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Fisheries Research. Fisheries Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal on fisheries science published by Elsevier since 1982. The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index, Scopus, Biosis, Academic Search Premier, and PASCAL. [1] According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.903.
Fisheries science is the academic discipline of managing and understanding fisheries. [1] It is a multidisciplinary science, which draws on the disciplines of limnology, oceanography, freshwater biology, marine biology, meteorology, conservation, ecology, population dynamics, economics, statistics, decision analysis, management, and many others in an attempt to provide an integrated picture of ...
The Journal of the Biological Board of Canada was preceded by Contributions to Canadian Biology and Fisheries. William Edwin Ricker, a leading fisheries scientist, was the journal's editor-in-chief from 1950 until his retirement in 1973. His famous paper 1954 paper Stock and recruitment was published in the journal.
Bill Ricker. William Edwin Ricker, OC FRSC (August 11, 1908 – September 8, 2001) was a Canadian entomologist and important founder of fisheries science. He is best known for the Ricker model, [1] which he developed in his studies of stock and recruitment in fisheries. The model can be used to predict the number of fish that will be present in ...
The American Fisheries Society (established 1870 in New York City), is the "world’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to strengthening the fisheries profession, advancing fisheries science, and conserving fisheries resources."[1] It is a member-driven 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization governed by an executive director, a governing ...
The Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences is a peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on multidisciplinary field of aquatic sciences. It was founded in 1901 by the Biological Board of Canada, later known as the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. It is published monthly by Canadian Science Publishing.
A fishery is an area with an associated fish or aquatic population which is harvested for its commercial or recreational value. Fisheries can be wild or farmed. Population dynamics describes the ways in which a given population grows and shrinks over time, as controlled by birth, death, and migration. It is the basis for understanding changing ...
The Ricker model was introduced in 1954 by Ricker in the context of stock and recruitment in fisheries. The model can be used to predict the number of fish that will be present in a fishery. [2][3] Subsequent work has derived the model under other assumptions such as scramble competition, [4] within-year resource limited competition [5] or even ...