OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of North American Journal of Fisheries Management is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Rapid, in situ habitat assessments reinforce species-specific patterns of habitat use among juveniles of three recreationally important finfish in Texas	21
Life Cycle Model Reveals Sensitive Life Stages and Evaluates Recovery Options for a Dwindling Pacific Salmon Population	20
The return of the adult Pacific Lamprey offspring from translocations to the Columbia River	17
Population demographics and angler exploitation of Suwannee Bass in two Georgia rivers	16
Methodological factors affecting capture of juvenile salmon in baited “minnow” traps	16
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Monitoring and Managing Fishes that Are Invisible and Keep Moving Around: Influences of an Invasive Species and Environmental Factors on Capture Probability	15
Restoring connectivity: A comparative analysis of culvert barrier remediation techniques in British Columbia	15
Differences in Population Characteristics and Modeled Response to Harvest Regulations in Reestablished Appalachian Walleye Populations	15
Effects of Muskellunge stocking length on survival and return on investment to the adult population	15
Biological considerations for designing a Round Goby electrical barrier for Menasha Lock, Wisconsin	12
Population Dynamics and Harvest Management of the Bonneville Cutthroat Trout Fishery in Bear Lake, Idaho–Utah	11
Patterns in distribution and density of larval lampreys in the main-stem Columbia River, Washington–Oregon	11
Synthesis of larval lamprey responses to dewatering: State of the science, critical uncertainties, and management implications	11
Issue Information	10
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Transplantation of prespawn adult Sea Lampreys as an important restoration strategy	10
Do conservation actions improve native fish populations? Differences between managed and unmanaged reaches of a desert river give insight	10
Erratum	10
Social Fish-Tancing in Wisconsin: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Statewide License Sales and Fishing Effort in Northern Inland Lakes	9
Usefulness of Otolith Weight for Estimating Age-Based Life History Metrics of Lake Trout	9
Digital Data Help Explain Drivers of Angler Satisfaction: An Example from Southern Norway	9
Size-selective, additive harvest mortality of Smallmouth Bass in a Missouri River reservoir	9
Factors Affecting Spatiotemporal Variation in Survival of Endangered Winter-Run Chinook Salmon Out-migrating from the Sacramento River	9
Postrelease movements of captive-reared adult Atlantic Salmon in two Maine rivers	8

Genetic predictors of population resilience: A case study of native Brook Trout in headwater streams	8
Movement, not survival, differs between wild and hatchery-reared imperiled desert fishes	8
Random versus self-selected samples of Arkansas anglers: An empirical comparison	8
Sampling Methods and Survey Designs for Larval Lampreys	8
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Assessment of pulsed gastric lavage for diet sampling in two New World cichlid taxa	8
Impacts of angler skill and hook size on catch and welfare outcomes in freshwater recreational pole fishing	8
Proposed standard weight (W s) equation and standard length categories for Goldeye	8
Issue Information	7
Lampreys in California (Lampetra spp. and Entosphenus spp.): Mitochondrial phylogenetic analysis reveals previously unrecognized lamprey diversity	7
Smallmouth Bass and Walleye predation on stocked age-0 Walleye in Lake Oahe, South Dakota	7
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Bycatch in a Coastal Black Drum Trotline Fishery	7
Risky main stems are a poorly understood constraint on salmon recovery in coastal California rivers	7
Evidence for extirpation of native kokanee in a large impounded watershed following introduction of a conspecific	7
Catch-and-Release Angling Effects on Lake Sturgeon in Wisconsin, USA	7
Digital Hydrography Underestimates Stream Length and Leads to Underestimates of Trout Population Size	7
Combination of Acoustic Telemetry and Side-Scan Sonar Advances Suppression Efforts for Invasive Lake Trout in a Submontane Lake	6
Flow–recruitment relationships for Shoal Chub and implications for managing environmental flows	6
Expanding participation in Virginia’s emerging commercial fishery for Blue Catfish	6
Adult Coho Salmon use of restored side channel habitat	6
Yellow Perch length estimated from filleted, head, and mandible length measurements	6
Increased density of Bluehead Sucker larvae decreases critical thermal maximum	6
