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Editor's Choice

Editor’s Choice articles from the ICES Journal of Marine Science are those of outstanding quality and interest.

They are identified and nominated by Journal editors and approved by the Editor-in -Chief, and are published with free access on the journal websie.

Previous Editors Choice articles

IJMS Editor's Choice - Transatlantic genomic divergence in lumpfish
The latest Editor’s Choice examines the use of genomic data to analyse trans-Atlantic differentiation, environmental associations, and clinal adaptation in lumpfish, a species increasingly important for both commercial and ecological reasons.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice - Widening phenology mismatch threatens American Lobster recruitment in the Gulf of Maine
The latest Editor’s Choice in ICES Journal of Marine Science examines how changes in phenology and prey availability are affecting the recruitment of American lobster in the Gulf of Maine, North America's most valuable lobster fishery.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice - Balancing marine conservation and research: Scientific surveys in marine protected areas
Learn more about the need for scientific surveys within marine protected areas (MPAs), and the innovative approaches to maintain data integrity while respecting conservation goals in the latest Editor’s Choice from ICES Journal of Marine Science.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice - Refining marine ecosystem models: The crucial role of calibration
Explore the critical role of model calibration in Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) and its implications for ecosystem-based management, as highlighted in this Editor's Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Imaging sonars transform aquatic research
Imaging sonars redefine marine research: a meta-analysis of 155 studies showcases their transformative impact, guiding the future of aquatic exploration.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Monitoring estuarine fish communities
Passive acoustic monitoring unveils fish abundance using sound in turbid estuaries. A non-invasive method for potential continuous monitoring, aiding adaptive fisheries management. Read more in ICES Journal of Marine Science.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Plastics! Designing diverse ocean collaboration frameworks
This Editor's Choice article identifies how people from different professional disciplines can successfully collaborate on future science-driven projects related to plastic pollution in marine environments.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - How to use climate change scenarios in fisheries and aquatic conservation research
Authors of the latest Editor's Choice article review evidence on the plausibility of climate change scenarios and recommend best practices for its use in research.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Inferring two millennia of tuna size and growth patterns using archaeological vertebrae
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, authors studied archaeological, archived, and modern vertebrae to reconstruct the historical catch-at-size and early-life growth of Atlantic bluefin tuna.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - DNA cross-contamination risk using different tissue sampling procedures
In the latest Editor’s Choice, read about an experiment that was carried out on tuna to assess DNA cross-contamination risk on board fishing and research vessels.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice - Invasive pink salmon in the Norwegian and Barents Seas
In the latest Editor’s Choice article, read about the first study of invasive pink salmon in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - A review of the importance of various areas for West-Atlantic mackerel spawning
In this Editor’s Choice article, read about some of the uncertainty associated with the mackerel stock assessments and mackerel spatial spawning dynamics.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Automating benthic fish detection under ‘real-world’ conditions
In this Editor’s Choice article, read about the importance of testing machine learning algorithms for benthic fish detection with real-world condition datasets before finalizing them.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Uncovering marine megafauna temporal and spatial stranding patterns
In this Editor’s Choice article, read how systematic and wide-ranging beach surveys uncover temporal and spatial patterns of marine megafauna strandings and the importance of including survey effort in the analysis.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Insights into fishers’ behaviour
In this Editor’s Choice article, read how two sides of fishers’ behaviour, fishing area choices, and discarding have been investigated in relation to the spatial distribution of mixed-fisheries resources in the eastern English Channel.
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IJMS Editor's Choice -Genetic mixing of wild and farmed salmon populations: what are the driving factors?
In this Editor’s Choice article, read how two large-scale datasets were used to model the influence of anthropogenic, environmental, and population factors on the introgression of escaped farmed salmon into wild Norwegian Atlantic salmon populations.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Fish stocks and their shifting distributions in the era of climate change
In this Editor’s Choice article, read about the development of the first-ever model-based index of abundance for groundfish across the Bering Sea shelf. Results show the studied densities shifted northward, in part driven by climate change.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Fish larval connectivity models and associated uncertainties
How reliable are fish larval connectivity biophysical models and which parameters in the model contribute to uncertainties in the estimates? Read the latest Editor’s Choice article in ICES Journal of Marine Science.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - The gap between current marine spatial planning objectives and reality
In the latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science, read about the mismatch between marine spatial planning aspirations and real-world objectives and how this gap can be resolved in the future.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Tuna archaeology in a management and conservation context
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about how archaeology can inform us about the long-term population dynamics of Atlantic bluefin tuna and how they have been impacted by exploitation.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Food for seabirds: South Africa and its iconic African penguins
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. A decade-long field experiment in South Africa reveals how fisheries may be affecting the country's most iconic seabird.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Red snapper variations in the Gulf of Mexico
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a genomic analysis of population structure that uses a landscape genetics approach.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Restoring Atlantic salmon populations
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. With the UN Decade on Restoration underway, researchers provide insight to both scientists & managers on how restoration activities can progress for Atlantic salmon.
