Many fishing methods and gear types used in coral reefs cause physical damage to the reef substratum. Only recently have monofilament fishing lines been recognized as a cause of coral damage and death. We assessed the ...

We developed a dynamic programming model of group size choice for settling coral reef fish to help understand variability in observed group sizes. Rather than calculating optimal group size, we modeled optimal choice and ...

We report here the first induction of gynogenesis in esocid fish by UV irradiation and heat shock. Optimal dosage of sperm UV irradiation was in the range of 1440-2160 J/m2. Eggs fertilized with irradiated sperm at such ...

Though young-of-year (YOY) saugeyes (Stizostedion vitreum 3 S. canadense) are routinely stocked in spring to create and maintain percid fisheries, their growth and survival to fall vary greatly among Ohio reservoirs, as ...

Before 1970, yellow perch Perca flavescens grew at similar rates in Lake Erie's western and central basins. At that time, high rates of nutrient loading were causing rapid eutrophication in both areas so that by the mid-1970s ...

Tiger muskellunge (the F1 hybrid of female muskellunge Esox masquinongy and male northern pike E.lucius) have survived poorly when stocked in reservoirs. To understand why, we quantified, in the laboratory, both mortality ...

In the limnetic zones of small, highly productive reservoirs, young-of-year (YOY) gizzard shad (Dorosoma cepedianum) or threadfin shad (D. petenense) (henceforth, shad) often attain high densities during spring. Environmental ...

In Ohio reservoirs, larval gizzard shad Dorosoma cepedianum less than 30 mm total length consume only zooplankton but frequently switch to detritus as they grow longer than 30 mm. However, in laboratory studies without ...

Four early life events (i.e., hatching, the ontogenetic diet shift to piscivory, fall lipid accumulation, and the first winter) are conceptualized as being critical to 1st-yr recruitment success of largemouth bass ...