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Reflections on Genomic Applications to Fisheries: Notes from the Annual Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Reflections on Genomic Applications to Fisheries: Notes from the Annual Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles

Fish hearts expose toxic truth about our cardiovascular health

Fish hearts expose toxic truth about our cardiovascular health Professor Holly Shiels, from the University of Manchester, is the Director of the Company of Biologists and the President of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles. She charts a toxic tide by tracing the path of pollutants from fish hearts to human cardiovascular health. It’s widely known that pollutants damage our oceans. But after researching the effects of an oil spill on the health of fish hearts, Professor Holly Shiels made an alarming discovery - our own hearts are affected in the same way. An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the southern coast of the United States in 2010 unleashed nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over an excruciating 87 days. This catastrophic event caused one of the most severe ecological disasters in history, devastating the marine environment and obliterating countless forms of life. The scale of environmental devastation was unprecedented, leaving a lasting scar on the region’s fragile habitat.

Jeff Kopaska Named New Executive Director of the American Fisheries Society

Jeff Kopaska Named New Executive Director of the American Fisheries Society

Twenty-five emerging questions when detecting, understanding, and predicting future fish distributions in a changing climate.

The 2023 Annual Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles hosted opportunities for researchers, scientists, and policy makers to reflect on the state of art of predicting fish distributions and consider the implications to the marine and aquatic environments of a changing climate. The outcome of one special interest group at the Symposium was a collection of questions, organized under five themes, which begin to capture the state of the field and identify priorities for research and management over the coming years. The five themes were Physiology, Mechanisms, Detect and Measure, Manage, and Wider Ecosystems. The questions, 25 of them, addressed concepts which remain poorly understood, are data deficient, and/or are likely to be impacted in measurable or profound ways by climate change. Moving from the first to the last theme, the questions expanded in the scope of their considerations, from specific processes within the individual to ecosystem-wide impacts, but no one question is bigger than any other: each is important in detecting, understanding, and predicting fish distributions, and each will be impacted by an aspect of climate change. In this way, our questions, particularly those concerning unknown mechanisms and data deficiencies, aimed to offer a guide to other researchers, managers, and policy makers in the prioritization of future work as a changing climate is expected to have complex and disperse impacts on fish populations and distributions that will require a coordinated effort to address.

Peer review trends in six fisheries science journals

BackgroundAs the production of scientific manuscripts and journal options both increase, the peer review process remains at the center of quality control. Recent advances in understanding reviewer biases and behaviors along with electronic manuscript handling records have allowed unprecedented investigations into the peer review process.MethodsWe examined a sample of six journals within the field of fisheries science (and all published by the American Fisheries Society) specifically looking for changes in reviewer invitation rates, review time, patterns of reviewer agreements, and rejection rates relative to different forms of blinding.ResultsData from 6,606 manuscripts from 2011–2021 showed significant increases in reviewer invitations. Specifically, four journals showed statistically significant increases in reviewer invitations while two showed no change. Review times changed relatively little (± 2 weeks), and we found no concerning patterns in reviewer agreement. However, we documented a consistently higher rejection rate—around 20% higher—of double-blinded manuscripts when compared to single-blinded manuscripts.ConclusionsOur findings likely represent broader trends across fisheries science publications, and possibly extend to other life science disciplines. Because peer review remains a primary tool for scientific quality control, authors and editors are encouraged to understand the process and evaluate its performance at whatever level can help in the creation of trusted science. Minimally, our findings can help the six journals we investigated to better understand and improve their peer review processes.

Emerging issues in fisheries science by fisheries scientists.

The current epoch in fisheries science has been driven by continual advances in laboratory techniques and increasingly sophisticated approaches to analysing datasets. We now have the scientific knowledge and tools to proactively identify obstaclesto the sustainable management of marine resources. However, in addition to technological advances, there are predicted global environmentalchanges, each with inherent implications for fisheries. The 2023 symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles called for "open and constructive knowledge exchange between scientists, stakeholders, managers and policymakers" (https://fsbi.org.uk/symposium-2023/), a nexus of collaborative groups best placed to identify issues and solutions. Arguably, the Centre of Environment, Aquaculture and Fisheries Science (Cefas) and their Scientific Advice for Fisheries Management (SAFM) Team sit at the centre of such a network. SAFM regularly engages with managers and stakeholders, undertakes scientific research, provides fisheries advice to the UK government, and are leading experts within the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES). As such, this paper is an opinion piece, linked to individual authors specialisms,that aims to highlight emergingissues affecting fisheries and suggest where research efforts could be focused that contribute to sustainable fisheries.