Does Moon Phase Affect Indices of Kokanee Size and Abundance as Characterized by Gill-Net Catch?	6
Attracting Lake Sturgeon back to a historical spawning location following a 20-year hiatus using effluent from tanks holding gravid broodstock	6
Cytological and Molecular Approaches for Ploidy Determination: Results from a Wild Walleye Population	6
Route use of emigrating steelhead in a heavily modified river delta	6
Saugeye (Sauger × Walleye) are naturally fertile and produce large quantities of gametes yielding viable larvae in fertilization experiments with congenerics	6
Effects of live-imaging sonar on Blue Catfish angler success, perception, and behavior	6
Do live-well additives influence the physiological and behavioral recovery of Largemouth Bass?	6
Recruitment of Channel Catfish stocked as fingerlings and yearlings in Ohio reservoirs	5
Handling effects on dispersal of PIT-tagged Flannelmouth Sucker	5
Using otolith microchemistry to determine natal origin of Black Sea Bass off the coast of Maine	5
Power and precision of invasive carp ichthyoplankton sampling along an invasion front	5
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Cost-effectiveness of stocking community ponds with two different sizes of hatchery catchable Rainbow Trout	5
Regional Variation in Growth and Mortality of Spotted Seatrout in the Western Gulf of Mexico	5
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Combining expert knowledge of a threatened trout distribution with sparse occupancy data for climate-related projection	5
Evaluation of techniques for estimating the age and growth of known-age White Sturgeon	5
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Evaluating hook removal techniques on jaw-hooked Smallmouth Bass captured with soft plastic jigs	5
The Paddlefish stock component and its recreational bowfishery in the Fort Peck Dredge Cuts, Missouri River, Montana, USA	5
Validating morphometrics as a nonlethal tool to determine Arctic Grayling sex	5
Assessing the efficacy of a quantitative PCR screening procedure for detecting and quantifying the magnitude of invasive carp reproductive events	5
Trends in relative survival of hatchery-reared Chinook Salmon stocked in Lake Michigan and Lake Huron	5
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Critical thermal minimum and impacts of acute thermal cold stress on year-class strength of juvenile Atlantic Croaker from the Gulf of Mexico	4
Estimating predation rates of stocked juvenile Chinook Salmon using novel acoustic predation transmitters	4
Silver Chub spawning confirmed in the Maumee River, a tributary of Lake Erie	4

Conserving genetic and morphological potential: Preserving larval fish for downstream analysis	4
Laboratory studies of potential competition for food and substrate among early juvenile Missouri River sturgeon and sympatric chub species	4
Oklahoma Bowfishing Values and Perspectives toward Nongame Fishes and Their Management	4
Evaluation of floating basket incubators for instream reintroductions of fish at early life stages	4
Population demographics of invasive Silver Carp in a Great Plains river network	4
Population genomics of coastal Pacific Hake	4
Empirical and model-based evaluation of a step-pool stream restoration project: Consequences for a highly valued fish population	4
Mark–recapture surveys affect nest site fidelity but not reproductive timing of male Smallmouth Bass	4
Sport fish movement responses to a littoral zone coarse woody habitat addition	4
First-year movement and survival of stocked Striped Bass in a coastal system inferred from individually marked fish	4
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Dorsal fin height is not an effective tool to distinguish hatchery and wild steelhead in the field	4
Passage Efficiency of Alewife in a Denil Fishway Using Passive Integrated Transponder Tags	4
Economic evaluation of barriers to minimize reservoir sport fish escapement	4
Developing a Brown Trout Stocking Screening Tool from a Statewide Random Sampling Program and Landscape-Scale Predictor Variables	4
Hatchery rearing density affects poststocking survival	4
A comparison of recreational and survey-grade side-scan sonar systems in mapping reservoir fish habitat	4
Using multi-state occupancy models to quantify distribution and detection of endemic Bartram’s Bass and congeners	4
The spatial and seasonal patterns and stability of the Lake Whitefish fishery in Michigan waters of southern Lake Huron	4
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Characteristics of four Blue Catfish fisheries with implications for harvest management	4