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IJMS Editor's Choice-Understanding recruitment forecasting
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here researchers present a framework to assess operational recruitment forecasts.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Understanding larval success
In the latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, researchers develop a novel method to simultaneously estimate growth and mortality rates of fish larvae as a continuous function of size.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Uncrewed surface vehicle survey in response to the cancellation of ship-based surveys
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. When the COVID-19 pandemic led to the cancellation of fisheries surveys, researchers used uncrewed surface vehicles to carry out an acoustic survey.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Genomic divergence across the Northwest Atlantic in Atlantic Halibut
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, researchers investigate Atlantic Halibut to discover genetic differences between populations.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Trophic transfer of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in coral reef ecosystems
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is available. Here, an assessment of the trophodynamics of PAHs serves as a first step towards ecological risk assessment & coastal function management in global coral reef systems.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Utilizing spatio-temporal structures to accommodate for changing environment and gaps in survey coverage
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, to accommodate for time varying survey coverages, authors apply a general spatio-temporal model to estimate overall abundance of cod in the Barents Sea.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Sediment mobilization by bottom trawls
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, authors estimate the sediment mobilization from hydrodynamic drag, applying their methods to the Dutch North Sea beam trawl fishery.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Best environmental practices for deep-sea mining: are we there yet?
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, a study investigates Ecosystem-based Management principles in deep seabed mining.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - A novel genetic analysis reveal spatial mismatch between management and biological units of haddock
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, researchers measure genetic variability of haddock among fishing grounds across the North Atlantic and into the Arctic and Barents Sea.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - The missing whales
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the relevance of “struck and lost” rates for the impact assessment of historical whaling in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Tracking Atlantic halibut migration
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here a unique academic-government-industry collaboration sheds new light on movement ecology of Atlantic halibut.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Tuna aggregation dynamics through the eyes of commercial echosounder buoys
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, the associative dynamics of tuna aggregations with floating objects are investigated in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Seafloor video observatories are emerging tools for monitoring programmes
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, a study explores the potential of video imagery to provide information to support fish stock and biodiversity assessments.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Seeking the optimal balance
The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the trade-off between biodiversity and sustainable fish harvest with area-based management
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Estimating cormorant predation in the northern Baltic Sea
The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the estimated effects of cormorant predation on a coastal perch population based on a PIT tag mark-recapture experiment.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Age estimation of red snapper using FT-NIR spectroscopy
The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study on the evaluated the feasibility of using Fourier-Transform Near Infrared Spectroscopy to generate ages for red snapper.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Fatty acid analysis in aquatic sciences
The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the current state of knowledge of methods dedicated to both marine and freshwater lipid analyses.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Aquaculture-driven evolution
The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study on the distribution of pyrethroid resistance in the salmon louse throughout the North Atlantic in the years 2000–2017.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – shifting migratory patterns of humpback whales
The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a shift in the migratory patterns of humpback whales.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Performance evaluation of data-limited, length-based stock assessment methods
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, researchers test the limitations of length-based methodologies used in data-limited stock assessments.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Reef fish discard mortality
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, researchers look into discard mortality for red snapper and gray triggerfish, two valuable fish stocks in the US Gulf of Mexico.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Cause for optimism for global shark conservation
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about patterns in abundance and size of sharks in northwestern Australia.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Towards Sustainable European Seaweed Value Chains: A Triple P Perspective
The latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the development of the European seaweed industry from a people, planet, profit perspective.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Atlantic halibut movements in the Gulf of Maine as revealed through geolocation
In the latest Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science, read about how a geolocation method could be a useful tool in providing information on halibut movements that can inform stock assessment and management decisions.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Seismic surveys do not significantly harm Calanus finmarchicus
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about how seismic surveys have limited effects on Calanus finmarchicus, a keystone copepod species in the North Atlantic.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Accounting for shifting distributions and changing productivity
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read recommendations to fisheries management in how to better respond to climate-related shifts in species distributions and changing productivity.