American Fisheries Society 153rd Annual Meeting Grand Rapids, Michigan

American Fisheries Society 153rd Annual Meeting Grand Rapids, Michigan

Bringing partners together: A symposium on native lampreys and the Pacific Lamprey Conservation Initiative

Impact statementA symposium at the 2023 American Fisheries Society meeting highlighted collaborations among biologists, policymakers, and Native American tribes addressing conservation for native lampreys. We present key findings from the symposium and related research and an example of grassroots effort to protect and restore Pacific Lamprey.

Retraction: Monitoring hatchery broodstock composition and genetic variation of spring/summer Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River basin with multigeneration pedigrees

Horn, R. L., Hess, M., Harmon, S., Hess, J., Delomas, T. A., Campbell, M. R., & Narum, S. (2022). Monitoring hatchery broodstock composition and genetic variation of spring/summer Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River basin with multigeneration pedigrees. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 42(2), 307–333. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10753The above article, published online on January 23, 2022, in Wiley Online Library, has been retracted by agreement of the authors, the Editor‐in‐Chief, Daniel J. Daugherty, the American Fisheries Society, and Wiley Periodicals LLC. The authors brought to the attention of the journal errors in their publication that provided genetic monitoring results for broodstock in spring/summer Chinook Salmon (Horn et al. 2022). The authors included results for 23 hatchery programs. The metadata for 2 of these programs (Cle Elum integrated and Cle Elum segregated) were incorrect and led to incorrect estimates of several values such as proportion of natural origin broodstock (pNOB). There was also an error in the code for pNOB estimates which led to incorrect estimates. As a result, the conclusions of this manuscript are considered inaccurate for a subset of programs in this study.A new manuscript including revised metadata for the two Cle Elum programs and regenerated estimates of pNOB for all programs as well as revised conclusions will be published (Horn et al. 2023).Horn, R. L., Hess, M., Harmon, S., Hess, J., Delomas, T. A., Campbell, M. R., & Narum, S. (2022). Monitoring hatchery broodstock composition and genetic variation of spring/summer Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River basin with multigeneration pedigrees. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 42(2), 307–333. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10753Horn, R. L., Hess, M., Harmon, S., Hess, J., Delomas, T. A., Campbell, M. R., & Narum, S. (2023). Multigeneration pedigrees to monitor hatchery broodstock composition and genetic variation of spring/summer Chinook Salmon in the Columbia River basin. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 43(3), 794–820. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10890

Tiffan response to Reynolds, J. B. 2022. Correspondence regarding: Tiffan, K. F. and N. J. Eller 2022. Backpack electrofishing does not contribute to external signs of gas bubble trauma in sculpins. Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/aff2.81

Aquaculture, Fish and FisheriesEarly View REPLYOpen Access Tiffan response to Reynolds, J. B. 2022. Correspondence regarding: Tiffan, K. F. and N. J. Eller 2022. Backpack electrofishing does not contribute to external signs of gas bubble trauma in sculpins. Aquaculture, Fish and Fisheries, 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1002/aff2.81 First published: 07 April 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/aff2.110AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Reynolds is correct in pointing out that electrofishing could theoretically cause electrolysis that would cause the disassociation of water molecules into their gaseous constituents that could possibly contribute to GBT. GBT is caused by the total gas pressure in the water that comprises mainly dissolved nitrogen and oxygen. While past studies have shown that at times oxygen partial pressure can contribute to GBT, evidence suggests that nitrogen is the primary factor that would not be influenced by the electrolysis described above (see the review by Weitcamp and Katz, 1980). Regardless, as Reynolds noted, in our study none of the control fish tested showed signs of GBT after receiving the electroshock treatment. Furthermore, none of the test fish that showed no signs of GBT prior to treatment ever showed signs of GBT following treatment. This further supports for our conclusion that electrofishing does not contribute to external signs of GBT. Reynolds suggests that the study should have focused on treating fish free from TDG (i.e., unsaturated water) to determine electroshock effects on GBT development. I question why a study like that would be done in the absence of any data that would suggest such an effect given the lack of a plausible physiological mechanism. Since the advent of electrofishing, I am unaware of any reports of GBT being observed in fishes collected from waters with unsaturated TDG. As far as the lack of detailed methods, it was suggested that the original manuscript be shortened to the journal's “Short Communication” format. This necessitated reducing the manuscript length by over 50%, and much of the original detail in the Methods section was removed. The original full-length manuscript is included as an appendix in a report that can be found at https://www.cbfish.org/Document.mvc/Viewer/P197308. Open Research PEER REVIEW The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1002/aff2.110 DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT There are no data associated with this response. REFERENCE Weitkamp, D.E. & Katz, M. (1980) A review of dissolved gas supersaturation literature. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 109, 659– 70 Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation

