OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Fish and Fisheries is 12. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Accounting for Salmon Body Size Declines in Fishery Management Can Reduce Conservation Risks	85
Declining Marine Survival of Steelhead Trout Linked to Climate and Ecosystem Change	70
Effects of early life mass mortality events on fish populations	56
The relative influence of temperature and ontogeny on groundfish distribution varies across life stages	55
Eponym Dictionary of Fishes by BoBeolens, MichaelGrayson and MichaelWatkins 2023. Whittles Publishing. xiv, 1463 pp	55
Probability ogives for trends in stock biomass and fishing mortality from landings time series	52
Vertical ambush corridors: Intriguing multi‐mechanism ecological structures embedded in the kinetic fluid architectures of ocean living resource production systems	46
Temporal patterns and regional comparisons of recruitment rates of United States fish stocks	45
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The FishPath approach for fisheries management in a data‐ and capacity‐limited world	41
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Neglected fishery data sources as indicators of pre‐industrial ecological properties of Mediterranean swordfish (Xiphias gladius, Xiphiidae)	41
A unifying hypothesis for the spawning migrations of temperate anguillid eels	39
The universal imprint of oxygen isotopes can track the origins of seafood	38
‘Destructive fishing’—A ubiquitously used but vague term? Usage and impacts across academic research, media and policy	37
The King's aquatic desires: 16th‐century fish and crayfish introductions into Spain	35
Why do some fish grow faster than others?	34
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A Comparison of Fleet Dynamics Models for Predicting Fisher Location Choice	31
Hidden in the ocean: The importance of detecting hybridisation in pelagic and deep‐water fishes	30
A field guide to coastal fishes of Bermuda, Bahamas and the Caribbean Sea. ValKells, Luiz A.Rocha, Carole C.Baldwin, Baltimore, MA: John Hopkins University Press. 2022	29
Can small‐scale fisheries survive market‐based management? Nordic evidence	29
Using an EBFM lens to guide the management of marine biological resources under changing conditions	29
Biological life‐history and farming scenarios of marine aquaculture to help reduce wild marine fishing pressure	28

Reviving the unique potential of recreational fishers as environmental stewards of aquatic ecosystems	28
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Spatial Distribution of Numerical Density of Pelagic Juveniles (0‐Group) of Broadcast Spawning Fish Stocks Follows a Common Statistical Pattern	26
Focusing on what matters most: Evaluating multiple challenges to stability in recreational fisheries	26
Corrigendum to ‘Fecundity trends of Chinook salmon in the Pacific Northwest’	26
A synthetic control approach to estimate the effect of total allowable catches in the high seas	26
Putting the fish into inland fisheries – A global allocation of historic inland fish catch	26
Depredation: An old conflict with the sea	26
Reproductive resilience or sweepstakes recruitment? Assessing drivers of lifetime reproductive success in exploited marine fish	26
Increase in Harp Seal Ecosystem Role After the Cod Collapse in Newfoundland & Labrador	25
Global assessment of shark strandings	25
Recruitment regime shifts and nonstationarity are widespread phenomena in harvestable stocks experiencing pronounced climate fluctuations	24
The Benefits of Hierarchical Ecosystem Models: Demonstration Using EcoState, a New State‐Space Mass‐Balance Model	24
A Global Synthesis of Environmental Enrichment Effect on Fish Stress	24
Making the Most of Available Data: A Case Study of Converging Analyses to Model an Emerging Fishery for Jonah Crab (Cancer borealis)	24
The puzzle of the anchovy–sardine inverse fishery at the south‐eastern coast of the Arabian Sea and climate variability	23
Multi‐specific small‐scale fisheries rely on few, locally essential, species: Evidence from a multi‐area study in the Mediterranean	23
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Hope or Despair Revisited: Assessing Progress and New Challenges in Global Fisheries	21
Alaska Herring History: The story of Alaska's herring fisheries and industryJamesMackovjak	20
Preference, avoidance, motivation and their importance to fish welfare	20
Guiding principles for integrating stakeholder‐based data into marine fisheries decision‐making with a focus on USA fisheries management	20
Dissecting co‐management: Fisher participation across management components and implications for governance	20
