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

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