Fisheries Oceanography
The International Journal of the Japanese Society for Fisheries Oceanography
Edited by:
David Checkley
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 3/40 Fisheries; 6/50 Oceanography
Impact Factor: 2.812
The international journal of the Japanese Society for Fisheries Oceanography, Fisheries Oceanography is designed to present a forum for the exchange of information amongst fisheries scientists worldwide.
Fisheries Oceanography...
- presents original research articles relating the production and dynamics of fish populations to the marine environment
- examines entire food chains - not just single species
- identifies mechanisms controlling abundance
- explores factors affecting the recruitment and abundance of fish species and all higher marine tropic levels
TopNews and Announcements
Free Online Access in the Developing World
Access to this journal is available free online within institutions in the developing world through the AGORA Initiative with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the OARE Initiative (Online Access to Research in the Environment) with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
Articles Published Online Ahead of Print
Articles which have been fully copy-edited and peer-reviewed are published online through our Early View feature before the print edition of this journal is published.
Online Open
Fisheries Oceanography participates in a Blackwells scheme to allow authors that wish to allow open access to their papers to pay for the publication cost. Authors should NOT indicate at the point of submission whether they will wish to make use of this facility. If the paper is accepted, they will be given an opportunity to make their wishes known at that time. Read More Here.
Thank you to our Reviewers
Fisheries Oceanography would like to thank all of the 74 people who helped review manuscripts in 2007. We greatly appreciate the time and effort they put into this.
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TopHighlights
Click on the titles below to read the Featured Articles published in Fisheries Oceanography since 2005:
Marine and freshwater climatic factors affecting interannual variation in the timing of return migration to fresh water of sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)
Sayre Hodgson, Thomas P. Quinn, Ray Hilborn, Robert C. Francis, Donald E. Rodger
Changes in spawning stock structure strengthen the link between climate and recruitment in a heavily fished cod (Gadus morhua) stock
Geir Ottersen, Dag Ø. Hjermann, Nils Chr. Stenseth
Bottom-up forcing and the decline of Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) in Alaska: assessing the ocean climate hypothesis
Andrew W. Trites et al
Mechanistic links between climate and fisheries along the east coast of the United States: explaining population outbursts of Atlantic croaker (Micropogonias undulatus)
Jonathan A. Hare, Kenneth W. Able
The effect of vertical migration strategy on retention and dispersion in the Irish Sea during spring-summer
S. M. Emsley, G. A. Tarling, M. T. Burrows
