While sometimes difficult to admit, perspectives of European and white males have overwhelmingly dominated fisheries science management in the USA. This dynamic is exemplified by bias against “rough fish”—a pejorative ascribing low-to-zero value for countless native fishes. One product this that biologists ironically worked conservation diverse fishes over a century, these problems persist toda...

This study reports for the first time the monogenean Palombitrema triangulum Suriano (1981) in freshwater fishes from Brazil, highlighting new sites of infection for this helminth and some morphological differences. Monogeneans were collected on the body surface, gills and nasal cavity of two native fish species from Brazil, Cyphocharax modestus (Fernández-Yépez, 1948) and Cyphocharax nagelii (...

Native salmonid fishes—cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and steelhead/rainbow mykiss)—are ecologically, culturally, economically important species distributed across western North America. These fish are generally considered “cold-water” adapted species. As such, recent studies have speculated about the potential effects of climate change on these native salmonids if stream temperature th...

Large dams degrade the integrity of a wide variety of ecosystems, yet direct downstream effects of dams have received the most attention from ecosystem managers and researchers. We investigated indirect upstream effects of dams resulting from decimation of migratory freshwater shrimp and fish populations in Puerto Rico, USA, in both high- and low-gradient streams. In high-gradient streams above...

Fishes are one of the most commonly introduced aquatic taxa worldwide, and invasive fish species pose threats to biodiversity and ecosystem function in recipient waters. Considerable research efforts have focused on predicting the invasibility of different fish taxa; however, accurate records detailing the establishment and spread of invasive fishes are lacking for large numbers of fish around ...