Hearing in catfishes: 200 years of research	19
Untangling social–ecological interactions: A methods portfolio approach to tackling contemporary sustainability challenges in fisheries	19
Widespread Evidence for Rapid Recent Changes in Global Range and Abundance of Threespine Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)	18
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Trees for fishes: The neglected role for phylogenetic comparative methods in fisheries science	18
Linking observed changes in pelagic catches to temperature and oxygen in the Eastern Tropical Pacific	18
Re‐imagining the precautionary approach to make collaborative fisheries management inclusive of Indigenous Knowledge Systems	18
Basin‐scale approach needed for Yangtze River fisheries restoration	18
Global meta‐analysis of demersal fishing impacts on organic carbon and associated biogeochemistry	18
Ocean Ecology. Marine life in the age of humansJ. EmmettDuffy. Princeton University Press. 2021. ISBN: 9780691161556 (Hbk). Pp vii—444. GBP62.00; USD80.00	17
Risk equivalence in data‐limited and data‐rich fisheries management: An example based on the ICES advice framework	16
Quota use in mixed‐stock fisheries	16
A snapshot of the economic benefits from foreign bottom trawling in coastal West Africa: A mutually‐beneficial trade in services, no winners or extractivism?	16
Scale morphology is a promising, additional tool for exploring the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater fishes	16
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Modelling the distribution of marine fishery resources: Where are we?	15
Mapping small‐scale fisheries through a coordinated participatory strategy	15
A history and evaluation of catch‐only stock assessment models	15
Learning from positive deviants in fisheries	15
A commentary on the role of hatcheries and stocking programs in salmon conservation and adapting ourselves to less‐than‐wild futures	14
Dried fish at the intersection of food science, economy, and culture: A global survey	14
A delay‐differential model for representing small pelagic fish stock dynamics and its application for assessing alternative management strategies under environmental uncertainty	14
Temporary Allee effects among non‐stationary recruitment dynamics in depleted gadid and flatfish populations	14
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How consistent is the advice from stock assessments? Empirical estimates of inter‐assessment bias and uncertainty for marine fish and invertebrate stocks	13

Metabolism, population growth, and the fast‐slow life history continuum of marine fishes	13
Ecosystem‐based fisheries management – Progress, importance and impacts in the United States.Jason S.Link and Anthony R.Marshak.Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2021. 712 pp.	13
Climate change projections of commercial fish distribution and suitable habitat around north western Europe	13
Racial capitalism and the sea: Development and change in Black maritime labour, and what it means for fisheries and a blue economy	13
Simulating benefits, costs and trade‐offs of spatial management in marine social‐ecological systems	13
Collapse and recovery of seafood wholesale prices in time of COVID‐19	12
Incorporating Climate Change Impacts Within Harvest Strategies: An Overview of Approaches	12
Characterising a diversity of coastal community fisheries in Kiribati and Vanuatu	12
Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Fish Bio‐ and Ecoacoustics; From Single Species Studies to Biodiversity Monitoring	12
Exploring the role of Northeast Atlantic cod in the Barents Sea food web using a multi‐model approach	12
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Fish weight reduction in response to intra‐ and interspecies competition under climate change	12
Probiotics in AquacultureBrianAustin and S.M.SharifuzzamanCham, Switzerland: Springer. 2022. 308 pp. $126.28 ebk. ISBN: 978‐3‐030‐98621‐6	12
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Impact of the 2014–2016 marine heatwave on US and Canada West Coast fisheries: Surprises and lessons from key case studies	12
Bottom‐Up Interactions in State‐Space Age‐Structured Models Using Mass‐Balance Dynamics	12
Estimating intrinsic susceptibility to extinction when little ecological information is available: The case of Neotropical freshwater stingrays (Chondrichthyes: Potamotrygoninae)	12
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The challenge of assessing the effects of drifting fish aggregating devices on the behaviour and biology of tropical tuna	12