Temporal Variation in Capture Efficiency Underrepresents Spring Out-Migrating Bull Trout in a Trap-and-Haul Program	4
Using catch orientations to identify clusters of North Carolina trout anglers	4
Comparing conventional tagging methods and acoustic telemetry to inform management of Lake Whitefish in Lake Michigan	4
Standard weight equation and standard-length categories for Flier	4
Spatial and Temporal Distribution and Habitat Selection of Native Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout and Nonnative Utah Chub	4
Changes in the occurrence and abundance of Mountain Whitefish in the upper Snake River basin of Idaho	4
A new, standardized international Pacific Rim baseline for genetic stock identification (GSI) of Chinook Salmon	3
Interspecific hybridization in a large-river population of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout: A 20-year programmatic evaluation	3
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Resetting the Clock: How a Reconnection Event Reshaped Cove Fish Assemblages in a Nebraska Reservoir	3
Evidence for a male bias in Atlantic blue crab pot-based sampling	3
Old Reservoirs, Old and New Challenges: Introduction to the 2021 Reservoir Symposium	3
Stream temperature rise and future stocked-trout management in North Carolina	3
An Evaluation of the Efficacy of a Targeted Supplemental Stocking Using a Multistate Capture–Recapture Model	3
Short-term survival and growth of American Eel elvers marked with visible implant elastomer tags	3
Upstream and Downstream Dispersal Behavior of Hard- and Soft-Released Juvenile Atlantic Salmon	3
Effect of Bag Limits on Angler Harvest, Catch Rates, and Satisfaction at Put-and-Take Community Pond Fisheries	3
Biotic and Abiotic Factors Affecting Short-Term Survival of Two Age-0 Rainbow Trout Strains in Colorado Streams	3
Abundance, Restoration, and Transport of Unanchored Large Wood in a Small River in Central Idaho	3
Comparisons of donor stray percentages between hatchery- and natural-origin Chinook Salmon and steelhead in the upper Columbia watershed	3
A Review of Factors Affecting the Susceptibility of Juvenile Salmonids to Avian Predation	3
Estimating gear selectivity and population composition of common whelks Buccinum undatum from tagging experiments and comparative gear trials	3
Predation of stocked Rainbow Trout in an Alabama tailwater	3
Using cumulative degree-days to refine sampling periods for early life stages of Lake Whitefish	3
Food habits of nonnative Walleyes in Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho	3
Proposed Standard Weight (W s) Equations and Standard Length Categories for Redbreast Sunfish and Spotted Sunfish	3
The creation and utility of a mobile application as a reporting tool in the charter for-hire fishery	3
Backpack electrofishing can be used to collect adult lamprey	3
Low-level infection of parasitic copepods on Rainbow Trout does not affect vulnerability to angling or short-term survival following catch-and-release angling	3
Improving Abundance Estimates of Spring–Summer Snake River Chinook Salmon for Fisheries Management	3
Lake Trout population dynamics in the Northern Refuge of Lake Michigan: Importance of stocking rate	3
Spatial variation in landlocked Atlantic Salmon smolt survival associated with dam passage, avian predation, and stocking location	3
Surfacing Response Thresholds of Blue Catfish Exposed to Low-Frequency Electrofishing	3
Trophic assessment of potential competition between invasive cichlids and sport fish in Puerto Rico reservoirs	3
Abundance and Migration Success of Overshoot Steelhead in the Upper Columbia River	3
Performance and cost advantage of stocking locally sourced Walleye fry into southern Minnesota lakes	3
Open-population models provide an alternative trout monitoring method in the upper Yellowstone River, Montana	3
History and ecology of wild-captured crawfish in Louisiana	3
Estimating mortality of Lake Sturgeon in the Lake Winnebago system using traditional age-based approaches and capture–recapture models	3
Effects of stocking, environment, and fish community on Walleye recruitment in eastern South Dakota natural lakes	3
Big Catch, Undecided Risks: Perspectives of Risk, Reward, and Trade-Offs in Alaska's Salmon Enhancement Program	3
A species-specific catchability model to partition hydroacoustic total salmon counts	3
Simulated effects of imperfect sterile sport fish stocking on persistence of fertile fish in new exploited populations	3
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Evidence for declining numbers of large Dolphinfish in the western North Atlantic	3