Manipulating Shad to Enhance Sport Fisheries in North America: An Assessment

Luring anglers to enhance fisheries.

Current fisheries management is, unfortunately, reactive rather than proactive to changes in fishery characteristics. Furthermore, anglers do not act independently on waterbodies, and thus, fisheries are complex socio-ecological systems. Proactive management of these complex systems necessitates an approach--adaptive fisheries management--that allows learning to occur simultaneously with manage...

Manipulating macrophages to enhance liver regeneration

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Air emission inventories in North America: a critical assessment.

Although emission inventories are the foundation of air quality management and have supported substantial improvements in North American air quality, they have a number of shortcomings that can potentially lead to ineffective air quality management strategies. Major reductions in the largest emissions sources have made accurate inventories of previously minor sources much more important to the ...

Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife

Quantitative Decision Analysis for Sport Fisheries Management

Fishery managers often are faced with difficult decisions on how to satisfy the socioeconomic need of the public while maintaining or restoring properly functioning aquatic systems. Such decisions are fraught with the complexity and uncertainty associated with ecological systems, multiple management objectives, and the alternatives under consideration (Varis and Kuikka 1999). To aid the decisio...