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IJMS Editor's choice - Responsive harvest control rules and climate change
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the benefits of implementing a responsive harvest control rule for stocks adversly affected by climate change.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Contrasting effects of habitats
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the contrasting effects of different coastal habitats on the distribution, diversity, and abundance of fish in tropical estuarine seascapes.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Determining population health
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about how integrating population health factors can provide deeper insight in situations where uncertainty is high.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Listening to fish to map dolphin feeding
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Read about how the noises made by fish can help identify the foraging habitat of the dolphins that prey on them in the Chinese Pearl River Estuary.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Fisheries connectivity in large marine ecosystems
The latest Editor’s Choice paper from our Journal of Marine Science is available. Read how connectivity – how much different fisheries are linked by fisher participation – varies in a Large Marine Ecosystem and impacts coastal community vulnerability.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – Conserving Arctic habitats at a time of melting ice
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about an approach for designing an Arctic marine protected area (MPA) network for better protecting habitats and ensuring sustainable use of resources.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – learning from porbeagle migration
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about how tagging technology helped give further insight into the migratory behaviour of the porbeagle shark and what this could mean for assessments.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – describing fish sex change
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the use of a game theory model to define the conditions under which fish sex changes occur.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – the metabolic cost of calcification
The latest Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study of the Pacific oyster and the role ocean acidification plays in how its metabolic energy is allocated and in shell formation.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – ecosystem approach perspectives
The latest selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study on the successes and challenges of the ecosystem approach to management from those working in different marine sectors.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – engaging stakeholders in advice
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about a study looking into the effectiveness of stakeholder and scientist cooperation in modelling management strategies.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - biomass basis for reference point management
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Read about a study that looks at an alternative method for spatial reference points feeding into groundfish management.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – genetic mixing of wild and farmed salmon
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study of the process known as genetic introgression in wild Atlantic salmon populations in Norway.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – regarding discards
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about a study that identifies areas suitable for fishing under the new European discard ban.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - studying the sardine skew
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the phenomenon of a reproductive skew in Japanese sardine and how it leads to an alternative theory of population abundances fluctuation.
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IJMS Editor's Choice – rebuilding strategies
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month read about the effects of different strategies for restoring overfished stocks.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Working spatial synchrony of population distribution into assessment models
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about the spatial synchrony and asynchrony of fish population distributions and modelling them in stock assessments.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – the economic value of environmental data
A selected Editor’s Choice piece from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month read about how insurance concepts allow evaluations of trade-offs between economic gains and risks for an anchovy stock.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Marine historical ecology: placing marine environmental history in current policy context
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. Here, read about the emerging discipline of marine historical ecology (MHE).
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IJMS Editor’s Choice: the psychology of cause attribution
A selected Editor’s Choice piece from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about a study on the cognitive processes that underlie how people attribute the species range shifts to marine climate change.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – strategizing for complexity
A selected Editor’s Choice piece from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. This month, read about strategic decision-making and understanding, quantifying and using the associated trade-offs in a complex world.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – the roles of ICES fisheries scientists and how they interrelate
A selected Editor’s Choice piece from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now available. Here, read about the multiple roles fishery scientists have within ICES and how they intertwine, as the authors ask ‘which hat are you wearing?’
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Estimating seafloor pressure from fishing gears based on gear design and dimensions
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. Here, read about how the design and dimensions of bottom contacting fishing gear can help predict the physical impact on the seabed.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Pop-up satellite archival tags informing selectivity in stock assessment models
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month read more about how pop-up satellite archival tags can be used to estimate selectivity when assessing stocks.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Unifying statistical modelling through random effects
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month read more about the effect of unobserved variables on statistical modelling.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Economic incentives for targeted fisheries
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month read more about how fishers can maximize harvest value through targeting specific attributes.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Revisiting the relationship between feeding success and growth in fish larvae
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month read more about crucial role played by early feeding in the larval stage.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – are fisheries scientists best utilizing research based on knowledge of fishers?
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month read more about whether research on the knowledge gathered from fishers is being adequately considered in fisheries science.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – Atlantic cod feed during spawning off Newfoundland and Labrador
In this first Editor’s Choice article from ICES Journal of Marine Science (IJMS), the authors investigated the prevailing assumption that Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) do not eat during the several month-long spawning season.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice – the concept of cohort resonance and variability in fish populations
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month read more about an occurrence known as cohort resonance and how variability is produced in age-structured fish populations.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Fine-scale diel and gender-based patterns in behaviour of Atlantic cod
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month, read more about the fine-scale movements of Atlantic cod as they return to the same spawning grounds over multiple seasons.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Active opportunist markers
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month, read more about the use of opportunistic marine species to track responses to global changes.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Satellites assessing catches
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month, read more about using Google Earth imagery to assess tidal weir fisheries in the Persian Gulf.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice - Pseudocollapse and rebuilding of North Sea mackerel
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month, read more about a new understanding of the dramatic history of North Sea mackerel.
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IJMS Editor's Choice - Irruptive prey dynamics following the groundfish collapse in the Northwest Atlantic
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month, read more about whether the prey dynamics that occurred after the 1990s groundfish collapse may have been an illusion.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice: Does functional redundancy stabilize fish communities
ICES Journal of Marine Science Editor's Choice article is now freely available. This month, read more about a time-series study that examines whether functional redundancy accounts for all stabilization of species’ groups.
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IJMS Editor’s Choice: assessing fishing effect on seabed
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month, read more about a methodology for assessing the impacts of fishing and natural disturbances on the seabed.
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IJMS Editor's Choice: Eightbar grouper biology
A selected Editor’s Choice article from the latest issue of the ICES Journal of Marine Science is now freely available. This month, read more about the life history of an exploited deep-water grouper, including spawning omission at higher latitudes.
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