenario of overfishing and sequential depletion of the Galapagos Sheephead Wrasse &lt;i&gt;Semicossyphus darwini&lt;/i&gt;, Pacific Goliath Grouper &lt;i&gt;Epinephelus quinquefasciatus&lt;/i&gt;, Harlequin Wrasse &lt;i&gt;Bodianus eclancheri&lt;/i&gt;, Grape-eye Seabass &lt;i&gt;Hemilutjanus macrophthalmos&lt;/i&gt;, Chino &lt;i&gt;Medialuna ancietae&lt;/i&gt;, Pacific Beakfish &lt;i&gt;Oplegnathus insignis&lt;/i&gt;, and Broomtail Grouper &lt;i&gt;Mycteroperca xenarcha&lt;/i&gt;. We highlight how the application of expert elicitation methods can help to build LEK-based fishery indicators that are useful for assessing data-poor fisheries and providing critical information to prompt manageme","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10272","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"109171259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rapid approach for assessing an unregulated fishery using a series of data-limited tools","authors":"Carissa L. Gervasi,&nbsp;Mandy Karnauskas,&nbsp;Adyan Rios,&nbsp;Rolando O. Santos,&nbsp;W. Ryan James,&nbsp;Ryan J. Rezek,&nbsp;Jennifer S. Rehage","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10270","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10270","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Fisheries provide countless benefits to human populations but face many threats ranging from climate change to overfishing. Despite these threats and an increase in fishing pressure globally, most stocks remain unassessed and data limited. An abundance of data-limited assessment methods exists, but each has different data requirements, caveats, and limitations. Furthermore, developing informative model priors can be difficult when little is known about the stock, and uncertain model parameters could create misleading results about stock status. Our research illustrates an approach for rapidly creating robust initial assessments of unregulated and data-limited fisheries without the need for additional data collection.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our method uses stakeholder knowledge combined with a series of data-limited tools to identify an appropriate stock assessment method, conduct an assessment, and examine how model uncertainty influences the results. Our approach was applied to the unregulated and data-limited fishery for Crevalle Jack <i>Caranx hippos</i> in Florida.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Results suggested a steady increase in exploitation and a decline in stock biomass over time, with the stock currently overfished and undergoing overfishing. These findings highlight a need for management action to prevent continued stock depletion.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Our approach can help to streamline the initial assessment and management process for unregulated and data-limited stocks and serves as an additional tool for combating the many threats facing global fisheries.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10270","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136129435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Fish distribution in three dimensions around the Block Island Wind Farm as observed with conventional and volumetric echosounders","authors":"J. Michael Jech,&nbsp;Andrew Lipsky,&nbsp;Patrick Moran,&nbsp;Guillaume Matte,&nbsp;Gabriel Diaz","doi":"10.1002/mcf2.10265","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mcf2.10265","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Objective</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Offshore wind development is expected to expand rapidly along the East Coast of the United States within the next 10 years and will impact the biology and ecology of the flora and fauna as well as human activities, such as commercial and recreational fishing. The Block Island Wind Farm is a five-turbine, 30-MW wind array located about 6 km off the coast of Rhode Island and has been in operation since 2016.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>We conducted a 4-day acoustical and biological survey of the area during daylight hours to gain insight on the spatial distribution of fish species in and around the turbines. We utilized a hull-mounted, downward-looking Simrad 38-/200-kHz ES70 and a pole-mounted iXblue SeapiX steerable Mills Cross, 150-kHz, 1.6° resolution multibeam echosounder oriented downward to map the two- and three-dimensional distributions using spiral and straight-line transect patterns. We collected fish by using hook and line to verify the sources of acoustic backscatter and to measure length, sex, and diet.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Result</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Black Sea Bass <i>Centropristis striata</i> were the most commonly caught species and appeared to be the primary constituents of the fish aggregations that were mapped by the acoustic systems. We found increased levels of acoustic backscatter within 200 m of the turbine structures, suggesting that they were attractive structures.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>These levels were not greater than backscatter levels in the surrounding area, suggesting that the proximate effect of the wind array was spatially limited.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51257,"journal":{"name":"Marine and Coastal Fisheries","volume":"15 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/mcf2.10265","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136152160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"农林科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}