Statement of the American Fisheries Society and the Western Division of AFS About the Need to Breach the Four Dams on the Lower Snake River

FisheriesEarly View AFS News Statement of the American Fisheries Society and the Western Division of AFS About the Need to Breach the Four Dams on the Lower Snake River Drue Banta Winters, Corresponding Author Drue Banta Winters AFS Science Communication and Government Affairs Consultant. [email protected] Search for more papers by this author Drue Banta Winters, Corresponding Author Drue Banta Winters AFS Science Communication and Government Affairs Consultant. [email protected] Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 March 2023 https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10906Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue RelatedInformation

How Fishery Managers Can Harness the Power of the Crowd: Using Citizen Science and Nontraditional Data Sources in Fisheries Management

A constant challenge in fisheries stock assessment and management is having sufficient data to inform research and analyses. Nontraditional data sources like citizen science, when collected and applied appropriately, can help fill such data gaps. Use of nontraditional data sources is on the rise, but its use and application in fisheries science and management remains largely untapped. In order to examine the use of such data sources, we held a symposium at the 2020 American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting entitled “How Citizen Science and Nontraditional Data Sources can be Better Incorporated Into Fisheries Stock Assessments and Management” (https://bit.ly/3V13vHe). The session included 12 talks and a panel discussion to examine best practices. This paper reviews seven nontraditional data programs and projects used to support fisheries management featured in this special issue of Fisheries. It concludes with key lessons from the panel discussion for best applying nontraditional data sources in fisheries.

2022 American Fisheries Society Awards

FisheriesVolume 47, Issue 12 p. 561-570 Awards 2022 American Fisheries Society Awards First published: 30 September 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10835Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume47, Issue12December 2022Pages 561-570 RelatedInformation

Effect of Hull Cleaning on Electrical Resistance and Anodic Fields of Direct‐Current Electrofishing Boats

AbstractIn 2011, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources began standardization of its direct‐current electrofishing boats, including development of a standard operating procedures document. After publication of standard methods for sampling freshwater fishes by the American Fisheries Society, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources incorporated these standards into its standard operating procedures. Literature and references about maintaining electrofishing equipment were lacking. One aspect of equipment maintenance is hull cleanliness when the hull is metal and serves as the cathode. The cathode affects system resistance and overall performance of the electrofishing equipment. Four boats were used to measure system resistance and changes in the electrical fields after cleaning the cathodes. Boat electrofishing field intensity was measured pre‐ and postcleaning. Boat cathodes were cleaned 25, 50, and 100% of the length of the hull using a wire wheel attached to an angle grinder. Based on our results, 100% of the cathode should be cleaned when standardized resistance (R100, system resistance when ambient water conductivity is 100 μS/cm) increases 10% above baseline values. Baseline R100 values for the four boats in this study were between 25 and 30 Ω. The R100 value is a quality‐control indicator of electrofisher performance.

Gill Net Selectivity for Fifteen Fish Species of the Upper San Francisco Estuary

Gill-net size selectivity for fifteen fish species occurring in the upper San Francisco Estuary was estimated from a data set compiled from multiple studies which together contained 7,096 individual fish observations from 882 gill net sets. The gill nets considered in this study closely resembled the American Fisheries Society’s recommended standardized experimental gill nets for sampling inland waters. Relationships between gill-net mesh sizes and the sizes for each fish species retained in them were estimated indirectly using generalized linear modeling and maximum likelihood. Selectivity curves are provided for each species to inform researchers about population characteristics of fishes sampled with similar gill nets.

Stepping Up: A U.S. Perspective on the Ten Steps to Responsible Inland Fisheries

The Ten Steps to Responsible Inland Fisheries are global recommendations to address the subordinate position of inland fisheries in sustainability dialogues. Regional and local perspectives are essential for implementing global initiatives. Hence, we surveyed state fisheries agency administrators and American Fisheries Society Governing Board members about the importance, funding, and achievability of the Steps. Respondents rated Science, Communication, and Assessment as highly important, well funded, and achievable steps, unlike Aquaculture and a global Action Plan. Nutrition was rated the most inadequately supported yet achievable step, highlighting an opportunity to promote nutritional contributions of inland fisheries. Opinions were similar between administrators and Governing Board members across U.S. regions, suggesting a foundation for incorporating underemphasized steps into management programs by building multi‐organizational partnerships and applying lessons from better integrated steps (e.g., Science, Assessment). Overall, the Steps can advance freshwater science and management in the United States while increasing the visibility of inland fisheries that are rarely prioritized globally.

