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The Roles of Fishery Biology and Fish Population Dynamics in Fisheries Management

A special issue of Fishes (ISSN 2410-3888). This special issue belongs to the section "Biology and Ecology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 866

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Lourdes Jiménez-Badillo

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Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Pesquerías, Universidad Veracruzana, Hidalgo 617, Boca del Río 94290, Mexico
Interests: fisheries management; fish ecology; fisheries biology; species diversity

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Fisheries worldwide face great challenges, including the following: the control, restoration, and prevention of the overexploitation of fishery resources; the timely assessment of fish stocks to support their sustainable use; understanding the dynamic responses of fish stocks to the effects of climate change, the supply–demand relationships of a fluctuating market, and the fishing regulations to which they are subject; in addition to contributing to food security in the face of the growing increases in the human population.

To address these challenges, it is essential to know the state of a stock through the population parameters of growth, reproduction, recruitment, natural and fishing mortality, and bioeconomic yield. Understanding the life cycles of the resources subjected to exploitation, the spawning stock biomass, and the trend of long series of catches, preferably linked to environmental factors, are also relevant issues. All this is achieved through the application of classical methods of fishery biology, population dynamics, and time series analysis. Recently, given the limitation of sufficient data and the urgent need to establish strategies for fishery management, poor data modeling has become relevant.

In this Special Issue, I invite authors to submit original articles and reviews regarding classic fishery biology and population dynamics of exploited resources (fish, mollusk, crustacean), as well as analyses based on poor data modeling, which are useful for assessing and managing small-scale and artisanal fisheries from around the globe. I encourage submissions that offer new insights and approaches that can contribute to the improvement of the evaluation and management of fishery resources. The research topic covers novel research concerning fishery biology, fish population dynamics, fishing ecology, stock assessment, data-limited fishery management, fishery resource management, artisanal fishing, coastal fishing, and fishing in protected areas.

Dr. Lourdes Jiménez-Badillo
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • fishery biology
  • fish population dynamics
  • fishing ecology
  • stock assessment
  • data-limited fisheries management
  • fishery resource management
  • artisanal fishing
  • coastal fishing
  • fishing in protected areas

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Sustainability Assessment of Brown Trout Populations in Serbia (Central Balkans) Using the Modified ESHIPPO Model
by Tijana Veličković, Saša Marić, David Stanković, Aleksandra Milošković, Milena Radenković, Radek Šanda, Jasna Vukić, Simona Đuretanović, Nataša Kojadinović, Marija Jakovljević and Vladica Simić
Fishes 2024, 9(11), 423; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes9110423 - 22 Oct 2024
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In the inland waters of the Balkans, many brown trout populations have been severely depleted. Therefore, identifying potential threats to their continued survival and ranking populations based on their biological and evolutionary importance enables setting conservation priorities. To assess the sustainability of the [...] Read more.
In the inland waters of the Balkans, many brown trout populations have been severely depleted. Therefore, identifying potential threats to their continued survival and ranking populations based on their biological and evolutionary importance enables setting conservation priorities. To assess the sustainability of the brown trout populations in the territory of Serbia (central Balkans), a modification of the ESHIPPO model was performed. The main modification involves incorporating the investigated populations’ genetic structure into the model. Therefore, the new ESHIPPOsalmo model includes an analysis of biological parameters and the impact of multiple factors, including habitat alterations, invasive species, pollution, human population growth, and over-exploitation. In order to investigate individual levels of influence of the model’s analyzed parameters, a combination of supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods was used. The structure of the model is based on general and easily measurable indicators, which enables its application in any salmonid river in the world. By evaluating the parameters of the ESHIPPOsalmo model, we were able to establish that, of the analyzed populations from 46 localities, 37% have a moderate level of sustainability, 43% low, and 20% critically low. Full article
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Population structure dynamics of susceptible elasmobranch species to shrimp trawling along the southern Gulf of Mexico

Heber Zea-de la Cruz, Cesar Meiners-Mandujano, Javier Tovar-Ávila, Lourdes Jiménez-Badillo, and Jorge Luis Oviedo-Pérez

Elasmobranch species are susceptible to anthropogenic stressors, such as fishing activities, particularly incidental capture from bottom trawl fishing. Understanding the diversity and population structure of species at risk of capture is critical for conservation. This study examined the species composition and population structure dynamics of susceptible elasmobranch species associated with the Mexican shrimp trawl fishery in the southern Gulf of Mexico (GoM). Data were collected by examining bycatch from 55 fishing trips conducted between 2013 and 2017 during closed and commercial fishing seasons. We analyzed the species composition, length, and maturity stage of susceptible species across zones, monitoring seasons, and depth strata. Six of the sixteen species were most susceptible: Rostroraja texana, Gymnura lessae, Narcine bancroftii, Pseudobatos lentiginosus, Squatina dumeril, and Hypanus americanus. These species were caught at all life stages, and they showed both inter- and intraspecific segregation patterns across fishing zones, sampling seasons, and depth strata. The elasmobranch composition and population structure in bycatch are influenced by the species' ontogenetic segregation and bathymetry. The current Mexican shrimp fishery regulations benefit most elasmobranchs; however, small-sized ray species continue to face indirect fishing pressure.
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