Scientists from the College of the Environment's School of Marine and Environmental Affairs and NOAA's Northwest Fisheries Science Center are working to help restoration managers make plans that support resilient systems.
Read more at UW Today »University Faculty Lecture: Aquatic and Fishery Sciences' Ray Hilborn
Sustaining Food from the Seas with Professor Ray Hilborn, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Tuesday, April 11, 2017 | 7-8 p.m. Kane Hall, Room 130 FREE and open to the public No rsvp required Reception to follow About Ray Hilborn Ray Hilborn has been a professor in the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences for 30 years.
Read more »Winners, losers among fishes when landscape undergoes change
Authors from the University of Washington and Simon Fraser University are the first to look at the effects land-use changes can have on freshwater ecosystems on a national scale. To do this work, they analyzed data on more than 500 fish species taken from 8,100 locations within streams across the U.S.
Read more at UW Today »Climate change prompts Alaska fish to change breeding behavior
One of Alaska’s most abundant freshwater fish species is altering its breeding patterns in response to climate change. This could impact the ecology of northern lakes, which already acutely feel the effects of a changing climate. That’s the main finding of a recent University of Washington study published in Global Change Biology that analyzed reproductive patterns of three-spine stickleback fish over half a century in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region.
Read more at UW Today »Diversification key to resilient fishing communities
Fishing communities can survive ― and even thrive ― as fish abundance and market prices shift if they can catch a variety of species and nimbly move from one fishery to the next. These findings, published Jan. 16 in Nature Communications, draw upon 34 years of data collected in more than 100 fishing communities in Alaska that depend on fishing for livelihoods, cultural traditions and daily subsistence.
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