Angling for Ideas in Science Communication to Hosting a Photo‐essay Workshop for Teens: Implementing the Winning Idea from Wiley Publishing's First Impact‐a‐thon

We present a pilot curriculum for engaging high school students in photojournalism, combining a field trip and a photo essay that can be expanded by fisheries professionals for their own education and outreach efforts, whether in conjunction with annual meetings or stand‐alone events. At the 2018 American Fisheries Society Annual Meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the leadership of the Science Communication Section and Resource Policy Committee presented a training session focused on scientific communication tools for fisheries professionals that could be learned quickly, practiced during the session, and applied after the conference. Wiley Publishing sponsored the continuing education session (August 19, 2018), because it met the outreach goals of Wiley and AFS, and fit the theme of the conference, “Communicating the Science of Fisheries Conservation to Diverse Audiences.” The training session was divided into two parts: an active learning session about public messaging and a team competition for a US$7,500 award to execute a science communication idea to benefit fisheries science. Our winning idea from the team competition was to design a workshop for teens that included photography to explore aquatic environments and learn about the work of fisheries professionals, which was held on July 16, 2019 at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago. The students, with assistance from Shedd Aquarium staff, completed photo essays as teams or individuals. The winning photo essays are published at the end of this article.

Catfish 2020, A Clear Vision of the Future

AbstractThe Third International Catfish Symposium was held in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 2020 and provided another milestone to gauge advances in knowledge related to conservation and management of these valuable fishes. Attendees from 29 states and 4 countries gathered to communicate research and information on the conservation, ecology, and management of the world’s catfishes. During 3 d of technical sessions and workshops, 74 oral presentations and 17 posters were shared with 198 attending fisheries professionals. Plenary and oral presentations were recorded and are available online (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHNt7ZV05DLWoe4qJO798Pw/videos), aligning with the symposium theme of “Communicating Catfish Science.” Technical sessions explored current research and management issues that included population demographics, introduced catfish populations, sampling methods, harvest management, human dimensions, conservation, habitat use and movement, biology, and aging methods. Ultimately, 38 manuscripts were peer reviewed and published as this special issue of the North American Journal of Fisheries Management. Interest in catfish science, as gauged by publications in six peer‐reviewed fisheries journals, has grown steadily since a 1910 catfish aquaculture article appeared in the Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. Biology and ecology topics became prominent in the 1970s and 1980s, while articles on techniques and fisheries management have grown steadily through 2020. Ecology, fisheries management, and techniques were the most published topics in the three international catfish symposia. Future research and management efforts will continue similar work but also seek to address the expanding role of catfish as invasive species and a better understanding of the ecology and conservation of small‐bodied native catfish. Among the greatest challenges will be adapting current tools and identifying future knowledge gaps as we experience a changing climate. This will require an enhanced understanding of transforming ecosystems and advanced adaptive management applications. The decadal occurrence of a dedicated symposium has served to summarize progress and focus future efforts to advance catfish science.

The World Fisheries Congress 2021

The World Fisheries Congress 2021 will be delivered from Adelaide, South Australia by the World Council of Fisheries Societies, the Commonwealth and South Australian Governments and the Australian Society for Fish Biology. The Congress’ Steering and International Program Committees have developed the program, “Sharing the World’s Oceans and Rivers – a vision for the world’s fisheries”. Delegate access to the 2021 Congress has been affected by travel restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has guided the program delivery format to become an interactive hybrid format. The Congress will be delivered in-person to New Zealand and Australian delegates and via an interactive virtual platform designed to accommodate the delivery of program sessions at convenient times for delegates around the world. The program features 1,400 presentations addressing sustainability matters;innovation in technology and policy;acknowledgement and discussion of the societal matters facing fisheries;new research and discoveries in fish and aquatic ecosystem management. © 2021 American Fisheries Society

Proceedings of the First International Snakehead Symposium. American Fisheries Society Symposium 89. Based on a symposium held in Alexandria, Virginia, 17–19 July 2018. Edited by John S. Odenkirk and Duane C. Chapman. Bethesda (Maryland): American Fisheries Society. $79.00. x + 261 p.; ill.; no index. ISBN: 978-1-934874-58-5. 2019.

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