How are regional fisheries similar to financial portfolios? If you have a retirement account or other investments, you’re probably familiar with the concept of portfolio optimization. Individuals with ...

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) is really just a new way of describing the basic principles for managing human activities in a complex environment. You’ll find the term EBM in a lot of legislation – ...

NOAA Senior Scientist Dr. Jason Link was recently honored by the American Fisheries Society with the 2025 Award for Excellence. We sat down with him for a conversation about his work on ...

Fishing provides an essential food source as well as livelihoods for millions of people. Yet many of the world’s fisheries have extremely serious impacts on marine ecosystems and many fisheries are ...